American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23
NEMESIS (!
H. M. Dixon Killed in a Sire ct F iqh, .
YAZOO CITY, Aug. 10.

stepped into the middle of the
street with IL doubles harrtled shot
gun, and called to III. NJ. Dixon, as
he was passing up the street. Dixon
drew his pistol, and the firing is
said by some to have been stimuli
taneOus; others say that Dixon fired
first and turned and reiterated into
a hall way and up flight of stairs.
At any rate Dixon was shot in the
back. He fired three or four shots
from the hall way. Barksdale re-
manned standing IN the middle of
the street. When the smoke cleared
away he fired second time, but
the load went into the doOr-facing
of the hall. X.
Four buckshot entered Dixon's
back. He died at four O'Clock that
afternoon. A key to the affray will
be found in the following note Off
cially appended to the proceedings
of the meeting held in YazOo City
on the 18th:
NOte.-The Secretary has had
placed in his hands the names of
two gentlemen living in YazoO
county, who heard Ii. NJ Dixon DIS
GUESSING plans looking to the assas
sination of JAS. A. Barksdale, Dem>
ocratic candidate Tor chancery clerk.
The Democracy of Yazoo county
held a mass meeting in Yazoo City,
on the 10th lust, which was attend
ed by a thousand men. From the
resolutions adopted by the meeting.
we make the following extracts:
1t is alleged against us, that we
will not allow any man to run for
office in our county independent of
the nomination of our party. This
charge we denounce as false. We
recognize the right of any man to
run for office in our county, whether
he bases his claim upon the Demo
cratic tradition of honesty, fidelity
and capacity, or not. We agree to
adjourn all such questions for arbi
tration at the ballot box !; but we
do not recognize the right of any
man to run for Office on the race is
sue and the color prejudice. Such
issues, iii our opinion, will cnlmi-
nate in strife and bloodshed, and in
such conflicts the really guilty al
most always escape, while the COM
paratively innocent suffer. More
than this, such issues disturb the
peace and quiet of our people; i'm
peril the lives of the innocent; dis
rupt the pcacoable relations which
should subsist between the races ;
engender discOrd and hatred be
tween v hite and black /; disorganize
and ruin our Labor system, and thus
destroy every hope for the peace,
harmony and prosperity of our peO-
pie. We believe and declare that
the man ii. NJ. ID xOn is running for
Sheriff on the race issue and color
line prejudice alone; that he is seek
ing by all the devilish devices of a
low, corrupt ,niriguer in politics, to
array the colored people of our
county against the whites-to stir
up race prejudice and race con
flict-all because he wants the fees
and perQuisites of the Sheriff7s Of
flee, and sees no other way of get
ting them. For these reasons we
say that the man Fl. NJ. Dixon is not
| fit to be Sheriff of our county, aud
! we here deny that he has Il right TO
| he allowed to run for Office on the
issues thus made up by him.
We have also some other grave
reasons WHY tho man Dixon should
not be permitted to be the Sheriff of
this county, some of which we will
here name: He is gambler by
profession, as he admits, and as we
know him to be. He has declared
time and again that all gamblers
will steal. He declared last June
in Yazoo City, to Z. z. BriscOe, Dis
trict Attorney, that he would pack
Jury. if he could, to acquit a
friend. A man who will pack
Jury to acquit friend will do the
same thing to convict an enemy. or
all the officers in tho county, the
Sheriff has most to do with the
grand and petit .iuries; lie has ac>
cess to them at all times; he has
every opportunity to corrupt them,
if he is base enough to do so. Dix
on admits he is base enough, and
shall we allow him to get into a
place where he can exercise such
Internal baseneSs
We believe he is murderer.
Passing by the cases of many men
who have died at his hands in this
comfy, we believe that Dixon mur>
dered Mr.. Samuel Harrison in cold
blood. The Mayor of Yazoo City.
Mr.. j. Ii. Holt, thought so, and
committed HIM to Jail without bail.
Our Circuit Judge, Hon. S. s. Gals
hoon, thought SO, and remanded
him to Jail without bail. For months
he filed a felon's cell, and we be-
lIeve that he only escaped a felOn's
doom and a telOn's death for want
of intelligence and virtue in the jury
that tried him.
To sum up, in brief. our opinion
and estimate of the character of the
man Dixon, we declare as our delib-
crate opinion, that he is murderer,
a gambler, bully. a thief, man of
violence, of blood. of lies, a man
who will pack juries, a low, unprin-
cipled demagogue in politics, and
an infidel in religion.
For these reasons we say that we
detest the man ii. NJ. Dixon; and
we say further, that he is not fit in
any sense to hold any Office of hon
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