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Glasgo, took hold of Lewis Jones, and led him away from there. When Glasgo came back to get his demijohn of liquor he had left in the cellar, as he came out with it he said "If you kill Lewis Jones whom you say you will, you will have more to kill" or words to that effect. Then Madison Morgan, Wm McCarty and Hamilton Dudley all pitched into Glasgo, Dudley, in the meantime crying out for a knife or a pistol. Glasgo then got clear of the party and made his way for the main house. Hamilton Dudley followed him and with a drawn knife in his right hand, hastened to overtake Glasgo. When he got within 30 feet of the negro, I cried out to the negro to look-out for the knife. When the negro turned and saw the knife in Dudleys hand, he again wheeled and ran for the house. After this I turned around and looked toward the stable, and heard a white man named Frank Mullin exclaim "that the negro did not mean anything, but was only fooling." Then Madison Morgan, and Wm McCarty, took hold of Mullen and threatened him and told him "that he was no better than the negroes, that he was taking up for," or words to that effect. Mullen got away from them. By this time the whites and blacks began to congregate in considerable numbers, between the house and the aforesaid stable on the lawn. Then I saw a white man named Lewen Stewart, in the midst of the crowd, seemingly showing all the pluck, remarkable on the part of the whites. Morgan was also in the crowd, and also several other whites mixed up with the blacks. In the first there were rather more whites than blacks, but the blacks soon were in the ascendant, the whites
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