Year: 1879




The acquittal of Gully in Mississippi ir
the face of Mrs. Chisholm's clear and posi-
tive testimony will exert no little influence
on the approaching Presidential election
1t is easy to say that it has no more bearing
upon national affairs than the undue post
ponement of the Rev. Mr.. Hayden's trial in
Connecticut.


But most of the Northern people do not
look upon it in that way. They regard
the bloody outrages at the South, like that
by which MIR. Chisholm died, as proofs that
the war is not entirely fought out-that its
victories are not yet entirely complete; and
they are naturally apprehensive that if the
Democratic party, which includes the for
mer Confederates, almost to man, were to
get control of the Executive Department OF
the Government such outrages would in
crease in number, and that Union men in
the old slavery states would find life hardly
endurable, even if possible.


We believe the American people by a
large majority, are determined, first and
foremost, that the fruits of the war shall be
fully preserved, and that the slaveholding
spirit shall never be permitted to rule the
nation again. They care more for this than
they do for the currency or any other ques-
ton. Hence arises the most formidable diff
ficulty in the election of Democratic can
didate.


The following is portion of Mrs. CHS
olm's testimony:


"When got in found that Johnny was
dead. His clothes were on fire, and I wet
my fingers in the blood and put out the fire.
Cornelia thought that she had put out the
fire but she did not complete the work.
They had borne the body behind the cages,
so as to prevent him being trampled to
pieces The crowd cried out, ''Fire the
Jail p and we feared we should be burned
out. We got everything in readiness to
leave. My daughter said, as we started
down the stairs, that Johnny died an easy
death and it was better to be shot than to
be burned to death. When we got to the
foot of the stairs we were stopped by the
grating door. Here Gully had gun point
ed through the door, and / thought he was
going to shoot me; but he turned the bar
rel back and forth to aim at my husband. I
cried out to Mr.. Chisholm, DOWN. My
daughter threw her arms about her fathers
neck, and cried out, Have you not had
blood enough for one day? If you want
more; take mine, and spare my precious
papa Mr.. Gully turned the gun again
and shot her in the arm. breaking her brace
let, and driving the crushed edges into her
arm. He stepped back then, and that let
us out of the stairway to the first floor, and
we tried to take refuge behind some boxes
in the rear end of the hall. My husband
had already received several shots, and was
now shot once more-this time in the hip
My daughter received in all five shots in the
calf of the leg, one in the heel, one in the
arm, and her arm was shattered, for heard
the rattle of the bones when tied up her
arm with handkerchief. Her face was
streaming with blood. We paused there,
and the crowd withdrew. She went to the
door to ask for help, and some one shot her
in the leg. She ran back and told me of it,
and I cautioned her not to go to the door
again. Some help came in and we carried
Mr.. Chisholm home, carrying his head,
Clay, our son, his limbs, and the aid his
arms On our way some men came after
us, and Cornelia held up her bleeding arm
and pleaded for help"


Sneering at the 'sbloody Shirt will not
counteract the effects of scenes like this,
faithfully described. They rekindle the
spirit which raised and sustained the Union
armies in the war, and politicians who think
this spirit will go down at the first bidding
do not understand it's power.-Neao York
San.