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? Colleton Case of 1853. How Negro Murder was Dealt With Then. Yates Snowden in N. Y. Evening Post. CHARLESTON, Feb. 13.-The recent lynching in Colleton county has pro? voked the indignant comment of the press of the United States and almost every newspaper in Sooth Carolina. It will be remembered that Isham Kearse. a negro of bad reputation, his wife and mother were dragged from their home one night last December, and beaten by a party of white men, one of whom was a physician. Kearse was found dead the next morning io the place where they had left him ; his mother was found dead, from fright or exposure, io a small pool a few yards farther OD, aod his wife barely escaped with ber life. The crime was commit? ted near Broxton's Bridge, a section of Colleton county where negroes largely outnumber the whites, and where rob bery and arsoo had been very common and the guilty persons had beeo un pun-1 ished for a year or more. Kearse was I suspected of having been implicated io j several incendiarisms, but the offenses for which he was beaten to death were j attempt at rape and the alleged theft of a Bible from a Baptist church in the neighborhood. The eight lynchers, seven white men aod one negro mao, are now in jail. Governor Evans ordered State Detec? tive Newbold to work up the c?.s?, and he has gathered a great deal of testi mooy going to prove ''a horrible mur? der. *' and "bas every assurance of a conviction." The white men charged with the crime are Dr. W. B. Acker? man, Frank Jenney, Frank Brand, Wyman Kearse, Jake Folk, Frank Stanley and Press Hiers. They have secured the services of Coi. Robert Aldrich of Barnwell, and four members of the Colleton bar to represoot them. Solicitor Bel?Dger will probably be as? sisted by Attorney General Barber in the prosecution nest week. The "Broxton Bridge horror." as the newspapers call it,recalls what was per? haps the most celebrated murder ?rial in the ante-bellum history of South Caro? lina. Colleton couoty was the scene of the crime, a n&gro was the victim, and his two white murderers wer? hanged The men were tried, convicted and exe? cuted at a time when, according to all our northern friends, the negro was re? garded as **a chattel," though no less eminent an authority than Jefferson Davis denied that the use of that term was correct. A brief story of the crime and its expiation wiil be of inte? rest. THE MOTLEY-BLACKLED GE HORROR Oo July 5, 1853, Thomas Motley aod William Blackledge, two white men, caught and killed an unknown runaway negro, a stranger who doubt? less obtained his living by petty thiev? ing from the very men who convicted his murderers. The negro was caught io a swamp with the assistance of a pack of bloodhounds. He was subject? ed for a night and part of tbe succeeding day to torture of so terrible and shameful a nature that it cannot be put in print, and was eventually throt? tled and killed by the ferocious dogs sect on by their masters. The story of the crime leaked out and the people of Colleton pushed the arrest and pro? secution of the murderers. Motley, one of the accused, was the son of a rich farmer, and money was freely ex? pended for his defense by the ablest counsel ; his compaoion, Blackledge, was one of the poorest class of back? woodsmen. They were tried, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The solicitor who prosecuted the case was M. L. Bonham, afterward a bri? gadier general io the Confederate army aod one of the war governors of South Carolina. The foreman of the jory was Isaac Marioo Dwight, a grand nephew of Francis Marioo and a man of in? trepid spirit and exalted character. Mr. Dwight aod several of the jurymen were representative men aod large slave-holders. The Supreme Court on appeal sustained the verdict, Judge John Belton O'Xeall, before whom the case was tried, "charged the jury that they might find that it was done io sudden beat and passion, and thus mitigate the offense, but a jury of Colleton couo? ty found them guilty of murder, nev? ertheless." Judge O'Neall, io passing sentence of death on the two men, said, io ter alia : .'It may be profitable to you to recall the horrid deeds which you, jointly and severally, committed at the death of the poor, begging, unoffending slave. I will not repeat the digusting details of! the outrages committed ; the public are already fully informed and your own j hearts, in every pulsation, repeat them | to you. I may be permitted, however, j to say to you, and to the people around : you, and to the world, that hitherto : South Carolina bas never witnessed such atrocities ; indeed, they exceed j all that we are told of savage barbarity, j For the Indian, the moment his cap tive ceases to be a true warrior (in the ; sense in which he understand it) and ! pleads for mercy, no longer extends his suffering-death, speedy death, fol- ' lows But you, for a night and part or the succeeding day, rioted in the sufferings and terror of the poor negro, ; and at length your ferocious dogs, set ' on by you, throttled and killed him as they would a wild beast Can't you j hear his awful death cry, 'Oh, Lord ?' I If you cannot hear it the Lord of Hosts j heard and answered it. He demanded theo and now from you thc fearful ac- j cour.t of blood I "You have met with the fearful co sequences of the infamous business which you were eDgaged-huotit runaways with dogs equally fierce at ferocious ad the Spanish bloodhound With ooo of you (Motley) there cou have been no excuse. Your fathe young man, is a mao of wealth, reapc and gathered together by a life of to aod privation ; that the son of eui j a man sbouid be found more than 1 hundred miles from home, following j pack of dogs, in the chase of a oegi I slave, through the swamps of the lowe I couutry, under a summer's sun, show I either a love of cruelty or of mone which is not easily satisfied To th other prisoner, Biackledge, it may t that poverty and former dovotion totbi sad business might have presented som excuses BOTH CONVICTED AND HANGED. The trial excited the most intens interest throughout the State, an especially in Colleton and other grea slave-holding counties on the coast. 1 was not until 1821 that the death peo alfy had been imposed in South Carolio for the murder of a negro by a whit man, and never before this had tw white men been condemned for killie-, one negro. The well-paid lawyers c Motley made every effort in his behal known to the law, and petitions wer sent to Governor J. L Manoing pray iog executive clemency, hut al to no avail. The ioflueoce of Mot ley's money and the disapproval bj many slaveholders of the execution o two whites for killing one black, madi the authorities fear an atttempt at ? rescue of the prisoners, and a battalior of State militia, iooluding the Wash ingtco Light Infantry and Washingtot Artillery of Charleston, commanded bj Maj A. M. Manigault, guarded tb< jail and surounded the scaffold wher the prisoners were oxecuted. The ston of the case can be founc] io Seventl Richardson, South Carolina Reports page 327. It is to be hoped thal th( people of Colleton of to-day will he ai persistent in repressing lawlessness as were their progenitors in 1853. JUDGE WILD'S SENTENCE ON SLATER. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's key tc "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contains the sen? tence of Judge Samuel Wiids on a white man, Slater, convicted of murder of bis own slave io Charleston in 1807. There is no sessions docket or jour? nal among the court records ol Charleston extant until 1833, and it ie owing to Mrs Stowe's pertinacity and assiduity that the very notable sentence was unearthed and given to the public. Perhaps the Grimke sisters, two very violent anti slavery agitators in Charles? ton, furnished her with it. Slater was not condemned to death, as the pun? ishment under the act of 1740, under whieh be was convicted and sentenced, was a fine of ?100 currency, equal to ?100 sterling and incapacity to enjoy or receive the profits of any office, place or employment, civil or military, and if unable to pay this fine, then imprison? ment for seven years It was the act of 1821. under which Motley and Blackledge were hanged, which changed this trifling punishment to the death penalty. Judge Wild's sentence makes in teiesting reading to the student of negro slavery in South Carolina. It reads, in part, as follows : "John Slater, you have been con? victed by a jury of your country of the wilful murder of your own slave ; and I am sorry to say the short, impressive, un contradicted testimony on which that conviction was founded leaves but little room to doubt tts propriety. The annals of human depravity may be safely challenged for a parallel to this uofceling, bloody and diabolical trans? action. You caused your unoffending, un? resisting siave to be bound hand and foot, and by a refinement of cruelty compelled his companion, perhaps the friend of his heart, to chop his head with an axe and to cast bis body, yet convlusing with the agonies of death, into the water. And this deed you dared to perpetrate in the very harbor of Charleston, within a few yards of the shore, unblushingly, in the race of open day. Had your murderous arm been raised against your equals whom the laws of self-defense and the more efficacious laws of the land unite to pro? tect, your crime would Bot have been without precedent and would have seemed less hor? rid. Your personal risk would at least have proved that though a murderer ? you were not a coward. But you too well knew that this unfortunate man, whom chance had subjected to your caprices, had not, like yourself, char- i tercd to him by the laws of the land the same rights of nature ; and that a stern but necessary policy had disarmed him of the rights of self-defense. Too well you knew that to you alone he ; could look for protection, and that your i arm alone could shield hita from op pression or avenge his wrongs ; yet that ! arm you cruelly stretched out for his ' destruction. * * * "From the peculiar situation of this cc otry our fathers felt themselves jus- ; tified in subjecting to a very slight punishment bim who murders a slave. Whether the present state of society , requires a continuation of this policy, j so opposite to the apparent rights of humanity, it remains for a subsequent legislature to decide. Their attention would ere this have been directed to this subject but for the honor of human ! nature, such hardened sinners as your? self are rarely found to disturb the re? pose of society.'' It was this same Judge Wilds who, to disabuse the public mind of the opin? ion that a husband may chastise his wife provided the weapon be not thicker than bis little finger, proclaimed the law of South Carolina on this subject i? the following graceful extract from "The Honeymoon :" "The man that lays his band upon a woman. Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch, Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward." ---- A Tale of two Farmers. One Raised Corn and Grew Rich ; the Other Stuck to Cotton and had to Sell Out. To the Editor of the News and Cou? rier : I hope I may not be considered intrusive, but you are trying so hatd to forward the interest of the people, that I do not think you will object to re? ceiving facts from responsible par? ties when on your lines. You may make any use you please of this letter. On Tuesday, tbe 4th of this mouth I was attending to some business in Mr Thorpe's store in Aiken. A farmer came in to whom I was intro? duced Hi? name is Mr. Silas Yance. Becoming interested in tbe conver? sation. I remarked I feared the farmers would be carried away with the present prices of cotton and would increase tlxir planting, and ruin them? selves. That, correctly informed, there was now an abundance of corn and baoon io the country and what cotton they bad sold was clear gain, lie then told me that in 1867 he had gone into the pine wood* with a wife and three children, and had one plough. He planted only corn and potatoes, raised a few hogs and chickens, and had a cow or two. There was a neighbor who ran 12 ploughs and raised nothing but cotton, and bought all of his provisions. That neighbor would go out and sit on the stump of a tree and watch him plouging and tell him that he would starve if he planted only cern. His answer would be, "You wiil see." He kept on planting corn and raising provisions. Soon be increased his force, planted more corn, raised more hogs and cattle, and after a while raised a little cotton, which was cleair gain, for he had nothing to buy but sugar, tea, coffee and flour. He made all else on his pine wood farm. Time went on ; his neighbor kept on planting only cotton and buying every? thing else, and in 12 years Mr. Yatjce brought him out, for he had totally failed. Mr Yance paid $2,500 cash and four years credit for the remaining $4,000, which be paid in time. He has bought other land. Has raised seven children-two sons are married and settled on their places, each son as well off as his father. He owes no man a dollar, has a well stocked farm, plently of provisions, and some few bales of cotton just for ready money, but be and hts 6ons from 1867 till now, never in? duced by high prices or distressed by low prices of cotton, have kept on this one policy of getting ai! the provisions out of the land that it can produce and raising all and more meat than bis family needed. It seems to me that this is an object lesson to men who go ic for cotton and neglected the other part. And it does seem to be suggestive to many a young man who bas nothing to do. and wastes his time looking for a $15 a month place, which a large number of other idle men are trying to get. If Mr. Silas Yance can go into the woods, n?t far from Aiken, a young mau, with a young wife and three children, driving only one plough, and with energy and economy and perseverance can do th is, raising as his staple hog and hominy, why can't hundreds of others do the same ? Mr. Yance was conteut to work hard and make a small surplus, but was always sure ?rst of having provisions for his family and eoough to feed his stock. If thia is of any use, use it. A TOOMER P?RTEl?. POSTAL INFORMATION. Hours of Opening and Closing the Mails. Mails for Colombia, points above Colom? bia, for the North, and West, Hamlet and Pregnals South of Sumter, Ramsey, Pine? wood, Rimini, Elloree, Vance, Eutawville and j Pregnal, close at 9.10 a. m. Mails for St. Paul and points between there I and Sumter opens and closes at 1.10 p. m. ! Mails for Florence and tbe North, for Charleston, Savannah. Florida, Hamlet, Beu- ! nettsville, Darlington and Bishouvillc-close at I 5 o'clock p.m. Mails for Columbia and the North and West, and for Wilmington, all close at 8 o'clock p. m. Charleston mail is also sent i by this route. For Providence and Smithville on Tues- ? days, Thursdays and Saturdays arrive at 12 tn , close at 2 p. m. 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