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reliable, that Wiley was not in the room when Stephens was
killed, but had arranged to get him from the court-room, to
extort from him a promise to leave the county; and the promise
not being given Stephens was killed. According to the "gentleman
of intelligence," Wiley was "very angry" with the men who had
slain Stephens--a lame excuse, it must be admitted; although his
"anger" was quite creditable.

Mr. Linney, it may be stated, in passing, said in his letter,
that Wiley died at his (Linney's) house near Taylorsville, and
that the "measure of the corpse was about seven feet in length."
This statement seems astounding, but as I recollect him, Wiley
was a very tall man. Upon one occasion, during the Kuklux
troubles, I saw him on horseback, going from Yanceyville, with a
long rifle resting in the hollow of his arm--an incident
characteristic of the times. He looked like a wind mill on horse
back.

MATERIALS FROM THE SCRAPBOOK OF W. A. HAYNE COLLECTED IN 1874[1]

William A. Hayne was a native of Charleston, and a free man of free
parents. His mother's father and his father's father were white. He
was educated in the Charleston school of free Negroes. He attained the
position of Representative in the Legislature and served the State
efficiently. Hayne passed away in 1889.

The recent meeting at Barnwell Courthouse was by far the largest
held there since the war. The meeting was called to order by Dr.
J. W. Ogilvie as temporary chairman. A committee of five,
consisting of Col. Counts, Captain F. M. Wanamaker, Dr. J. C.
Miller, and Messrs. W. T. Blanton and J. M. Hudson were appointed
to select permanent officers, and nominated the following
gentlemen: General Johnson Hagood, President; Messrs. Counts,
Sojourner, Blanton, Killingsworth and Ogilvie, vice-presidents;
J. M. Ryan, secretary.

General Hagood, who was at the front end of the hall, some
distance from the chair he was to occupy, upon the invitation of
the temporary chairman, advanced to take his seat as presiding
officer amidst deafening applause. On taking the chair, General
Hagood said: "I understand the purpose of this meeting to be to
consider the misgovernment in South Carolina, which running
through ten long years, has culminated in the shameful and
shameless proceedings of our prese