American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-06


he was tired of sleeping with hi
shotgun for a bed fellow, in hourl,
Expectation of being hung by the
bowling mob who menaced his
brother. His brother Henry, be
says, suffered from his wound, and
brave man that he was, shrieked al
day long from the buckshot in his
kidney. Three days before he was
shot he began to write a statement
of his connection with the Missis
sippi Democracy, and told his neigh
bors so. When be was shot lie had
the preliminary notes oil this comics
sion in his pocket, but his friends,
though they searched, have not
been able to find them since. They
believe it was the fear of this COIL
fession reaching the public that in>
spired the murder of its author, as
it would have compromised both
Lamar and Singleton. TIE latter
was most rabid in denouncing DIX
on's new departure, and agreed with
the murderer. BarksdaIe, that it
"must be nipped in the bud"
THE YAZOo ATROCITY.
The desperate efforts Of the Dem
ocratic press to extenuate the das
tardly crime of Barksdale and to
belittle its Significance, have come
to naught. In another column ap>
pears a dispatch that throws IA food
of light upon the subject. The dis
patch is in regard to the flight Of
the murdered DixOn's brother, who
is now in Washington. Though
short, it is graphic. What is told
in a few lines suggests more than
could be told ia a volume.
The fact is, the Democrats of va
z,o are rworn enemies of liberty.
He who is not for them is against
them, aud therefore should die.
Dixon was against them, and he
died. But before Re died he had
begun to write q statement of his
with them. He knew
their instincts and was familiar
with their history. But after his
death that statement could not be
found. Did his murderers take it
No one else did. But what did they
want with it, Did it compromise
Lamar and Singleton, as is claimed2
The latter hated Dixon's new de-
parture, aud agreed With the muir
derer that it must be ''nipped in
the bud"
The names OF Lamar and Single
ton stand high on the calendar of
Democratic saints. What do they
know about the Yazoo tragedy, and
what did they have to do with it?
Is "nipped in the bud' SYNONYMOUS
with murderf These are pertinent
and the public awaits
answers.
For more than a generation Col.
has been prominently be-
fore the people of the entire cou2
try, and during many years of that
time Col. Lamar has been conspicu-
Dus among our pubic men and
yet not even the malice of parti-
san rancor has dared to attribute to
either Of them any connection witch
inconsistent with the char
acter of a christian gentleman. We
pass over then the far fetched at
Tempt of this Rochester helOt to
besmirch their reputatione,- and
turn our attention to the homicide
70 grossly misrepresented. Because
! brave and honest gentleman is
lot willing to hold his lite at the I
,uffeiance of an inscriptions foe /;
he will not permit those
learer to him than life to be tra-
luced aud villifed by a ruffian
whose tongue was more foul and
.uthless than even bis hands be
,ause be offers fair battle in open
lay TO his adversary, and stands in
he center of the street. unprotected,
md receives fire, while the desper>
ldo fees to shelter; notwithstand-
ng all these facts, because the good
'itizen Stays the Ishm aelite, such
hugs of journalism as the Chi
ago Times and In'er> Ocean, the
Commercial, and ROches-
er Chronicle. proceed to SANDER an
ntire community as the sworn and
enemies of liberty. 1t
matters not to these jackals of a
email press, that in 'G5 Dixon was
be chief of the "rOpe hearers nor
hat what was then intended as a
tern warning 10 evil doors was, l'y
is inbumanity, turned into actual
,urder ncr that the victims of
Is cruelty were martyrs to the
lfamous teachings of these same
:adical sheets. oh. no! that is all
orgottep, now. Dixon was an In
anti Democrat f; BaIks>
ale is a Democrat, true TO his peo>
10, and that Is enough to evoke the
nrses Of all the vile cravens Of the
rgomcus sfaIwart Grew.