The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02

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unarmed men took the boat to town
About fifteen ortwenty of them remained
to protect the women aud children and
we passed a fearful night. When not on
| picket duty we were nursing the wound
ed the night was very cold and the pre-
vious day being warm we were all with
out overcoats, and when morning and
reinforcements came we thanked our
God for protecting us from the 300 armed
demons whom we momentarily expected
to attack us; but they glutted themselves
with bloody feast of cruelty on the poor
wounded and children who fell into their
hands. The following are few of the
victims: Old Mr.. Simons, a decrepid
man of seventy, took refuge inside the
vestry, but the devils must have drag
ged him out, chopped him with an axe,
broke, by beating, almost all his bones
and then shot him, while lying on the
ground, with musket, for we found be-
low him on the sill to the vestry door and
in the ground the holes made by the
buckshot. AS we picked him up the bro
ken bones grated together, though he was
at the time twelve hours dead.
Mr.. Whitaker met with worse fate,
for he was brought in alive, suffering
fearfully from buckshot through his
stomach, and huge hacks of flesh taken
out of him by an axe or hatchet.
&C. Bowen telegraphed that negro
named Lachicotte was the first man
killed. He may have been, but he first
shot poor Whitaker IA Northern man l
am told.) This / got from the man who
killed him and from all who saw it. AS
Lachicotte shot Whitaker this man shot
him through the breast. Lachicotte was
the only negro killed that l can hear of.
DAILY was also left on the ground
wounded. His head was hacked in FIVE
places when found.
Poor Walter Gradiet, a mere boy, had
his eye gouged out and was cruelty beat
en- and wounded.
The papers have doubtless given you
full accounts of the other casualties, and
it is suffient for me to say that not sim
gle wounded prisoner left on the ground
can survive the brutalities shown him
after falling in the hands Of the negroes.
They stole coats, boots and hats from both
dead and dying.
1t may now be asked why do l not take
legal measures against Cyrus Galliard to
bring him to account. shall do so but
with no other effect, l know, than to turn
negro hate on myself, for, first, the Re-
publican trial justices will throw all OBJ
stacles in my way; when say Republi-
can l mean by it always Carolina Repub-
licans, for you know my Northern educa-
tion prevents my holding any prejudices
against a bona fde Republican of the
North-then Bowen has complete control
of the sessions, and the prosecuting Off
Ger Butz is too well known tor you to
doubt the futility of my effort.
And now that these demons are rem
dering it unsafe for man to go armed
even through the country, Chamberlain
orders the whites to disarrn, and calls for
the United States troops to enforce his
order, and at the same time arms the
negro militia to murder us. My wife and
all the ladies are in the greatest excite
ment. The negroes in our parish are
most threatening, and while they out
number us twenty to one we are ordered
to disband our organizations for defence
and to disarm. Yours truly,
u. r. W.