Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

he lesson never - be- forgotten. -
Dubuque Times.
II cannot be claimed that there is
high degree LIBERALIZATION and peace
in the state of Mississippi, while
such horrible transactions ale per-
United, as recently took plack in
DeKalb, Kemper county, in that
State, where persons were killed in
the most brutal manner, without any
apparent cause. Til State has been
famous for its disreptuable transac-
tons for many years Before the
war, it inaugurated the repudition of
its public debt; the horrors of slavery
were carried to the extreme there !;
duelling existed in it's most bafbar-
Gus form; it is the State that pro-
duced jeff Davis, and was the scene
OF many serious troubles in the coun-
try-conslsting oil murders, massa-
ores, and all sorts ofbarbarous trans
actions. Now, at time when there
is boast that peace exists through
out the South, where. there was hope
that all the evils engendered by the
late war, and the cause that brought
on the war, had ceased to exist, there
springs up i'll Mississippi an outrage,
in its inhuman character almost with
out parallel in the former history of
The barbarous and .bloodthirsty State.
We gave from the Chicago Tribune
a condensed history of the recent mas
sacre, at DeKalb, above referred tc.
1t was provoked neither by negroes
nor carpet baggers it was simply an
outbreak of the Bashi. Bazouk charac-
ter, which distinguishes large part
of the Mississippi population The
murdered, like the mnrderers, were
native whites. 1t is stated that there
has never been carpet,bagger in the
entire country. But the negroes are
in the majority, and certain of the
native whites (including Judge
Chisolm, who have been civil officer
under the Confederate Government,
acted with the Republicans, and the
Government of the county was Re
publican up to 1875, when, along
with the rest of the State, it was stol.
en- by the Democrats Now that the
fire-eaters have control of the local
offices, the courts, and the machinery
for clearing themselves of any charge
brought against them, they propose
it seems, to Kill off all the white men
who had acted politically with the ne
groes. Judge Chisolm was the Re-
publican leader, and had been Sheriff
of the county for seven years. He
was a brave man, and, assisted by
certain staunch friends, he defended
the political rights of the blacks val
iantly. He had devoted family of
more education and culture than
their neighbors, which probably in
creased the luminosity OF the Bashi-
Bazouk of his county, aud led them
to make him the first victim Of their
vengeance. SO an absurd charge Of
murder was trumped up against
Chisolm, friend of his named Gil
mer, and three or four others (all Re
publcans), for the purpose Of getting
them into jail, where a couple OF hun
dred cowardly assassins might attack
and kill them while they were in a
defenseless and helpless condition.
Gilmer was overtaken while pro.
ceeding TO deliver himself up on the
charge, was run down by the pack OF
wolves, and. as the correspondent of
the New York Tribune says, 'was
killed like rat in a trap Judge
Chisolm also yielded quietly to arrest;
but his family suspectlng that the in
tention was to murder him, followed
him to the Jail. There it became evil
dent what tie mob was going to do
The Jail vas surrounded. The guns
belonging to the guards had been IN
loaded, and there was no powder or
shot at hand. Judge Chisolm's
danghter-a girl Of IS years, whose
name must be enrolled in the list of
heroines aud martyrs forced her
way back through the mob to ner
fathers house under the pretcxt OF
getting something to eat. but returned
with powder and shot concealed in
her garments. The Bashi Bazouks,
numbering over 200, after awhile
mustered up sufficient courage to at
tack a family they supposed to be de-
fenseless. But one guard was true to
his post, and he was shot dead. Fore
ing their way inside the jail, the fends
killed son of Judge Chisolm s-a
brave boy of thirteen, who was cling .
ing to his father first wounding him,
then numbering him in cold blood.
The daughter by this time had sue
ceeded in getting loaded gun to her
father. He fired at the crowd, and
killed one man in the advance. At
this, the cowardly pack gave way,
and rushed back into the street.
There they began to howl for settir :
fire to the jail, and one devil, more in
genious than the others, cried out'that
the jail was burning. The building
was of frame, aud Judge Chisolm, to
save his family, resolved to face the
mob that dared not face him. The
firing began as soon as the hunted
family appeared in the hall below.
Mrs. Chisolm fired off both barrels of
the shotgun which she held, in the
hope of checking the assault. The
Judges daughter chung around her
fathers neck with one arm, and with
the other pushed away the guns lev
eled at him. Had there been spark
of manhood among this herd of wild
beasts, the heroism and devotion of
that daughter would have averted the
slaughter. Bat the brutes kept on
firing, wounded the poor girl in two
places and the Judge in eleven, then
left them for dead When the family
were carrying the wounded man to
his house, short distance away.
few of the Bashi- Bazouks returned,
and were only appeased by the brave
daughter, bleeding from the wounds
they had inflicted, who assured them
her father died IN her arms.
This was not all Of it. Mrs. CHS
ohm had to secure permit from the
mob to bury her boy whom they had