Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-03

The registration OF the precinct IN whicn
this place is embraced was held about
four miles distant, and six days were
devoted to that work. On account of the
lateness of the season and the presence
of caterpillars, Mr.. Frazer informed the
laborers that he could rot permit them
to register their names until Saturday.
Some of these noble sons Of toll consid-
ering it to be the duty Of the freedmen
to do what he chooses, repaired to the
poll on Monday and returned after
Rightfall without having their names
registered Mr. Frazer reproved them
sharply for disobeying his orders, stating
that if they absented themselves from
the place on any other day except Sat.
urday, his duty to his employer would
oblige him to deduct the time lost from
their wages furthermore, he refused to
issue rations to the workmen who spent
Monday at the polls.
This aroused the anger Of the negroes (;
so vowing vengeance, they left the plan
tation Tuesday morning and reported
Mr.. Frazer to the registers. The Board
is composed of Messrs. Smith and Yates
(white), and Aaron Logan (black), Our
colored friend represented that Mr..
Frazer had forbidden them to register,
and threatened to turn them off if they
left the plantation. This greatly stirred
the wrath of Mr.. Aaron Logan, who, in
vehement terms, demanded the instant
arrest of Mr. Frazer
Mr.. Smith opposed the arrest on the
ground that it would not do to proceed
TO such a measure on verbal statement
He also urged the postponement of so
extreme measure on account of the
lateness of the hour, reminding them
that it would be midnight before they
could reach Charleston. These and
other pleas he offered, but with no avail {;
the sable Doglerry had made. up his
mind to the worst. So after much abuse
of his colleague, Mr.. Smith, refusing to
sign the warrant, Logan said,, with an
oath, that he would order the white
scoundrel to Jail on his own RESPONSE
bilty." And he did. A crowd of some
two hundred armed and bowling negroes
arrested Mr.. Frazer, in virtue of Logan S
warrant, and brought him to the Jail
There he was not allowed to speak a
word in his own defense, but was imme-
diately conducted to Charleston by the
most circuitous and unfrequented routes;
the negroes on the route resorting to all
sorts of means to mortify and frighten
their helpless victim, who was compelled
to walk during the whole journey of
twenty miles Arrived at Charleston he
was, of course, dismissed by the officer
in command Logan was put under
arrest and the negro guard ordered back
to their work.
The second act, which we chronicle
below, had more fatal termination. A
difficulty occurred at Camp Pinckney,
Charlton county, Georgia, between an
overseer named Lancaster and some
freedmen, in the course OF which one OF
the negroes, named Firney, was shot by
Lancaster, the ball taking effect in the
thigh and inflicting severe flesh wound.
On Sunday afternoon two negroes with
guns in their hands came to Mr.. Buck s,
at whose house Lancaster was employed,
for the purpose Of avenging Firney.
Eleven shots were exchanged between
them. One of the negroes was killed
and the other badly wounded.
Mr.. Lancaster and Capt Nurgazer,
who were in the house at the time the
shots were fired, were arrested and taken
before two judges for examination, but
were both acquitted of all blame in the
transaction. They left the same after
noon for st. Mary AS soon as the boat
touched the wharf at that place they
were arrested by sergeant of the Fed.
eral troops, but upon showing that they
had been examined'by the civil authori-
ties and acquitted, he released them.
Soon after this they were seized by
about twenty armed negroes, who threat
ened them with vengeance. Nurgazer
escaped by swimming the river, but
Lancaster was taken off by the negroes
and, it is feared, murdered.
The outrages speak for themselves.
Comment is unnecessary.