Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-27
LETTER FROM MRS. CHISOLM
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes


the following letter:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 23.-THE
Hon. r. G. CORWIN: DEAB SIR-4ou
ask me if believe that many outrages
against civilization which occur in the
South are not committed by the ''roughs. F"
Who are the roughs? If property is q
badge Of prefement, many Of the perpe-
traitors of these deeds Of violence belong
to families who, before the war, were ow-
ners of vast landed estates, and of the
slaves to work them Ifeducation means
refinement, mobs are composed of men
of gross ignorance and most abject power
ty, side by side with the more learned, in
the same raid on the rights of men who
dare, against the "will of the people" to
adhere to the Republican party. If men
who. educated to the the law, are sup
posed to abide by the principles of the
law, / have seen in the some violent mob
one of the acknowledged leader of the
bar of Mississippi 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 Sher-
iff to come out of jail and Join his friends
in intimidating Radical speakers. If
If age brings reelection, and leads men to
think and act with that circumspection
which will bring the good will of their
fellows and a 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 oc-
casion of my husbands last appointment
to speak during the last Presidential
campaign. You ask if | presume to be-
lieve the leaders of the Democracy know
and approve these things In reply,I quote
from a Democratic paper, The Kemper
Herald, the thanks rendered Mr.. Money,
who represents that district in Congress,
and was my husbands political opponent
during the canvass:
owe received a letter, few days since,
from Mr.. II. d. Money, in which he made
arrangements to pay us $40 for the pur-
pose of detraying the expenses Of our
'Kemper Buil-dozers, and stated that he
would pay more, if needed. He eN-
pressed the kindest feeling of sympathy
for those of his fellow-citizens who were
indicted, and expressed his willingness
Of the result In commenting on this
acknowledgment, Captain j. NJ Wells, a
Republican, Union soldier, prisoner
escaped from Libby, and a man WHO,
having lived IN the South after the war,
is fully prepared to understand the exact
situation, says: Being the only one
benefited by their acts, it is not surprising
that Mr.. Money came to their aid with
his purse to bear his full share of the re-
suit " The member of the Legislature
from Kemper county was repored to have
said in a speech in De Kalb, not one
month before the election: "You must
get rid of Chisolm; if you can't get him
out i'll any other way, kill him out. .
This law-maker was also a steward in the
church. A long time teacher of the youth
OF East Mississippi urged the same neces-
sity Of getting rid of Chisolm, motioned
his finger around his own guilty neck,
| and pointed upward. A Senator from
Mississippi, whom the loyal North de-
lights to honor, was reported to Us soon
after to have said at Scooba, Kemper coun-
ty: This man Chisolm [ do not person
ally know, but am told he is one Of the
most suave of gentlemen, winning and
gentle in his bearing kind and charitable,
one who never turns his back on sorrow,
and from whom the widow and orphan
never go away with empty hands. So
much more the need to be rid Of him
the more harm can he do" This man
| Of elOquence, who was reported 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
Strange that politician so thoroughly
well informed should not know the can
didates for Congress in his own Senatori-
al district Ny dear sir, [ can point you
to men in this city who have lived in my
own section Of Mississippi who can give
you facts which cannot be controverted-
! can tell them TO you in a clear and fOrci-
BILE manner. For myself, I can only
write you "Woman's letter" Perhaps,
dear sir, if you could look upon a shatter-
ed bracelet | have in my possession, with
the name "Cornelia'' engraved on the in
side 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 noble husband; could [ show you a
little coat with the sleeves shot to pieces
and burned with the powder, and a great
hole in the breast, little hat all covered
with life blood Of fair boy-hood, perhaps,
dear sir, these would convince you that
the ''roughs'' Of the South sometimes
wear brOadcl0tL and fine linen.
am, with all respect,
Mrs. w. w CHISOIM.
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