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lie demanded that her bus- people, or any resistance to the mob calcu- 1 out until he could shoot lated to excite theii passions, ,and what Jbad ever ---- _ . , . | ■band should come out until he could shoot lated to excite then passions, him. But his life was savedat that moment subsequently took place was the result of by the appearance of two regulars, who cool and mature deliberation to murder anddestroy the c olored people. Like the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the Memphis r ;lic sanction of the official anmassacre had the eThe rape of Frances Thompson, who had lhorjty. aml it is no WOnler that the mob, jbeena slave and wasaeripple, using ciutches, ]r(j by , ffioers of the law,’having a cancer on her foot, is one to which D llchcJ(.d niist r^bly ai d v\ ill. • resistance reference is here made. On luesdaymgh, tV4,rv l;t. rfo cnu^ tlQ(j, ; l regretting!1 seven men, two of whom were policemen, had saved their viGims from fur- •came to her house. 8he knew the two to |hlt;M ; , ,lt exercise(j on their dead bodies ] j be policemen by their stars. 1 hey were all a]] ,,... rH (f the m08t in8en8ate crUcltv. j Irishmen. Thev first demanded that she fr, view of the fact that the state of fmbHc | should get supper for them, which she did. at,Illiim.nl ^ sach in Memphis that it is con j1 the pro- t],at no punishment whatever can be |! hitting her on the side of the face : ing her. A girl by the name lt;*'LUCY SMITH,liability for the property, both of the Government and indi-about sixteen years old, living with her, at- , mob, your committee believe it to be the“ * of ' ’ ‘ ^ *----I----tempted to go out of the window. One of duty of the Government to arreet, try, and the brures knocked her down and choked punish the offenders by military authority;i tney did not let them have their way. The cover the losses for all property destroyed , woman, Frances Thompson, was then vio-. lated by tour of the men, and so beaten and bruised that she lay in bed for three days —! They then took all the clothes out of the trunk, $100 in greenbacks belonging tNET RESULTS.The committee find the net results of the j riot to have been as follows :Killed, colored persons...............Killed, white persons.................led............................| self, and $200 belonging to another colon d ........woman, which had i.een left to take tare of ntt.ea......! her child, besides silk dresses, bed clothing, Maltreated.| e. They were in the house nearly four i hours, anil when they left they said they in „tended “to burn up the lust God damutd j (jburci,ea____nigger, and drive all the Yankees out of j,choolhouscs town, and then there would be only nnneI bel niggers and butternuts left .” The col _ , ; 4__..red girl, Lucv Smith, who w,w before the | Committee, said to be sixteen or seventeen ■ y: years old, but who auce, to be three ora girl of modest demeanor and highly re apectable in appearance. She corroborated 1 the testimony of Frances Thompson as to the number of men who broke into the house and us o the policemen who were with them. They seized her (Lucy) by the neck and choked her to such an extent that she could not talk for two weeks to any one j She was then violated by one of the men,10PROPERTY DESTROY Eli.$110,000 . 17,000Stone-seemed from her »p,.c»r E*P*Mes incurred by Gen. S r four years younger was »“• *“d ', Commissary _*» ... Quartermaster s DenartmentQuartermaster’s Departments 8,981 41Total......................$180,981 41All of which is respectfully submitted.E. B. Wasiiburne, Chairman. John M. Bromali.1LaRK BEMINAKYthat she was so neardead he would not have f»i; f - hoard,fuel and common English thirty' anything to do with her. He thereupon struck her a severe blow upon the side of the head. The violence of these wretches i seemed to be aggravated by the fact that the j women had in their rooms some bed covering or quilting with red, while and blue, and also some pictures of Union officers.— They said, “You uigtrers have mightv liking tor the dimned Y'ankces. but wi w ill kill you, and you will have no likiuir for 1 any one then.” This young girl was badly injured that she was unable to leavlt; her lied for two weeks.AUROHA COMMERCIAL CUILEGE, and ho* all meansloess education. It has O ’ p'lt into Actual Practice.ob were not limited io the colored plt; ‘» ruMn?ut they extended to such white pclt;» »-CUOi.*r»uipd. pic as had manifested particular frientfsh'p m t .aj- qi Called tSCHOLARSHIPJalyaWlOt-tTHE SPIRIT OF TREASON.Specimen Scenes in the Memphis MassacreThe following cxtiacts are from theiu tbeir schools and chure welfare generally. Mr. and Mre. I *j»er were English ^people, they had put up r building, a portion of which waj to be let f r a colored school, winch was tlt;lt; be taught by a Mr. Glasgow, who had been n so’ Her in the Union army. Mr. Cooper i Abolitionist, becauae they 5uid 1 | too much for the colored peop oocat-ionally iu «m.*ir chapel. /Hcemen and citi/. ls came inti borhuod iu a threatening ait.i appealed to by Mr.- U-s-j.-.r •*, w'u.thrv were going todlt;», they said 'h v w re going to kill her husband and Mr. Glasgow, for they would have no Abohtionists ir the South. While they were i-lining in In.’, at some distance from the h. use, and a*» d g her that they would not hurt her or herc.'iil 'it, waa daliberataljr JAtonhie.aud wliile her , , [41UL ''. 'bat d, attempted to put it oui, the m b i JinKh,tired at them several times. A p i; . . AJheaded this crowd of incendiaries, wi. intention. Mrs, Cooper thinks, was to bum : p her children Tue building and all the fur niture w aaburue 1. and Mr. Cooper fled from thecity to save his hie.general conclusions.From the testimony taken by yotit committee, from personal observation and from what they could learn in regard to tin* tltiu of feeling in Memphis, and indeed, t!.r-»ugh thai entire section lt;f country. «hey are of • the opinion that there is lutk. Imaltv to the governmeut and the flag The state of things in the city of Memphis is very much now as it was before the breaking out of tue rebellion. Many of the same news paper* published there then are published now, and bv manv of the same men—by inert who, during the war, were in the rebel WUof October army, lighting for the overthrow lt;.f- - * $36* lbT j our Former btdd-jhtb - 25To oir Gr.tdud.tsi la Com. Dept., • 10r*i.-lt; oim - made to disabled soliheics and CLERGYMEN'S cniLDKEN.T* LKGRAPIIIXGI IiEO MILLAKD CO.,YYUoonsin Kiver Pme, Lumber, Shin-£let and Latb OFFICE, ~Vt U5 J-J.r*on Burlington. IowaGao. Uiu^rd.vene Point, Wisconsin.of Burlington, heKvn -m vTn^'Meron.’ snd banti’d at Dctroir, on the. whi «* In transit. We coueldcrcial report of the Congressional committee Pv.lt; rnn*en^- Professing 1,,C Men,phi, •rrctal mlrm.r of jacesok fiooDELL. are guilty of the same incitation to vioienre, Among the first victims of the blood- persecution and oppression toward the nu n , I thirsty spirit of the mob on Tuesday night holding opinions olmoxions to them, tlintvi as Jarksrn Go.*!*!! r. ,,nivm..n lt;. Llitv were tmvun! tin* inn. utn vr..r# x ,.'ito call yoar att*?ntii*n I■pstch ip *orably adjusted, \v«.swe haTe «bi|ped br. All iljartod bv their ac-ent, M. n A II D HOWAHb. UlUHIESA SAbSAC.U. McArthur, of teonxxecieu w i n me soiaiers. Coming home wwira me t mon men in tool.— 5fiom his work at the close ot the dsy, at the Your committee say, deliberately, that, in -rt-quvit of iiis wife, who was tick, he went their judgment, there will he no safe tvlt;- .other door. These entire South, should the government fail policemen spw him and caught him, called V)affordatlcttuute noilitary protection. There-d rascal,’' and knocked him ib everywhere too much envenomed feelingdown, his head falling iu the gutter. They t°Nard the blacks, particularly thoso wh struck him fifteen or twenty times, the tcs *YrvC(1 in Union armies,* and against timonv being that one of the blows would Northern men and Union people generally, have aided almost any white man. They who 1(ve thejgovcrnment, and who desire lowas killed. She went out and found him fibuuld bo punished. There Is no public ! on the ground groaning. She pressed her sentiment in the South sufficiently strongI hand to his breast and called him, but he to demand and enforce protection to Urvon “never spoke.’’ The people in the neivh- ®en colored people. The Civil Bightso u2,H |m a 2 “borbood were. 30 frightened ut the demon- hill, so far as your committee could :strations ot the mob that none of them dar- tain*is treated as a dead letter. Attorney 5 a*d io aid her in brinuing him into the ■ General Wallace, in a flagrant violation of m fa S illy adv’ ‘ ‘ ‘ - - *iLe pul cemen were going to kiil every’ ue- cording to the newspapers,; procUumed’that 1 , gro they could catch. While she was sitting disregard tho law.hkj uiey cou:o caicn. » nne sne was sitting Ul: win uiieny uisregaru tno law. j H suby her wounded husband, holding his head T,ie hopes based upon this law- that the S f JP 0-in her hands, three policemen came along, colored people might find prote and one of them said, “Here is a d—d mg 11 Hre lixely to prove delusiveger ; if he is not dead,finish him.” tberc is 110 public opinion to sustaintectionfor, where 1 , but3-8? O) e S* 2 “ Cl ;* w: O'*o?m ^ -n;mrha went out in tlie mon ng, hut !.c w as 1 on lbe other hand, that public opinion L not there, and she was afterward nitoriued overwhelmingly against it, there is iw probthat lour men had taken him off in the ability of its being executed. Indeed, your I night, a:.d was adviseci that she had better ; committee believe the sentiment of the Southgo to the station house and see about it.— ^hich they observed is not a sentiraeut of 1window, to see her husband lying there b«*pe that their favorite doctrine of ser dead. With a refinement of cruelty, the ta nm” v,lt be vindicated. It is tV Mfmo tion house keeiier refused to allow her *K ‘ T'lt;r -Ct J ff. Davis expressed. When he wasgo inside, and also refused to give up the : seeking safety in flight, e traveler r*‘marked I *-1.- • to him that the cause was lost. Davis re- jplied: “Itappears•-»; but the principle for •IFf.r. wmca we contended is bound to reassert iThe shootipg and burning of a colored 1 th(?u^h it may be at another time and , girl by the name of Rachel Hatcher was on*.! 111 ano!h.er f2£G' ” ”U. U. PATGH e v,1I0M (E OVA 711 1ST,Office No. Vi Third Street,Opjxwiw Barret Houpe.)Jne , l Pollard’s Southern His-...___... tlie : i®7 Oho War, vol. 2, page 6#2.) |hev !mob. The girl Rachel w as about sixteen ! bH,?ve tnthe principle and doctrine of xc* years of age. She was ri printed by all to ‘ the saQie a6 cver- Though thev I; be a girl ot remarkable intelligence, snd of 1 ha?c *«en beaten by arms, they a^lt; rt and ]16 AND PiiOPEiipure and excellent character. °bhc attended fiaint*in that the principle is tacschool, and such had been her proficiency i lml»fc for iu vindication hereafter in sometlmt she herself had become a toai-her of way- Kec0S“iz^fi the friendship to them -,i%r: :7',1VrnycnptMthe smaller scholars. Her mother, Jane ^hat was caliet! ti e Democratic party in t haTv apkred no iimitoLt TBEREBY. and : *Md’ nrnmSneed, testified before the committee, that on Tuesday night the mob came to her house, took a man out, took him down to i the bridge, and shot him. They then set 1 fire to the house of an old colored man bythe name of Adam Lock, right by the house “4 the witness. Her daugh ter, Rachel, seeing the house of a neighbor on fire, proposed to go and help get the things out. Wnile- ~ , - things oHb WhileI in the house, eneaged in an act of benevo lent heroism, the savages surrounded the burning building, and wi h loaded revolvers threatened to shoot henlt; in piteous tones she implored them to lei her eome out • but one of the crowd—the wretch Peudergrast —Mid. “No; if you don’t go back I willthe North during the war, and ackno’vdodging the aid and comfort thev dor*fed from their sympathy, and from their efforts to embarrass the Government in the prosecution ot the war against them, they fiope, bv j DEFYING ALL COMPEIITIO V combining with them m theirpolitirai move- i w , umfuiuwn.merits, finally to secure by ballot what thev ! woolen Goods of all kinds 50 per celectin:* u stock of DH.'Y' GOODS,wnlch 1 am dotsnuJued to sell at Pmnm^ » a - fi“aUy w secure ny Dallot what they failed to achieve by arms.The feet that the chngKu guardians of theum ii , kiads 50 Per cent,less than last year.^ wtn acknowledgepuoiic peace, the swufTi executors of tho ^cheajK law for the protection of the iives, liberty I „ and property of the peonle, and the reliance ! Sattinett., Jeans,ot the weak and defenseless in time of dan- I * x*t£*T ”( HEAP Mger, were lound the foremost in the work of J murder ami pillage, gives a character of in- I famy to the whole proceeding which i* alPefore the War.MIJVKR’S FL.ASNBLSblow your uamued brains out.” Aa tlie mw,t witho“5 » poraHel in the annals of hiv ! tor »f J5.I wtnaaliaow at ra-taflames gathered about her she emerged from ! ,tory* lhe dreadful massacre of Fort Pil- inluiS s° °n ln t,ic pame P^portion o;herthf* hlimintr lirittRA tuU/tn 11... —.11 . 1 low whinh PVPllnrl tliA L ...____ ___the burning house, when the whole crowd ! low' wh*ch excited the horror oft/ie country “ fireil at her as fast as they could.” Sfi« I 4anJ of civilized world, was attempted 1 • ~ j dtLberately shot, and fell dead between to ** Pall,ated on the ground that the garri Ithe two houses. Her c-lothl-s soon took fire, 8^n wa9 tak^‘n aftcr th« most desperate re- i CLftTH'T'N'fi xr a to n a .and her.jjody Mat- partially consumed pre- Sl8tance ancl after haviug been repeatedly HATS, CAPS GL0VE8,seniiug a spt^taeJe horrible to behold. The I 8“mrao,1.ed to surrender; that tho blood ofoTSrtal wa,; infof m'can.ljne!1 the ^4-W «o“aob a dcMier own house, trying to get out a ' i?ree ana ^eir jwssiousso aroused that there ! °r N:«n«Giove, cnli on j. s. £PhkaMm man who was wounded that night, and who wa? no mT them, though it is allef* ux- much snac« to ennmmta .11 tk-slie was afraid would be burnt•he came back she saw the deadup. When i * ,lh»* 8,l,ne »' their officers vainly attempt* I W*body of her jf to do m' Bl}1 no 8,»ch ground of pallia 1 ’teaoraon street. ’ feeotaMtfi ai r: I- - -—^ ,he-rc WM no pre 1ven fine JACKS.rou^ht from Kentucky abont one year aL*o ar«»y disturbance by the I SSSSSS^tj mey will ^ gold Ic^r. ^nmria-dtf
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1866
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