Freestone County, Texas
Schools in the News
1867




Flake's Bulletin
published in Galveston, Texas
October 15 & 16, 1867 edition 
Page: 8

Trouble in Freestone -- We learn that a difficulty exists in Freestone among
the negroes.  Report says that the negroes had subscribed to the building of a
school-house near Cotton Gin.  One negro refused to pay his quota or discharge
it in work.  Captain Culver had him arrested, tried, rode on a raid, ducked
and otherwise summarily treated, and as soon as the nigger got loose from the
military, he prosecuted the negroes who had inflicted the punishment, before
Squire Carter.  The defendants and their friends armed themselves and refused
to be arrested.  Captain Culver also came to their assistance, and told Squire
that he was the law, and that the proceedings must be dropped.  But the enraged
freedmen determined to put the matter through, vulgarly believing that the 
civil law was superior to Captain Culver.  Last accounts state that Culver was
at Fred. Miller's with an armed body of negroes, and word had been sent to the 
commandant at Centerville to take the matter in hand and suppress the dark
rebellion, and if this was not done by last Tuesday, the gallant citizens of
Freestone would regulate the affair themselves. -- Corsicana Observer, Oct. 4.