Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-10-07
Helena, Montana, Thursday, October 7, 1885,
A Telling Republican Argument.
New York Sun. Sept. I4thl

| new " ork SUM- Sept. 14th.
The acquittal of Gully in Mississippi in tn
face of Mrs. Chisolm's clear and positive tes
timony will exert no little influence on tn
approaching Presidential election. It is cas-,
10 say that it has no more bearing upo1
National affairs than the undue postpone
ment Of the Rev. Mr. Hayden's trial in Con
necticut.
But most of the Northern people do no
look upon it that way. They regard tht
bloody outrages at the South like that by
which Mr.. Chisolm died, as proofs that the
war is not yet entirely fought out-that it,
victories are not yet complete; and they art
naturally apprehensive that if the Demo
| cratic party, which includes the former Con
tederateS almost to man, were to get control
OF the Executive Department of the Govern
ment, such outrages would increase in number
| and that Union men in the old slave States
would find life hardly endurable even il
possible.
We believe the American people, by a
large majority, are determined, first and fore
most, that the fruits of the war shall be fully
| preserved, and that the slavehOlding spirit
| shall never be permitted to rule the Nation
| again They care more for this than they do
| for the currency or any other question. Hence
arises the most formidable difficulty in the
election Of Democratic candidate.
The following is a portion of Mrs. ChisoIm $
| testimony
When got in found that Johnny was
dead. His clothes were on fire. and | wet
my fingers in his blood and put out the fire.
Cornela thought she had put out the fire, but
she did not complete the work They had
borne the body behind the cages, so as to
prevent him being trampled to pieces. The
crowd cried out, Fire the jail" and we
feared we should be burned out We got
everything in readiness to leave. My daughter
said, as we started down the stairs. that
Johnny died an easy death, and that it was
better to be shot than to be burned to death.
When we got to the foot of the stairs we were
stopped by the grating door. Here Gully had
a gun pointed through the CRATE, and l
thought he was going to shoot me; but he
turned the barrel back and forth to aim at
my husband. | cried out to Mr.. ChisOlm,
Down. My daughter threw her arms
about her fathers neck, and cried out, Have
you not had blood enough for. one day? If
you want more, take mine, but spare my
precious papa Mr.. Gully turned the gun
again and shot her in the arm, breaking her
bracelet and driving the crushed edges into
her arm. He stepped back then, and that let
us out OF the stairway 10 the nTSt nOOr ana
we tried to take refuge behind some boxes in
the rear end of the hall. My husband had
already received several shots, and was now
shot once mOre-this time in the hip. My
daughter received in all five shots in the calf
of the leg, one in the heel, one in the arm,
and her arm was shattered, for l heard the
rattle of the bones when | tied up her arm
with handkerchief Her face was streaming
with blood. We paused there, and the crowd
withdrew. She went to the door to ask fsT
help, and some one shot her in the leg. She
ran back and told me of it, and l cautioned
her not to 60 to the door again. Some help
came in and we carried Mr.. Chisolm home,
I carrying his head, Clay, our son, his limbs,
and the aid his arms. On our way some men
came after us, and Cornelia held up her
bleeding arm and pleaded for help"
Sneering at the bloody shirt" will not
counteract the effect of scenes like this,
described. They rekindle the
spirit which raised and sustained the Union
armies in the war, and politicians who think
this spirit will down at the first bidding do
not understand its mower