The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-15

declined to answer
Speeches were made-fCr and
against. All expressed their admir-
alton at the able and honest manner
i'm which l had borne myself through
out Many who did so said that
! convictions OF duty compelled them
to vote against my stay. The vote
stood 22 to 8. The vigilance com
mlttee generously raised the money
on the spot to pay my expenses
home.
Thus far J had met only courteous
and considerate treatment. After a
day spent under the roof Of Rev. Mr..
Perry-himself a slaveholder-I re-
turned to Blackville. On the train 1
was insulted by fellow. who drag
ged me into the negro car (there was
no one to say nay) and persisted in
sitting by my side. threatening me
with whipping. padding and hang
ing, and who, on my refusal to ans
wer his questions, drew his knife to
cut off my ear.
A pretended friend offered me a
pistol: told me should need it be-
fore 1 reached Charleston. OF
course | declined 1t. At Bamberg's,
where they had hanged a man short
ly before. "the fellow" went out and
| called the vigilance committee, sew
| eral of whom entered the ce. c-d
| endeavored by main strength to force
me from the car to hang me. had
good hold end they couldn't move
me. but they tore my coat badly in
the struggle
The cars. moreover, were starting:
they tried in vain to get them stop
| ped and were forced to desist. The
conductor quietly extended all the
protection, AS 1 think, he thought
safe for him to do. Arriving at
| Charleston he procured me an officer,
who conducted me to the guardhouse.
1t was not safe, the chief Of police
told me, to go aboard until the boat
was about to start. They congratu-
lated me on my narrow escape.
Next day the officer attended me to
the boat.
Here ends the story.
Northern Papers Misrpercsented.
Il m add 10 he n1S
cession excitement there have been
several cases of well-poisoning and
slave-arming. But extreme abolition
lists are not the only ones who have
famed the excitement. The editors
of those journals Of the North who
have misrepresented the desir- of
the Republican party have done quite
as much, 1 think, to produce the re-
suit. Mad mischief makers. Even
the personelle of the Republican
candidates has been misrepresented
Why. in South Carolina they really
believe that Senator Hamlin. vice
president elect, is mulatto man.
If / have not left the impression,
/ wish to state that / have the best
reasons for saying that my return is
owing to no imprudence on my
part. could not change any act
done or recall any sentence uttered
before the two vigilance committees
L say this for two reasons. %, in
justice to myself! (2), to show that
no Northern man with Northern
principles, however prudent and
well-intentioned, is wanted in South
Carolina today. l was told that many
times.
But I may also sans peur." 1t
would be only a grateful acknowl-
edgement to the Power who kept me
I'm perfect peace. according to His
promise, to say that the fear of man
did not once cross my mind while I
was on Carolina soil. In that not
only menacins but dangerous journey
on the cars, many pictures of peace
were in my mind. An incident Of
the Russian campaign came back to
me. / remembered that 1 had heard
how, on that memorable march, Ma
poleon was told that the road which
his army must pass was lined on
both sides with the most deadly ar
/ tillery; how his soldiers, hearing
this, crowded in a circle about him,
ten. twenty, thirty deep; how the
band struck up the peaceful tune,
Calm in the bosom Of his family"
and he was borne safe through that
deadly pass. This was a mirror of
tho peace which reigned in nv
| mind.