The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14
THE KRMPKk TIA GkDx AGAIN

The STATESMAN has denounced with
out stint the brutal mob that assassi-
mated Chisholm and his wife and |
daughter, helpless prisoners in public |
Jail. The deed is indefensibls and |
will mark the spot where Chisholm's
daughter fell when shielding her
fathers life with her own with infsmy
forever. They who caused this self
sacrifice of devoted child should 90
hang themselves. They are gibbeted
to infamy forever. But we are not un-
willing to give the long-suffering, out
ragged people of Kemper county fair
audience. In the meantime these peo-
pie should never forget that nothing
but the gallows and the rotting corpses
Of the murdsrers of Chisholm and his
uuugurcr, swuyiug To Hud fro in the
signing winds and suspended as were
the sons of MIzpeh, a prey for the
eagles, can ever atone for cowardly,
brutal infamies done by those who
spared neither helplessness in prison
nor woman nor rocked of woman's
tears nor were shsmed by woman's de-
votion and lofty heroism. Let the
bloody knaves, even with this defense
before them, 60 hang themselves. 1t
is written by an admirable gentleman
and scholar who says:
1t afforded not little qualification
to me to represent properly to a num-
/ Der Of distinguished gentlemen at
Houston the people of Kemper county,
Mississippi. Having lived near the
: border of Kemper many years, and be,
t ing we'll acquainted with every party
7 mentioned by the papers in connection
, with the Kemper tragedy, and being
thoroughly familiar with all the circum.
stances out of which grew the unhappy
8 event, / was able to place my friends
e in a different light than that which If
I thrown upon the affair by newspapers
ferers are the wife and children of JohI
w. Gully, for whose tears and whose
!, dsrkened home there seems to be NJ
4 cOmmiseration. The murderer of poo
II Il Dawson, and the assassin OF Ball
ut least by proxy, are canonized, while
9 Capt. Gully, who, amid all the tempes
o of war and all succeeding prosecutions
d remained firm in his attachment Il
home and country, is merely mentioned
rs poor unfortunate. In the mind o
y those who know the history of the las
b twelve years, there is not a doubt bu
k the assassins of Gully have met thei
n reward; at least, that those who in
spired his murderers have reaped thu
u whirlwind. The DeKalb MASSACRE
y doubtless affects adversely the gooc
y name of Kemper county, and look
: black in print. Yet it resulted from
nothing but the intolerable wrong
heaped upon an afflicted and down
s trodden community, the last of which
: Gully's assassination, hurled the indig
f nation of the people beyond the
boundary of endurance. DR.. Rosser
poor boy, though he died in error, wa
y of blood shed at Guilford's court house
. ny, and frenzied by the wrongs ant
foul death of his friend and the hepe
less wall of his widow and children
y or those killed in and about the Jail,
s could tale unfold, but accepting tn,
" maxim, Mill de mOrtuis nisi bonunl, for
bear. God forbid that any one shoulc
speak lightly of the daughter who at
: tempted to shield her wretched father
IS with her own person. 1t is but anothe
instance Of that devotion which In
spired Alcestis to die for Admetus. NJ
one has received more evidence o.
faithful friendship and affection from
d woman than your humble correspon
8 dent, nor can any other person more
willingly throw flower or drop teal
upon the dead daughters grave.