The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-09-06
A CARD FROM MAI. J. w. TENCH.
GAN UNpLEAsANT AFFAIR"
NORTH PAcoLEr, UNION Co., s. C.

NORTH PACoLET, UNION Co., s. G.
August 31st, 1878.
Mr.. EDITOR I'm your issue Of the 23d inst,
you have seen fit to give publicity to occur
renee which is not ut all pleasant to me and not
in accordance with the facts, and US you have
always boastcd n disposition and willingness to
do justice oil rouud request you will insert
ths-a true statement Of the affair:
On the 10th made speech ut Jonesville
before going upon the stand MIR. Ell. Lindsey
said to me that report was in circulation there
that had, in previous speech at Browns
Store, said to the negroes, 'you have 27,00O
majority in the State aud you are fools if you
do not make use of it," This, on the stand,
said was an unmitigated and malicious lie. Mr..
Tom Kink Littlejohn spoke, and said Randolph
(not Adolphus) Brown had told it there. then
said that il he had .kc wasShe liar. On the 18th
parties vere to speek 1t Browns. Friends in
sisted should make reply. l consented, and
went down 10 the Store in company with Mr..
William Vincent. Passing through Mr.. Frank
Mabry's orchard pulled two apples. Arrived
at the grove in front of tho store, l sat down in
front of a squad of men with my back to the
store and began eating the apples. had hard
ly finished them when some one called me by
name, got up and saw Randolp Brown, with
stout season ed club swung to his wrist with
string and held rather behind his right leg. He
was then in striking distance, and asked me
f plssd hTAh hT%Ahaf e are H You going to do with your
club" He repeated his question, and said l
! should not talk about him. / then told him
what had heard from q responsible man, as
coming from him, and told him to 60 to that
man aud let me alone. turned aside my heaS
| to call some one who had been at Jonesville to
verify my words, when Brown struck me blow
on the left side of the head, just above the TEN
poral region, with his stick, cutting asmal arte-
| nv and knocking me blind and senssless, striking
| me several licks while in this condition across
| the back and shoulders, and preparing to strike
| me another blow on the back Of the head, which
would probably have killed me (his intention al
believed by many when Bonner Cook caugh
the stick. =,
Now sir, If you, or any one else with oispo
sition to do justice, can see any part had II
"a diGeulty," you have better eyes than the PeC
| ple here who, to o man, denounce the brutal
coward!y, unmanly assault of Brown, after e1
| planatiop and authorities had been in the mild
est manner given him. Unmanly, because h
: weighs on on average fifty pounds more than
: do :,cowardly, because he came up while m
i, back was to him end with bludgeon, when
could have tied me, hand and foot, with his 81
perior animal strength brutal, because bruta
n ity is his first and only attribute.
: lie had said several days before that shou
Il Iasvrsss ~. hissu,slasa ard Tue morning befo
. ing his threats Of beating me, to men VINO tri'
to persuade him not to do so. There is eviden
Is sufficient that tho thing on his part was deli
l. crate and mature. make no apology to q
reading public for this long explanation, tho
'' who desire to know truth will read it and tho
s, who do not would not read il only ten lin
l. we're written. JOHN w. TENCH.