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Circumstances have no motive to deceive, while human testimony is too often the product of every kind of motive. The history of this case is extremely simple. The accused, Walter Horsford, aged thirty-six, was a farmer of Spaldwick. The person murdered, Annie Holmes, was a widow whose age was thirty-eight years. She had resided for several months at St.
Your friend in conversation, when discoursing of his experiences in foreign countries, remarked that the French household troops were to his mind brought to a higher state of discipline than any of our own regiments, on which Horsford fired up, and after a hot word or two they found themselves, as you have seen, at drawn bilbo.
The writings of the late Professor E. N. Horsford are well known, but his opinions are not yet generally accepted by students. De Costa under the title "The Lost City of New England." Lawrence, which was travelled by the Maine Indians." Some geographers supposed it to extend as far as Florida.
He has elected to go with niggers, nigger teachers, and nigger preachers; but let him forever be an outcast among the respectable and high minded white people of Horsford, whom he has betrayed and disgraced!"
The people of Horsford county had borne a great deal from negro-domination. New men had come into office by means of colored votes, and the old set to whom office had become a sort of perquisite were deprived thereby of this inherited right.
It was rumored, too, that Hesden had brought into the county several detectives, who had stolen into the hearts of the unsuspecting people of Horsford, and had gone Northward loaded down with information that would make trouble for some of the "best men."
So the battle was joined, and the conflict waged hot and fierce. That negroes no matter how numerous they might be should rule, should bear sway and control in the county of Horsford, was a thought not by any means to be endured. It was a blow on every white cheek an insult to every Caucasian heart. Men cursed wildly when they thought of it. Women taunted them with cowardice for permitting it.
She just tells right out about her having taught a nigger school down in Horsford, and nobody seems to think a word on't. In fact, I b'lieve they rather like her better for it. "I heard about her soon after she came here, but, to tell the truth, I thought I was a little better than a 'nigger-teacher, if I was in Kansas.
The most generally-accepted theory was that he had gone to Washington for the purpose of maliciously misrepresenting and maligning the good people of Horsford, in order to secure the stationing of soldiers in that vicinity, and their aid in arresting and bringing to trial, for various offences against the peace and persons of the colored people, some of the leading citizens of the county.
His card was English prose of a most vigorous type, interspersed with so much of illiterate profanity as to satisfy any good citizen that the best people of Horsford were quite right in regarding him as a most desperate and dangerous man one of those whose influence upon the colored people was to array them against the whites, and unless promptly put down, bring about a war of races which the white people were determined never to have in Horsford, if they had to kill every Radical in the county in order to live in peace with their former slaves, whom they had always nourished with paternal affection and still regarded with a most tender care.
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