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OUB COUNTY BLANDISHED.I y IThe recent outrage in East Rockingham, •which was the occasion of lynching the ne-gress, Charlotte Harris, charged, and beyond question, (from all the evidence, before the Magistrates) the party who instiga*■ted tho burning of the ham of Henry E. 8ipe, has been the means of vituperative nfewspapeif/hhuBe on the whole people of Rockingham by a class of newspapers that ardently hate the South, and delight whenever they can to inflict a venomous sting. Correspondents, who it is believed, are at present/ making their home in Harrison-burgj and who delight in misrepresenting villifying our people, after having been kindly and courteously treated give a high coloring to this matter. Although their letters apparantly come from Richmond, we have good reason for supposing that paid writers exist here, who can veryreadily date their letters to suit their pur.• *poses. Whilst but a small portion of our county was enga ged in that deplorable affair, the whole people are blamed, and such shameful and abusive language is used, as we extract. Read these extracts' ' » i ^ l w ' - a tand make yotir own comments, for we confess that kon such game the ammunition is wasted, when fired upon :From the St Louis Globe.1 Bocklngbam Ooabftj is one of the wildest and most uncivilized JnVirginia, and many of its inhabitants are almost barbarians.Later Intelligence from Bocklngbam, gives some aside facts ak to the canes of the I/ncbing of tbs unfouunateyfomtn. Ia this county, about a year j ago, the horrible Lawson murder was committed, * and It was prdved that Lonisa Lawson, a volop-tuous bat vlrtuelcss wife, bad instigated the mur* derpf,ber husband. For this crime her peramour, Anderson, was1 banged, and Lonisla Lawsoa wai sentenced to death, bat the Governor commuted the seoiepte to Penitentiary for life* The lynch-C of OJaarlotfa Harris is bnt another leaf in the tbdtfbf lust and lawaees of Godedefying and law-breaking denizens of the rocky craga of the AUegbeolfa* many of whom live in the cares and bats, beyond the reach of the iaw1* hands. They tbifSted for blood.' Some of their ringleaders were the cast-off paramsnre of Lonlsia Lawson, andware aaraged and disappointed when the Gover-callnor's commoni^aUon saved her life. The terrible deed of lawltis'nesfe, It Is said by * the people of thecounty, was done In the spirit of revenge. The outlaws cooldnot get the blood of one woman and they ; determined to bare me, blood of another. Iti bfcHeved that the murder Vaa done by* the bloody bands of these outlewe, eotne hundreds in numbr.. U will take some time to gather the law ®!ficere together In this wild conn try . but efforts wfll be made to capture them, It will he almost Impossible, as they w Ut screen each other, and the only, hppe of detection is. that some will be temptedby the Urge reward to betray their companions.further particulars state that It took five men I. bend do wo the black jack tree, and, after they bad atuchfd .the rope to the neck of their victim, they wddinty let go, and the shrlekUg female was jerked;op ioto^tbe air with frightful velocity. There were 100 in the party of lynchers.WhewJ * Now hold your breath and read what the Now York Btrald has to say :Tbs people la that section eeem to. jostify theJyncbinft ss they deemed summary punl-bmcat oecrseary to chtck lawlessness. As . far as’I can Uro co action has been taken bj the county no-tkoriUss to amstibe perpetrators of this crimesuu !■ ihMA *• bftl ftitv action will haOBDC(011hn
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 21, 1878
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