The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-25
VOL. VIII.
CHIsaoLn AND GULLY.

Il was hardly to be expected that
Gully, the leader of the mob that slew
Chisholm, would be convicted. Il was
not proven clearly, though an excited
woman swore it, that Gully killed
Chisholm. The testimony was most
conf citing. But then it was hardly
possible that twelve men could be found
about the scene of the murder, some Of
whom were not prepares to show how
| they sbhorred Chisholm, the carpet
bagger and worst of his class, even if
they detested violent fellow ike Gull
~. The truth IL, Chisholm, when his
devilish gang of thieves and military
sstraps of the Ames regime were eject
ed from power, should have marched
out of the State with the rest. But
Chisholm, like Gully, was q vio-
lent, reckl6s', fearless and mur-
derous individual. He courted dan
ger. He liked excitements Incl
dent to revolutionary times. He
remained In Mississippi, and if the
truth must be told in the very worst
county in the State for Adventures of
Chisholm's sort. He was told to leave
the country. He had co-operated with
those who enslaved and plundered the
people most remorselessly. Senator
Morton, it will be remembered, t.s7-
ersed that portion of Mississippi just
after Ames and his gang were ej:cted.
Chisholm was stTutting plscemsp.
and we believe rousing chancellor
under Ames. Senator Morton described
the once charming country, after
Ames's thieves had plucked it, as q
land of savages and desolation and
decay. Chisholm was q chief and
violent and abhored integral part
of the system that wrought this
degeneracy of people and the
responsiveness of their homes.
Assessments made by thieves for pur-
poses of taxation were so devised that
the property of the original population
was confiscated or made to pay from
8 to per cent. In towns and villages
of course the calamity was even more
grievous. Gully was a violent repre-
sentatiye Of popular indignation and
hate. This animoslty was natural
among unlettered rural populations,
robbed by strangers set over them by
Ames and the negroes, and if
Gully's gang had only slain Chisholm,
the world would never have wept.
Chisholm took the chances. He knew
what dangers he incurred, what his
associations had been and how he
had been master of whites
through the intervention of blacks.
The death OF Chisholm's daughter at
the hands Of the exasperated throng,
she dying in defense of father of
whose vices she was innocent, caused
mankind to shudder when Chisholm
fell. True enough, as Is alleged, to
kill woman under any circumstances
is monstrous. No matter what the
provocation may be, any man who lifts
his hand against a woman ia dog and
coward. The howlers should re-
member, however, that other woman
old, gray-headed, a grsnd-mother-
murdered to make a nations hol-
iday. No mob of infuriated men,
fired upon and their leader shot, killed
Mrs. Surratt. That same infamous
party which drove Chisholm to his
death in Mississippi hung her when it
was in command of q million men, and
the victor in the mlghtiest civil war
known in history. Forget if we can
that Chisholm's innocent daughter fell
and we have only to remember and de-
plsre the fact that such fellows as
Chisholm and Gully are born, and
when they die the world is the gamer.