Show anell TENNESSEE I 1 description of the OR rage perpetrated b crokett collitt Co wat through lw it liaf if wilja rd anva of fill ell no have been permilles per milled to I ertie a c etter from elder james ff this city at pres ent on a mission in the ao ut hero state d arod which clip tile follow g X I 1 r 8 W b t 08 I 1 A I 1 W 68 t ee yes tile it pt i I 1 chice atin I 1 in connetti i it I 1 11 wright fuller still 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 recipient of as near as abr C n I 1 d t ell about fifty lashed each bohly liro wright A mi u little tile of it our iiii k timit ter blarr lie then desan s the aset that J ito tile liloy av ban 1 w ti gi vr k li during and bad speeded sue eded ii awakening some interest and had bap llred one perti per ti who had I admittance aug h a mob waited on the altars and requested them to ac aits nits they refused to do had hey broken ADY law I 1 cy wit go before tile courts and anner an ner tie brought avalt upon this the mob left firing a volley of a dozen shots as they di ill P feared in the woods the elders then too lka journey into another county to visit some rids ile then describes the outrageous castigation as follows after n turning to crockett we were awakened about L a in sept ad by an armed mob I 1 fo in twenty to thirty persons with their faces masked we were commanded to get up but we move quickly enough to suit them so they seized us and out we had to go barefooted and almost naked we were marched through the mud about forty roas all the time by these for I 1 no and listening to tit slackest a 11 most foul blasphemies I 1 ever heard devils legions of tham they must bare been filled with infuriated and enraged they took us along handling their weapons in a most reckless ni anner they then came to some huge beach trees and commenced cutting limbs from four to six fact long and one half to three fourths of all inch thick leaving knots about three eights of an inch long on them we were then com to kneel before anem and the began jash after iash came alo r upon us bringing the blood to the surface at almost every blow this continued until we received as I 1 told you before about 60 each once I 1 attempted to raae my handt when one of them it t me on it w th a pistol but did not hurt me much merely raising a lump they then let us go after them to leave the county distressed no more than all still I 1 guess all gift yet work for tile good you wonder why I 1 tell you of this well at first I 1 thought I 1 would write a mild statement to my alfo then I 1 thought I 1 would write yourself or others and enjoin secrecy and then I 1 thought I 1 would say noth ing I 1 knew it would make 11 I 1 feel quite badly and I 1 did not you to fuffer in your feelings |