The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-09-23

the women, and burn the town. As all
the blacks were at the barbecue, there
were only white men in town, and these
Immediately armed and formed into two
companies, one taking a gully and the
other the cut on the railroad line, so they
came together just between where the
horses and mules were fastened and the
blacks, who had again assembled around
the speaker stand. The whites got into
this position before any one at the barbe-
cue. knew it, and, without warming, open
ed fire on the crowd of $500 people with
/ both muskets and shot guns. The
slaughter was simply fearful, and it was
boosted in town at night that sixty mig
gers were killed at that FIRE" The ne
groes broke and ran through all the fields
and woods, leaving horses, mules, wagons
| &c.
Mr.. Chiffon, white man, upon whose
grounds the meeting was held, and
whose residence is near, was endeavoring
to get some colored women and children
into his yard out of harms way, when a
lot of white men, who had mounted the
deserted mules of the negroes, rode up
! to him and deliberately shot him dead
saying, as they did so, You damned
Radical, you will protect them, will you
kilograms were sent in all directions
with arms. Companies came from various
places, but from Vicksburg came the
toughest, dirtiest-looking set imaginable.
These fiends-for they were nothing else
Immediately upon their arrival, com
menced to shoot every negro they put
eyes upon. l saw them shoot two black
men at about o'clock next morning
who came along upon the public highway
and who, as soon as they saw the armed
Vicksburgers, waved each pocket hand
kerchief as flag of truce The Vicks
burg murderers called them to come on
and when they were within five PAGES
these brave white men literally riddled
the poor deceived darkies with bullets.
My blood curdles now when | think ol
the horrible butcheries which l saw, and
the still more savage and disgusting re
citals which they gave me of their bloody
deeds, and the great number of negroes
they had killed l live in Ohio, and am
Democrat, but ah these white people
here are anything but Democrats. L
this is Southren Democracy, then l wash
my hands of it-I want no Southren De
mocracy in mine. The Democratic party
of the North must take high advanced
ground upon these Southren outrages oil
it is lost.
l have always ridiculed the idea o
these SOuGhren outrageS, ana .Wnen
came here few weeks since, fully be
lieved that the only Southren outrage
mill run in the brain of Attorney-Gener
al Williams and Marshel Packard. But
alas 1 am fully convinced from persona
observation, that neither Williams no
the Northern people ever knew of hal
the extent this persecution of the black
is carried to, and simply, it seems to me
because the negroes are almost as non
combatgnt as sheep.
1t looks queer and strange to an Ohioal
to see men walking the streets with mus
kets and bayonets, who are not in tn
army, but are only citizens and who thu
seem to have great fear of these negr
t non-combatant sheep Would whit
man of honor or real courage do such
foolish thing? There is no more DANCE
l of the negroes rising and killing tn
r whites, than there is of the sheep on th
3 Western Reserve doing the same thing
p And unless the Democratic party public
, ly disown these Southern outrages, an
aid the general government to wipe ther
9 out, and protect the weak and unfriende
5 blacks, then 1 am no longor a Democra
D. G. P.