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dispersed, going to my office and at
tending to my duties not thinking
further of Darro,

dispersed, gong to my Office and at
tending to my duties not thinking
further of Dargan.
After some lapse of time. good
citizen of our county, not a resident
of our town but living very
near, came over and reported that
there was crowd near PENIS drug
store cursing and abusing Dargan and
he thought it wrong to take that ad-
vantage of any man under such cir
cumstances. fully agreed with him,
and our worthy intendant, Mr.. Ken
nerly. said to me Immediately upon
hearing the statement, Sheriff, let's
60 and stop such conduct. I said,
yes, of course We looked in the
direction indicated and saw that the
crowd he'd dispersed and Dargan gone
on.
Col. Dargan perhaps drew 70 someex-
tent on his Imagination as to the num-
ber that composed the so called mob.
Possibly the Colonel was thinking of
the prophecy in Acts when old men
would dream dreams and young men
would see visions. He must have had
vision as there were not more than
fifty white men in town from the
country during the day.
The News and Courier in its editor
ial said: ''The sheriff was in exceed
ingly bad company; for he is the
highest law peace officer of the county
and it need hardly be said bears the
largest measure of responsibility for
the lawlessness in which he took so
prominenta part That was the very
object had in view-to preserve the
peace of the town and protect the per-
son OF Col. Dargan from probable
harm.
Had Col. Dargan taken the advice of
the COMMITTEES, there would not have
occurred any unpleasantness. There
are not in this. or any other county,
five more reputable, law-abiding citiz-
ems that are those five men that were
on that committee with myself, and if
they had not been actuated by the
best of motives-thc desire to prererve
the peace and harmony ofth county
and State and prevent violence to any
person. would not have acted with
them.
No man deprecates more than | do
the treatment Col. Dargan received
en- route to the depot, l feel sure it is
regretted by the entire committee and
large majority of the people of
the county. It was a paral-
lei case YOU intimated, with
the downfall of Chamberlain
and his crew in 1876. The same iden-
tical issues were agitated with this
difference as | see it-they then had
us by the throats with their feet on
our necks and it took a tremendous
effort to extricate ourselves when
placed at such Il disadvantage But
you say it was permissible then and
endorsed by a large majority of the
people and the press Of the State,
among them the News and Courier.
This movement is being brought, it
seems to me, for the same purpose
with this exception, that this move.
mentis being agitated by disappointed
Office seekers who know they have no
chance in this government which
they are seeking to overthrow
through the suffrage Of the negro.
In 1876 these men We're called "scal-
lawags' and independents" They
are now called true blue Democracy
of the State" God deliver US from
such Democracy.
I for one am not willing to quietly
submit to have the shackles placed
upon me, and I don't think major
ity Of the people are any more willing
than I. l am for white supremacy,
first, last and all the time, anything
to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
W. II. QUITS.