The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-30

T, that the names OF The persons VINO 1
.urdered her husband are well known 5
M given, and that she went to Governor !
.mes with her sad story.
" hy, may it be asked. did not Gov
nor Ames order the arrest aud trial
Z one or all Of these murderers The
NV notice be seems to have taken Of
.lrs. Haiia was a very moderate sub
cription. 10 the more liberal one already
made by Captain Montgomery, Demo
rat.
Mr. Hafa would not appear to have
been altogether the blameless citizen
described naturally by bis widow.
Captain w. n. Montgomery testihes,
II pages 547, 54s, as follows:
ABOUT Mr.. HAFFA.
It was about that time that HaHa's |
death was reported.
q. State what you know about that.
\. I don't know anything about it
Of my own knowledge. ! knew Mr..
Haifl.
q. Who was he?
a. He was a man that was from Chica
20, brought there by DIR. Robinnett, for
the purpose Of working on his farm, some
seven or eight years ago. / got twenty
at the same time myself.
@. Twenty what?
\. Twenty laborers from Chicago at the
same time, white men and, by the way,
the last one Of them ran off and stole
all my mules, and / lost every cent that /
made. This man Haifa was one of them
that DR. Robinnett got. He worked about
three days with DIR. Robinnett, and then
went to William Bush's and hired him
self to a negro man who was renting from
William Bush. After living there two
or three weeks and doing good deal Of
mischief, Mr.. Bush and some others
went over there aud took him out and
gave him hogging, and Bush was up
before the United States court, but the
suit was dismissed. This fogging placed
Haha in position to get office from the
negroes, and at the next election he was
elected to the Legislature. He was then
Il magistrate, and had been for. several
years teaching school there. | know
nothing about him except what the
deighbOrs there said. lie was a very bad
man, judge, from everything that was
said about him.
O. DO you know what his reputation
among the blacks was?
A. | received a dispatch inquiring for
some one who could testify in regard to
the Hafia case from here, and the first
man l inquired about was a negro man
who was living on my place, who brought
the dispatch from the telegraph office to
mel live five or six miles out in the
country. | asked him if he knew any
thing about the killing of Haffa and he
says, "No, sir, | don't; but he ought to
have been killed long before be was" l
said, "Why, | thought he was good
friend Of yours ~ He says, "No, sir ,
he done too much stealing in this country,
and he ought to have been killed long
ago" If this will be allowed as testimony
| will say what this negro, told me about
lIaha. lie says, "Well, sir, when he
WAS elected magistrate he sent for all of
US to come up and get our mules that the
Government was going to give to us, and
he said it took 50 apiece to get the mules
and pay the freight on the mules" And
he said they gave him 50, about two
hundred of them, but that lie did moi
give So, as he did not have it; and at
the time appointed to get the mules they
came there, and Mr.. Haffa said that they
had so many mules for the blacks down
there, and they had such great long
train of them, that in passing under
meath a tunnel the whole thing caved in
and killed every mule, and they LOST
their 50.
! said, "You are surely mistaken you
are joking about that" He says, "Jok
ing | am not joking can get you i
dozen men in five minutes that gave hin
S." Well, ON inquiry ] found that his rep
utalion was very bad among the negroes
although he Lad been elected to office by
them.
@. DO you know anything of the cir
cumstances Of his death?
1 A. Nothing in the world.
@. Did you hear of it at the time?
| &. Yes, sir heard Of it, and why il
should have been done for political pur
poses--I have no idea that there we're
any political purposes OF object in tn,
killing of Mr.. Haffa, because he haC
many fallings out with his neighbors b,
was a terrible man to fall out with BIZ
neighbors, and they had all sorts of diff
hculties with him. .-
/ | have no idea that there was any pol
tiles in the killing of Haffd in the world
Il was not on account of any polite.
differences of opinion that Haffa va
killed
4 q. Had you any application from Mrs
IIatfa for assistance
\. had and paid her $50 at Ed
wards Depot. SIZE came there and up
piled to me for assistance.
EEGRoEs ORGANIZED AND MADE MAN
DEMONSTRATIONS AND THREATS ATE
CLINTON.
After this difficulty was over in Gin
: ton the negroes organized in companie
throughout Kinds county, and mad
many demonstrations and threats to max
! an attack upon the town and kill all tn
people, sent in word they were going
commence from tie cradle and 90 uT
: Well, sir, living in such country as
. tANf II - wei NAlN ~ dIuuSG u Auhi
! fears, if he has got any. | live on a pull
5 lie road, myself aud one other white man
] and there are seventy-six negro men O
the road apd only us two white men
: aud it is very reGsoaable that if the
] wanted to hurt Us they could DO 50.
/ THE WHITES ORGANIZE TO PRoTEc
p THEMSELVES AGAINST THE ENCRoACT
MENT OF TUE BLACKS.
We organized ourselves in companie
for protection then against these negroes
into military companies. was captain
was elected to take command of five q
six OF them, 10 different parts of tn
county. 1t was supply aqd purely 70
protection not for any political pIrpos
in the world. bat TO protect ourseIve
against the enerOaehmeats of the black;
(TO BE coNTINBED,)
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