Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — "KEMPER'S BEST OITIZENS." [ARTICLE]

"KEMPER'S BEST OITIZENS."

Mow Ysrk Tribaea. Tto beet citixent of Kemper county, Mtea, have toea acquitted. They killed a aua, etofi hie jtelpleM daughter, murdered hte toby toy; and still tto law has no terrors for there They are still th* “best oitixen* of Kemper ‘•oounty." Tho testimony of tto wile, who vainly tried with rare oonrage aad good sense to save tto murdered man. ia told to-day ia our eolnnm% as she loft it tor tto Tribune, to oaaa aha ahoald sot live to tell it under oath. That sto la a woman of more than ordinary intelligeoe* her testimony shows, aad the events of whioh shea peaks ere so tragic and terrible that so one oan imagine that ahe erred from Isek of meeiery. What loving woman would not remember to her death every detail of sash n horrid aeetol It was told with simplicity bat with earaeetneevand Kemper’s best e tisens. seated to tto jury-box, beard It without * shadow of disbelief. They voted to acquit th® raurdsrer, norertheiee*; but that wsa “to asv® the party." The testimony of Mr*. Chisolm, it should be •aid at tto outset, disposes of all tbs atorua which wore set afoot as excuse* bv the area who murdered her husband. Bhe testifies with great precision of detail as to the presence of Mr. Chisolm at home, at the time John Gaily wa* killed, and proves that ho had re connection with the killing. She shown, to% that aa attempt had previously been made to take her husband’s Ufa, and that tho very mtm who afterward* murdered him admitted to her that tbo stories upon whioh the false arreet ®rre made wore utterly unfounded nod unworthy «ff belief Tbo names ot witnesses wore fid ely affixed to tho affidavit* upon which the arrete was baaed, and tto arrest itself it Is only too evident, was merely tne nreparation for a moat cruel ana infamous massacre. Said one of th* witmssaes. “Henry Ghuly wa# in commaad that day, and whomever he said kill would to kilted.” A great many shots were fired, tor tto “beet oittoi-aa “of Kemper” were sash contemptible cowards that they oould not even commit a dastardly murder without ebon ring some women and children by the way, bat ’ho mob did ns Hoary Gully ordered, and be boa been triumphantly caquitted by “Kemper’s heal ritisen-u" It te not aa*y to speoc cal ml v of tho aoare whioh occurred in the jail of Kemper county. Men and women- who want to understand tto solid Sooth ahoald read tto testimony for themthoughtfully and patiently. It will bring twin, if a reader to® net a toast of stone; bat member* of tbe jury shed tews wton they listened to it, sod then went oat and Toted to aoqtatetb* murderer, because it weald hurt tto Demooratio party to nave hit* eon rioted. There are not many counties, let re sruss e?h*= tog baauM foettog ought prompt thorn te d# itoir daty, tout thmr gome loaded until they oould empty them into the prisoner they terf ft ll ** A«dg* Chteotoi. and who had uE qpoohla bounty, sure foremost among murderer*. B*idhte heart.broken wife, "A* Arab of (to dte—t “would rofaw to stab a mmm ft tore salt to “tod tested.” But these were wo* Arabs, of th* desert. They wore tto “tort Oittaena of “Kemper county.” la aoteo ooudrtws mou are oosatdered below Ike heart* if they are guilty of oruelty to mi mates* woman. If sto Is hoiplea*. what mre would tot doted tori Bat tto "tost aritoao of Kemper eoauty” ate only eat plied tore goo* into the atom sod tbea fate tto body off tto bravo littlo toy who tried vainly to irftmfl hi* father; thaj act ealy emptied their abot into the a waat Seared oaft ansa ot the luring daughter who tried to pteod for tor father ii rate; hat after that father was rttridKl “tbs hate ritiMM of “Kemper eoanty" •tiii bag tiSS£tß2Zi'S sShst •he lay by ttobody te her dying lather? Ttaie is chivalry. Yea. me* ot tto Merth. this i* tto solid South! Look at k, Th* aaoetaal* ri uot a pleasant are Bat it ioUrth time that homes baioga aad hyenas ahoald ate mete at tto toUte-tox without knowing each other. If w* are to share tea gurarameot mt this oeoatrr wuh tto oreatare* who oall tw eeive* “tto tote tedasos of Kemper create* U I# worth while te least to know snoagh «< them to voca agawte teas. If ihere » * 5 ehsooe—eve* tto filial art #■»—— yw oroatoiM like teas, who ore to foaad in every <*mniy te te ootid South, or* to boomZ rolere of thi* eooatry, late ate time for «rd, gjajassyjssate S&'^’gJSiiiJirtsasaa.--reute,a*br«rtty ited a* farette a# "te tore terirere of Mumper ooonty.”