Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-08-28
LATEST FROM MISSISSIPPI.

The latest intelligence from Jackson,
Mississ ippi, says that on Tuesday of this
week, Henry M. Dixon was shot and
killed by James Barksdale. While Dix
on was passing down Main street, Barks-
dale hailed him from the other side.-
Dixon halted, when Barksdale marched
out into the middle of the street and fir
ed, four buckshot taking effect in DiXon's
back, which would indicate that if Dixon
had halted, as the rebels claim, he had
turned and was walking or running away
! to save his life.
It is reported by the rebels at Jackson
| that Dixon fired several times at Barks-
dale after he was shot, when Barksdale
fired the second time. Henry M. Dixon,
who was murdered on Tuesday on the
streets of the capital of Mississ sippi, is the
man who was nominated by the Indepen-
| dent Democrats of YaZoo county, Missis-
/ sippi, for Sheriff, and who was waited
/ upoh by four hundred men and ordered
/ to leave the country, decline the nomina-
tion or take the consequences, which was
death. Mr.. Dixon desiring to live in
peace resigned his place upon the ticket.
i The Democrats who secured the con-
troll of the State ofMiSsissippi by beating,
shooting, bulldozing and numbering ne
grOes, until they have disfranchised them,
| have now commenced upon the white
Democrats, who desire to get rid of a
gang of Democratic 'tring'' thieves. The
man who murdered Henry M. Dixon,
was James II. Barksdale, candidate for
Chancery Clerk, on the regular Demo-
cratic ticket. The murderer wasn't sat
istied to shoot his man and let him quiet
ly die, but kept on shooting him until he
emptied his gun, and reloaded again, his
shotgun, although the first shot would
have killed Dixon if no other shot had
been fired.
The rebels. of Jackson telegraph that
a difficulty occurred between Dixon and
Barksdale, and then go on to tell that
Barksdale saw Dixon, called to him to
halt, stepped into the middle of the street
and shot him to death. That is the kind
of political liberty the people have in
Mississippi, under Democratic rule. Any
man, white or black, who opposes the
regular Democratic nominees, is shot like
dog, wherever found There is no
doubt that Dixon was murdered for poll
tical reasons. No doubt Barksdale was
selected by the Democratic military com
pany, to which he belongs, to do the deed
And that is the kind of liberty the people
enjoy under Democratic rule.
No doubt, whatever, that the murder
of Dixon was discussed by the Democrat
ic shotgun gangs, and it was decided
that he must be murdered for daring to
oppose the regular Democratic nominees
to deter others. Barksdale will be,arrest-
, ed, but o0iU 1aeUer be punished. No Demo
crGt has eUer been punished in Mississippi fol
Isn't it about time for the laW-loving anC
( w-abiding people of the North to cal
the Confederate Brigadiers to halt
The patriotic people must step to the
front. The country is aperil. Liberty has
| been already completely crushed out in
, many of the States of the South Tht
rebels are banding together, arming no
to go into another war, but to capture the
country by getting control of Congress
3 and the President, and then liberty
] would take its flight from every State in
a the land. Do you suppose for a moment
that the Confederate Brigadiers would
let go the Government if they ever Get il
2 into their power? Men who will murder
= thousands upon thousands of innocen
men to get control of the Government
will murder tens of thousands and hun
, dreds of thousands if necessary to keel
a control of it.
We have no desire to alarm the people
but it might as we'll be told now as a
some future time, that the country is il
peril, and it will require the utmost ex
< ertion of all the patriots in the land t.
keep the Governments out of the hands o
the Confederate Brigadiers in 1880. They
VIII use fraud; will use repeaters in tn
large cities; will use the shotgun; will
+ use millions of money to get control. l
a Is big prize. 1t means the payment O
r the rebel debt. 1t means the pensionin!
OF rebel soldiers. 1t means the paymen
for the slaves emancipated.