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THE WEEKLY CONTSTITUTIOY, JANUARY 24, 1882,
against the common enemy. I beli the
time has come when they will justify my con
fidence. I believe no independents in Geor
gia will go into the new coalition excepta few
who have lost themselves in the bitterness of
disappointment, or who are hungry for office
“and tired of waiting.” I know'I have no
better friends than the great body of the inde
pendents, and I do not and cannot believe
they will be led blindly into the republican
party.
Every intelligent and patriotic citizen of
the United States must see the great impor
tance of eliminating from our politics all war
issues and race issues. Xo man has been
more open and undisguised in the expression
of the opinion than myself. But the truth is
we can never get rid of either the war issues
or race issues until we get rid of the repub
lican party, and especially of the stalwart
wing of that party. This party lives by these
issues and would pass away forever without
them.
Less than one year ago there was some hope
—more than a mere suggestion—that a great
and elevated movement was possible which
would lift the country out of the mire of sec
tional hatreds, and form our political parties
on living issues adapted to every section
alike. But this hope has been rudely brushed
away, and the lowest and most
infamous coalition for more corrupt
party ascendancy has been formed ~
HILL TO FELTON.
THROUGH THE PERILS OF THE
MAIL JO THE PUBLIC.
8«n»fr Hill M«ko» Reply to the Recent Strictures
of Hoa. Wm. H. Felton—A Statement of Po-
liUcsl Atailstlons sad Matters of
Fersoosl Import, Etc.
Washington, I). C., January 14.—Editors
Constitution: In your issue of the lOtli inst.
I have road the letter of the lion. W. II.
Felton.
This letter is certainly the most bitter and
venomous summary of charges against my
public and private character I have ever seen.
The vilest production of carpet-bag slum could
not say more to defame me. I am pictured
as having been all my life—“before the war,
during the war and since the war”—a “cor
rupt." “hypocritical,” “malevolent,” “menda
cious" man whose counsels have “blighted
the state of my birth,” and “destroyed the
democratic party,” and as one who, “under
professions of friendship,” has always been
treacherous and vindictive!
All public men arc liable to abuse. I
thought I had enjoyed my full share and
would have some exemption from such in
the future. But this letter gathers up nearly
all the worst calumnies of the past, colors
them with new odium and then adds new
ones invented by the author for the occasion.
This fierce Hood of vituperation comes, too,
from a man of whom I never in all my
life spoke or wrote one unkind word,
but in whose behalf I had spoken
and written more kind words than I ever did
for any other man, and because of my friend
ship for whom for seven years I had almost
imperilled my own standing in the demo
cratic party,
My self-respect will notallow me to gctaliatc
in kind, and my respect for the people of
Georgia will not allow me to descend to a
contest of deity epithets. The explosion is
personally harmless from overcharge, but this
letter from I)r. Felton lias a signiht
.statement that a man who will be false to a
friend will be true to nothing.
Bnt every effect must have a cause, and this
letter of*Dr. Felton being an extraordinary
effect must have an extraordinary cause, and
that cause is not and cannot possibly be in
anything I have said or done, nor is the
cause in Dr. Felton’s belief or unbelief of the
charges he has made. To say he believes the
charges is to discredit him as a hypocrite. To
say he does not believe them is to discredit
him as a slanderer. And to say he made the
charges for the excuse rendered is to discredit
him both ns a hypocrite and a slanderer.
The truth is the only cause of this unprece
dented letter exists, and exists only, in Dr.
Felton himself. After a hard struggle with
the bitterness of defeat, and the wooings of
ambition Dr. Felton has formed a new pur
pose, and is to have new friends and allies.
He has not changed any of his political con
victions, but he has changed his po
litical purposes and affiliations, and he
liimselt ashamed of the change.
He hopes to deceive others who have stood
by him in all his struggles, and he hopes by
deceiving them to carry them to his new
allies. But he has no hope of deceiving me!
lie feels and knows I understand him, and that
I will lose respect for him. He cannot stand
in my presence, and remember the assurances
he has so often given me when begging me to
stand by him, and that he could never de
ceive or disapiwint me, and not lose respect '■ , stead ' This' coalition has already
f“r himself! 1 here was but one desnerate re-1 j nIm jliated the noblest old commonwealth of
significance and
meaning of public importance at this moment,
and to show this meaning and significance is
the purpose of this writing.
First, does Dr. Felton really believe the
charges he has rehearsed and invented with
such sudden virulence? During the rugged
voyage of the stormy periods in which my
social and political life have been passed, I
have sometimes heard pleasant voices. Many
kind and partial things have been said and
written about me, and it has been my ambi
tion to deserve them. No man has been more
earnest, or more frequent, or more fulsome in
his praises of me for forty years than Dr. Fel
ton. No man has repelled with more indig
nation all slanders upon my public and pri*
vate life, and especially some of the very
slanders he has now rehearsed to defame me.
During four consecutive canvnsscs for con
gress in the 7tli district he has warmly eulo
gised me as ever a model public man, and
has made conspicuous my indorsement of his
personal and political integrity as proud evi
dence to the people of his fitness to be their
representative. All the people of the district
will bear testimony in support of this state
ment.
Does any man or child believe that when
Dr. Felton was indulging in these high
wrought eulogies upon me, lie really believed
1 was, and all my life had been, a “corrupt,”
“mendacious,” “hypocritical” and bad man?
If he did not believe so while pronouncing
such eulogies he has certainly showy himself
to be the most expert hypocrite ever yet
known. To act the part of such a hypocrite
for a long series of yours without ever excit
ing the slightest suspicion of his sincerity, is
a success in hypocrisy never before attained,
and would entitle its author to the distinction
of beihg the hero of hypocrites.
■* UjV to the writfifig of this letter I do not be
lieve Dr. Felton ever uttered an unkind word
«f me either in public or private. I am sure
I never did of him. It is impossible to con
clude that Dr. Felton believes the charges he
has now made, because it is impossible for
any man to attain to such perfection in hy
pocrisy.
On the other hand, if Dr. Felton did not
lielicve the charges to be true, and yet made
them, and made them, too, with such furious
mendacity, then lie has shown himself to be
the most perfidious and ungrateful slanderer
that the purlieus of a degraded form of jolli
ties ever produced; Without provocation,
without explanation and without the slightest
previous notice he has slandered an admitted
friend of forty years, and a friend who, for
seven years, exposed himself to the reproaches
and criticisms of his jiarty in order to main
tain this one man in lus political aspirations.
And he has slandered me, too, with a reckless
violence und an abandoned untruthfulness
never equaled by my worst enemy, even of
the carpet-bag regime!
As there could be no possible reason for
this conduct the next question is, What is
the excuse for it? Dr. Felton uses for his
excuse an interview with me reported by
Mr. Grady, in which interview he says 1
abused him and made against him an implied
charge of dishonesty. The reader will sec
the utter weakucss of this excuse
once, for that an interview rejiori-
cd in the language of another should
authorize such a Hood of calumny against a
friend of forty years of unbroken confidence
is too absurd. I am not now exjilaining or
denying the interview. There is not a word
in the interview which is or which can be
« construed to lie personally unkind, and
rady, or The Constitution, has so dis
tinctly stated. But even if there was one
won! which might possibly bear such a con
struction, even an enemy would have asked
for an explanation before letting loose such a
deluge of billingsgate and calumny
But, aside from all this, there is one fact
which it is my painful duty to state here,
which wi ft make this j>retence of unkit.dness
more damaging, if possible, to Dr. Felton’s
good name than the slanderous letter.
For years Dr. Felton and myself have been
in the'habit of writing frank and confidential
letters to each other. One of the first things I
di»l after reading his interview published in
a Chicago paper and embodying his new
plat form, I wrote Dr. Felton just such a let
ter. In lie unreserve of our long friendship,
and feeling that his political course would
so'mewhat involve me, as I had aiways main
tained his jiolitical honesty, and believing
I might be better posted as to the meaning of
recent political movements than himself, I
expressed the jiain I felt on reading this inter
view. I also said that if it was true I appre
hended it would make him a republican and
a stalwart republican at that, 1 warned him
of thfe dangers ahead, and expressed the earn
est hope that he would not allow himself to
lie ensnared at this late day into the repub
lican jiarty. But in this letter I also said that
I could never sjieak of him otherwise than
kindly. This letter he must have had before
him when he made unkindness by con
struction his excuse for abusing me as no
jiolitical enemy had ever done! The letter
was private, but I do not object to its pub
lication.
Either Dr. Felton believed the charges
made and invented in his letter, or did not
believe them, and on this subject these jirop-
osiCions are now established:
1. If he believes the charges he convicts
himself of being the worst hypocrite on rec-
If he does not believe the charges, he
_ "ets himself of being the worst slanderer
J\Vd.
^Vexcuse he offer* for making the charg-
'* only unfounded, but was known
«-hcn offered! I will not announce
conclusion as to what the letter
se together convict him of be-
with facts and the simple
for himself!' There was but one desperate re
source left and that was to get rid of me. He
gathered all hi.*! energies for the blow. He call
ed to his assistance all the dirty scundals
of years which he had so often denounced,
but which it now seems he had preserved in
his scrap book, and he adds to these such as
the advantages of a long confidential friend
ship enabled him to invent, and discharged
the aggregate mass at my unsuspecting head!
If my poor sadly fallen frienu can survive
the blow, I can.' I never wrote anything
more in sorrow and less in anger. I do not
envy the man who can witness the perfidy or
feel the ingratitude of a life-long friend and
not be sad. There is a manly way
to change opinions and affiliations
which every man must respect. Such changes
great and good men have often made in tuc
past and will often make again. There is an
unmanly and foul way of forming mongrel
coalitions of incongruous elements for the
common purpose of winning spoils, which no
man can respect. These changes only per
fidious men ever have made or ever can
make.
We have now arrived at the point when we
can fully understand the meaning and signifi
cance of Dr. Felton's letter and his “new
movement.” But before showing this I feel I
ought to make a brief exjdanation to the de
mocracy of the state, and of the seventh dis
trict especially. I did not approve of Dr.
Felton’s so-called indejiendentism, but for
four elections I refused to go into the district
to oppose him, and for every election I gave
him a new certificate of good character,
per
sonal and political, which I was often told by
both parties and by himself he used with
great effect. I often spoke well of him in pri
vate and in public, and twice, at his earnest
request, introduced him in most complimen
tary terms to large audiences in my own city
of Atlanta.
It is due to my self-respect to say that all I
said of Dr. Felton I believed was true at the
time, and yet believe was true when said. In
addition to the fact wc had long been friends,
and that both the ladies he married were the
daughters of highly esteemed friends, both
of whom are still living, venerable in years
and good works. I say, in addition to these
facts, I had undoubted confidence in Dr.
Felton’s democracy, and never once suspected
he would disappoint me. His jiersonal assu
rances on this subject were very numerous
and of the most earnest character, and I would
have believed his assurances alone. But his
actions were entirely confirmatory of these
assurances. 1 will state two facts on this
point.
1. In Washington Dr. Felton attended the
democratic caucus and resj>ected its decisions
as faithfully as any democrat in congress. We
sat side by side during the 44tb congress, and
his votes* were on the extreme democratic
l'nc. In contested elections for seats in the
the union by combining ignorance and venal
ity against Intelligence, property and honor.
This coalition embraces four distinct proposi
tions:
1. The reopening of the race issues by
pandering to the ignorance and prejudices of
the black race.
2. By encouraging local divisions among
the democrats of the south on any and all
questions that are available for that purpose.
3. By promising the federal offices to such
democrats as will agree to aid the work, and
this is called “cementing the coalition.”
4. By blatant pretenses of reform, and still
more blatant outcries against that mystical
monster—the bourbon democracy of the
south.
And it is boldly proclaimed by the most
dangerous and efficient man in the repub
lican i>arty “that anything which
will build uj> this coalition in the south is
justifiable in morals and law.”
This is the foul coalition into which the
independent democrats of the south are now
so wooingly invited. Of all men on earth,
the real, true, independent democrat ought
to feel the most insulted by the offer. It as
sumes that he will betray his party either as
the victim of his local spite or as the corrupt
subject of a debauched civil service.
It is understood that the selected leader in
each state may write out his own platform
that will suit him and his state, and he is not
to be embarrassed by any inconsistency in his
platform with that of the national party, or
that of any other state. Any thing that will
entice or buy democrats into the coalition is
to be considered “justifiable in morals and in
law,” provided, always, that the result shall
enure to the benefit of the republican party
and break down the bourbon democrats!.
This is the whole scheme briefly stated. It
is not new. It is precisely the scheme on
which Catiline formed his conspiracy, and it
is covered already with nineteen centuries of
infamy!
I have an abiding faith that even the col
ored jicoplc will discard it, for to them it
portends the greatest mischief. I believe the
better class of republicans will repudiate the
coalition and adhere to their jiarty integrity;
and the democrats who allow tliemse ves to
be ensnared into it will find no li e long
enough to repent sufficiently their folly.
Can anything be more utterly disgusting
than the' proposition to reform Georgia by
spell a movement as this?
In our state more than in any ot ler the
peojde arc recovering from the eff cts of
war and reconstruction. The rat< issue
has completely disappeared fro u out
■ li tndre.d
WILLIAMS’S WRING.
THROUGH THE TRAP TO
OTHER WORLD.
The Murder of a Faithful Negro Servant, Ninety
Tears of Age, Avenged by Process of law—
The Arrest of tho Guilty Wretch,
His Trial and Execution.
politics in Georgia. Nearly one
thousand of the colored children are
educated by the taxes of the white rat 3.
state has endowed a colored college.
beitig
Savannah, January 16.—[Sjiecial.]—To
day, in the jail here, surrounded by
the necessary officers and two or
three members of his family, Jesse
Williams, a young negro boy, suffered the
death penalty for . a brutal and outrageous
crime. The details of the crime, while lack
ing in the essential elements which go to
make up a dramatic recital, present only the
evidences of an abandoned and reckless heart
—one which would not hesitate to take the
life of a fellow creature for the sake of a few
paltry dollars.
On the 10th of July last the body of Toby
Locke, an aged colored man
ployed as a night watchman at
the wood-yard of Coakley & Jones,
on the canal, was found in the office dead.
The body presented a sickening spectacle as it
lay horribly bruised and mangled, and the
confused jumble of the office furniture gave
evidence of the desperate struggle which
ensued before the faithful watchman suc
cumbed to the superior strength of his black
hearted assailant. The old man was ninety
years of age, and was well known and greatly
respected. No eulogy could speak louder for
his integrity than that he died faithful at his
j>ost of duty, defending the property of his
employers.
A coroner's inquest developed no clue to
the murderer, and a verdict was rendered
which left the dark deed still wrapt in mys
tery. Suspicion gradually directed itself to
ward several persons, who were arrested
Among them Jesse Williams, a negro boy
then a little more than seventeen years of
age, but well known as a criminal who prom
ised to be a curse to the community in which
he lived. Williams was lodged in jail until a
few weeks ago, when he was taken into the
superior court, of Chatham county for trial.
The evidence was mainly that deposed by two
accomplices, Sidney Clarke and William
Green, who testified to going to the wood-yard
ith Williams for the jui'-pose of robbing the
safe. Williams obtained admission to the
office by representing himself as a raft
hand who had some wood to de
liver. As soon as the door was opened
Williams sprang ujion the old man, bore him
to the ground and rained upon his head and
body a succession of blows which, despite
the resistance that was offered, soon stretched
the old watchman upon the ground a corpse
with his head smashed in, a leg and arm
broken and other evidences of the energy
ith which the blows were administered and
the desperate determination of the assassin to
do his work well. After the struggle com
menced Green and Clarke became frightened
ana ran off. About an hour after the killing,
or about one o’clock in the morning, Wil
liams ajiproached Milton Gilbert, and re
marking that he had “downed the old man,”
urged him to go with him and roo the safe.
This he refused to do. Williams returned to
the scene of the murder and attempted to
open he safe and get away with the contents
but failed. He then fled, but was captured
last September, and his case came up for trial
in December. On the ,14tli of December the
trial ended, and'Willialns stood convicted of
murder. The jury was out only about fifteen
night in a house in Colbome street. Among
others present wasagirl named Emma Hamil
ton, who. though a Nova Scotian by birth,
was known as “Yankee Emma,” having been
for some time a resident of Boston.
She was a tall, dark, and fine looking
girl. In some way she excited the
rage of several men who were present, and
they at once fell upon her and beat heralmost
to a jelly. A glass bottle was smashed upon
her bead, and in an insensible state she was
thrust out of the house. She awoke to con
sciousness near a hay cart, and managed to
reach the central jtolice station. She was sent
to the hospital, and died there in a few hours.
The only cause ever known for her terrible
injuries was that given by herself—she
thought she had fallen front a hay cart. The
police thought differently, and endeavored to
get a woman named Hiller to speak about the
affair, but a companion of the latter had
been concerned with four other men in
the assault and the woman was afraid to
speak. This companion died recently, and
the fear of involving him being removed she
unloosened her tongue and told the detec
tives that Barney McEverney and William
McEvemcy, brothers, a man'named William
Livernoys aud two others were Emma Ham
ilton’s murderers. The police authorities
have arrested Lovemoys and the girl Hiller,
but the fourth man has not yet been found,
and the police reserve his name until they
find him. The McEvemey’s are serving a
term in the penitentiary and can be had
when required. Meantime the police officers
are making further inquiries and are reticent
as to the course to be pursued.
MORAL INSANITY.
house, lie voted for democratic; claimants, pecjple own $ix Imudnjd thausan
eVefr where democrats of The mosf pronounc- land ii ” ’
ed type doubted their election, and
can even now recall one case
which he voted for the democratic claimant
against the majority report of the democratic
committee on elections, who reported that the
rejuihlican was elected. These were certainly
severe tests of jiarty fealty
in their own right. Everybody votes as
he pleases and his vote is counted. Factories
are springing up in all directions. Our in
dustries are being multiplied as never before.
Thousands of the best men of the north have
gone home from the exposition enthused
with the brigbtning jirospeet of all busi
ness in the state. Our taxes were
In 1876, I went to Georgia in advance of scarcely ever so low. Our credit was neverso
” * ~ c ! K ~ 1 high. 'Capital, and people, and machinery,
are flowing in and every body is brushing
away the tears of war, aud is laughing with a
new'liqpo in a new era! All this, all this,
has tfeeit accomplished under the rule of the
men who are denounced by trading politi
cians as narrow minded, intolerant bour
bons, and this is the condition of things which
must be reformed by a coalition of ignorance,
disapjiointment and venality cemented by
tlie public offices, and all shaped, directed
and controlled by a lot of audacious machine
republicans, who owe all their prominence to
corrupt methods in the politics of their own
states. If any man cannot see and under
stand the real meaning and significance of
the new movement in Georgia, he is one who
having eyes see not, and having ears hear
not.” Must our peace be destroyed, race col
lisions again provoked, and our budding pros-
perity arrested merely to gratify a few men
who are willing to run with all parties and be
true to none?
For several years we have had divisions in
the democratic party in Georgia, because hav
ing no common enemy to fight, we have
fought each other. I have studiously labored
to keep out of these party wrangles. I have
not hesitated to condemn what 1 believed was
wrong even in my own party. But now that
a new movement"is made of a most insidious
character to take advantage of our
divisions and utilize them for
the republican party, they will
prove themselves the best democrats aud truest
Georgians, who soonest forget their individual
grievances and labor most earnestly to heal
all jiarty wounds. Tiie new enemy is already
organized, and are opening the campaign be
fore the snows of winter have melted. Let
us not make the mistake of assuming that
they will be weak because their coalition is
incongruous and their purposes are iniquit
ous. They must not only be defeated
but overwhelmed, and then no like ccglition
will rise to fret this generation. Let regulars
and inilejiendents now forget their differen
ces, and when we see a common enemy be
fore us, let us unite and organize, and meet
that enemy with united strength. If we will
do this now and vigorously, and show that
the adjournment of congress iu order to be in
Cartersvillc on the day the executive commit
tee of the democratic party was called to meet
there to issue the call for a convention. I
made this visit at the special request of Dr.
Felton, and for the sjiecial pur-
jiose of ascertaining, if I could,
whether Dr. Felton could probably get the
nomination if he would submit his name
to the convention. He was anxious to avoid
the rejietition of the struggle of 1874, and-1
Wits anxious for him to avoid it, and he was
then not only willing but anxious to-be recon
ciled to his party and get the nomination.
The result of my inquiries were not encourag
ing and I so advised him. So again in 1878 I
wrote a letter urging the Ringgold conven
tion to tender Dr. Felton the nomina
tion, and said in the letter that if
they would tender it and he rejected
it, *1 would canvass the district against
him. I knew lie would not reject
it,and I was anxious to see the reconciliation. I
regret yet that the nomination was not tender
ed him. So again in 1S3® I niade, with others,
and at Dr. Felton’s request, an earnest effort
to discourage any nomination against him.
He was anxious 'to be brought into accord
with his jiarty, but thought the overture
should come,' or seem to come, from the
party
i deeply regret our efforts were not success
ful. If they had been successful I would not
now be writing this very unpleasant letter,
and the rejiuhiican manipulators of the new
coalition to capture the south would have to
find another leader for Georgia.
I thus personally knew that Dr. Felton was
not only a democrat, but a party democrat,
and that his apjiarei\t hatred of caucuses was
only apparent, for he attended the caucus in
Washington, and was really anxious to have
a voluntary caucus nomination in the seventh
district of Georgia. I thought his desires
were sincere and honorable, and I earnestly
labored to gratify them.
I never saw defeat affect any man as it did
Dr. Felton. It seemed to arouse all the evil
of his human nature. I have really had seri
ous apprehensions about him in more respects
than one, bnt I never suspected that he
would actually abandon all nis convictions
and pledges and aid in a coalition to secure
radical domination in Georgia, and I firmly
denied intimations of that character here up
to the very apjiearance of his new platform.
I knew sadly what that meant. But I did
not suspect even then that he would
fly into a mad rage with me and become all
at once my worst calumniator. I now see he
is a fallen and a changed man, and is a sad
ill usi ration of the dangers of a reckless am
bition for jiolitical place. During the last six
years the democrats of Georgia have fre
quently complained of what they called my
encouragement of the independents. I did
not encourage them and I did not abuse them.
While the republican party in Georgia was
dormant, and there was practically but one
jiarty in the state, it was natural that discus
sions would spring up, and the oppos
ing democrats under various namds
would contend for the offices.
1 was anxious that this should not breed bit
terness and permanent divisions in the party.
I was opposed to denouncing all independents
as radicals because I thought the denuncia
tion was neither true nor wise. There are no
truer democrats in their convictions than the
great body of the indejiendents. I did not
doubt that the time would come when the
dormant republican party would wake up
and make another effort to radicalize
the state. I believed in that event
the ' independents would all come
home, aud t>e a*, true and gallant as any
we cannot be enticed by prejudices nor
bought with promises of federal patronage,
the coalition will die before any damage can
be done. Benj. H. Hill
Mis* Perkin*’ Lever.
Chicago Tribune.
“No, Cigaret-Charley,” she said, using the name
bvwhichhe was known among the wild, reckless
set with which he associated: “I can never be your
bride.”
“Pansy-Miss Perkins,” said Reginald, in those
deep, thrilling tones of his; “I cannot—indeed I
cannot let you go! Stay one moment—only one
moment!”
How that rich voice rang in her ears! Despite her
self ilmoved her strangely, “Very well,” she said,
“IwiUstaT.” Darting hastily to the hat-rack in
the front hall. Reginald fumbled for a moment in
the upper left hand pocket of his overcoat and
drew therefrom a piece of white paper. Returning
t<> the parlor he knelt beside the fauteuii on which
Pansy had thrown herself in an agony of grief, and
kissed away the bitter tears of pain aud sorrow
that were welling up into the beautiful brown
eyes.
“See. my darling.” he exclaimed, eagerly, pla
cing the paper before her. “Look at this, my pre
clous one.”
Pansy opened her eyes and gazed languidly'at
the paper. “What is it. Tiiotsie?” she murmured.
Drawing himself up proudly and holding in one
hand the paper and In the other his pancake hat
Reginald Green said in proud tones: “It is a notice
of my promotion to the ribbon counter. Hereafter
my salary will oe S12 per week. Pansy, my pre
cious one, we are saved.” The girl looked at him
lovingly. “You bet we are,” she said, and her
arms were clasped about his thirteen-iuch neck in
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brought into court to receive nis sentence.
He was placed in the dock and the sentence
delivered as follows:
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Whereupon It Is considered, ordered and ad
judged by the court that'you. Jesse Williams, be
taken to the common jail of Chatham county, and
there safely confined until Monday, the lfitn day
of January, in the year 1882, and that you then be
delivered into the hands of the sheriff of Chatham
county, end that said sheriff do proceed, and on
said 16th day of January, 1882, hang you by the
neck until you are dead; that the execution do
take place in private, aud on said day between the
hours of 9 in the forenoon an d 5 in the afternoon.
In the trial the prisoner was defended by
Messrs. W. H. Wade and P. J. O’Connor,
both of whom made lengthy ^arguments be
fore the jury. The state was represented by
the solicitor'general.
It is not known that murder was intended
by the trio, and such is even now doubtful.
At the trial Green and Clarke testified that
the approach of some persons scared them
off, ami that as they ran away they heard the
dull sounds produced by the l}lows inflicted
by Williams, and also heard ti e groans of
the old man. It may be that murder was
from the.first a part of the programme if re
sistance was offered. Greene and Clarke,
however, failed to stand by their more daring
companion.
An effort was made by the prisoner’s attor
ney’s to have the sentence commuted to life
time imprisonment, but the governor declined
to interfere.
Thursday the murderer confessed the crime.
He had previously professed conversion and
had been baptised.
The hanging occurred yesterday at 12:30,
the hour being so fixed at the request of the
culprit
The execution was in private, but nearly
6,000 people gathered in the vicinity of the
jail yard. Williams expressed a desire to ad
dress the crowd and was permitted te makclj
his appearance on the front steps of the jail.
A strong detail of police prevented the crowd
from surging upon him, and he spoke for ten
minutes warning his colored brethren to lead
better lives, and attributing his fate to gamb
ling and drinking. He was perfectly
cool and self-jiossessed and closed
by saying he wa3 perfectly satisfied
to go, and that his peace was made with God.
He was then taken into the jail yard and con
ducted to the scaffold, accompanied by a
colored minister and the sheriff and deputies.
After a brief prayer on the scaffold the min
ister retired and the black cap and noose
were adjusted Williams remained perfectly
firm to the last, and just before the trap was
sprung said “Good-bye” in a clear tone. His
neck was completely fractured by the fall,
and life was pronounced extinct in 13M min
utes, when the body was cut down and turned
over his father, who carried it to South Caro
lina for interment. He did not allude to the
crime in his remarks this morning, but made
a full confession several days ago.
The execution was witnessed by the
brother and father of the condemned man
who were admitted by special permits, and
were greatly affected by the scene. Williams’s
brother had only been recently released from
the county chain gang. This young boy, exe
cuted for murder while yet only eighteen
years of age, gives another evidence of the
ultimate end of every career which commen
ces early in crime. 'Chatham county is rid
at an early day of a character which had al
ready given her, and promised for the future
to give her, a vast deal of trouble.
Rev. Dr. IIurrI-*«n DImumm *n Important Queitlan
at the I’ment Time.
Washington Post.
Rev. W. P. Harrison, of the Mount Vernon
Place M. E. church, lectured last evening
upon the subject of “Moral Insanity,” read
ing for his text the 16th verse, 24th chapter,
book of Proverbs: “The man that wandereth
out of the way of undersanding shall remain
in the congregation of the dead.” He said
that for some weeks past, in our community,
a judicial examination and trial has been in
progress, in many respects the most remark
able in the "history ot our country. It was
not his purpose to give his personal
impressions as to what has or what has not
been jiroven during the trial; but he thought
it a most important thing that the public
mind should be made up beforehand to sub
mit to the verdict in tlie case, whatever it
may be. ft is imjiossible for us to see the re
sult that may grow out of this trial, or the
evil that it may -be the -means of preventing
in the future. But whatever the result, it is
the duty of society to abide the result. It may
not accord with our personal views, but our
social state demands that every man shall lift
up his voice and say: “So shall it be,” to the
decision rendered. He is himself a criminal
who lifts his hand against judicial order.
The difference between the treatment of
crime in this country and in Europe is that
there society’s interest is first cared for. If a
wrong is to be suffered the individual must
suffer and society go intact. In this country
tiiis state of affairs is just reversed. Many
criminals are here set loose upon society
througii sympathy, while the danger society-
may suffer thereby goes for naught.. Many a
criminal’s wife und children have been
brought into courts of justice simply to aji-
jiealtothe sympathy of jurors, an'd with
great effect. At times the question of sym
pathy is made the whole issue, and a pre
mium thereby offered on crime.
Some men say we punish men to reform
them. If so we do a great inconsistency. A
criminal goes to prison, serves his term, comes
buck, but finds all doors barred agaiqst him—
no one will helji or trust him. if you claim
tiiat we punish to reform, then should wc
help to build up tlie destroyed reputation and
lend a helping hand to the returned criminal.
The proper way to punish crime is to pre
vent it; to deter those who would commit it
by placing them where their jiower to do
wrong is lost. A man may know his right
from his left hand, may know right from
.wrong, yet ciaim to be morally unable to re-
imrwmng. There isLsouicthing within
KifP^fbiWpcls hilTf TiT-’rlde down 'Coir
Science and commit a crime. This is evil, and
evil only. It is wrong, conscious wrong,
known wrong. There is no sin that is inevi
table or irresistible. Tlie most dejiraved and
desperate case the jiower of God can save.
It is an awful thing to have to hold the
balances between society and the man and
sajr that the life of the man must be forfeited.
It is one ot the most terrible of duties, but,
nevertheless, we must face the right—the law
must be upheld. Society must be protected.
Accepting the theory of irresistible impulse,
we are all morally unsound. We are sinners,
and we cannot be judged by the law of God
and escape. Can We say that there is a
single sin that we have committed
that God has not given us the
Sower to resist? He that begins to justify
limself and resist God will very soon find
himself “in the congregation of the . dead.”
God has given man the power to resist all sin,
but how often, like the foolish bird of Africa,
that sticks its head in the sand, and, shutting
its eyes, imagines itself hidden from the per-
suer, does he shut his eyes against the Bible
—against God’s truth, and imagine himself
free from moral responsibility. In doing this
he wanders out of the way of understanding
and abides “in the congregation of the
dead.”
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Washington, January 17.—Wiien the court
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Guiteau said:
I have written down what I wish to say, and .
will read it. It is in regard to my speech, lie then
read with considerable emphasis. I intend no dis
respect to this honoiabie court. In general, I am
satisfied with the law as propounded by your honor,
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own counsel, aud, as stated at the opening of the
case, no one can represent me to that jury. I know
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honor, in the name of justice—in the name of the
American people—to allow me to address the jury
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Mr. Scoville began with a general complaint
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have the benefit of them.
Mr. Scoville said the conduct of the prose
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liee court than this case. He then gave his
views of Judge Porter, and instructed the
jury how much weight they should attach to
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view of the life of the prisoner and continued
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