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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
f three Men. The hanging of three men at Friar's Point, Miss., has been briefly noticed. The Nashville Gazette publishes a letter from a merchant there, dated the 11th inst., giving the following particulars: On yesterday evening two gins and a negro quarter were fired simultaneously, doubtless by the procurement of these wretches. The night was lit up for miles around. The vigilance committee were soon under arms, and proceeded to the room of three carpenters, one by the name of Hamlin, the others unknown, and took them and hung them to the first tree, and afterward cut them down and burned them. The town is now under arms, the military are parading the streets, and all is excitement and alarm. This morning the remainder of the Northern men were sent up the river on the steamer Peytona; some of them were branded with the letters G. B. (gin burners) before shipped. Fourteen gins have been burned in this county during the last six weeks, and the people have determined to