Report of the Committee on Outrages in Mississippi

over those dead bodies, these Vicksburgh Modocs.” Just one or two colored folks were sitting up in the room, and they carried on all that in my presence, danced and sung and done anything they could. Some say they even struck them; but I heard them curse and challenge them to get up and fight. The Vicksburgh Modocs done that that night. Then they said they could not stay any longer. Then the day after that Judge Cabinis asked me was there anything he could do, and I told him, I said, “Judge, you have already done too much for me.” I told him he had murdered my husband and I didn’t want any of his friendship. Those were the words I told him the next day, and he swore lie did not know me that time ; but I saw Judge Cabinis with this crowd that killed my husband. I saw him right in the midst, and then he made this excuse. He said he did everything he could for Charles, and that he was crazy. Well, they could not tell anything he had done. They said Aaron Page was shot during the fuss. In the league that was held here in that town, that day my husband was buried, they all said that they did not shoot him. They said that Aaron Page was shot accidently ; that my husband did not kill him. All started up from picking a fuss with his nephew. As for any other cause I never knew ; but only they intended to kill him because for carrying the militia to Edwards’s ; for obeying Governor Ames; and that was all they had against him. THE MODOCS AFTER THE CLINTON RIOT. At the same time, w’hen they had the Moses Hill riot, the day of the dinner in September, when they came over that day, they telegraphed for the Vicksburgh “Modocs” to come out, and they came out at dark, and when they did come, about fifty came out to my house that night; and they were breaking the locks open on doors and trunks ; whenever they would find it closed they would break the locks. And they taken from the house what guns they could find, and plundered and robbed the house. The Captain of the Vicksburgh “Modocs,” his name is Tinney. Q. What day was that? A. The day of the Moses Hill riot, in September. THREATS AGAINST MR. CALDWELL AFTER THE CLINTON RIOT. Q. When ; the Clinton riot? A. The 4ih day of September. They came out aud Tinney staid there, and at daybreak they commenced to go, and he, among others, told me to tell my husband that the Clinton people sent for him to kill him, and he named them who they were to kill—all the leaders especially, and he says, “Tell him when I saw him”—he was gone that night; he fled to Jackson that evening with all the rest—“we are going to kill him if it is two years, or one year’ or six ; no difference; we are going to kill him anyhow. We have orders to kill him and we are going to do it because he belongs to this republican party, and sticks up for these negroes.” Says he, “We are going to have the South back in our own charge, and no man that sticks by the republican party, and any man that sticks by the republican party, and is a leader, he has got to die.” He told me that; and that “ the southern people are going to have the South back to ourselves, and no damned northern people and no republican party; anrl if your husband don’t join us he has got to die. Tell him I said so.” I told him what he said I did not know Tinney at the time ; and when I saw my husband enter I told him, and he knew him from what I said, and he saw him aftewards and told him what I said. He-just said that he said that for devilment. They carried on there until the morning, one crowd after another. I had two wounded men. I brought them off the Moses Hill battlefield, and these men treated me very cruelly, and threatened to kill them, but they did not happen to kill them. CLINTON RIOT. Next morning, before sun-up, they went to a house where there was an old black man, a feeble old man, named Bob Beasley. and they shot him all to pieces. And they went to Mr. Willis’s and took out a man, named Gamaliel Brown, and shot him all to pieces. It was early in the morning ; and they go out to Sam. Jackson’s, president of the club, and they shot him all to pieces. He hadn’t even time to put on his clothes. And they went out to Alfred Hastings; Alfred saw them coming. And this was before sun up. Q. This morning after the Clinton riot? A. On the morning of the 5th ; and they shot Alfred Hastings all to pieces, another man named Ben. Jackson, and then they go out and shoot one or two further up on the Madison road ; I don’t know exactly; the name of one was Lewis Bussell. He was shot, and Moses Hill. They were around that morning killing people before breakfast. I saw a young man from Vicks- burgh that I knew, and asked him what it all meant. Q Who was he? A. Dr. Hardesty’s son; and I asked him what did it mean, their killing black people that day? He says, “You all had a big dinner yesterday and paraded around with your drums and flags. That was impudence to the white people. You have no right to do it. You have got to leave these damned negroes ; leave them and come on our side. You have got to join

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