The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-18
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\ wnits a1an Whipped At the Post

A White Man Whipped At the Post
 Who Later Became Prosperous. EOi. James A. Hoyt. in Grsenvilie Noun
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 Tha Lanrsns correspondent of The Charleston Sunday News furnishes this \intereeting story of the past:
 Tn the early dfties yolng lawyer just Admitted to practice was employed to dkfend a white man charged with steal ing bushei of oats rom rich planter. The whipping pest was the punishment for such offenses and there was no al- tarnattve penalty. The proof was plain and the young lawyers humble client was promptly convicted. When the verdict was announced the solicitor came to the attorney and whispered: ''B-. it will never do for that white man to be pub iiciy whipped
 < sweii. whats to be done about itr said the lawyer.
 Tn arrange it. the solicitor replied. "A brief consolidation ensued between the solicitor. the prosecuting witness. the judge and the sheriff.
 ssThen the solicitor came back to the lawyer. Explain to your client that If he will break from lt1s sherfn and never stop running tin he crosses the Savan- nah River. and never come back again, he win not be pursued The State will be satisfied if the man leaves the coun- try. AS the sherim takes him to jail from the court house let him lag behind; the aherdff win walk twenty feet in front. when they reach the corner of the alley leading to the jail he must run and never look back. There win be mock chase, hut all your man need do is to run
 .'The young lawyer explained the pro gram 10 the convict, who stolidly assent Cd. When the shertff took him away fha lawyer went on the court house stops ao see the fun The Sheriff. as promised, walked ahead of the prisoner, without hooking back They approached the alley corner. The sheriff passed it- The con- Ntct reached it and, with eyes to the front marched deliberately behind the shertn into the jail Tn due time he took his fhreshing and went home, He preferred sk to leaving lsaurens County. A curious psuuel though. is that he did later go fo another State and there accumulated q good property and was highly respected Nitimen.''
 Ths editor of The Mcuntaineer, who was Then d boy and resident of I4aurens, re- rnembered ttAs incident very distinctly, na this was the only white man he ever Mnw punished at the whipping post which aN thin instance was tree that stood on e7ae south side of the court house and Mhadeu Tho Eher1M a oAnc6- MT OSW1Au Rtchardson was the sheriff. one of the k4ndest hearted men that ever lived in Taurena, and like the solicitor he did not want to see white man publicly whip ned. much less to infiict the punishment hirnself The boys of the village gathered around in much live at the proceedings. and the 1herih applied the lash thirty nine times to the back of the oulprit. but N was said at the time that he was well able to hit harder licks if the law had xeouired 1t.
 Our recollection is that 1t was in the forenoon of a bright, sunshiny day, and when the law had been compiled with Afr. richardson told the young man that he was free to go where he pleased, and ta1xing with him small bundle of clothes he eet out for his home in the western mart of Laurens. He was a strong. ath- ietic, handsome young man, and he walk a away with a firm step to his humble country home. where he tarried only ioY1g enough to bid good bye to his rela- five and went immediately across the gayanna4, taking up his abode in Hart