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murder of Judge Chisolm and his family,
saws
al is not true that Mrs Chisolm and her
husband were in danger OF assassination
while the latter was lying wounded at
home. 1t is not true that her residence
was guarded by mob day and night that
they swore to take her husbands life.' and
that she was not allowed egress or ingress
without pass from the head Of the mob.
No one justifes the act by which Judge
Chisolm lost his life. Everything that IS
possible shall be done to arrest and punish
the guilty parties do not hope to silence
the MISREPRESENTATION of men who are
making political capital out Of the unfortu-
nate affair The South has been 100 long
the victim Of misrepresentation for your
people to become willing suddenly to hear
both side before condemning. The recent
kilograms and articles that have appeared in
Northern papers are based solely upon my
refusal to'consent to an invasion of kemper
county by body of men from other counties.
The folly of consenting to such proposition
when no trouble was apprehendcd must be
apparent to every reasonable person"
When Gov. Stone says that no one justi-
fies the act by which Judge C.;so,in lost his
life, be is plainly wide of the truth. We
have published the words of the Meridian
Miss Mercury fatty justifyins the mobblng
and murder of Chisclm, and protesting
against any inquiry by the authorities into
such proper exercise of the "higher law"
Other Mississippi papers have taken the
same stand When the public press so openly
justiies a crime, We may be very sure that
there is plenty of private justification of it,
and there is positive testimony to that effect.
A correspondent of the New York 1imrS
says: "NOt only DO the people of Mississippi,
whom Gov. Stone represents, and whose
suffrages he is now soliciting for reelection,
Justify the murder of Judge Chisolm and his
family, but they are to-day practicing the
most unlawful crimes and barbarous cruel
ties upon Republican citizens of Mississippi,
and Gov. Stone cannot help but know it.
The Acknowledgement of Mississippi, in
recent letter says:
"If the press of the State persist in their
attempts to palliate, excuse, or Justify such
violence, murder, and brutal assassination,
it will only serve to invite a repetition Of
such disgraceful savagery, and admonish all
good citizens of the State to flee to Mexico
or Santo Domingo for better enforcement
of the law, and for higher grade of civili-
zation."
A Missssippian, who claims to know Gov
ernor Stone well, explains in a published
letter the motives for his inertness in this
case. The Governor, he says, is good scrt
of man, who wishes to see justice done, but
he wants to be reelected, or rather he wants
to be elected for the first time, for he DOW
holds bis Office, not BY election, but by vir-
tue of the fact that he was President of the
Senate when Governor Ames resigned. He
knows, or believes, that vigorous effort to
bring the Kemper county murderers to JUS
tice, would ensure his defeat. 1t is this and
not lack of power, which ties his hands. lie
has himself asserted that he could and would
secure the punishment of political murder
ers. Soon after he came into office there
was demand upon the President to send
troops to protect the rights and lives of citi-
zens of Mississippi then the Governor said
of those who were committing political muir
ders II am able to bring all to justice, and
am determined to do So When something
is done toward the arrest and trial Of the
De Kalb assassins, We shall believe that Gov
ernor Stone is doing, as he says he is, "all
that is possible to be done
Meantime, though men may be silent, and
though Gov. Stone finds defenders of his
inaction even in Vermont, Northern women
are not afraid 20 speak their minds about
these Mississippi crimes, and their shelter
ers. Gail Hamilton, in Der last letter to the
New York Tribune, says:
last Winter, only this very last Winter,
a pretty young Southern girl, just emerged
from childhood, a bright, innocent, affection
ate girl, was queening it. as q young girls
inalienable right it is to DO. among the young
people in Washington. How gay and gentle
and sweet she was sWhen the time came to
20 to their sunny South her father said, 81
am going home to be murdered" And muir
iered he was and murdered was his young
son, throwing himself vainly between his
father and his fathers assassins; and muir
dered was the fair young daughter, vainly
shielding her father with her clinging warm
white arms. | think the worlds annals |
hold no higher heroism than the instructive |
of love in these two simple chill |
1ren, and if anything were wanting to illus |
trate their glory it would be found in the |
backness of darkness which enshrouds their |
,owardy murderers, and which, at sober |
second thought, let young girls life 60 out |
in agony because not fend Of them all was |
man enough to minister to her deadly hurt. |
But Mr.. Eyarts, We are told, is writing a |
letter about it which will make sensation |
in the country; and we crush back our tears
and think what proud and sacred thing it
IS to be an American citizen ~
And Grace Greenwood, in tine New York
Times, writes
"Application has been made tome to head
subscription Tor monument to the memory |
IF noble Nellie Chisolm - nobler than the
7oung Roman matron, who, in prison, pro-
onged the her starving fathers life by
device, almost miracle of love
IN immortal act of fiial duty prompted by
maternal instinct. This daughter gave not
The milk Of her breast, but tie blood of
1er heart. But though honored and touch
ID by the request, was compelled to de-
cline. A monument should be reared, if
anywhere, in the place where she suffered
md died. Not here, under the shadow of
he Capitol nor in Boston, where it would
DO sentinelled by the shaft of Bunker Hill.
do not believe thar the fairest marble me-
mortal would stand in De kalb for single
lay undesecrated. One night of lawless
PARTISAN hate and ku-klux violence would de-
ace it more efectually than 10 centuries and
countless wars and sieges have defaced the
omb Of Cecilia Metella. | am sorry to say
70, but fear it would not be quite safe from
Iengeiul feminine hands. From gentle
nan long a resident of Mississippi, large
property holder and public-spirited citizen,
loing all in his power to develop the re-
OuICtS VI lht Dtdtt, Dut WHO DelDR, unIOr-
unately, Republican, finds it perilous to
emain there, have the following significant
title story lie had once been spending an
.vening at the house OF wealthy planter
Gated in drawing-r room giving every in
LEGATION of culture and reiinement-books
md pictures, popularity supposed to have a
oftening and humanizing iniluence-music,
leld to have charms to soothc the savage
'reast' a genial host, an elegant soft
DICED hostess, with charming Young daugh-
ers. 1t was one of these, beautiful, ac-
emphasized girl, who, on hospitable cares
intent, set herself to the pleasing task Of
howing my friend a goodly number of
hkenesses. They were all, he
oticed, of famous Southrons- heroes of the
ost cause. There was the cold, sharply-cut
ace of the ex-President of the Confederacv
a man equally without modesty in power
nd without dignity in misfortune there
Tas the sad. handsome face of Robert f.
zee, who for four years bravely waged
ouble warfare against his country and |