The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-11-05

Cooley johnson, -Stephens.
Cesar Sullivan Harry Hull,
Wiley Broadley, Joseph Hull,
Moses Smith, Henry Simonton,
Jacob Lee, Sanley Hocock,
Jim Jenkins, Alex. Morris,
Chris Cummings, w. n. Lucy,
Tom Williams, George Gibbon,
Henry Washington.
Others since; and erW hes untold toward
white and colored Republicans. Ask Mr..
Lucas, formerly of Center county, Pa,
for his experience in Gainesville, Fla"
Anybody that knows anything about
Alachua county must know that no man
was ever killed or injured on account of
his political sentiments, or the expression
of them here, except few colored Dem
ocrats who have been beaten and bull
dozed by their own race. But how about
this list "of the martyred Republican
dead " of Alachuap We have only space
to show some of the falsehoods but next
week we will make further investigation
and report every case as we can find it.
Cooley Johnson, the first named, lived
at Newnansville, and was a most trouble
some thief and an outrageously bad man
in the community. He was killed by
parties unknown, but nobody ever for an
instant supposed that politics had any
thing to do with it. He made himself
obnoxious to everybody by consummate
villiany, and for this reason he was killed.
Caesar Sullivan, the second named, was
killed by his brother, Isaac Sullivan, on
the place of Mr.. F. =. Olmstead, near
Newnansville. They were both Republi-
| cans.
Wiley Broadley, or Bradley, a. it
should be, was of the same character as
Cooley johnson and was killed for thiev-
ing and not for politics. The murder was
committed by parties unknown.
Chris. Cummings got into a difficulty
with gentleman in the northern part Of
the county, accusing this gentleman Of
stealing hog. The gentleman shot him,
but Chris is alive yet, and the case was
compromised by the parties.
Harry Hull is supposed to mean Harry
Harrell, a oolored boy twelve or fourteen
years old, who was accidentally shot in
an attempt to arrest murderer. The
circumstances were these: A colored man
had committed a murder in fernando
county and fled. 1t was supposed that
he was sacretad in tho house of old man
Harry Harrell, who was related to him by
marriage. The sheriff of this county
with posse went to this house and sur
rounded it, and, making some noise, this
boy was frightened and fled. Some of the
men thought him to be the criminal try
ing to escape and fired upon him, which
resulted in the death of the boy. Any
body can see that there was no politics in
this unfortunate occurrence.
w. NJ Lucy, or correctly M. Fl. Lucy,
was white man who came to this State
from Alabama, and merchandized at New
Evansville. He was pronounced Demo
Graf, and was killed by Joe Moody, an
other Democrat, the difficulty being occa.
stoned by dispute over an account.
Henry Washington was citizen OF
Gainesville and jealous supporter of the
Democratic party. He was put to death
by the ceaseless ravages of pulmonary
consumption, and was attended by DR.. J.
F. McKinstry until his death.
AS to Mr. Lucas who lived here fol
some time, we have only to say that he
pronounced himself Democrat. He got
into a difficulty with boy, threw him
upon the ground and severely stamped
him, but Mr.. Lucas was never personally
assaulted on account of it. Shortly be-
fore he lett here he had a bloody-shirt
newspaper correspondent stopping at hif
house with him, and one night load Of
buckshot was fred into the house. This
was made the basis of tremendous story
about Southern outrage. Democrats and
Republicans alike united in an effort to
find by whom the deed was done. The
attempt was unsuccessful Some of our
; most intelligent and most conservative
citizens believe it was done by the news.
paper correspondent and Lucas. Lucas
said afterward that he did not believe it
was done because Of his politics.
These are the infamous, slanderous liel
; that Hicks scatters broadcast against the
State. It is done to arOsGs the sectional
feeling of the North against the South
1t is done for partizan ends. How much
nobler are the purposes of the Rev. A.
Duncan, D. d., of Fairbanks, Fla, who
wrote letter to the Rockford Oily Jour
nal, and which we take pleasure in pub
fishing in this issue 2 The one tells false
hoods to perpetuate sectional animosities
and the other tells the truth that the mind
Of the North may be disabused, and that
ill-will between the sections may be
buried.
il Mr. Scion Robinson died at his resi-
dence in Jacksonville on Wednesday, the
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