Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-09-16
MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRACY.
AN EX-REBELl AND GREEN
BACKER BULL -OOZED is
BY A. COMMITTEE OF THE
"BONNIE BLUE.1 WITH
SEia SHOF-GUNS. {"
SPECIFICATIONS OF AN At
4 TEMPTED POLITICAL OUT
RAGE TO COME.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 2.-The
following letter ia in type and viii ap-
pear Tomorrow in the Memphis Weekly
Herald, the organ of the National Green
back party for West Tennessee. The
genuineness of the letter is vouched for
by the editor of the Herald. and the facts
stated are eorroborated by gentlemen
cognizanr of them direct from Coffee
vile. The writer, as he signs himself,
Is chairman of the National Greenback
Executive Committee for the State of
Mississippi, and will be recalled as the
Captain Wimberly, who, when elected
Clerk of Yallabusha County, and on
being counted out, barricaded the
Court-honse. defietl the bull-,lczers, and
held the fort against all corners until
the contest was decided in his favor:
CoFFEEvIILE, Miss.
August 25, 1850.
Memphis Herald, R. V. Pearson, Esq. !:
The candidate on tine National Green
back ticket for Sheriff Is elected. On
Monday, August 23, the so-calied DEM
ocrats of this county aud adjoining
counties assembled at this place in
mobs, with their shOtguns, bowie
knives and pistols, they said to keep
the peace, but later in the day they
changed their programme, appointed
committee consisting of two, j. J..
Eskridge and W. P. Hyde, to call on
me and demanding that cease adyo-
eating the National Greenbaek cause or
l would be dead man before midnight.
My reply was that would when God
called me away and not until then.
About an hour later was waited on by
another committee, consisting of L. w.
Jones, w. 2. Hyde and w. T. Wynn,
saying the people demanded an uncon.
ditional surrender OF my political prin.
ciples. My reply was hoped when |
did God might wither my right arm
or that. death might come instantly,
and if they intended carrying out their
threats, would ask them, for decency's
sake, not to mob me, bat appoint COM
mittee of five, give me three hours
notice thatI might wind up my matters,
then they could take me, re my hands
behind me, tie me to a stake, blindfold
me and shoot me. IN other words,
take any style, but for GOl's sake not
10 have me assassinated at night, as
that would look ugly, but do 1t in open
daylight. They said they had nothing
further to do with it; that would be
left with the parties who gave them in.
structiOns. ia
My friend, Mr.. j. c. Steele, who was
with me, asked them If nothing else but
an unconditional surrender of politics
would satisfy them.
Mr.. s. w. Jones, one of the commit.
tee, replied that he thought not, and re-
marked TO Mr.. w. p. Wynn that he was
the Secretary of our lodge, to-wit, "Thc
Fores.ers," that thought owed some
dues, and to please call and get the mo-
ney, that might get receipt In full,
so when | was murdered my family
would get the benefit of the policy. He
did so.
/ then went around to my store, there
to await the result of their hellish
schemes, but God in His goodness saw
fit to prevent them, and has continued
to do so up to this good hour, and have
faith to believe that He will continue to
do so. ~
Now, Mr.. EDITOR, these are all facts,
and still not half told, but will in few
days have out my communication in
full, as above stated. These are facts,
and he who denies it lies. | was born In
County, Mississippi, and when
Tenn. When the first cannon fred at
Fort Sumpter volunteered my ser
vices, joined the Harris Zouave Cadets
Of the old One Hundred and fifty-fourth
Senior Tennessee Regiment, left my
home to fight for what believed my
rights and the liberties of our Southern
people. | never returned home but
once during the war, and that was
caused from sickness, and of such ma.
ture that was discharged from the in
family, but soon connected with For
rests Cavalry, and there remained until
we surrendered at Grenada, Miss.
have heard and read of these things
said to have been committed in the
South, and must confess that did not
believe half of what | heard, and the
only reason / can assign is that was
of the Democratic party, and
like hundreds and thousands of others
that are now members Of the same par
ty, blinded by Its corruptions and inca
pabillty of controlling anything but n
mob, In 1861, when w. L. Yancey, in |
Memphis, made his noted secession
speech, | was standing near my father.
lie looked at me and said, "My son, if
that policy Is carried out, and the Dem
ocracy upheld, it will be the damnatiOp
Of the South" /, in the language of
my father, say that If the Democracy
gets control of this Government IL will
be the destruction of the liberties Of its
people. God, let the heavens fall, let
the earth sink, let the sun cease to
shine, but for mercy's sake, and for the
sake of the rising generation, crush the
Democracy, is my earnest
prayer. z...t ..s ..s-.-- ASA. ,a
will give it to you In full next week.
Respectfully,
-5zI 7sa A. II. WIMBERLY. q
Chairman of the National State Ex.
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