The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-08-16

IN many places these organization
possessed one or more pieces of ARTILLERY
These pieces of artillery were carrie
over the counties and discharged upo
the roads in the neighborhood of X,
| publican meetings and at meetings hel
/ by the Democrats. For many week
| before the election members of this mi
| Itary organization traversed the variou
counties, menacing the voters, and dis
charging their guns by night as well a
by day. This statement is sustained b
the testimony of Captain w. A. Mont
gomery, Captain f. O. Sykes, j. ID
Vertner, leading Democrats in thel
respective counties, as well as the test
mony Of a large number of trustworth
Republicans
(4.) 1T appears from the testimon
that, for some time previous TO the cleo
ton, it was impossible, in large numbe
Of counties, to hold Republican meetings
In the Republican counties of Warren
Kinds, Lowndes, Monroe, Copiah ant
Holmes, meetings Of the Republican
were disturbed or broken up, and al
attempts to engage in public discussions
were abandoned by the Republican:
San weeks before the election.
% The riots, at Vicksburg on The
9th of July, and at Clinton on the 4tl
of September, were the results of {
special purpose on the part of the Demo
Gratis to break up the meetings of the
Republicans, to destroy the leaders, and
to inaugurate an era of terror, not only
in those counties, but throughout the
State, which would deter Republicans,
and particularly the negroes, from or
ganizing or attending meetings, and es-
pecially deter them from the free exer-
cize of the right to vote on the day OF
election. The results sought for were,
in large degree, attained.
co. Following the riot at Clinton,
the country, for the next two days, WAS
secured by attachments from these Dem
ocratic military organizations over a cir
cult of many miles, and a large number
of unoffending persons were killed. The
number has never been ascertained cor
rectly, but it may be estimated fairly
as between thirty and fifty.
Among the innocent victims of those
days of horror and crime was Mr.. VIM.
p. Haffa, white man, Il teacher by
Justice of the Peace by the
choice of his fellow citizens, and can
didate for reelection upon the Republi-
can ticket. He was resident of Phila-
delphia with his family until the year
1870, when he emigrated to Mississippi
for the purpose of planting. The story
of his assassination as related by his
wife is given in full in the report. We
must abreviate it. Haffa was living on
a farm in Kinds county, where he had
been settled about three months, when,
says Mrs. Haffa:
NoTE-The testimony of Mrs. Haffa
is omitted on account of length
CLARION.
The assassination of Senator Caldwell
was another of those brutal outrages.
What occurred upon that evening we will
permit Mrs Caldwell to tell in her own
words:
Mrs. Margaret Ann Caldwell:
Question-Where do you live? An
swer-In Clinton, Kinds county.
@. Was Mr. Caldwell, formerly Sen
ator, your husband +? A. Yes sir.
@. What was his first name? A.
@. When did he die A. Thursday
night in the Christmas. Him and his
brother were killed.
@. You may state to the committee
what you know of his death ? a. know
when he left the house on the Thursday
evening, in the Christmas, between dark
and shutdown. In the beginning of the
dav he was out ON his fox chase all day.
The first commencement was an insult
passed on his nephew, and he came out
home.
@. Who was that? A. David Wash
ington. He is in Washington City now.
He is there in business; Waterman in
the Treasury Department now; has been
ever since October, l think. So they
picked fuss Waddy Rice in George
Washington's blacksmith shop in Clinton.
They commenced talking this way. |
think David said they asked, Chow
many did he kill on the day of the Moss
Hill riot ? Who did he shoot?" David
said that he did not know as he shot any
body; they told him he did, she came
there to kill the white people, and if be
did, to do his work in the day, and not
to be seeking their lives at night. "
David came Immediately back to my
house His uncle was at the fox-chase.
l said ''don't go out any more. Probably
they are trying to get up fuss here. "
His uncle sent him down for some
thing. He staid in the house until he
came.
That was about o'clock in tie even
ing, and some one had told about the
fuss picked with lis nephew, and he went
down town to see about it, l suppose.
He was down town half hour, and
came back and eat his dinner, and just
between dark and shutdown he goes back
down town again. He went down town
knocking about down there. do not
know what he was doing down there,
until Just nearly dusk, and man, Madi-
son Bell, colored man, came and says,
"AIrs. Caldwell, you had better go down
and see about MIR Caldwell, [ think the
white folks will Kill him they are get
ting their guns and pistols, and you had
better go and get your husband away
from town.
/ did not go myself; did not want
to 90 myself, but went to Professor Bell
and said would he go and get him. Mr.
Bell went, and he never came back at
all until he came back under arrest.
was at my room until just nearly
dark.
The meGn was quite young, and the
chapel bell rang.
We live right by it. l knew the
minute the bell tolled what it all meant
And the young men that lived right
across The street, when the bell talled,
they rushed right out; they went through
the door and some slid down the window
and over they sprang; some went over
the fence. They all ran to the chape
and got their guns. There was 80 guns
there to my own knowing had beer
there since the riot, at the Baptist
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