Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-17
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The !iiis.issippi Assasssn>.

iiiE FACTS AS TO THE POLITICAL MURDERS IN TnAt
erAfE--A TERRIBLE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.
correspondent OF tho Cincinnati C0ntpier-
ctdt, writing from Jackson, Miss, gives the fol-
lowing AZ the result of his Investigations into
| tho troubles in the vicinity Of Clinton:
| have been over the road to Vicksburg, and
| ~ That place spent one night and nearly WAC
| days, returning to this place yesterday, nd
| While OUT took great pains to learn the facts Of
| tho Clinton trouble There is no doubt it had
/ llS origin with some Young white men carrying
| whiskey who, aB hll accounts agree, seemed
likely to raise row from the start, il they
| NOT there for that express purpose. Efforts. it
| appears, were made several times to quiet them,
| until at last they wore approached by one Of the
| negro policemen, Who had been appointed to
| keep order on the OCCASION when firing began,
| resulting in the death OF three white men and
| four negroes, including woman and child, and
| the Woundng of several more Or course, from
| this moment tho greatest condemnation pre-
| vailed and the negroes fled wildly from the
grounds, in many instances leaving their horses
| and vehicles behind. Before shutdown they had
| all gone, and not one WAS to be seen anywhere.
| The telegraph brought tog the place armed
white men from this place, Edwards Bolton,
| Nicksburg and other places, and that afternoon
and away into the night the country was secured
| for mllos around, ana Whenever and wherever a
negro could be seen he was shot at and killed.
II tho lnfuiiated markAman did not fail III his
newed and the shooting continued. The Nicks-
burg mon were especially desperate, ,and even
whom there was a disposition to contine the
acts OF men within tho limits of moderate de.
| cency and humanity tho power to do 30 was
wanting. It might be best that II vail were
thrown over some Of tho acts but as other
persons will detail thom | need not refrain
from doing 20.
Old men were shot while sitting in their cabin
doors, and one bed-ridden, very old fellow was
tl4sts fT.tt.,I
IN two miles of the city, and some even further
ont on other roads, all killed the next day, and
with no charges against them, save that of be-
ing black Even as late AS Monday, two days
after the barbecue, two negroes were shot while
walking peacefully along the road, bya compa-
ny of men on their way to the scene Of trouble
from Yazoo county. This occurred near Boyina,
twenty live miles away.
While i'll Nicksburg | heard that the young
mon openly and publicly boasted OF their
achievements at Clinton detailing minutely how
they had killed their negro, while tho poor fel-
low, doubtless innocent of any wrong, because
he had not run away, never dreamed that civil
ized men would thus ilthessly send tho leaden
messenger of death through his heart. And |
learned too that while nearly every one there
understood how mercessy these volunteer
murderers had acted, not ono citizen dared raise
his voice III deapprobation.
The excitement, hero was intonse, and but for
the presence of United States troops it ID hard to
the blood-thirsty Vicksburgers would have come
on here and tried to kill Governor Amos They
talked Of it, and see that the Herald Of to-day
says it is not long before it will be done.
Tho wagons and bugges left behind by the
negroes in the fight were burned up by the
Whites aud am told the fields in the vicinity OF
Clinton are full OF horses and mules belonging
to negroes, WHO are afraid to 80 and take them
away.
The papers here and in Yicksburg put down
the number of killed at no less than thirty,
which would make twenty-tliree who were shot
subsequent to the row at the barbecue all nc
connta agreeing as to seven being the number
killed there.
The condition OF things is bad indeed. No ono
knows what TO do. Tho negroes are absolutely
afraid to go into their folds to pick cotton, for
fear OF being shot Tho armed bodies of men
who arc riding up and down the country, carry
Consideration to the negro, and anxiety to the
white man. II it be not coon stopped, and some
assurances Of peace be given, much Of the corn
and cotton, of which there are such abundant
crops, will 20 to waste in the fields.
The Vickaburg Herdh Of to-day publishes
letter, with unusual display of headlines advis-
ing that all over the state few determined
men bo appointed to shadow.onch white Repub-
lican, and on the first appearance of q trouble
(whether created by their own people or not is
not very materlaD to kill them.