The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-28
,. IF men educated to the law ara

car party If men educated to the law arc
supposed to abide by the principles of the law.
| have seen III the same violent mob one of the
acknowledged les ers of the bar of MISSISSIPPI
pi and criminal who had been denied bail by
his Democratic friends and who, after having
slain his fellow-man-shot him from ambush as
he rode by the side of his young bride of three
weeks-was kindly permitted by the Sheriff to
come out of Jail and join his friends in intimi-
dating Radical speakers If age brings refec-
lion, and leads men to think and act with that
circumspection which will bring the goodwill
of their fellows and clear conscience,
have seen old men, whose tottering
steps were fast leading them to their
graves, mingling with the motley throng who
insulted us and fired into our own house on the
occasion of my husbands last appointment to
speak, during the last Presidential campaign
II youth is too tender and innocent to harbor
thoughts OF wickedness or partake in scenes of
bloodshed and crime, have seen young boy,
one who could not have seen more than the
droughts of fifteen breezeless summers to
parch out of his miserable soul every emotion
tending to better aims, stagger over the life
less and bleeding body of the fairest of ten
der boys, who had been dropped in haste by
his mother ard brother that they might fur
Their defend their loved ones That fair boys
young life had been freely and voluntarily
other boy, also born of woman, had brought
the gun that shot away this childs young
heart, and now stepped over his pros
trate form to hand guns for the killing of q
brave, noble, righteous man aid fair flower
of a girl-fairer and purer than Eve, for she
fell Drawer than brave men, for they some
times falter. If the counterfeit of religion
makes men ashamed to do crime publicly,
have seen deacons and class leaders join in
the same wild howl for the feast of blood
Yea, [ have seen at least one, whom / had
watched only few short weeks before pass the
emblems of the broken body and shed blood
of our beloved Lord, stand among the human
blooahounds, and fairly tremble as he licked
his hungry lips, and when asked by myself
what he thought of the taking of mans life
by lawless mob, in the midst of his family
one, TOO, who had done no man any wrong, but
who had done those by whom he was surround
ed so many favors-I was answered. "This is
an exceptional case, and the law is farce"
You ask If I presume to believe the leaders
OF the Democracy know and approve these
things In reply, I quote from Democratic
paper. the Kemper Herald the thanks rendered
MIR. Money, who represents the district in Con-
greSs, and was my husbands political opponent
during the canvass: eve received letter
few days since from Mr., H. D. Money in which
he made arrangements to pay us $40 for the
purpose of defraying the expense of our
Kemper Bulldozers,' and stated he would
pay more if needed He expressed the kindest
feeling Of sympathy for those of his fellow cit
liens who were indicted, and expressed his will
ingness and determination to bear his full share
of the result" In commenting on this &C
acknowledgement, Capt. j., M. Wells, Repub-
hcan, s. Union soldier, prisoner escaped from
Libby, and a man who, having lived in the
South after the war, is fully prepared to IN
derstand the exact situation, says: "Being the
only one benefited by their acts, it is not sur
prising that Mr.. Money came to their aid
with his purse to bear his full share of the
result" The member of the Legislature
from Kemper county was reported to have
said III speech in De Kalb not one month
before the election: "You must get rid of
Chisolm; if you can'tssget him out in any other
way, Xiii him out" This lawmaker was also
steward in the church A long time teacher of
the youth Of East Mississippi urged the same
necessity Of getting rid of Chisolnl, motion.
ing his finger round his own guilty neck anE
pointing upward. A Senator from Missis-
sippi, whom the loyal North delights to honor,
was reported to us soon after to have said a,
Scooba Kemper county: "This man Chisolm
do not personally know, but / am told he is
one of the most suave of gentlemen, winning
and gentle liz his bearing, kind and charitable,
one who never turns his back on sorrow, and
from whom the widow and the orphan never 90
away Will empty uduQS. 90 muCn the more
need to be rid of him; the more harm can he
do" This man of eloquence, who was report
ed to my husband to have pronounced this
eulogy On his character, am further informed,
said here in Washington that he never heard of
Chisolm till he heard of his death. STANCE that
politician SO thoroughly well-informed should
not know the candidate for Congress in his own
Senatorial district. T..
My dear sir I can point you to men in this city,
who lived in my own section of Mississippi,
who can give you facts which cannot be con-
trOverted, can tell them to you in clear and
forcible manner. For myself, I can only write
you 'woman's letter." My ambition has not
aspired to reach higher than to be fitted to
reign at the head of my husbands house; just
blue eyes on his return home. My learning
has only sought to reach the wisdom that fitted
me at once to be the teacher and playmate of
orr children. Now the shadow of death and
the hush of sorrow have so darkened and
slenced my soul that I cannot, like poor
Rachel, even enjoy the happy privilege of
weeping for my children, though, like her, I
cannot find comfort. Perhaps dear sir, if you
could look upon shattered bracelet have ia
my possession, with the name "Cornelia" en-
graVad on the inside, and peeping out from
the red blood that once flowed through her
round, white arm; if could show you heavy
watch chain covered with the blood of my no
BILE husband; could I show you little coat
with the sleeve shot to pieces and burned with
the powder, and a great hole in the breast; a
little hat all covered with the life blood of fair
boyhood-perhaps, dear sir, these would con-.
vince you that the @roughs" of the South some
times wear broadcloth and fine linen. am,
sir. with all respect, MRS W. W. CHIsoLM.
WASHINGTON, D. @.
Wasn't to Be Taken In.