The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-10-07
BIIGHAMs RECONSTRUCTION
ssLET US HAVE PEACE.y
A Samh,e Down IN Georgia
How The Carpet Baggers Can
Reconstruct

The commencement of Major Bing
hath's policy Of arning the negroes was II,
iastfated oh the 18th, at Camillea, Mitch
ell county, Georgia. Well might old man
Boyden. Of North Carolina, exclaim whet
the bill to arm negroes In the South was
pending, My Godl do not put arnis in the
hands of these then. It will be intolerablt
to live there, if war between races is to be
encouraged by Congress. But Bingham S
counsels prevailed, and we see some Of the
results. A mob Of three or tour hundred
negroes, headed by two or three Carpet
Baggers go into the town, determined on
anarchy. and oh the first ptetekt given by
drunken individual, who no doubt had
been hired to do so, fred on the citizens oI
the place. This led to general melee, the
citisens headed by the Sheriff of the coun
ty, in bis official capacity. The following
is the account given ny the Sheriff:
!. TtIE sHERIFF's STATEMENT.
The Sheriff states that Murpny had secre-
tly circulated circular among the colored
men of the county, ordering them to bring
arms to the meeting advertised for the 10th.
Atth request of the citizens, Sheriff
Poor, with company of six, itet the lea-
ders OF the procession when they were
marching toward town, and assured Pearce
atid Murphy that the citizens had no obs
jectioh to the meeting, but did object to
them entering town with arms.
Murphy and Pearce said the arifis bes
loHged to the negroes, who were in the
habit 81, carrying them wherever they went.
The Sheriff replied that as peace officer,
it was his duty to forbid the assenblage O!
armed mcn ut political meetings, and as
sured thetii If they entered the town with
their music and banners, followed by armed
men, it would be a breach of the peace,
and he &Qtld hot responsible for the tonse-
quence. The processi9h moved into town,
headed by, Pearce and Murphy in buggy,
armed with d double bafrelcd shot>g1n, a
Spencer rife and two pistols, with quaint
ty of ammunition, as was After-ward ascer-
tanned. "A iourihurse. wagon, containing a
band and humber bf arihed negroes, next
followed, and column OF negrnes on foot,
between three and four hundred, attended
by about twenty mounted out riders. AT
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ed with guns, and pprst Of them with pistols
The music was playing, and tho crowd were
9gisy and thredteIHiin,g II @ their conduct
were In a buggy In the rear. Jathes Johns,
On intoxicated citizen, ordered the thusic to
stop. but 1t did not. Johns gun was dis
charged. but In an Opposite direction from
the processioh; When the column fred a
vollpy, many at Johns, but mostly at Map
les store, where six uhafned citizens were
wounded. Immediately, about twenty of
our citisehs sbrang to their arms and fired
into the column, by which two negroes
we're killed and ah tihkhuwh number #onhd-
ed The negroes immediately broke to a
thick cluster Of timber, ohe hundred yards
north of the Courthouse At this poiht ah
attetipt was made by pearse to rally bis
routed forces. Our citizens to the thrber
of about thirty--a part of them being th5uh.
ted-fhade charge and completely ROUTED
the whole, ftrce, Pearce flying thtohEh the
woods and felds Murphy and Phil. Joiner
escapitg in buggy UP the road toward
Albabb. Several negroes were killed, and
from the best inf6tfhdtinh We hate been
able to proyure, between thirty and forty
periy cared iof.
The Sheriff gods oh tu express the regrets
the citizens Of Camilla entertain at the mes
cessity which brought about the occurrehee.
In Whit was done, ahd, Tho titisetis thought,
and still think It was their duty to obey The
orders Of the Sheriff, to break Up the tina
lawful assemblsge whilt, THEY say, The Bon.
seduehces dtB to be regretted. We feel
thot tl,a,, ha III hitt dtsth tRed tthidf1tl Hut1
imposed upon them BY wicked dnd cofrtpt
meH How ensased id leading astray Into dots
Of ia#lesshyss the colufed people Of .utf
country, The blame Of the wholg affair Is
Dit Oh Pearcs and Murphy, aud the citizens
appeal to the lawlmaking powers tf, Geof-
giia and the authorities Jfthe United States