Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE. [ARTICLE]

WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE.

It only required about tiro hundred >biyalroa> Minitsippian. arawd Jritfe rHoa and shot gnni loaded trilh back shot to kill Judge Chiapta and hie eighteen years old daughter, they were cornered in a jail And they did not kill them outright aa merciless savages might have done, but contented themselves with wounding them *nd prohibiting the attendence of enrgeona to render the necessary assistance for their recovery. Miss Chisolm died from gangreen Beatin in the wounds made by her i phiyalrous assailants. Those Misjdssippiana who were engaged in affair are not a whit better than their democratic brethren of Luuifiana who cut the throat of a year old neoro baby in its mother's arms, because its father voted the republican ticket. All cnristendum is shocked with horror at the butcheries <perpetrated by the Bashi-Ba-xonks of the East, but some of these very good people are ready to palliate, if they dare not justify, deeds just as inhuman, just as bloody, and just as unprovoked as the Mamaluke savages of Turkey are guilty of Their hearts are all sympathetic when they hear of crimes being committed in another part of the world, and they become deeply interested in those missionary efforts which are made to advance a higher and more perfect civilisation in a part of the world they are not likely to visit, and among a people of another race and language; but their hearts close together with a crash and their sympathies are dried at the fountain if attention is balled to the atrocities perpetrated by their neighbors upon other neighbors. The pacification policy of the present administration is not responsible for the Mississippi outlawry that we hear of every few days, for the savages of that region were committing their bloody deads before Mr. Hayes ascended to the presidential chair. Indeed the responsibility of their occurrence does not rest upon the general government at all, but the odium is upon the people themselves who commit, tolerate, protect, or excuse them. Governor Stone, the courts and officers having jurisdiction, the newspapers which mold public opinion, and the people themselves are responsible it the ring-leaders of that blood-thirsty mob in Kemper county Mississippi are not brought to trial, convicted and punished.