Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-11-13
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400 Ut the End Of che Tear.
I wish to add few rcmsrks to OK

Il wish 10 ad1 lew remarks 10 OK
plain my late troubles.
After the excitement about the
war, and It's troubles seemed TO die
out, and men seemed disposed to
heal over past sores, In the spring of
1865, 1 came back to st, Francois
county, and talked to many OF tho
good people OF the county conceru-
ing the propriety Of returning 10 my
old home. All Ispoke 10 Of all par
ties said, Sam, come home"
1 came back In good faith. 1
moved to my mothers old place and
lived there six months. l then
moved to Hillsboro aud stayed there
until last fall.s Finding II hard to
make a living there, moved on tho
Mississippi River, near Rush Tower,
and chopped wood all last winter. I
then moved back to the Three Riv-
ers, on the Sam Herd place to raise u
crop. There lived and worked un-
I'll the fourth OF Juno last, when
was wayiaid ana shot by Jim Me-
Lane, or Walter Evans and two
others, that or my friends may yet
call TO account.
Jim McLane. McQuinn and others
wayiaid my house 70 murder me i'm
Apni last, Tor several days. On the
stn OF June ! was snot through the
thigf ~ my house.
went 70 my uncle Williams,
where they attacked me six days af-
Yer. They siiot gil day at me there.
! selected Jim McLane, whom l
knew only oy Description, and shot
MIN from the house. Sheriff Breck-
inridge ana tho balance Of HIS party
LOOK goou care OF their scalps after
killed McLanc. 1t was then three
o'clock, and As ! had eaten no break
mst or dinner, cooked my supper
ana ate It while they Kept firing ut
me. was often amused TO see my
oid aunt Williams lodging the balls
as they came In through the cracks.
Ihey nred the house, and ~ Ind
hnisiied my supper abandoned my
burning iortincati0n. AS went out
! counted thirty-nve men that were
guarding the burning house. saw
george Doggett, Asa jackson, Joe
Mc'ianan ana diiPs 10Y. When
.he mouse got roo not tor comfort, l
lett IL ana walked within ak feet of
some OF the guard. They seemed
piinu, or at ieast they DID not offer To
shoot me.
wish to say to the Radicals In and
ABOUT bennington TO beware how
they mistreat my wife and children,
as heard they nave had them under
arrest by order OF the drunken
Bowen, and l Will say to Bill Hin
aud Joe McGahan to walk smoothly
ana not let my family suffer. They
helped XIII my brothers, but they
nave not killed me yet.
jim McI.ane was tool In the
nanus OF tnat INFAMOUS creature and
coward, Eust, -. Gem, OF st. Gene
we've, VINO VIII some day, no matter
where ne may hide hfmsclf have to
answer Tor many crimes he planned,
ana was TOO cowardly to execute,
but got others TO do for him. Nc
Lane murdered Judge Burke, of st.
Genevieva ana preacher Polk, over
eighty-three years Of age. 7nHf
WISH 20 say 70 GOV: MoClung that
l coulu nave easily Killed him whilo
ne was IN FarminEton, II l had
wanted to do NJ, but look upon him
as gentleman, and that he Il misled
py listening, TO lies nom bad men,
who are Radicals. III. -t..f
All l have written Is every word
true. DO not want to be killed yet
awhile neither do l wish to kill any
one II they VIII let me alone. My
enemies have charged me with being
a thief during the war. i was not.
All that ! fairly captured ] gavo
away TO tho widows and orphans
who hnd been robbed and were suf-
fering:.. 80.
l VIII refer to any honest man who
knew me, whether l was not an hon
est man. In the latter part of Au-
gust the Radical government of Mis-
souri, had 4uO or 500 armed mon hunt
ing me down, and declared martial
law. What q tempest one poor
hunted man can raise II In because