The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-06
BB Tyrannical Military Record
in the South.
a, Unbroken Career OF OPP
pression and SpOliation.
Old Men and Women
We're His Victims.


From The Chicago Heralu.
very interesting and significant
letter has been received by citizen OF
Keokuk. Iowa, from an old gentle
man living in Pulaski, Tenn, where
General Weaver, the peoples party
candidate for president, had command
IN the latter part of The war. The
sentiments contained i'll the letter will
doub,less be spread abroad through
ant the south and put the peoples
marty candidate on the defensive when
he enters upon the canvass i'll thai
section, w..ere his friends claim he is
50 strong. A portion of the letter
reads as follows: ''He (Weaver) will
eclpsc Bull Nelson OF Ben Butler SO
far as the double-dyed villain reaches.
lsend you piece cut from the Giles
county Democrat of the 20th, ana l
youch for the truth of every word.
All three of the men were Old friends
Of mine. He (Weaver) had Baker
Shepard, George Petway and G. W.
McGrew arrested, and would have ar
rested me if 1t had not been for
McGrew. When they passed my
house McGrew told him | was deaf.
Weaver sent Shepard and Petwar out
of the lines. Messrs. Newbill, Rodes
and Abernathy paid him the money.
These are the facts ard can be proved.
He was perfect terror to both men
and women. The refugees never re-
teived one cent of the money. All
The old citizens are dead now. Most
Of them we're very old at the time.
Weaver will get very few votes south
Of Mason and Dixon's line The
following is the clipping referred to
above, headed 'Something About
Weaver
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
General Weaver, while in command
at Pulaski, in January, in 1864, issued
an order TO Charles c. Abernatny,
John H. Newbill, Robert Rodes and
others that they pay into his hands
$1,000 for the maintenance OF refu-
ices (meaning negroes and renegades
from Alabama). This order was ac-
cOmpanied by threat that, if the
money was not paid, they and their
families would be sent south and their
property given to said refugees. All
OF these parties arc dead now and
were over sixty years old when that
order was issued. Can amy southern
man vote for such hcartless wretch!
THE COTTON TWIST ROBBERY.
A man by the name Of G. w. Witt
sold Mr. Jasper Cox-a very poor
nan-2,O00 pounds of bacon, for
which he received the cash. Mr.. Cox
look The bacon 10 the cotton mills in
Lawrence county and traded it for
cotton twist. This he carefully slowed
away in the loft of his little cabin,
alhking that it would assist him in
purchasing a little home after the
war, as he was very poor, with a
9atge family and had no home.
weaver learned through some source
oial 'hls gentleman had the cotton
wlsl and sent detachment of soldiers
MS house and took possession of it,
aud shipped it to Iowa for his own
Use.
lhs cotton twist was worth at the
unc 1t was stolen 50, 900.
ROBBERY OF HOGS AND TURKEYS.
'ohn r Williams, Il poor but highly
,SNeii'ea farmer in Giles county, had
nie"'y'hVe fat hogs, which at that
"'a 'a"e were worth SO per 100 pounds,
a'OSs' and lot of turkeys. Weaver,
pvrson, , took file Of soldiers out
,o,, Williams place and made the
."In ,~'ucfs shoot every hog on the place
va Wi'n naa them brought to camp. When
'',a "ii'lals asked for voucher, Weaver
ron, ""' y don't give rebels in the south
,0s a'nefs' would rather furnish
NJ w. uv.i,g 70 inang every d--n one of them. 4"
.~,. y. Williams is still living, and will
car 10 the above if necessary.
foSpNhss FOR HORSE FLESH.
,,'' weaver had a great fondness fo,
bor,o nesp' ana Whenever he found Il
.reN., ~ ,oelonglug, as he called it, to a
ps.", Io, sy'npalhizer," he took pos
mnehn , OF it without giving any
vo. 'o"cr Tor it, and if the owner valued
anh !, "ishly and did not wish TO par.
Slim ~ " ne charged him from 81 ia
hxa "sccof''lng to the value of the
M M 'or returning it to its owner.
pss, "ooey he put into his own
sARltHlNG IN rAssla.
our esver e;,i made it practice to charge
coma u1en' ;. locent, each for passes ia
.lnes nv" y, and 90 out of the federal
own MN lns money he put into his
lows, This pass read as fol
lines ''s bearer through the federal
j y. WEAVER,
l'otltpan1ar