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On account of rumors, that the colored men would be attacked. This was at Dublin, Pulaski County - nine miles from Central Depot. I never said that the colored people were armed with Government Arms, and that they intended soon to rise against the white race, and that there object was extermination. I simply said what I heard was printed in the papers about it, and which was told to me by Arche Walthall. I only know of two colored men having Arms - one has a small pocket pistol, the other an old Pistol. I only told Mr Wilson what I heard Arche say about the arming of the negroes, and that there would be serious times if that was the case. 

Arche Walthall. Sworn. I told Samuel Ford, what Mr. A. S. Wilson said to me about the arming of the Negroes. Mr. Wilson told me, that the niggers were rising in Campbell and Bedford counties to kill all the white folks. I asked him what for? He said he did'nt know what for - I afterward told it to Sam Ford & others

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