The _Louisiana Advertiser_, of 13th July, says, "These unfortunate men claimed to the last, the privilege of American citizens, the _trial by Jury_, and professed themselves willing to submit to anything their country would legally inflict upon them: but we are sorry to say, their petition was in vain. The black musicians were ordered to strike up, and the voices of the supplicants were drowned by the fife and drum. _Mr. Riddle, the Cashier of the Planters' Bank_, ordered them to play Yankee Doodle. The unhappy sufferers frequently implored a drink of water, _but they were refused_."
The sympathy of the Louisiana editor, so different from his brother of Richmond, was probably owing to the fact, that the murdered men were accused of being gamblers, and not abolitionists.
When we said these five men were hung by the _mob_, we did not mean what Chancellor Harper calls "the democratic rabble." It seems the Cashier of a Bank, a man to whom the slaveholders entrust the custody of their money, officiated on the occasion as Master of Ceremonies.
A few days after the murders at Vicksburg, a negro named Vincent was sentenced by a Lynch club at Clinton, Miss., to receive 300 lashes, for an alleged participation in an intended insurrection. We copy from the _Clinton Gazette_.
"On Wednesday evening Vincent was carried out to receive his stripes, but the ASSEMBLED MULTITUDE were in favor of _hanging_ him. A vote was accordingly _fairly_ taken, and the hanging party had it by an overwhelming majority, as the politicians say. He was remanded to _prison_. On the day of execution a _still larger crowd was assembled_, and fearing that the public sentiment might have changed in regard to his fate, after everything favorable to the culprit was alleged which could be said, the vote was taken, and his _death was demanded by the people_. In pursuance of this sentiment, so unequivocally expressed, he was led to a black jack and suspended to one of its branches--WE APPROVE ENTIRELY OF THE PROCEEDINGS; THE PEOPLE HAVE ACTED PROPERLY."
Thus, SIXTEEN human beings were deliberately and publicly murdered, by assembled crowds, in different parts of the State of Mississippi, within little more than one WEEK, in open defiance of the laws and Constitution of the State.