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vanning from every house, with any weapon lt;they could lay hands upon, while crowds ofl * terrified women and children filled the more retired streets, regardless of personal safety, I in their anxiety tor fathers, sons and brothers-1 When it was ascertained that Judge Bram-lotto’s murderer had escaped by swinging him- Co self from the verandah of the court room, the I ^* ’ j excitement grew more intense. Armed men i-lt; 1 began to pour in from tho surrounding heigh- pj borhood, and I wish Governor Alcorn, and I plt; 3 every other Radical in power, could have seen I 81* tho majesty of the people assort itself. They I* would have realized that the spirit that for FI ' 1 four years had resisted wrong, still breathed j I and burned, and would nover submit, save in I clt; r 1 death, to the domination of an fnfcrior race. I ^ 0 Forming themselves Into a company, they fol- j lt;v ** lowed Warren up Rhodes street, and finding {J:tr that he bad taken refuge in the now engine I Lit house, threatened to tear the building down, J £« if in their rage. Ho was at length found underto | a bed in one of the npper rooms, and riddled I»t with balls. The infuriated crowd then rushed I ^ tc back to the court bouse, and finding that Bi.l sr Clopton was still alivo, seized him and pitched 3 ■y him from tho verandah upon the pavement I jo beneath. In spite of bis wounds and terrible I rc fall, his pnlts was still strong at dark; daring c the night, h rwever, bis throat was cut from 1 ty ear to ear, the negroes say, by himself; for the I of honor of humanity wo will hope that this was ig truo '
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Athens Southern Watchman
Athens, Georgia, US
Wed, Mar 22, 1871
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