Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1874-08-20

but day before yesterday that we passed
it, and, as we saw him standing IN the
yard, near The edge of the portic2, reach
inc up his handsand coaxing his baby to
leave the arms of its mother, swho was
holding the>laughing little one over the
banister, we thought, here is q happy
home"
How little did we think that home
would so soon be so desolate But 1t is
so now. In all human probability, be.
fore we shall have finished the mournful
task of writing this article, the loving
wife and mother will be without hus
band, and the laughing, bright-eyed babe
without q father; for when we saw him
he was completely palalyzcd on the right
side, and the brains were protrudlng from
the wound
Capt Butler yras an officer throughout
the war in the Contet crate army, and a
gallant soldier He IS about 35 years OF
age
AT THE HOUSE.
The scene at the house of1he wounded
man was heartrending. There, in one
chamber lay the bleeding, paralyzed form
OF the husband and father, with the life
tide ebbing surely and swiftly out, sur
rounded by skillfuL surgeons and anxious
friends, and in the next was the agonlzlng
wife who had Just seen the stay and prop
of her life shot down by her side, without
one note of warning and for no cause what
ever. Andyet, notwithstanding the great
shock from witnessing such ahorrid lrag-
edy, this devoted woman assisted IN car
rying her husband to their home-that.
home which butan hour before was SO
full of Joy and hope now so filled with
sorrow and the shadow of death
THE MOST INTENsE EXCITEMENT
Prevails among the very best classes of
our citizens, and it is thought that they
cannot be restrained from lynching the
cold -blooded murderer, whose heart is
blacker than his skin.
LATEE.-We have Just learned that
Capt. Butler is dead lis as we expect
ed. There vas no hope from the begin
ming. May God temper the blow to the
stricken wife.
THE STREETS
Are resounding with the tramp of excited
men. Augusta has never known more
horrible and unprovoked murder than
this. Here is black devil who, not con-
tent with the privilege accorded him by
the reconstruction laws OF riding in the
street cars with refined gentlemen and
delicate ladies', must needs shoot down,
like dog, the husband who ventures
remonstrance with him for not making
room for his wife to pass. 1t is not
enough that he can sit tN the white citi-.
zens and their wives All sQaugliters-he
must murder them when they have the
temerity to insist upon his allowing their
wives and daughters to pass out of the,
car Men say, "who will DO the next
victim ?' and women. trembling for the
lives of their hushstt1ds, their children
1>and themselves, will be afrailS TO enter
the car which, peradventure, must be
shared with some murderous black devil
who may choose to enforce his civil
rights" at the pistols mouth. What
though the lifeof a gallant gentleman,
respected citizen, loved husband and
father is sacrificed? Is he not the "na-
tions ward," and do.Rot the appointments
and the Civil Rights bill make him equal
to the knightliest gentleman and the
loveliest lady in the land, and is he their
equal if he doesn't shoot on the spot any
white man who dears to reprove him for
standing in the way of lady?
The heart sickens at the thought of the
woe and misery this land has already ex-
perienced from the baleful political teach
lngs Of the last few years and the untold
suffering yet to come from them.
REFRIDGYi6g,