Richmond planet., 1890-07-05

for protesting, are in many instances
taken and whipped until they are
bloody. Here Is a case in point.
On the l1th OF May last, w. j. Lo-
max, Thomas Lomax and Willie
Wimms, colored, were in company
with some young colored ladies, as
their escorts, it being Saturday
night. They were insulted by a
white mob of Abbeville, S. c. They
demonstrated aud protested, and
for this protest they We're on the fol-
lowing Sunday arrested and
DRAGGED TO JAIL
by the white militia. who were order
ed out with their Winchester rifles !:
and they were charged with carrying
concealed weapons They were
kept in Jail three months on the
above mentioned pretext of uprising,
when in fact they were thus treated
because they were not disposed to
submit to the insults of white mobs,
against them and their young lady
friends.
They further charged the colored
minister at Abbeville, Rev. T.. w.
Williams of the Colored Presbyterian
Church, with advising these young
colored men to stand up for their
young ladies virtue. and for this be
was forced to move from his house
into his church and school-house,
thinking thereby to protect himself
and family from the infuriated mob.
They had already shot into his
house, attempting to shoot him for
wishing the protection of the virtue
OF cOlored women from white mob
violence in Abbeville. In years gone
by, when Hon. j. s. Cothran was on
the judicial bench, l had much re-
spect for him, believing him to be as
fair a judge as he was allowed to be.
But since his advent into politics,
am sure he has cOuntenanceda and ad-
vised wrongs TO me and my race.
His own children (boys) engaged in
1T, and if he had told them to stop
and not do these wrongs. thev
would have obeyed him; but instead,
he encouraged them to go on and
commit these midnight, murderous
wrongs upon law-abiding Republi-
cans of my race.
L am partly paralyzed. Some
times l can write and at other times
| can not. Now, l beg of the people
of the North, both White and Color
ed, "Oh, how long, how long shall
these murderous outrages last !?
Shall they last until God viii mar
tial his host from heaven TO fight
against and justify tlrr --~-- :
this, my oppressed TaE
Sorthf' ain nenr6ly sorry TO
have TO speak of my Southern broth
er in white, but God knows that ev-
cry statement that have made
against the South is true. This con-
dition of things is going on all over
the South. / reply to statement
made in the st. Louis "Republic"
from Congressman Cothran. 1t is
true that Judge Cothran met me at
Greenville, S. c., about sixty miles
from Abbeville, and carried me
home to Abbeville. 1t cost him two
dollars and five cents. / paid him
back two dollars and twenty-five
cents. | then bought a ticket at Alb
beville on the End day of March,
1889, to bring me to Washington
and return me to Abbeville on the
Sth of March, but when / reached
Greenville, s. c. on that day, I was
too late for the train that would car
ry me to Abbeville on the Sth. /
had to lay over in Greenville all that
night. On the next morning, when /
started home on the train, the con-
ductor looked at my ticket and said
''your ticket was out last night, and
| cannot let you pass on it to-day" :"
Judge COthran was on the train and
| asked him to carry me home. He
did so. AS to my being dirty, hun
CRY and weary, it is untrue, and an
infamous lie. And as to meeting me
at a railroad station in Virginia, is
untrue, also.
Judge Cothran, here is a question
and hope you will answer it. The
first report made about nv leo
being broken was that colored
woman had taken me out, beat me
and
BROKE MY LEG?
The second report was that was
running across the railroad track
slipped, fell and broke my leg. Now
Judge, which one of these two state
ments is true? They both cannot
be true, you very well know. Your
provision of food for me is not true
beyond contradiction. Judge Goth
ran said that / had made some Der
sonal charges against Mrs. Law
sons character. Judge Cothrar
calls himself a gentleman and s
truthful man. do not see how h,
can utter any such words about m,
making personal charges agains-
Mrs. Lawson, because he knows yer,
well, indeed, that every statement h,
has made about it is untrue from tn,
beginning to the end. AS to- her Der
sOnal character. think she has q,
good a one as any woman living
Here is another question that
would like to ask the honorable
Judge:
1t had become a common savins
around Abbeville last january ant
February, a year ago: eff an,
6-6 NpOrrO no annninto1 vDock,~.~, :