Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-26
The CsrroII,o, Massacre.

The circumstances attending tho recent
slaughter OF negroes at Carrollton, Miss,
prove to be the reverse Of those first report
ed. The first accounts said that the gang of
negroes made an attack on prominent ciii-
zen whom they had first insulted, provoking
a question from him as to what they meant
The real facts, as told by the Southern pa
pers, prove to be that the killing was done by
a company OF mpsked white mon who rode
into town and attacked the negroes while
they were gathered AZ witnesses in a court Of
justice. A few months ago j. NJ Liddell,
Jr., picked a quarrel with one Blown,
troublesome negro, and struck him shots
we're exchanged aud some random firing was
done among the friends Of each Both
Brown aud Liddell were wounded The ne
gro was bound over to keep the peace, and he
in turn secured the arr st Of L'ddel and sew
eral others upon the charge Of assault with
intent to kill. 1t was while the hearing in
the case of Liddell was ia progress that the
masked company of the prisoners friends
rode to the court house Of CArrolltou armed
with Winchester riff IS aud pistols aud began
firing. The court house was filled with ne
groes, who made rush for the windows
Brown seeing that his time had come, pulled
bis revolver and shot at Liddsll, but was him.
self killed the next instant by the crowd
which came rushing up the stairs. The scene
which followed was pandemonium itself The
bullets rddled the negroes as if they had b. en-
shot with buckshot, until eleven OF them lay
dead or MORALLY wounded on the floor. One
] of q, "a, L.
He got caught in the sash, aud moment af-
terward Winchester rife ball took the top
of his head of. Peyton Hemingway, who
| jumped from a second story window, was
shot at at least twenty times, but escaped
According to this statement the first shot was
fred by Brown, one OF the negro witnesses,
who, seeing the whites approaching to kill
him, shot at the white def, ndnnt BIT the
same dispatch states, farther on, that 1.-THE
statement that Brown fred the first shot is
denied by many The finishing touch to
the transaction is afforded in the statement Of
Gov Lowry, that " the affsir did not demand
executive action, as everything was quiet at
Carrollton at the present time
state Of society which permits such bru.
tai, cowardly massacre is little short of barbar.
GUS. The fact is significant aud encouraging,
how -ver, that the sentiment OF the southern
press outside Mississippi condemns tie occur
renee, If for no higher reason, because it vii
prejudice the cause Of the South in the mind.
OF Northern people. Tue New OcIeans Times
Democrat bluntly says: 1--WE cannot af
ford to indulge in any false or specious ar
guments in this horrible matter Becaus,
there were two bad negroes in Carol
county affords no possible Justification fol-
the wholesale and savage butchery that occur
red in the court house at Carrolitou. Their,
seems TO he no palliation for this alrocou
crime in any of the accounts that have beei
given of it,"
The Atlanta Constitution says that such al
affair could not occur in any community un
der the sun where there is the slightest re
spect for law or the faintest love of Justice.
The Birmingham Ala Age says that no
Mississippi only, but the whole South aud ey
cry state in the union will feel the evil of thi
crime, and that mot until every one of III
guilty participants is arrested, tried, convicte
and subjected to the utmost penalty of out
ragged law will the state Of Mississippi escap
the righteous condemnation OF all mon VIII
have the least spark of humanity in them"