The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-21
Complete Exposure Of StrinfeIlow' 6
Meanness

estimarioh to be.
A9apt the s0th dag. of March last, a
man t.y the name Of william ,,Strinefellow
came into the neighborhood of Anderson's
Mills, about : miles north of SALISBURY,
AMI took charge Of a school for the me-
groes, He taught them until the lIth
! day of May, when his school house was
burned down, He called Ga meeting f
: the negroes the next day, and about two
hundred gathered at -tlfe-seene -ef- the
burning Some few white men came
/ also, among them two justices Of the
! Peace and one Constable. StringfeIl
hurancucd tile crowd, stating that he
would have yereage for the burned house
/ If the civil authorities did nbtdo snme>
thing boutit.i The magistrates told him
4 to say who burned the hou5e or to
bring his charge against the suspected,
and issue a warrant or warrants for the
offenders. lie would not do this, but be
| Gaming ,enF4ged he said he would have
REVENGE; thar he would bring the U. ).
soldiers into the neiShb0rhood and have
/ it torn mp and that they would let the
4 people kn6w, that if he was interrupted
/ anymore, they. would burn Ave houses
for. one lie then went to Memphis and
repor.ed to u :. C6hmissioner, J. +
Dyer, and obtained. warrants for l. n
! Clark, ". A. WAGON, Lafayette Southan
John Southail, and Jackson Vaughn.
Qn-the 2Qrh of May the Deputies from
/ g. ; Court came upsand ARE ted the
above p5rtiesI and carried them to Mem-.
pbis. Dnvid '3Iac0n went down with
them and when there, he offered to bail
them, in connection with that generous
big hearted, true man, Major William
1 Guy, one Of the members of the staunch
and popular house of Guy, Mcclellan &
Co, which is doing business on front
Street He filled in this attempt par
! TALLY, not being able with the assistance
of those energetic ard able Lawyers,
Messrs. Lowe d Patterson, to do more
4 than to give bail for NJ A Na con, in
the sam of one thousand dollars from
I day to day These men Guy and Macon
are worth at least s60,OoO; yetthe Com>
missioner refused to take them as bail
for these victims, at $500 each, and
sent. them all to Jail except Macon
Amongst these, prisoners was a little boy
only about twelve years old.
They were promised trial 90 the
third day, at o'clock p. N. At tho
time appointed they were brought to the
Court foon. Stringfsllow had gotten
There with nine negtoes as witnesses.
These colored men were taken directly
into private apartment, and there they
remained until night, with closed doors.
The commissioner came in just at sun
down, and toll Lafayette 6outhall aud
hissoa that they were released, and tina
he would take bail for the others. at one
thousand dollars each. The bond was
given and they appeared at the Court
room next morning at 10 o'clock, and
By eleven o clock Ill parties were releas-
ed and ready to take the train for home
JUSTICE.
| (The above account of this shameful
outrage upon the liberties of a number Of
the peacable citizens of our county, was
furnished by gentleman of known in
tegrity and he is fully sustained by in
disputable facts as will DO seen from the
following statement OF an active, energetic
sworn Justice of the Peace for Harle-
.
man county
/ am satisfied that the above is state
ment of the. facts in this bogus q Ku-
Klux cases, for saw and heard some
part Of it myself. Aboat the 18th OF
May Stringfellow called on me to.issue a
, warrant for fome party, or parties, who
he supposed burned, the school. house.
, enauired of him if he had tried the mag
istrates in that district the 18th, and he
replied that they would do nothing for
him. was satisfied that both of then
, were men who would do their duty, and
4 asked him who the men we're that he
a thought burned the house, He would
t not tell me, ard of course |. could Dc
e nothing for him am opposed to al
- such summary proceedings and would
. not support any man in the perpetratior
of such acts, under any circumstance
that were bearable, but I had just as vel
have issued warrant for the fire kinl
j that exhibited his prowess and strength
, on that saturday night, as to have trie'
, to arrest these men Of mythical proper
y tions was summonsed to Memphi
E before the Commissioner, and your cor
u respondents report of proceedings ha'
: there is true, believe, vjr6ati0e. | asked
e Stringfellow there to tell me who h.
thought burned the house, but he woul,
not tell me.
d Hound several of the old citizens 0
IS this section there, all anxious to do any
i thing they could for the prisoners
z Among them were Mr.. Mac Pcarce AM
= Mr.. W. Hill, both clever and sympathet
{ ic men. . .as.
$ Now Mr. Editor, comes the saddles
: scene of this a0oeful farce Lafayette
7 Southull wis so. alarmed and excite d al
II these. proceedings, a I'd the idea that h
c and his hey had been for the first in life
incarcentrated, shut out from the brigh
d sunshine aud the life imparting breatl
! of heaven, that be come home hoPeles
r. maniac, and has been suffering the mos
g pitiable agony for fear the negroes, ant
: Stringfellow. OF some Other parties vii
/ kin his wife and children have seer
: him and know this no lancy-picture
. He is really deranged and his feeble Oh