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VOL. XLI. LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY JUNE 28, 1911 ?4
. GLOBE BRY GOOBS COHPARY, .
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"Freeman" Declares There Is lore
or Less Organized Band, Which
Udidertakes to Secure/
Order bv Unlawful
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To the Editor of The State:
The well informed and observant
citizen who has kept abreast of the inM
ner workings of the old "Dutch Fork"
-of Lexington county during the last
* decade, knows that it is not a lawless
community per se. As a matter of
fact, the opposite is really the case,
with the exception of a small minority,
to be dwelt upon, later on, in this
article. The pity is that a few people
can give a county an unsavory odor.
. M order, among the whites, is rare.
This section is composed almost exclusively
of Germans, in origin, whose
blood flows rather sluggishly and who
are normally not of a bellicose or
treacherous disposition. During Revftlnf.mnnrp
f?ara trhftn whitAA afl a
rule were fired by the spirit of freedom,
which winced under British oppression,
these people generally were
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apathetic and averse to war., They
enjoyed no voice in the government
under which they lived. They knew
, little of the, merits of the controversy
between the colonies and the mother
country. They had received their
grants of land from the king, and they
aid no', care to have them taken away
by a war which little concerned them.
In short, thev did not care to fight un
less there was a good reason .for it
from their own viewpoint. x?rom that
day to this the vast majority have
been industrious, economical and
peaceful. There are no large and
wealthy planters among them, but
many are well-to-do, and most of them
are independent.
There is an element which does its
own work exclusively, and which either
cannot secure negro labor or will
not have it. There is an old tradition
that the negroes view this cliss as
"poor bucra," and between the two
tin re is a marked and distinct line of
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uicava^c auu wiioiuciauiu Huiwugi^,
From this cause haye sprung most of
the fatalities which have stained the
name of the good old Dutch Fork.
The white man is supreme, and the
negro must liye, like Oae ?ar's wife,
above suspicion, or take the consequences.
As is usual, when the oyercheck
|s slackened upon the neck of
the angry mob, its depredations become
more aggressive and heinous until
it ramifies in directions, which, at
first were never dreamed of.
Enough has been whispered around,
for a number of years, to convince any
reasonable man that a more or less
well defined gang of "white-caps have 1
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assumed the responsibility of administering
law upon the helpless as they
see fit. A few unnamed bat thoroughly
reliable cases in point may be cited
by way of historical illustrations.
Some years ago, on a cold winter
night in November or December, an
old negro, near Bear Creek in the upper
portion of the Butch Fork, bad
partaken of his usual sapper of a flitch
of bacon and a corn hoe-cake, when he
and his family retired to thpir humble
beds for a shODOSedlv restful slumber.
Toward midnight, with little or no
warning, the "regulators" broke down
bis door and invaded his home. Even
the wicked old Fagin, in "Oliver
Twist," with murder in his heart, recoiled.
as he looked apon the innocent
babes and their sleeping mother, and
whispered to himself, "Not tonight."
Bat these "white-caps" had no such
"compunctious visi tings." A little
pile of cotton was quickly saturated
with kerosense and set on fire. As the
flames lit up the cabin room the old
man was brutally shot to death like a
dog, while the rest of the family barely
escaped with their lives.
Thi motive for the cowardly assasinatiou
was never definitely known, but
the one usually assigned was that the <
negro had, on a quasi public occasion
expatiated on the perverted rights of
his race and that he intended to stand
up for his.
The next case was that of a highly ,
respected farmer of the lower Dutch \
Fork, who had chided a young negro
of rather impudent proclivities, about
hunting on his land contrary to order.
They parted, when the negro, at a
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bake adminicle red kirn, sent a roc
whizzing into the back of the farmer'
brain, from which he soon died. Th
white people this time turned ont e:
muie and hnnted the culprit witn th
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j never been heard of since?and neve
will.
J The next in point of time had ever
' appearance of being carefully plannei
" and fearfully executed. It was one o
ithe mo9t dastardly, for boldness an<
dare devilry, perhaps, in the crimina
annals of the state.
[ The victim lived on the sontherr
shore of the Saluda river, but enough
leaked out, in the due course of time
to make it prac:ically sure that his
death was hatched up and perpetrated
by Dutch Forkers. The man markec
for slaughter was not a saint by any
means, and those who crossed his way
soon realized tnat he was not a man tc
take liberties with. If reports are
irue, two attempts to murder Dim
were made before he finally bit the
dust. He rana little water mill near
hi9 house, and on the fatal day he was
there at his usual chores. A colored
woman, passing from the house to the
mill with Jii9 dinner, heard the rustling
of leaves in a thick undergrowth ne t
her path, and she espied two white
men, with rifles. She hurried to the
mill and reported to her employer.
Game to the core, he immediately
shut down and proceeded to investigate.
As he climbed the hill nearbv
he fell dead with his breast full of shot
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k rojnd their firesides, daring the long ;
b winter nights, the daring nonchalance
e with which that monstrous deed was
q perpetrated in broad daylight. The
e theory generally accepted is that three
a white men from the Dntch Fork side
y of the river rowed their little skiff
s across the stream and booked it in a
r thick underbrush on the opposite side.
Rumor has always contended that the
y men who were seeking to imbrue their
3 hands in the gore of their fellowman
f carried no chalice or sense of wrong in
3 their hearts, but were executing their
1 part of a pact for a few paltry, dirty
little Bheekels. Horrible as was the
i bloody deed, nothing was ever done,
i nor any concerted or determined effort
, made to unravel the mystery,
j The latest chapter in this dark and
I dismal book was recently written and
I is still fresh in the memories of readers
' of The State. Several barn9 had been
' burned in quick succession and sus>
picion fell upcwi a negro in the neigh5
borhood. The mob visited his house
i in the dead of night and asked him to
s come tortb. His wife advised him ro
shoot for his life, and the result was
i that the leader of the mob?who happened
to be a substantial and promi>
nent citizen of the neighborhood?was
: sent to meet his God, in the twinkling
of an eye, and widow in weeds left bei
hind, to weep oyer his fate.
i It would seem that the old Dutch
Fork has paid her full price, and cries
ior a surcease 01 sorrow, wmcn nave
hung, from time to time, like a funeral
pall over her fair dominions. It is
a consummation devoutly to be wished
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for that this last catastrophe will open
the eyes of the public to the stern truth
that mob law is a relic of barbarism
and is bound to end in drinking the
cop of gall and bitterness to its very
dregs. The courts and the law, poor
as they are, must be respected. They
will prove effective if backed by a
strong and healthy public sentiment.
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xue aMMjuuuiug unu uiscouraging
feature of the above cases was the apparent
indifference and pitiable weakness
of the officers of the law, whose
sworn duty it was to ferret out these
ciimes, and if possible Turing the guilt/
to the bar of justice.
Let us hope that the sad death of an
otherwise useful citizen shall stand is
a warning to the mob, that its vei geance
must come to grief, unless the
very fabric of government and civfized
society fall about our ear9 in hope
less chaos.
Freeman.
Scholarship Examinations
The echolarshiD examination for
Winthrop college will be hold at the
court house on July 7, 1911, and the
examinations for the University of
South Carolina and Clemson college
will be held at the court hou3o on
July 14, 1911. All applicants will
please be present at 9 o'clock a. m.
I desire to say also that the College of
Charleston offers a scholarship worth
fifty dollars to any competent and
worthy young man. This examination
will be h Id when the others are
held. A. D. MARTIN, C. S E.
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