The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-09-28
HAMBURG OUTDONE.

From San Antonio, Tex, comes in
telligence by mail of most horrible
nlltra"e committed at Eagle Lake, ,co!-
orado county, the central part of Tex
as. Thirteen negroes We're killed. The
slaughter would have been much great
er but for fight. One poor fellow was
torn from the arms of his shrieking
wife and shot in the legs and arms, be-
fore being killed. This deliberate pro-
longation of his agony was such say
agery as Sioux delight in. Most of
the negroes were taken from their
homes at night, dragged away from
terifiedr wives and children, and shot
at once. Here is n specimen paragraph
from the letter:
Night before last Captain j. n.
Baughman, for several years Sheriff of
Wharton county, was taken from his
sick bed. where he had been confined
for weeks, tied up to a tree, for he
could not stand by himself, and cight-
cea bullets put into his body by the
same gang of murdercrs who are en-
SdgSu III tiiS ISSIoeS. MI.
Baughnan kept little store at Eagle
Lake, and had the temerity to openly
denounce the wholesale murder Of ne
groes. Since he was killed the lying
scoundrels who killed him, or their
friends, have started the preposterous
story that he was melting the negroes
To riot and killing of white men. In
short, after the numbering scoundrel-
had killed some thirteen negroes, and
driven fifty or sixty more from their
homes, they attempt to make ii APP
pear that Baughman was to blame for
the butchery. | know Baughman
well, he was aquict, unassuming man,
prcposScssing in his personal appear
anee. and about 35 years Of age. He
served in the Federal army.
The last sentence tells the whole sto-
ry. Gle served in the Federal army"
That was enough. To have black
skin or a loyal record is a capital Of
fcnse with Mr.. Tilden's Southern
friends.
The Hamburg outrage was small
affair to this Texas massacre. In the
former, six negroes We're butcllered; in
the latter thirteen Negroes and one
white man, while no one of the attack
ing party suffered so much as scratch
The six prisoners of Hamburg showed
some disposition to defend themselves:
but the poor people of Eagle Lake
were entirely unarmed, and threw
themselves unreservedlyupon the mer-
cy of the enemy, and that only to find
"the tender mercies of the wicked are
cruel" The letter closes with the re-
mark.
! sometimes think our Government
is a failure. Sitting Bull in his palm
lest days could not have committed
more brutal and atrocious deeds, yet
all our available army is sent to pun
ish him. while the Sitting Bulls Of the
Colorado bottom are left to 90 unwhipt
of Justice, their hcilish crimes not even
creating a ripple upon the calm surface
of public affairs. II these atrocities
are spoken of, the average citizen will
brush them away with the hackneyed
remark: tOh, it's only for political cf-
feet meanwhile unoflending and de-
fenSclcsS citizen. are yielding up their
lives, and, dying, feel that their gov
crnment is either a fraud or a farce.
No wonder such reflections are fore
ed upon one by such a pressure of hor-
ror. 1t is the duty of the General Gov
ernment to afford prompt and ade-
quate relief. Such outrages must be
punished chicago Journal, 1oth.