The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-07-26

"SNnS oSoo' hC or this
affair are not generally known and are as
follows; "A squad Of revenue officers went
on one of then periodical raids to Red.
monds house, and seeing man come out
OF 1t with baby in his arms, they cried,
halt, and this command being disregarded.
they as usual fired seven shots after him
without effect, however, and he escaped.-
Alter leaving the house, and when some
distance from it, tho party was in turn fired
into from the roadside, aud Fisher. their
guido, was wounded in the wrist by a SINGLE
buck-shot. No one else was touched. The
man who fired the, sho.=.wns not more than
fffty yards from the roadside" and wos
himself fired at several times by the marty,
Redmond declares thac he was not this man
and his statement is sustained by the fact
that but one buckshot of the load reached
It's aim Redmond doesn't shoot that wov
"A man who could snuff candle with :,
pistol ball, as Redmond can, or who coula
XIII rabbit running, or bird flying, with
pistol ball as Redmond can, or who could
ride full gallop and hit small saplipc at
fifteen PAGES with pistol ball as Redmond
eau, or lastly, who could turn rapidly on
his heel and put six balls one after another
into small tree at thirty PAGES, as Redmond
can, say don't think such man would
miss revenue squad or even their Guide
at htty yards, with a load of buckshot, fred
from IA gun resting on log" 1t doesn't
look reasonable, and it is really going lit.
tie too lar to assert it. True, the officers
swore it was Redmond, but it must be borne
IN mind that they. swear that operybody aud
every COW and sheep and stump in tho
mountains is Redmond, and as it is likely
they are mistaken sometimes, they NAV be
again in this case.
a third and last remark concerns tho
outlaws moral character, which has becn
held up to reproach on every possible oc.
casion because of the relation he has borno
to one of Ladd's sisters 1t is not n sinh,
Jcct that L need or care to say much about
for obvious reasons; but l may be allowed
to say this much: First, that some at
least OF the revenue officers are not a. lin.
efty, from biblical point of view, to heavo
stones at him to any great extent and Sec
ond, that the injury he has done he promo.
ses to repair, as far as possible, at the first
opportunity, by marrying the woman he
has wronged. She was pres mt for few
minutes on the occasion OF, my. first inter.
view, having come Is Mse5 shi.n for t;s -.
press purpose Of having the ceremony NOR.
formed by my companion, Mr.. Fields, who
had also attended for this purpose. II was
arranged in my presence that the cercmonv
should take place next morning about sun
rise, with myself as witness, and it was
only postponed from the appointed hour
untll-on account of the absence of n soc.
ond witness, whose presence for good rea-
sons was desired by both the parties most
interested. l could say more if were not
assured that what / might say would prob.
ABLY lead to the presence of certain unin-.
vited guests at the wedding, whose peculiar
object in being there at such time do
MOI .cdre % further.
The readersSof the Nesos and Cov,,:s,-
shall be informed of The fact when the cere.
mony takes place. 1t will be a veritobIe,
wedding in high lJe"-on the ton of n.
mountain. My parting with Redmond was,
sad one, him and to me. The feelinc.
eloquence of his last words-the appeal to.
Governor Hampton-I can not give in anv
words. am only sorry that the Governor.
and every citizen of the State over which,
he rules, could not have heard him and
seen him with nc; and left bin feeIinr
that had high tsust committed to me
Keeping in the vindication of an opprcssed
and prosecuted man. need not ignore
offences hc has committed he has told that
story himself without reservation or evasion
and l have followed his example in rene,t,
ing it as he gave it. The wrong he has
done, however, was not done maliciouslv
but from the natural impulse every brave
man feels to resent undeserved and repeated
injury
10 those who say he should have borne.
them In patience and appealed to the law
for protection, l have only to .rculy: Do
you know what iaW was in South Carolina
at the time of which speak. and do von.
approve E!lenton and Hamburg, and then
condemn him? The rude, unlettered men
OF the mountains are not qualified to moral.
ize ,prettily about the abstract dutv Of
good citizens, to take every case of insult
and injury into the nearest court: Tbcv
only know when they suffer wrong and.
how to resent one, and not having been,
particularly edited by the results of their
experimental applications to courts for re-
lief, they naturally concluded to take care
of themselves. When they violated what
seemed to them an oppressive and partial
law, they found that the hand of the Cen.
erai Government fell heavy upon them
when Its officers violated just and common
laws, they found that the Genera, Govorn.