New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-26
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PATHETIC STORY.
The Murder Of Square Hodge by MIR. Til.
den's Friends.
The following is taken from the report OF
Mr.. Boutwells committee concerning the
intimidation of negroes in Mississippi:
The most pathetic story Of them all was
told BY poor Ann Hodge, shy. frightened
looking, jetblack girl Of eighteen years, .
widow, and the mother of two orphaned
children, whose father had been slain in
&. cold blood. He was one of the victims of
the series of massacres that followed the
ican meeting called by Republicans
only, which was broken up by an
armed company from Raymond, and
ended in . running fight between the
whites and blacks. 1t was held ON Satur-
day, the fourth of September. Armed COM
panies from Vicksburg and the vicinity of
Clinton spent the next day-all one long
autumnsl Sunday-in securing the country
for negroes, and almost every man whom
they saw they murdered, without warning
or mercy. jackson, the capital. eight miles
of, was crowded for weeks with colOred
refugees, and it was not until the planters
became alarmed for their cotton crop that
1t was safe for any one Of them to 60 back.
1t was then that Mr.. Haffa was killed, and
from thirty to fifty negroes.
Square Hodge, the husband of Ann, was
one of the victims of the Clinton riot. He
was shot in the arm. He went home with
his arm in sling. Next morning q party
of Democratic came after him. Let their
names be given to the infamy they have
earned. They were Henry Quick, Willy
Locke, Bryan Mcdonald, John Mcdonald,
George Allen, John McNeir, Allen Grafton,
and two or three others, whom the widew
did not know. They we're all on horseback,
armed with guns and pistols. There were
four colored men in the house, and two
women and five children. Allen Grafton
and John McNeir dismounted and went
into the cabin. The rest remained outside
on guard.
''They made my brother come out from
under the bed" said Ann. land asked
where Square was, and said, is he in the
roOmp And l did not tell, and said did
not know 1T first.
..Inen they asked me if they had been at
the Clinton riot, and I said that did not
know. Then he said, If you don't tell,
will shoot your - - brains out
"Tkey made him come out from under
the bed, and started to shoot under the
house. She was scared, and put the chill
dren under the house, and they gone
around. There Is two doors in the house.
They had further pointed under the house,
and told them that nobody was under
but the children. Then they came in the
house, but could not find Square, and then
they went right out where he was and
snatched off the weatherbOard, only one in
the room, and the other went outside the
door and snatched the weather-board, and
turned back the bed, and made him come
ont, and called him - of A.,
Anl ID hov at nit %hnu
"Mr. Quick says: i told you this: if you
had listened to me you would not have
come to this And they told him to put
his shoes'on, and got them and said will
put them on, and l had to put them on and
could not tie them very we'll, and some one
said, Let the -- shoes be: he don't
need any shoes" I put my brothers coat on
him, ana they carried him before them: he
mond."
. ''Now, what happenedw asked the Sem
'ator. !
Nothing else,' she said.
"What become of your husband?'
"They killed him" she said. II never
did find him for q week until the next
Saturday. 1t was near about q mile and q
half to the last bridge to Raymond in the
swamp"
"Who found him!'
"A cOlOred man." she answered, ''wbo
was running off-keeping out OF the way Of
the rebe, too-he came across the body, and
went and got q spade and dug hole, and
put blaze on the trees all the wsv out,
and then we got the newe; and Mr.. Quick
he took and made box for US, and he
loaned US a wagon, and We went after him
that Saturday"
"You found the BODY" asked the chair
man.
"The huzzards," she went on, ''the buzz
yards had eaten the entraile; but from the
body down here (she explained by motion
of her hand what she meant) it was as nat
ural az ever. His shoes were tied just as
had tied them. The skull bone was on the
outside of the grave, and this arm was out
slightly and the other was off. Some we |
don't find. We picked up the rings of the |
backbone. We got the pocket book, and |
there was the hat hanging up, and this |
ring (she pointed to silly er ring on her |
fiDger) it was up on the tree, and the black |
one (she had an ebony ring on the same |
finger the black one was on the ground
this one"
The evidence of this mans brother |
showed that they took no part whatever in |
the fight at Clinton, but that both of them
.'brOke and run" as soon as the fight began. |
Square was shot Is he was escaping. He
wss seen to be wounded, and 60 he was as
Fascinated by the Democrats OF the neigh
borhood.