The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-13
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 slbly 4OO and was distant from one rail- road sixteen miles and from another fourteen miles.
 "The meeting was different from most American meetings in that they had no written resolution. There was also very llttie speaking. Every one knew the work ae Ianu ana on the verbal motion of some reputdDle citizen, 1t was resolved to give every negro in the county one weeks notice to leave the county and commit-
 tees of men from different sections of the oIuhty I.,I, s were appointed to carry out
 the Will or the white people.
 The motion was carried by a rising vote and every'o one arose, but before they
 sat down an old gentlemen, who was
 known of all men to have feared in youth
 ma anhood, middle and old age only God
 spoke:
 "'Mr. Chairman
 All eyes were turned to him, and seeing who 1t was, he was left standing. old Texian-thats the way they call if In Texas-'but I want to move an amend ment. There has been living In different parts of Texas with me and my people, Family. They or some of them have been with us through good and bad times. The head of this family now Is Aleck Hughes You You all Know him. You know his old
 Here the old gentleman broke down. Some one tried to second his amendment, but he gulped little and quickly said: down 9o 1 there naons sir for until until finish No, l won't say any more-but,' and we all knew him God help the mans soul who tries- to come on my place to order only old Aleck, Hannah and their likely boy, Cyrus, and as God Is my judge-mY children have beaten my wife and me to the end-my blessed wife and I, so long as God gives us breath will proetct them. Gentlemen. excuse me. but did hear a second to my amendment
 "A second. Why. the crowd rose up and yelled a second which precluded the ne-
 "The committees went right to work and in the specified time cleared the county of negroes-excepting. mark you, They stayed-you can depend on that.
 "All of us bragged nightly on our bringing about this exodus, but 1t was awfully troublesome-the lack of the ne- Southerner knows until he experiences it, the many things you want a negro to do for you which you don't wish to ask a white woman, man or boy to do for you unless you are living in some Eastern city where all the help Is white. I never had that experience and don't banker for 1t.
 With us in Comanche the chief trou- ble in this particular was that every man. woman and child in that village was practically on the same social plane excepting, of course. the debased. I never saw grander set of people. Very few of them were of any literary cultur. but they were honest and brave splendid American men and women.
 'T couldn't ask such folks to do my little bachelor chores-I mean the run ming of errands and a hundred little things that we don't hesitate to ask a negro to do. Oh, l missed the negro and never want to be without them as ser want"
 What did you miss them most in?'
 'I had thought about that. and I be- lieve that I chiefly missed them in the cleaning of my shoes."
 Did the negroes ever attempt to come back?'
 T left the county several years ago, so I cant tell. I know one thing that in my days over the public we'll in the little railroad station, sixteen miles from Comanche. there was a Wllainously painted sign, which read as follows
 "-'Niggersl Let not the sun set on you In COmanche County.