A great many of our people had to run away from their homes for several days; but we took the ground that we would let the thing take its natural course.

As soon as things quieted down, which they did so partially in three or four days, some of our gentlemen who had gone off with their families returned, and it resulted in our arresting a few of the ringleaders in the county.

The courts and the administration were all at that time in the hands of persons not identified with the interests of the county, and it was impossible for us to get justice meted out.

We saved a massacre of the negroes of the county, but we never could bring those men to any kind of punishment before the courts, and finally we came to a compromise with them, that if they would leave the county we would withdraw the suit against them, and that was the way the thing was ended.

Now, I do not believe you could get up a riot in Chicot County because I think there are many intelligent negroes there who would not permit it.