Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-17

hain't done nobody any harm; | am republican,
and | am going to live and die one" The reply
was You will regret those words" In about
| two weeks he said to his wife 81 feel death.
know they will kill me-" Then counting the
time, he said give months since we were
married. must pray God TO make me
willing TO part with you / am not afraid
to de-" That same evening--it was Sunday
he started for praycr-meetiDg Just before
reaching the place he was teld that there was
trouble, and heard firing so he went to thesswamp
Before day she found him. On her return TO the
house the white men told her they would Kill
him; she heard them read the list, and, TO use
her words, when they came to my u,band :
name, was so hurtcd | cant remember the rest
so we'll"
Hundreds of mounted men were about the yard
| of the "white folks" They rode away and be-
! fore sunset came back. She had heard her hus-
| band was killed, and was crying when the young
master" said "Well, he is killed. I've been and
| had it done. II you amt certain, 20 and look IN
| the cotton patch by an old log and the persmmon
tree" The wife Of five months went and found
the body of her husband ridded with bullets, his
neck broken, and other bruises given with the
butts of rifles after he had been shot. The col
ored man had no weapons of any kind. The wife
of the murderer told the widow afterward eff
you dare to 20 to Aiken and tell anything that
will get my husband into the courts, I'll have you
killed. You are spotted now your husband was
sorry for what he said" The loyal wife answered
"No am, he was not sorry; he told you he
would die republican, and he did. lou have
killed my husband. DO what you please with me.
can't die till the Lord means me TO. My hus-
band not afraid and he has gone where you
never will" All who know the sex IN the Soul
can imagine the tone used with these words.
There the officers ask me every day if any mig
gers insult me and now | will tell them you have.
threat to send telegram to Augusta and have
her arrested if she dared come on the train made
her wait unit there WAS a safe way, and now she
dares not 90 back though il life is spared will APP
pear in court against against them.
Another case is where young man was shot at
and wounded. lie went to his aunt's cabin; she
begged him to 90 the woods. lie said: mo, they
done shot at me; guess they will let me go.
can't walk with this ball in my leg" The next
day several mounted men rode up and asked if she
had wounded man in the house. The wounded
man tried TO run out of the door, and, to use her
words, 81 knowed they would do 1t; did not
want to see il; but peared as | could not take my
eyes of him, and, would you believe It, they just
pop, pop, pop, until be 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 physician whom the colored man
knew came up, and the hunted man called out
"Oh, Dr. don't let EN- kill me; Use a 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, ana cried On uou suOOt my poor DOf nc
cant speak, he is deaf and dumb but the "peace
full" white chivary 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 AMI a half of here the father of two of our
scholars was fired at while picking cotton with
them in a field. The ball came very near the
grl's head. have sufficient evidence of many
more equally atrocious murders. Already abou;
20 voters have been killed, and had it not been for
| Al. Il i'll
lives would have been sacrificed. If any
wants to hear more of these outrages let him fol.
low up the report Of the United States Court pro-
ceedings, commencing the fourth Monday in this
month at Columbia, South Carolina. | could
write many pages of facts, but forbear. If we
have peace it must be peace with justice. Respect
fully, MARTHA SCHoFTELD.
AIKEN, South Carolina, November 10, 1876.