The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-08-23
EVideaee Given by Negroes
the Meeting Friday.
Old Man Jake Richardson
Tells a Story of a Horrible
Crime by the Whites.

s5is eity today to take some action
ia regard TO the recent shieecap out
fages. nas attended by abou. 200 of
tha best oia5ens Of the county State
Ssnasor Waller was made chsirman aud
Carpenter secretary.
The meeting vas productive Of im-
portant results The names OF At least
four of the white men who have been
engaged 10 whipping negroes at night
were made knoHo and the particulars
Here learned of 60 outrage that sent
thrill of horror through the veins OF
every man present.
ImmsdiaselJ after toe meeting was
organized the committee appointed BY
:the meeting at Greenwood Wednesday
Is lnyestigats the causes of the whip
ping made report through Its chair
sInao, sex Senator Gaines. AR. Gaines
said tue committee had gone about its
work With . determination to prove the
natter az fully as possible and not to,
40 any whitewashing. A number Of
shlppiags MAD bsen investigated, but
the committee had been unable to get
any direct evidence againss anyone,
most Of what they had learned being
merely bearsay He vas convinced
that The uhippiags dad been done by
different parties OF men and were
pronpsed by diferens causes. But
uzhateser may have been the causes.
sad Mr. Games. it is moo law and
gssn1ot Be too strongly condemned
senmittee found no reason to be
1isgs that these vhippinga have any
diress connection With the trouble at
Phoenix last fail. bnt they are to some
sexta9t "a indirect resnis The spirit of
sssking the law iato our hands that
dominated US there is the leayen that
has caused the outbreaks here. The
committee found shefe had been some
uafortuoats differences over personal
nstters between some of the white
purple ID this immediate vicinity, and
surged that every effort be made to
adjust their differences, aud hoped the
people uouid naite aud build mp such q
sseasimants as would make repetition Of
these ontrages unlikely.
TIE committee had no direct evidence
thar wonld implicate- anyone, as they
joonsiaered Il the duty Of the odisers of
the Ian TO callec. evidence and have
;Harran,s issued The committee req
sonmendsd that every effors be taken to
spprehend the guilty parties and bring
skan % justice
IS Mr. Gaines then recoansed several
uhippings that had bsen investigated
By the committee A negro on Mr. E
81 Addisons 8 place had been whipped
1ho. il Was known. vas at Phoenix the
sdsy Of tie riot aud had tried to organ
ize she negroes to attack the whites
after the killieg of Esheridge This.
the committee tboughs. was the cause
.of this whipping
negro near Newmark was whip
ped The only reason the committee
can ind fox this Is chat a son of Mr..
Hughes dnnoed the negro 4or some
money he owed and the negro became
incensed and threatened to cut the
white mas'e throat. This whipping.
in the opinion Of the committee,
,.ss done BY different men fom the
ether
The next case investigated was that
ssi svo negro women, one on E 2.
Seyuan's place, the osbss on the Hunt
.plaes. The woman on the Hunt place
Vas the mistress of q >xbite man. aud
the other woman had been moved into
. house that the white people bsd used
for schoolhonse. The house belonged
20 Mr. Seynan aod the white people
had been renting it from him for
sehooIhouse The committee thought
thss IN placing the woman in the house
Mr. Seyman believed be vas acting
within his rights and hsd no intention
Of giving odeose to his neighbors.
There were several ~hippings on the
MsNeill place several nights after
We can get st 90 reasons for these,
other than . desire to get rid Of the
negroes so the whites could rent the
lands at reduced prices. Rus whatever
the causes, it is mob Law pure and sim
pie. and We, the good citiseus Of the
c,naty. must stop it. think the Toll
bert inaoeooe is. directly or indirectly.
responsible for the condition Of afairs
shas now confronss us. aod think
measured must be taken, drastic If
necessary, to make Red and Joe Tolbert
good citiseus.
Geo. n Taylor. prominent citizen
and large laud oweer, spoke. He said
he had heard that threats had beer
mace against him because, it was said,
he was renting lands to negroes and
,ph;fo ona out nc tho country