The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-11
THE KEMPER MOB.

HE r. EN- PER MID
4 xIss1ss1pP1Ax's ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER on
CHISHOLM AND HIS DAUGHTER.
From tho Boston clobcl
Judge Chisholms public lfe as far as know. began
as Probate Judge Of Kemper county elective once at
that time beiorc war). From this he elected
Sheriff. think. three times SUCCESSION. This caused
enmlly between Gully and him, Chisholm was now
tho acknowledged leader Of the Union and the
publican party. I think Chisholm could have been
elected any oce within the si Of the white people
OF his county. There ID not very largo number Of
coored men in this county. Gully tho leader OF
the long haired democracy apd almost evory Of
them rotated TO HIM BY blood or marriage; many
OF them depended upon nlm for their bread.
THE CAUSES LEADING TO rux TRAGEDY.
Now comes tho last CANVAS In which Judge
Chisholm participated Ho was the nominee Of
the republican party for membcr Of Congress Ia
this district on the Hayes ticket Chisholm
bounded by the democracy for this Is tho nams
they go by In this county, from end OF the dis
trct the other and In many places he prevented
from speaking by this same party. Tho immediate
cause Of this attack Chisholm Glmer and their
friends was caused by Chisholm and Gilmcr having
several Of them indicted At tho last term Of tho United
States Court for shooting Into Judge Chsho's house
on tho last day appointed by him to speak at his house
IN Do Kab, Kemper county, during the canvass io'
the Congressional election. About three four hun
cred assembled in De Kslb and swore that Chisholm
should not speak. Chisholm did not attcmpt TO speak,
fearing that would involve his friends In trouble
marking (whcn asked by somc Of them why no az
60 that he would not give tho life Of
OF his friends Tor In Congress the balance OF hi
he This long haired constituency OF Gully (who was
their leader at the timol not being satisfied With
Chisholm's not giving them chance at that time to
shoot him OIL tho Speakers stand, got together ane
marched around 10 front Of Chshom's house, where
his wife and family were together, with hall dozen
friends and fred their pistols over the house Tnis
they did several times.
PRovocATIoN.
Finally some one drunken tor plsyn drunker) than
the others fred into The house THIS was the last
that broke The camcl's back Chisholms lrIonds
had imporluned him 10 let them Ore INTO the crowd,
some TWO hundred In number. This he pcremptorlly
refused to do; but when the shot bit the house he
took his double barreled shotgun, and his friends,
with his daughter, armed with navy six sailed forth
into the town. ami IN I'VE minutes from tho tlnc they
saw the hon and his whcps come out OF the door not
single one OF that brave, ch,valrous, long. haired
crowd TO be seen. This was the prime cause Of
the last strategic movement Chisholm concucted
turbances III that county since 1857. He is DOW dead
having been assassnatcd no doubt by some oil his own
people, Is easily proven (and they
tnen knew ~ that Captain Rush was in the
State, OF -Arkansas,.- and bad not been 10 this
MOBILE and had been for days previous and
after the shooting OF Gully This mob took two Of
tr nearIy dcau. 10 MAKE them tell What lhcy hac
heard their master say The poor darkics ttho scape
nnr and they. Ike thousands Of others IN tins sate
preferred than tell lic their best friend
The mob having done this Tor prctcxt now began q
howl That The negroes had confessed that Rush
the man that did tho snoot'n- -,ow every man IN
that mob knew that Rush la oc.n in Mississippi
for a month. But thoy mus, 80 something else 10
satisfy The bloodthirsty spirit u The moo. Nowawas
the time Tor the Gully family TO get even with CHS.
holm aud hts faithful followers cry WAS raised
that ChIsbo ohm, Ginier, Kosenbaum and the two Hop
pers were accessory 70 the assassination This was all
in 60 and arrest Chisholm and place him 10 Jail Re-
member that all tho Others named wsre much im.
pcated was Chisholm but the whole object was TO
get Chisholm 10 jail unarmco 10 this Chisholm
quietly submitted, and sent to Scorbu fourteen miles,
Tor Gilmer aud Roscnbaum.
making their way to the Sheri TO give themselves up
Now comes the proof that It was Chisholm and Giimcr
they wanted. As The latter and Rosenbaum were walk
ing down The street side by side through THIS crowd
shot Gilmcr in the back, Gimer beng this
,me oppcsa'o vssy aey near ,nc corns
into tho alley TO keep from being shot again. sup
pose, and as he emerged from the other END no was
filed full Of buckshot some scvcntyhve balls entering
his body. Rosenbauin hurt Chisholm bong
sight Of what was doing nom his Jail window, where
ne with his family, consisting OF his wife.
daughter seventeen years old and eleven years,
became alarmed.
THE DAuGnrER's AEnoisM
Al THIS time the mob began to move toward the jail
Cnisholnis guards scciug ths and knowing what The
programme was, left taoir guns anc dad inc jail As
found they we're not loaded Then the hcrosm oil tho
daughter showed Itself She lett tho jail, and, amid
scons, jcers aud insults Of this mob, wont
OF 200 yards pretending 70 DO going 10 the house
for PROVISIONS, ant procured flask OF powder ami
bucksho with Hnrpers Illustrated Weekly tor wad.
ding. Thcsc she secured under her clothing aud,
making her back to tie jail she just got inside OF
hcr iatber's room when tho mob attacked Tho JAIL
Mcclellan, Scotchman, sixty years old met thcm at
the foot OF the steps ana told them that thcy wad no
gang out without gazing over ms dead body" They
old man said, ovor his dead body this crowd OF
'chvalry" Walked. But Chisholm had locked the
door of the landing and, ~ being door made OF
iron bars, it took come time TO break the lock oil
win axes. Here little Johnny, wniie holding tue
door, was wounded in the nand, ana when he
that the lock yielding TO tue he started
to the other end oil the hall, where tho door
went into the room that his father, mother and sister
Corneiia occupied SO onu brutal than tho rest,
flled him with buckshot, lItcraly tearing his heart
out BY this time The mob mad entered the hall, and
Snc that the guns left in tie jail by the guards were
not loaded led has brave band OF "rurks;v but 10 ane
behold, when he entered tho door Miss Corncla hac
succeeded N loading ono barrel " one OF the guns
winch she had handed 10 her father, and as Rosse
AIMED a. cnisaoim le cnsaolm dr sS literally blow
Tho baance OF that Spartan band God forgive
using the word herc) tell back This Was something
they were not thinking Of
BURNING THEN OCT.
Now comes tho SiLlng Bull principle ino, VIII not
SANDER nIm tho Turkish principle, the indian idea,
to the Jail nrc. They know that tile boy was
dead; they knew that Mcclellan dead. After
time spent ping logs, palinss and other combustl-
Snow they will have 10 come out sho is burnug!"
Judge Chisholm, knowing that the building OF
pitch Pine, and no being IN the upper story with his
DEAD boy aud tho mother lying on the dead body,
thought II best 10 leave the jail The vile carry
ing dead body OF the boy and tho father and
daughter leading. the daughter with her left ann
around her iather's neck, came forth 10 meet that
tribe oi Sittins Suils. tho daughter pushing tho
muzzlos OF tho shotguus aimed at tho heart oil her
iaihcr aside with that right arm, until some one
III that brave band fired ana shattered her arm
from the nand 10 the elbow. Yet did FAINT
desert her parent and when that fell shattered by
her side some bravo "budozerr Tired and MORALLY
wounded nor ather the wouncd girl still holding hin
In her arms, wncn he tainted from tee loss Of blood
she not being used 10 blood carnage, thai
brave band u Confederate soldiers who had laced the
Yankees on hundred bloody fields, thought hsf
iather dead, anu with the assistance OF one man
VINO had not let the last spark VI human kindness die
out ~ his breast carrying him to his home when
this bold, darihg band veterans OF hundred battles,