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Source Type
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Newspaper
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Publisher
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The Alabama Beacon
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Publication Place
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Greensboro, Alabama
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Publication Date
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June 22,1867
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Transcript
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The Difference.-Some eighteen years ago a personal difficulty occurred in this place, at the colored people’s Methodist Church, between two freedmen, which resulted in the death of a third party, who interfered to stop the difficulty. The man killed, besides having had nothing whatever, as we understand, to do with the difficulty except as a peacemaker, was a man of excellent character, so far as we know.
No steps were taken by negroes to arrest the murderer. Nor did the matter seem to give any of them any very large concern. One negro had murdered another—that was all. Aleck Webb was killed by a white man. There was the difference.
The killing of one colored man by another, though the murdered man had given not the slightest provocation, and was a man of as good character as any freedman in this section—that, we say, was a small matter, causing very little, if any, excitement among the freedmen; but the killing of one of their number by a white man was looked upon by many of them as so great an outrage as to justify their burning down the town.
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