The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-07

Oll O1 oON O1ll1Jll 1 fools' The column precipitately dis- solved, some in run.
 | The editor was put under military ar rest and tried before military court at Montgomery. Sentence was not yet passed when he was thrown into miserable. l filthy calaboose at Selma. GeneraS liar dee, well known in the old army, and | universally beloved, sought his release from General Shepherd, successfully. | When the released prisoner reached with | in several miles of Tuscaloosa on his re- turn he was met by a delegation of young | lauies, who brought wreaths of flowers | to hang around the necks of the horses that drew his coach. A grand open air
 public dinner was ready and the popula-
 ton, white and black, ved with each other in demonstrations of joy. | The activity of the Seymour and Blair
 campaign in the south confused the lead CTS of the revolution in Congress and | filled them with engagement Former | Governor Vance of North Carolina made
 speech in Richmond He said what the
 Confederacy had stood for would be vim
 dcated in the election of the democratic
 President and vice president. Gen. Henry
 A. Wise said Seymour would overthrow | the reconstruction governments of the
 south. Percy Walker of Mobile denounced
 General Grant as "a donkey" Cheers
 for Davis and Lee now mingle with shouts
 for Seymour and Blair through all the
 southern states" declared northern sen- | ator.
 Senator Sumner from his seat speaking | to his own bill for negro suffrage and
 race equality in the south, said:
 But the freedman. forbearing and slow l to anger, will not submit always He will resist. The tragedy of St. Domingo will be renewed on a wider theatre and with
 bloodier incidents. Be warned I entreat you by their historic example. If was a denial of rights to freedmen, after sue
 cessive promises. that caused that fearful insurrection." The senator spoke sev | era hours.
 There was constant and deep distrust
 between the carpetbagger and the scala
 wag. Senator Spencer was an intimate of
 General Grants. The scalawag feared
 Grant. The carpetbagger had more of
 the ear of the negro and in the pending
 campaign was active in attempts to con
 tinue the military rule on which he fat tened. He was sheriff only to garner
 spells and go away with them. He was | probate judge for like purposes. l At Greenville S. S. Gardner of Massa ! chusetts was commander of the Freed
 mans bureau and also probate judge. A young white man of the vicinity entered | the office of the probate judge and made
 an assault upon him. John A. Hart, ! CarpetDaSSer, representative or Butter m the legislature, was an accidental specta tor of the scene. As the combat ragged. | MT. Hart sprang bareheaded through the window, yelling at the pitch of his voice: 1 Rally. my colored friends, rally to the help of your judge. He is about to be
 murdered by rebel"
 1 Gardner and Hart, bent on revenge, went out among the negroes and fixed
 upon rendezvous where they should [ a SSpD1ble and then proc1lrpd arms | At nightfall the procession moved, led l by the two carpetbaggers. into the town, | shouting, Kill the d-a rebelsn' News 1 of the scheme had gone before and white men. armed were stationed at the court
 house. The riotous negroes, lodging be- 1 hind corners, opened fire. The whites
 rushed out from cover and fred One white and two negores were wounded. l (Greenyille letter in Montgomery Adyer- ! tiser, October 19, 1S6S).
 | On August 31 a burley negro stood on tho street of Selma for an hour cursing lead I ing Seymour and Blair orators by name | tSelma Times and Messenger, Septem- ! Der D.
 Two days before the election Senator Willard Warner of Ohio, Alabama carpet bagger, sent this telegram to Greely's New i York Tribune:
 | "A Grant and Colfax meeting was brok- | en up at Eutaw on October 23, and was | mob, headed by an ex-sheriff and Colonel l Jolly. At Tuscaloosa a Grant and Col l fax meeting was dispersed by mob led I by Ryland Randolph. They drove State | Senator Charles Hays from the stand. 1 Hays is a Confederate veteran, native of | Alabama, owns 12,000 acres of the best 1 land in the state. we appeal to the re- publicans to elect Grant and Colfax'' 1 It was the memorable October 23 that Senator Warner Hays and C. w. Pierce of Massachusetts and New York came to Eutaw to instruct many hundreds of ne groes from the plantations. As part of the system in vogue. white man parson. Hill. of the Loyal league. kept a negro school nearby. He had been a violent secessionist Hill was charged with steal ing wood from a gentlemans back yard. The whites had been so consistently out ragged by politicians that excitement ran 1 high. Several young men whipped Hill, put him astride a fence rail and deliv- cred him outside of town.
 Some of the earnest and courageous young men were transported by the mili- tary to Dry TOrtugas. The wife and one of the daughters of General Hardee head- ed a petition of the ladies of Selma to Gen. eral Meade to release the prisoners from their terrible lot. One of these victims subsequently, became sheriff of Greene county and another probate fudge. The meeting at Eutaw assembled as appointed on October 23 Coloned J. J. Jolly of the F'orty-third Alabama infan- try, army northern Virginia, was now a lawyer of high standing at Eutaw. Jolly saw Senator Warner and he agreed not to speak Hays was intractable. He mounted the stand and spoke in the ex- cited and infiammatory tone that was al- ready agreed upon
 A pistol shot rang out from the border of the crowd. The frightened cotton field negroes broke in widest stampede. hiding
 themselves everywhere and running at