Freestone County, Texas
History


SEMI-WEEKLY MISSISSIPPIAN newspaper (of Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi)
August 17, 1860, page 3, column 1


Letter From Texas

The Excitement in Texas.—By our Texas exchanges we receive further particulars
in regard to the excitement growing out of the suspected abolition conspiracy.

.....

[Amongst the lists of Abolitionist riots in Texas is:]

Trouble in Tennessee Colony.—The Fairfield Pioneer, of the 9th inst., has the
following:

Mr. Teague, a printer in our office, has just arrived from Tennessee Colony,
Anderson county, and brings the news that he witnessed the hanging of two white
men in that place on Sunday, the 5th inst., who were proven to be guilty of
inciting insurrection among the slaves of that neighborhood.  Their names were
Antoney Wyrick and his cousin, Alford Cable.  They were engaged near the Colony
at their trades of wagon making and blacksmithing, where they have been living
for three or four years.  Wyrick had been previously taken up for harboring and
selling liquor to negroes.  Negroes were found in the possession of firearms
and strychnine, furnished by these men.