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After due preparations were made they passed their whisky around, of which they all drank so freely that in their carousings they got into a fight, and while drawing pistols at each other young Warsham, the acting captain, in whose charge I was left, cut the rope that bound my hands behind me, and told me to 'go. And gladly I obeyed the order and left them engaged in their fight and too drunk to notice my escape.
Captain Hardy, leading the band, took me into the woods to an old deserted house, in which was their general or chief commander, Warsham, who asked the following question: 'Will you stop preaching to your people that Christ died to make you all free, body, soul, and spirit? 'I can not stop preaching God's truth as I find it in the Bible, was my answer.
'Because I do not believe there are Democrats in heaven. Said their general, Warsham, 'We'll turn him loose with this brushing; may be he'll conclude to behave himself after this. Turning to me he said, 'Remember, this is but a light brushing compared with what you'll get next time; but well try you with this. I returned to my home with my back cut in many deep gashes, the scars of which I shall carry to my grave.
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