The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-11-29

told her they would kill him she heard them
read the list, and to use her words, "When
they came to my husbands name, was so
hurried can't remember the rest SO well.''
Hundreds of mounted men were about the
yard Of the white folks.' They rode away
and before sunset came back. She had heard
her husband was killed, and was crying
when the young master 2 said e Well, he
y killed. I've been Az. h .::.; 1t DONE II yon
ain't certaini SO and look Id the cotton patck
By an old log and the persimmon tree" Tho
wife Of five months went aud found the body
Of her husband riddled with bullets; his neck
broken, and other brttises given with tbs
butts Of rifles after he had been shot. The
colored man had no weapons of any kind
The wife of the murderer told the widow af-
forward: g If you dare to 60 to Aiken did
tell anything that will get my husband into
the courts, I'll have You killed. You are spots
ted now; your husband was sorry for what
he said." The loyal wife answered: mo
ma'am, he was not sorry he told you he
would die Republican, and he did. YOU
have killed my husband. Do what you please
with me. can't die till the Lord means me
to. My husband was not afraid, and he has
gone where you never will" All who know
the sex in the South can imagine the tone
used with these words. "There tho officers
ask me every day If any niggers insult me,
and now will tell them you have" A
threat to send q telegram to Augusta and
have her arrested il she dared to come on the
train made her wait until there was q safe
way, and now she dares not go back, though
If life is spared will appear in court against
them.
Another case where young man was shot
at and wounded He went to his aunt's cab
In she begged him to 60 to the woods He
said: Nov they done shot at me, guess
they will let me go. I can't walk with this
ball in my Leg The next day several mount
ed men rode up and asked IL she had a wound
ed man in the house. The wounded man
tried to run out Of tho door, and to Use her
words, 81 knowed they would do it didn't
want to SEQ it but 'peared as could not take
my eyes off him, and would you believe il,
they just pop, pop, pop, until he fell dead at
my feet
At another place one poor fellow ran out
and hid under the gourd vines. They fired
into them. While doing 30 physician
whom the colored man knew came up, and
tho hunted man called out "Oh Doctor,
don't let 'em kill ME Use good boy you
know never did anybody any harm Use
not bad" The doctor rode away, and with
fearful oaths they stopped his screaming. !"
One mother had three sons killed. She saw
them shooting at one, and cried, " Oh ! don't
shoot my poor boy; he can't speak he's
deaf and dumb "--but the peaceful y white
cavalry needed not the cry of agony, and he
was murdered with the rest. These were not
within sight of Mr.. Edgerton's home, but
they were in Aiken county, and are facts.
Within mile aud half of here the father
Of two Of our scholars was fired at while pick
ing cotton with them in field The ball
came very near the girls head. l have suffi-
cient evidence of many more equally atrocious
murders. Already about seventy voters have
been killed, and had It not been for the pres
ence of United States troops many more lives
would have been sacrificed. If any one wants
to hear more of those outrages let him follow
up the report of the United States Court pro-
ceedings, commencing the fourth Monday Ia
this month, at Columbia, South Carolina.
could write many pages of facts, but forbear.
If we have peace it must be peace with
justice.
Respectfully, MAnTnA ScHorIELp.
Aiken, s. O., November 10. 1876
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