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A SPECIMEN BRICKFrom the “Reconstruction” Building in Mississippi.(Correspondence to the Daily Progress.)Probably about 70 or 75 years ago there lived in Covington county, Mies., two or three young men whom we will call D’a. In the same neigbboibood li»ed a man whom we will call B. By tome means a feud arose between B and the D’a.. who became satisfied that, as B. was a dangerous man, and that unless something was done they would either have to kill B. or he would kill them. Not wishing to kill or be killed they, by Borne means, caught B. and overpowering him pat his eyes out; so he was blind till his death, many years afterward. I saw him several timesbefore the war came on in 1861. Whenthe war closed an agent of the infamous Freedman's Bureau was sent to the county seat of Covington county by the name of A. D. Rhonimus, who was as unscrupulous a liar as that infamous bureau ever sent anywhere. By some means tliii Rhonimus heard the story of the blinding of B. and published a big story about it asserting that it was a recent occurrence, and that B.’s eyes were put out because he was a union man and embellishing the story with many features of cruelty of his own invention. He published bis lies in apaper published in Ohio and took care to place his cowardly carcass in that hot bed of hate before his slanders could be known in Mississippi.The above is a fair specimen of the grist sent ont by the Freedinen's Bureau outrage mill to “fire the northern heart,” and just such lies have their ioflaeuce there yet. N. L. Robertson
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Hattiesburg Daily Progress
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Wed, Sep 17, 1902
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