Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-30
REPORTED OUTRAGE.
A NEGRO Preacher Makes Grave Charges
Against White Men.

A glib-talking. rascally-looking mulatto
went to Squire Elliott's office yesterday
evening and got out a warrant
for Clabe Lewis, James Eccles, BOD
Hunt, James Hunt, Joe turner
and James Bass and others, hfteen in
all. whom he charges with having come
10 his house disguised with masks and
dominos. broken in his doors, taken HIM
from his house and whipped him unmer-
cifully," etc, etc, on the night OF the nth
Happening to be present when the ON
plaint was made, wequestioned him about
the matter, and received the
following statement, which we
give for what il may be worth:
He AYERS that he is a preacher, and lives
on the place of Lucanus Wynn, in the
Big Creek settlement, occupying a single
log cabin with two other tladies." Ontbe
night of the 18th inst, after he had gone
to bed, some men came to his hOuse and
demanded admission. The "ladies, " who
were still up, refused to open the door;
whereupon the party on the outside burst
il in, and marched into the house. There
were fifteen of them, all mufied up in
black cloaks trimmed around the edges
with white, and with their faces
concealed by black masks trimmed
with white tape. Although in bed,
he was quite sure that there was Ills
Zackly fifteen. kase he TUX 'ucklar pains
TO count 'em." After their unceremOni-
GUS entry, the party told him to get up, as
they had come TO hear a sermon from
him on chicken stealing. He said he
didn't know nothin' about no sich," but
they told him be was mistaken, and that
he must come out and take a larruping-
He went along, and they laid him across
a log and logged hin-'jis l%arrupped me
tell I laid dar plum stih, Hken 'zif l ' was
dun dead"
Inreplv TO the question as to how he
knew that the parties named in his
writ. and given above. were in
the crowd, he answered One time, that
he "EHOtUed their COiceS: - another time he
said he saw them when they raised their
SkeYikjzls (masks) when they went to whip
him, and, finally, forgetting, in his ramO-
ling Story, what he had already told, he
said that he heard them call each other 10y
name, after they had whipped him till
they thought he was dead.
He contradicted himself several times
in various other ways, and his manner
was such as to make the whole story very
apOcryphal, in every particular
except, perhaps, that of getting a
god sound thrashing for some
piece of rsscality-chicken or hog lifting,
or perhaps a chronic and confirmed case
of bOth-a weakness peculiar TO darkies
generally, and a~lsrmingly prevalent
among negro preachers as a class. The
thrashing was evidently well done, and
laid on according to Hoyle. He states
that he was whipped until he "laid still
and tended like lie was dead, but he
want dead tho"
Squire Elliott granted the warrant,
and he went rejoicing on his way to the
Sherif,s Office 10 have il executed.
Since writing the above, we learn that
this same negro went before Squire Z.
W. Caldwell, at Bartlett, and told a SINH
lar story. The squire had the parties ar
and after "A patient and full exam
nation, discharged them, there being no
proof whatever against them. Perhaps, /
however, he thinks that a Memphis judge
will not be so unreasonable and dislOyal
as to require proof where a negro accuse
white men, and that he viii nave better
luck before Squire Elliott.
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