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The Loyal Leag~ie give him money to leave on and. he stayed away a long time. He came back to appear against Alford ~t his trial and when the jury gave ~1ford ninety—nine years ‚ AMerson was glad, of coarse.

	“I left th~ Van Zandts two years after I was freed. and wrked in hotels and on the railroad and. saved up morey and went in business, helping people ship cotton. I‘ve seen a thousand cotton w~ons In town at one time. I stayed in business till I was bu~rnt out. I came back to Marshall and took up the brick mason trade and worked at it till I got too old. to hold out.

	“I‘ve sat On the jury in the county, justice and. federal courte, I know enough to vote or set on a jury bat I think the restriction on colored folks votin‘ is all right in this State. The white folks has a good. government system. Our leaders ain‘t hard~-hearte~d people and the cullud folks is well off or better as if they voted. Itve lived here in )Lax‘sbali most all the time since I ‘~vas born and ain‘t had. no trouble. Aslong as the Negroes t~eat the white folks right, the white folks Will treat them right.