The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-11

country than any other individual Of
the race. A large part of his face
had been torn away by the buckshot
which had laid him low after all of
the pistol balls had missed their
mark.
A while afterwards when the
searching parties had worked their
way through the different buildings
on the square another negro jumped
over the fence at the same spot, but
he had no time to run. Pierce But
I.ler and l, who had remained together
the entire night, were standing on
the back steps of Lipfield's store,
waiting for him to bring us some wa
ter from the we'll. Two men from
Augusta, whose names l never learn
ed, but who wore the uniform of the
Clinch Rifles, had just obtained wa
ter and were standing on the side
walk. The negro leaped the fence
at the rear of the store, but fell
| dead almost instantly. The two ri
! femen had thrown their guns, which
I cleaned in the moon light, to their
shoulders and fired with deadly ef-
feet. This was one of the negro
militiamen. The moon by this time
was getting high in the heavens, and
it must have been nearly eleven
| o'clock. The searching was ended
| by breaking in the front door OF
Louis Schiller's store, which was al
| so his residence. Schiller was a low
Jew, who had joined the negroes,
and had been given office by them,
having held the position of county
auditor until the county of Aiken
| was set apart We wanted to hang
him as the resentment against white
scalawags was intense. He had been
| born and raised in Hamburg and
| had really sold himself to the ne
groes. We did not find him in the
house, bnt learned afterwards that
the Door wretch escaped us by climb
ing through a trap door which led
out on the roof and that he was
living behind a parapet on top OF
the house while execrations against
his name and the purpose to swing
him was being expressed by the
white men below. All of the work
being practically finished the whites
began to disperse and those from
Augusta to retrace their steps across
the bridge. Gen. Butler and Col
Butler had very quietly departed
some time before, without leaving
any orders and the mob, If it may
be called such, rapidly thinned out
About this time Jas. Lanham, my
neighbor, and Jas. McKie, who had
been on the post with me a great
part of the night, and both hrs1
cousins of young Meriwether, who
had been killed, came to where
group of us were standing. One o1
them asked the question as to Wheth'
ct IL W DIS llOl q uCol PlSSO " Va A.
for us to lose one of our best men
and have only two negroes dead and
another wounded. It was agreed
that we could not have q story ike
that 20 out as a record of the nights
work. Lantham said to me, Il have
no balls in my pistol and no cartridg-
es," | told him that had only shot
once at Cook and had five balls left
We exchanged pistols and he and Nc
Ilie soon found others Of their way
of thinking. The party made their
way to the place where the negro
prisoners were held and Henry Get.
son, who lived two miles from Ham
burg and who knew all the negroes
in the town and neighborhood, was
asked to designate those Of the
meanest character and most worthy
of death. AS fast as he would Sc
lect from among the prisoners those
he thought ought to be killed-all
militiamen-they were taken off a
little ways down the street and shot.
After five had been thus dealt with
the little squad of white men who
were still remaining in town seemed
satisfied and it was decided that the
rest Of the negroes, some 25 or 80
in number. should be allowed to
go. The permission was given and
they were told to go up the street
and you may depend on 1T that
they were not slow to L:ove. When
they had got about SO yards away
the crowd fired volley over their
heads, but I could not see that 1t
added anything to the speed which
they were making. If young Meri-
wether had not lost his life l do not
think any of these last negroes would
;. have been killed, but the purpose
M our visit to Hamburg was to
HE rike terror and the next morning
III sunday, when the negroes who
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