Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — POLITICAL MURDERS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL MURDERS.

Shall they be Punished, or Shall the Murderers be Rewarded ? . ———●——— .¶ The matters published in this sheet are non-political. The report made of the Yazoo murders by Captain Dixon While he was a Democrat, and of his own murder by Barksdale because he ceased to be a Democrat and undertook to oppose that party in Mississippi, is made by a special reporter sent by the Chicago Times, a paper that has no Republican proclivities. The man who made the report is a Democrat, and the report made for an independent Democratic paper. It cannot therefore be said to come from a Republican standpoint. The report of the Chisolm murders and the matter connected therewith are from the pen of Mrs. Chisolm, who simply writes down the facts as they occurred. The object in publishing these facts at this time is to arouse such a sentiment and demand for justice and good government as will make itself felt throughout the Nation, and secure a cessation of political murders in the South which are now a disgrace to civilization. These murders are being committed in the interest of the men who attempted to destroy the government by secession. They are committed to intimidate and silence the men who maintained the Union, and are opposed to secession. That the people may know the extent and enormity of these crimes, the facts contained in these columns are published.