The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-04

til We approached within nftr
when they fired and retreat.d
pursued n overlook some a. -
whom We thought we left dead I'm
were not killed. After pursuinr -
about two hundred yards, l dis
they were met by another par ari
had halted and were reloadlne
guns. tThis was a small part
Jerusalem. who knew the
were in the field. and had igs. ~,
their horses to await their ret,
the road, knowing that MI -
and family were in Jerusalem .
knew nothing OF the party TIA. -
gone on with Captain Peete. on S.
ing the firing they Immediately r.e.t
to the pot and arrived Just n
to arrest the progress OF theS. t.
barOus and save the lives
their friends and fellow cff.r..e,
Thinking that those who ret-e
first and the party who fired tr
at fifty or sixty yards distant h.a .n
only fallen back to the Others wfb
ammunition. and saw them reloas,r.
their guns, n more coming mp tA.3
I saw at first. and several q. IT,.
bravest men being wounded. IN tA.
ers became panic-struck and Wandered
over the field; the white men r.reg.5
and fired on us several times HatL
had his horse shot under him. sr8
caught another for him as il VS. -.r.
ming by me; five or six Of the men
| were wounded. but none left 10 tn,
field. Finding myself defeated trs
time, I instantly determined IL sa
through on q private way ana era>s
the Notoway at the cypress Brl8a.
three miles below Jerusalem. ana RE
tack the place in the rear. as .N-
pected they would look for ms ou tae
road. and had a great desire Ia q,
there to procure ammunition"
DIR. Stephen b. Weeks thines tr:
Turner was captured early in NoVen-
Der and that he was hanged ata4:
the end of that month. The writer
has not had access to the detailed h.s-
tory OF Turner's career, which IS Writ.
ten by w. S. DreWry, of Virginia. Ir.
Weeks thinks that is the best studs e.
the subject. He goes into detail ana
has made a book of about 500 pa-es
published some ten years ago. T. =
not SO much the fact of this small
race war in an obscure section which
is Of interest To US of today as tn oon-
sequences which ensued and Wnea
exist yet in our civic life.
The debate in the Virginia L.egl>-
lature which followed the insGrreeuon
was one of the greatest ever held
in our country. The late Honorable,
Daniel II. Goodloe compiled this Ge-
bate for publication because 81 its
bearing upon slavery. There it is seen
that the most enlightened men OF Viz
gillia were convinced by this event
that their State ought not TO tolerate
the evil Of slavery. Some of me
severeSt denunciatiOns Of the SYSTEM
that have ever been uttered ~ers
spoken in that Legislature III Ian
uary, 1892. The Richmond Enquirer.
The Richmond Wing and papers n
Norfolk n in Charlottesville We're
bold in their advocacy of emanclpa-
ton. One legislator. MIR. Moor. q,
Rockbridge county, said: Il think that
slavery as it exists among Us may 10
regarded as the heaviest calamity that
has ever befallen any portion of TN.
human race mis- opinion was held
very largely in North Carolina and
there can be little doubt that but for
the fanaticism of this one negro, son'
form OF Characterization would have been
effected by our state and by her neigh
Dor in the North. 1t is not too much
to believe hat all the border States
) would have beer converted into tT"e
SOIL, and that the commonwealth -
the south of us would hay found 2
less expensive method of using Inc
black man in their cotton fields. There
would have been no war between "a
+, States. But this is one OF the might
have-beens." Seeing the ~OSSibIItte'
Of further riOting among the negroes.
mems minds swung to the other end
OF the arc and more stringent laws
1 against the slaves were enacted II
:. North Carolina.
1t was forbidden to teach the h.t.s
!. man to read n write. Free negr"e+
/, Of education were forbidden To teaah
;, or TO preach. one notable Illustrator
OF the cruelty of this law is seen lI
y the case Of John Chavis, a full-bloodee
! negro. who, for many years. both W.
\ Virginia and in North Carolina. We
, Presbyterian minister .iNt
D a teacher Of white youth. Ills e"rE
: Ices We're gladly obtained by the gen
! trV TOR the educational ~advancemeh
. OF tnelT sons. Several of our leader
I OF hough had been pupils Of tn
, oid scholar in black who knew boil
, I~alin and Greek. Being ~diSqlalhet
Ior further teaching. ne was throw
! upon the mercy Of his white fritnd-
u ne orange P~resbytery of which r
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