5. 72 Reftigees -~ Jeff Davis “They used to come to my place in droves0 Wagons would start coming In In the morning and they wouldn‘t stop coming in till two or three in the evening. They‘d just be travelin‘ to keep out the way of the Yankees. They caught old ~Teff Davis over in TwI~a Gounty. That‘s in Georgia. Caught hirn in Buzzard‘s Roost. That was only about four or five railes from where I was. I was right down yonder in Houston County. Twigg County and Houston County is adjoinin‘. I never saw any of the soldiers but they was following them though. Voters ni have seen plenty of niggers voting. I wasn‘t old enough to vote in Georgia. I come in Arkansas and I found out how the folks used themselves and I come out that business. They was selling themselves just like cattle and I ‘ t have nothing t o do wi th that. * “I knew ~Terry Lawson, who was J~ustice of Peace. He was a nigger, a low-down devil. Man, them niggers done more dirt in tJ4s city. The Republicans had this city and state. I went to the polls and there was very few white folks there. I knew several of them niggers~--Mack Armstrong, he was Justice of Peace. I can‘t call the rest of them. Nothing but old thieves. If they had been people, they‘d been honest. Wouldn‘t sell their brother. It is bad yet. They still stealin‘ yet, Ku Klux “That‘s another devil. Man, I‘ll tell you we seen terrible times. I don‘t know nothing much about ‘ein myself. I know one thing. Abe Lincoln said, ‘Kill him wherever you see him.‘