New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-29
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THE ExTRADITT0N OF A CLERGYMAN
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE ooLoRED PoPULA
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EXCITEMENT AMONG THE COLORED fofOHA'
T1oN OF PITTsBURG.
Pittsburg, July 2s CspeciaD-The resistance Of the
colored people TO the extradton OF the Rev. f. +.
Flemon to South Carolina has made it celebrated
For two weeks the colorcd population Of Pitts
burg has been engaged IN holding mass-meetings and
raising money TO defrsy legal expenses. Judge Ew-
ing, Of this allegheny county has decided thai the
negro preacher must be delivered 10 the two Southern
deputies who here from Edgefeld. south
Carolina, for him, and the state Supreme Court on
Thursday last refused to interfere. Governor Beaver
will hold conference with Flemon's counsel ana
delegation OF colorcd clergymcn Harrisburg on Tues
day next but II Is not believed he will Interfere.
Judge Ewing to-day said :" I cannot understand
how the Governor reverse his action and revoke
his order for the delivery Of FlemOn to the officers
Certainly he cannot do II he is honorable NAM
unless he has been deceived, and so far as i can
understand there is pretence that the Governor mas
been deceived. Under the Act of Congress the demand
from tho Governor of South Carolina must contain
certified copy OF the Indictment and complete record
Of all the proceedings before the South Carolina courts
When this presented TO the Governor be must issue
HIS order for extraditon. All this presented to
Governor Beaver, far as can understand and
cannot see how he Is now going TO review his actoh'
There have been threats Of a rescue on the part
of the blacks but this Is hardly possible IN We" Vi
the fact that Pttsburg has well-dscipnned police
force Flemon, in a published interview. takes
desperate view of the affair. He hints at sui
eide between the county jail and the railroad depot
He claims that he selected another sacrifice for
tho killing Of a young white named James Black
we'll whose death the outcome Of polucal race
war in which the blacks had suffered terribly sew
eral being hanged, shot and thrown into the river.
He asserts that If he IS taken TO South Carolina he VIII
be killed before his trial begins In South Carolina nc
was known as John Yeldell and received good edu-
cation The Southern deputies say Governor ehep-
hard paid his expenses at school, but this feldeh de
MES Previous TO his arrest here ne pastor OF the
Arthurst colored church. On the other hand the
southern officers say that Backwelrs death was the
outcome OF a Sunday morning disturbance; that
crowd Of negroes created CONSERVATION among church
people by firing off their pistols and finally compelling
the abrupt dismissal Of a congregation that on Mon
day warrants were issued for the offending nesloes,
and that they were, after long search, hnaiy lou9
I'm a cabin, from which many shots were nItu, Slp
Blackwell, a deputy sheriff. fell, mortally WOunIJI
IL is said he the son Of a wealthy "luo", MIoo
thSts for vengeance and that this accounts iOf the h
prosecution, the official reward for Teldells caPIuI
amounting only 800. a study OF Opposing SVl'oi
the l. interesting one. 30 Iaf "a lehlon
is concerned II looks like the extinction OF party
lines, a. his leading lawyer Charles f. Mchcnnd' 70
Democrat Of I1sh-Catholic descent lie was 0uco
the Democratic candidate for Congress from tne fiLs
burg District and made a crelitabe run IN THIS ne
puhIican stronghold He is Union veteran aho
evidently forgot his political affiliations wheh ne aot
week referred to the FlemOn prosecution as ,ne re-
suit Of nolltical persecution. He sailed for Europe
Thursday leaving the case in the hands u m' Id"
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