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Black and White

CHAPTER III
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Vance appearing for Col.English.After a hearing of all the testimony the court reached a decision of justifiable homicide and English was released.

The locality of the shooting is in the mountains of western North Carolina, and not far from the Flat Rock mica mine, the scene of the brutal midnight murder, Feb.

17, of Burleson, Miller, and Horton by Rae and Anderson, two revenue officers, who took this means to gain possession of the mica mine." My knowledge of such affairs in the South is, that the black and the white have an altercation over some trivial thing, and the white to end the argument shoots the black man down.

The negro is always a "_powerful fellow_" and the white man a "weak sickly man." The law and public opinion always side with the white man..


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