“Your object is that Judge Bryson leave the bench and not sit on it this Court?”
He and Walker replied, “Yes.”
“Will you promise to disperse and go home and offer him no insult?”
They replied, “Yes.”
Their mutual honor was pledged for the performance of the agreement.
Mr. Hamilton then entered the Court, told Judge Bryson the agreement, when he left his seat and retired.
Hardly had Messrs. Hamilton and Clarke reached the court house when the mob again appeared in martial attitude at the foot of the stairs. Clarke reminded Wilson of his broken pledge; he acknowledged it, but said the mob would not have it that way. Clarke told him Judge Bryson had left the bench and departed.
The next day Colonel McFarland, of the local militia, marched his command to the court house.
The Court adjourned until 2 o’clock, and at that hour directed the Sheriff to invite Judge Bryson to march in and sit with them.
The Sheriff returned and advised them Judge Beale would not walk in or sit with Bryson. The Sheriff and Judge Bryson got into an argument, when the Sheriff struck and kicked the Judge.