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ELZA PIHKSTOir.In thin coonction we can not do bet* tor than to jive part of Mr. Key’s speech in the ienato on December 19th.Klitt fin kiln has fesrrmly wrought up the iMling*, theisyrnadtlei, the indignation rif the Senator from Oho. ;Mr. Sherman.) tier story iloee not maklt; tie impresttion on my mind it 'lid on bln, bream* do not believe it; he doe*. Th* murder of III* hiubaml, I He *i»*B*cre of 111* helples* fnnoc.it b»»be, tftc cfmtacier of Ibr io-junta to the roman are nut tlie work of lhe white run* or xay other civilian! race, Tltey nrvrr occurred an detailrd, I know nothing the facte except!* I btive seen thrro in the pa pern , but 1 mi*t lake Co aar that no whir* mat w.'ta concernd in tbr outrages dwtmled by Lliiu I'itiksiun M mend from Ohio will iaarn (hut asm gtueral popoelilon negro iceMmoaj it not of tin- tilgheaklinracter of credibility. It la no natter oi aorriat tbat Ihi* t* ho. The unces-lora or Una popte Were a«vg«a when brought to our anorea*- Tkeir drcciidanu were born in biuvcry, Hi school-house waa shut against them, n.elwr waa violated in teorhiutf fliem to read and wife. Slavery and Ignorance demoralized ui nlave. Their associations were with their on nice, and «ven the fra* colored man waa not prmittcd to mingle with the slaves. Unlt;i«r such rlrcl instance* it waa injpunalble tltnt the i a timid lie the aubjecta of many re lining influence, or that thetr moral perception* should be ctar and distinct They were not 10 blame for nilhm; but the result wb-.m everyone knows whi understands the subject at all, thal with mat or them truth waa not appreciated, cluiaiit was held In Uttle repute, and the obbgaiIons i an oath were not understood, for they Were aarcely ever in courts or examined aa witues^*. There are many glorious execp-liont to liihsfalcuisut; and since the eni*nci lion of the olored race the evidence ot a mi. _ fd.iihiuk may say an astonishing. Improvement III III! hear reapact* Is moll encouraging, llut tilsloryaml evparlenoe teach us that wticn a i ace or pt-ule hnve been demoralized by any cause, tlwr are many of them who never cat ' recovered o elevated.I beg to insure my friend from Ohio [Mr. Sherman] bat there are not so large a number of banditti md savage* among Ihr white people or thcftouil a* hr bin b« a lad to suppose by the teetimoty ha heird Uelore the Louisian* returning build About til* 1st of Alay, I860, what was utlisd Memphis riot occurr«a.I luring the Aral tension 01 the Thirty-ninth Congress the House of Keprejeatatlve* appointed it select committee, with our present distinguished oi n inter to In* government ol France at Its heiM This coomitttre beard testimony delalimy bruta illes, outrages, and ferocities equal, *r nearlv so. to tboae detailed by KUfs Ptukspn. Among ih* witnesses *Jtamiued by that .ommiltfe were France* Thompson and Luce 'smith. Uy relerring to the report of mat romditrc* (House Representatives Report No. lui.irstaesMun ihirty-nlbth Congreesj the tea* timory - f France* »nd Lucy may be fomul Acceding te Franc™' story, she aud; Lucy11 vet together; seven Irishmen came to their bou«. Insulted her.______________ and Lucy, beat and chakodn robbed unu, and four oi the Irishmen oui-Lj*d FranceV parson, sod three or them icy**. Lucy atteaipTe the corroboration of . suca' testimony: say* she and ^France* Ijred together; that she was seventeen years ml; that but one Irishman violated her person, he next one mid she waa so near dead that b* voiild have nothing to do with her, so be struck o*r a blow and lelt her. Tin* impression this testimony made on the minds of tbst committee waa ae strong and vivid a* that made by tnal of Eliza Fmkstoaoii the |udgm«nt and feeling# of the Senator from Ohio {Mr, Sherman.) On pages 13 and 14 of Mr. Wasbhume'e report will be found what he says on tbu subject, tie tells us thatThecolored girl, Lucy Smith, who wa* before the committee, said to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but who »eemed from her *pj»e*r-anr.e to be two or three year# younger, wa* a fir of modeot demeanor and highly i expectable in1 appearance, lie speaks of France* thus;■•he had been a slave, was a cripple using crutGtisa, having a cancer oa her foot.no atrocious wa= the story ol these wrongs that the blood of Mr. Wasbburne boiled over at the hotror of Its details, as did that of the Senator from Ohio [Mr. dhermsnj ov r Eliza Pinkston's and he lelia with a burst of righteous indignation, that 1 It is a singular fact that while this mob was breathing vengeance against the negroes, and shooting them down like dogs, yet warn they found unprotected colored women thev at one* conquered (heir prejudices, and proceeded to violate them uuder cireumataucc Ucontiuus brutality.'1Thatcommntee believed, honestly believed, all this was done, France* Thompson some years after was arrested lor violation of th* law, and upon examination of tbo case it was discovered that Frances was a man. a fact no doubt^knowu all the whil* to Frances' bedfellow. the young, modest, and highly respectable’ ' Lucy .smith. The testimony of these witnesses was utterly and necessarily untrue, and so I* that ol Eliza Pinkston, as is most apparent from its face. She says that she had her baby th her arms; that some of the men laid it* little head upou her arm and cut Its throat, aud them they went to cutting her; they shot her twice, once in the throat aud ones in the leg. Tbla was all dons in the boost. 1 ben they got h*r out of doors, sod cut her law into ths Jaw-bone, and cut her throat. They then got th# axe which she chopped wood with, aud struck her a blow on the head with ft with such violence that it broke the iron ax* just wt the eye. They cut Per heed strings off. lhe Senator from Ohio [Mr. Sherman) says they hamstrung her and violated her person. Mere was this woman, sbot In the bresat and lex, with her itbrost and Jew and hwudsirings out, stricken on tbs bead with an ax* with such force that the axe was broken, hamstrung, uud violated, who was able to gel ovirinto the cottoo-fleld, and thence to Mr. Tidwell's house, aud theu lo Kpy William*, sad then to Miraudtiaios's, wuere she staid a few daV* How far these places were apart ahe does not tell US. A ■ aleiuander is nothing to Eliza, hbe tells us that they left Heury Pinkston unburied, and her for dead, and yet theyInnt- tl.o xiHv Ih- . I.. a -u.M _ Vtout the Ijijdj of the Jnd cfailit - tj-ian.r or ■ mil.oWM, tun threw it Luu - l-ke. And un ttii, te.tlmuny . the f.laehood of wb.ch Is so uop.r-' ant on us frcr. u M*ie 1, to b* dlunnchisea and • l*re»iu,n whom tlo- people ntvor •leoted i, to 1»uUwdo om« rir IrleuJ Irom Ohio lai* Li. heart nil away with bis bead lo firing credence 10 k iea’» it irr. 't ba brutal traalinetit or the liiivtiaol, the murder or the child, and tba injuries loKIiiu worn not tba detda of White men ur an; rnoer race. 1 do not belief, they occurred tudetailed. And. air, these darkest deed, are tone, we are toiil, in n Stale wbioti la uuoer rrtnbhc.u control, anil no warranta lamed. otterdrre arrested, and nueflorta made to puni.lt (hcttniltjf mu its ten.Urf-u-e aailbetu State, and people an held guilty 01 alcb btusa ouirae.a there uugm to be aaulUcientainouDt of kinatup hetn«n Uteaec-liona nat I. allow each other K ba connoted of the ttioai uindiab orimea on auch raise and un-naaonaida tealimony. It Would ba bailer w hold tbnt dl presiuuptioua of ciluia are aaaloit the aouthein people and that Ibcy are couolu-alra O 1-------------- ‘with mo Lnat we tbouldhas e that uinQdeuce srhieb would i rtposu irua in each other. It la tin... ... „make our juverument one of law in,tend ol tome. It istliue th iI offender* abould be tried anil puniilitil ami not tboae who are ibflOCcot. The wicked abould be condemned aud not Ouuimbnlliei or states bectmae wicked man are lu them. Ii a tmuple loose confidence In me good faith IIId Jentice or tbair goveruinent or the (oreruiwut lose coulMeDue in its people,1 o eto.li I-.I.ok _ a......... . a _ ___* LInete Will ioeiich a country noun ba an cud ol liberty uml hi institutiuua. iieiure tba people ol ms own state in the canraaa Lately ended 1 on U1I ucciui'jna iuduraed [be cuudtdatan or lhe republican prrt, tor Prmdent nud Vi. e-Preel-dentaa pairiolu aud hoiieat men, or wbmu any parly or country might ba jtt.tly prouU. 1 aup. portal Mr. lilt.n .ud Mr. Uendricka b a cause I tbuuaii tliTtn III eecry way wormy tor the n oiUcea to stb cj they aapp td. My upiuino .. ■toue or them La. cllaugnd. Nona of thrtn :de-alra die utUcea tor which Ibcy ware aupported ay.mat toe Will ur the peupln no eiprtuaed under the rnettioda pm sided by law. We nut: ba actuated by the barns spirit Wa must settle Ihia question In sums (air. joat, honorable tnode alunce ptueeluUnd cuneillntory. The peace, the harmony, ths liberty or lhe people .ro or tar srviiler tmpuitance Lhan the queaiion as to who shull be the onrupunl ul the praildaniltl cbur. huccci aLuuld be sought out, on the turtita of th* cine. Neither party should seek Ik* ndvantage uiuler technical thyorloa or by loro, ol’ physical power, but tba right nttould be reached by honssl, uon-parllsan, nud peact- —““ “suntry. the whole eountrymde and hearla.
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Sat, Dec 30, 1876
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