The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-03-29
NUMBER q.

/ fthan twenty minutes after tho 4 hour at
which the negroes were 10 DO hung Eith.
out either gun, hat, or shoes aud told his
wife the tniggera had ria, and lie, was kif.
led bysa shot In The mouth, 81 hich waa
actually bleeding copiously from d i, snae
Ehe had received while running through
woods. 3ss
But notwithstanding the general palr,is
which prevailed, ,-there were some. 10 their
honor be it said, who were not a. ails
alarmed. Two medical students who be3
Ionged TO- the guard, and had determined
to wait until the negroes were dead, that
they might get them and snake objects Or,
en-, were frank enough to admit, that al.
though they had seen many dead negroes.
but they never heard dead negroes make
such 'quai, noise before, and for fear
something might happen, not at all frigh.
teued however, but being cautious young.
men, they threw down their guns and
concealed themselves behind tree. where
the dying negroes could not see them.
Another medical student, who had gone
all the way from the village Is miles.
not 10 see the negroes hung, but that he
might pro bono scientia, and his own in,
formation in cutting up The bodies Of the
culprits in his flight from the scene, was
seized round the waist by a lady, who
begged him to take care of her, but in the
honest simplicity of his nature. he ex,
claimed, BY Cd madam every man
for himself and woman too. .s,IS
1t is also said ola youth diminutiye
size, who had gone from an adjoining Dis.
trict some 80 miles, that he had enscon.
ced himself behind tree, where woman
OF herculean strength seized him by the
arm and told him that was her tree, and
giving him sling threw him some ten
feet into treep, where he concluded ha
was pretty we'll concealed, and lay thera
until the confusion was over, and when
ne got up was the nearest man to the ne
groes, and making virtue of necessity
he declared he was not at all frightened
and had no idea of running at all.
Even one Of the magistrates, who was
regarded as big man in the neighbor.
hood, said, that in taking hasty view of
the whole scene before him, it occurred to
him that it might be important that some
one should, hereafter give a correct dis.
cription of all that transpired, and to ena.
oie "'H W w oo, WtWluihdIlOlnR MS age
and corporosity, he climbed up tree
with considerable agility.
The local consequences Of this extra.
ordinary "nigger hangin" were rather
beneficial than otherwise; for the year
previous to it the owner OF the land made
such bad cotton crop, that he spoke Of
removing to the west but in gathering
up the scattered fragments of clothing,
hats, shoes, etc., lost amid the confusion,
ne picked up considerable quantity of
cotton in small bales, supposed to have
been been lost in the hustle and took The
name Of lost bustles," which in SO great
measure supplied the deficiency Of his
cotton crop, that he concluded to remain,
and am informed is doing we'll.
Strange to say ! out of some s or thou
sand souls, who were present on that men,
orable occasion, not more than Is or 90
have ever been seen who were at the
''nigger hangin..' "Well Bob, were YOU
at the "nigger hangin." "Oh no they
say every body got scared and run off,
and know | wouldn't have got scared"
"Were you there?" emo"
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