The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04
but set the ball in motion when uni
versal ins~urrection would follow. a

fanatic is ever blind to ~ifficulues
| Our people Of the South today
would do we'll to study the course or
Virginia in her care for human ire.
She gave a fair trial TO the slaves me
free negroes were turned over 10 the
regular courts like white men. There
was no mob nor lynch law Tor slaves
or free negroes. They were not snot
| down unfortunately for any cause.
1t is TO Virginia's glory that botn MAJ
Turner and John Brown were gwen
! fair legal trials. Turner was not able
pointed a respectable lawyer To defend
him. At Turner's dictatlon he wrote
the following:
..Sipce the year 1880 had been liv-
ing with Mr.. Joseph Travis, Mho was
TO me a kind master. and placed the
reatest confidence in me. In fact, !
had no reason 10 complain of his treat
ment to me. on Saturday evening
the goth of August, it was agreed be-
tween Henry, Hark n myself 10 pre-
pare a dinner the next day for the
men We expected, and to oncert a
plan. as we had not yet determined on
any IIark on the following morning
brought a pig, and Henry, brandy;
and being joined by sam, Nelson, viii,
n Jack, they prepared in the woods
a dinner. where. about 3 o'clock, ]
joined Them
Q. Why were you 50 backward in
joining them"
A.. THE same reason that had
caused me not to mix with them years
before. l saluted them on coming up,
asked Win how he came there; he
answered his life was worth no more
than others, and his liberty was as
dear to him. / asked him if he thought
TO obtain it. He said he would or lose
his life. This was enough to put him
in full confidence. Jack. / knew, was
a tool in the hands of Hank. 1t was
quickly agreed We should commence
at home tMr. TraviS's) on that night,
and until We had armed and equipped
ourselves. and gathered sufficient
force, neither age nor sex was to be
spared (Which was invariably adhered
to-. We remained at the feast until
about two hOurs in the night, when
we went to the house and found
Austin; they all went 10 the cider press
and drank, except myself. On return
ing to the house, Hark ven to the
door with an axe, for the purpose OF
breaking it open. We knew We were
, strong enough to murder the family
if they were awakened by the noise
but rejecting hat it might create AT
alarm III the n~eighborhOod, we deter
mined to enter the hOuse secretly and
murder them while sleeping. Hark
got 9 ladder II set it up against the
chimney, on which I assembled, an(
BOOSTING Il window, entered. and came
down stairs. unharred the door an(
removed the guns from their places
! II was then observed that | must spill
the first blood. on which,, armed
with 4 Ratchet and accompanied b,
l Will, / entered my masters chamber
it being dark, l could not give a death
blow. My Ratchet glanced from hi
5 head, he sprang II" from bed ant
called his wife-it was his last word
Will laid him dead with q blow O
$ his axe; and Mrs. Travis shared tn,
same fate as she lay in bed. TIL
S murder of this family, five in number
was the work of a moment: not on
| of them awoke; there was a little in
S FAINT sleeping in. the cradle that wa
forgotten until we had left the hous
0 and gone some distance. when Henri
and Will returned and killed It: W
I got here four guns that would shoe
q and several old muskets with a poun
q or two of powder. We remained som
K time at the barn, where We parade(
| formed them in line as soldiers. an
x after carrying them through all tn
y maneuvers ] was master Of, marche
them off to Mr.. Salathiel Francis!
about six hundred yards distant. Sar
and Will went to the door and knock
ed. Mr.. Francis asked who was ther,
Sam replied that it was him, and b
had a letter for him, on which h
-e got uD and came to the door. The
= Immediately seized him, and draggin
him out a little from the door, h
was dispatched by repeated blows O
Is the head; there was no other viii
n person in the family. We started fro
l. there TO Mrs. ReeSe's, maintaining tt
m most perfect silence on the marc
re where, finding the doOr unlocked, "
r entered and murdered Mrs. Reese
VS. her he'd while sleeping. Her sc
IN awoke, but it vas only to sleep II
Il sleep of death. He had only time
e. saw Who is that and he was no NOR
e. From Mrs. Reese'S We went to MI
Turner'S, a mile distant, which Y
10 reached about sunrise on Mond;
1t. morning. Henry, Austin, and Sa
r went to h stable, where, finding NJ
ne PEBBLES, Austin shot him, and the re
- OF US went to the house: as we a
to preached the family discovered i
lie and shut the dOOr. Vain hope, W