Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-05
mississippi Barbarlans.

PORTSMOUTH W. DlHu6s
A poor man, a former slave in Missis-
sippi, emigrated to Kansas. PrOvident
man that he was, he first went himself
to see what he could do to better his
condition to this new land of promise,
that had been opened out to him like
revelation. He found, upon reaching
the empire in the West, first and fore
most, and above all things else-liberty;
second, the right of freeman was un-
questioned to him, he stood the peer of
the Governor Of that peerless State be-
fore the law; contracts for labor were
sacred. He stripped his coat, barred his
breast and arms to the sun and went to
work. In few short months, he had
laid by enough to buy little cabingand
little piece of land, and what was
more to him, he had won the conf
dence and friendship of his white neigh
bOrs, Now it was that he concluded to
return to Mississippi for his family.
Going back he was met by allowing wife
and child, who were only too glad to see
his dear face once more, and to learn
that he had come for them. Now mark
the result. The Mississippians heard of
this mans return for his family, and
his good report of Kansas, and few of
them gathered together and went to
this poor mans house, called him out,
and there in the presence of his wife
and child, laid the poor fellows hands
across log and chopped them off, say
ing, CHOW, ID you, go to
Kansas" This is Democracy in the
South, it is the same kind of Democracy
which Allen G.. Thurman encouraged
in a speech made in this city last fall,
when he alluded to this class of our fell
lOw-citizens as "Monkeys." The Miss
issippi gentlemen, encouraged by Sena-
tor Thurman and his like, no doubt
thought it was id monkey whose
hands they were amputating, and it
made no difference. HGreat God, is it
possible that such barbarities as these
are to 60 unpunished? Is it not time
for solid North? We will go further
than this, is it not time to annihilate
Mississippi, or make her reform? If
her people will persist in these barbar-
GUS practices, let them be wiped from
the face of the earth. 1t is debt due
to civilization. If such conduct is per-
mitted to 60 unwhipped of justice, what
use to US is the American flag? What
use to us is the country that gives us
the choice of doing the bidding of such
brutes or having our limbs seYered from
our body and thrown to the dogs before
our paralyzed and helpless wives and
children? Think of it. From such a
quarter comes the Democratic majority
that is expected to make the next Presi-
dent of these United States. The peo-
pie that permit these Outrages to 90 un-
punished are unprepared and unified
for the elective franchise, and it were
wisdom, if it could be done without
violence to the constitution they have
Overridden and disgraced, not to permit
them to take part in the Presidential
election at all. We are in favor of put
ting stop to these Outrages. If it
cannot be done by argument and
reason, let their consciences be reached
by the same methods they apply to their
timid and helpless victims. Let the
North go down with her legions, and
wipe them from the face of the earth,
or bring them to the stool of repentance.