The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-25
Progress OF the Blair Revolution,
The Ku- Klux Democracy on the
War Path.
rURTBRn PARTICULARS or THE
CAMILLA MASsAcRE.

Here i. the rebel side OF the affair At
Camilla, Georgia. We give it because it is
apparent even from their statement that it
wss cold blooded murdsrous attack Of the
Ku.K lux Democracy upon party OF men
because they we're Republicans. The rebels
at Camilla we're determined that Grant and
Collar meeting should not be held there.
They vere met in arms to prevent it. They
fred the FIRST gun. They did break up the
meeting, and in doing it thirty or forty men
we're killed or wounded. The spirit of the
Ku-Klux is visible in the statement of the
Sheriff. II is sufficient for white man to
be . Republican in the estimation Of that
Sheriff and the rebels-they write that man
down At oncs Is wicked and corrupt"
And if he makes speech urging the freed
men to vote for Grant, he il guilty of "lead-
ing astray'' the colored people; an effsnse 20
heinous that the rebels must resor, to whole
sale murder. to put stop 10 H.
Here 10 the account.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. -.
Two accounts OF the riot At Camilla are received
from freedmen through Major Howard,
Assistant Commissioner Of the Freedmen Bureau,
and one from Sheriff Poor, Of Mitchell county
Major Howard says Ishmael Lunnor, freedmen.
that he left Camilla on tho afternoon of the
10th. On the forenoon Of that day he approached
Camilla with John Murphy, VIM. X, Pesrce can
didase for Congress for the Second District. and
T F. Putney. white, and about seventy five col
cred persons. all route for Camilla where
n ~I,vur ~.
dresses. Upon approaching Camilla, the relstor
being In advance, he WAS accosted by An armed
and mounted white man, who 1t 6rst stated that
he VA in search Of . doctor to attends freedmen
hurt BY falling tree, but who eubeequ sntly
stated that he was courier, and advised the peo-
pie not to 60 into town; that the people had de-
termined that Radicals should not speak there;
that, notwithstanding the warning, the party
moved OF, when they were met BY the Sheriff and
po.se, who aecosted Captain Pearce, and who vss
assured ~ Pearce that hs desired and should
speak in Camilla on political subjects The Sheriff
tried to dissuade him from doing 50, telling him
the people would not permit it. The Sheriff then
went back and again returned saying DO had done
all in his power to dissuadc the people from vio-
lsncs, but with no avah; That the party moved
on to the town; that Psarce and Putney entered
the town dismounted and hitcned their horses q,
the Court Horse: that As the wagon containing
the music entered the town, il was fired on BY the
mounted white man who had accosted him: and
BY several other white men, and that the freed.
men then started TO escape to tbs woods. and
Pearcc attempted to rally them, calling on them
not % ny; tnat the colored men, being unarmed.
would not stop. Relator, being noun cd. dashed
gu. Of town past the freedmen on foot and ma
the musicians who had abandoned their wagon.
that Murphy and Phillip Joiner, in the buggy sleo
drovel rapidly away towards Albany; that rslator
dashed ahead; that when about seven milss from
Camilla, the buggy containing Murphy and
Joiner was ovsrtaken By four or Eve white men,
mounted and armed; the buggy was stopped, aud
one horse dashed riderless up the road towards
the relator; that he saw tho pursuers around the
buggy, some of them dismounted: that he then
came AZ rapidly Is possible to ALBANY,
Tho Sheriff states that Murphy had secretly
distributed circular among the color,d men ~
the county, ordering them to bring asms TO the
meeting sdvertieed for the 10th. At he reoue,t
ak msn, met the leaders Of the procession, whsn
marching towards the town, and assarsd Psafce
and Murphy that the citissns had NJ objections to
the meeting, but did objsct 20 their entering ths
town with arms. Murphy and Pesrcs aid the
guns belonged to the negroes, who vsRs in the
habit OF carrying them wherever they went The
sheriff replied that - peace officer, 1t
wAs his duty to forbid the assem- bling Of armed
men It political meetings, and assured them that
i they entered the town with their music and
banners, followed By armed men, Il would IS
breach Of the peace, and he would not b respon-
sibls for tbs consequences. The pr ,ceesiou moved
into town. beaded by Psarcs and Putney N the
buggy, armed With double bareled shot run. Z
sPsncsr rife and two pistols, With quantity Of
Ammunition, ~ was Afterwards ascsrtained; next
: ioar-horse wagon, containing . band and
num0er OF armed negroes; next foIloweda column
Of negro men on foot. bsswsen SO snd 100. IT.
tended BY about twenty aoupted outriders. Al
least ons-haf, if mot two-thirds, ven srmed With
guns, il rot With pistols. The music M pleyinr
and the crowd were noisy and thrsasening In their
conduct Murphy and one Phillip Joiner, : o.