The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-08
Another Letter from B. II. Hill, O,
Georgia.

Another Letter from B. II. Hill, OF
Georgia.
The New York Tribune contains
another long letter from B. II. Hill,
of Georgia, adding some further facts
touching the Camilla riot. He has
read all that has appeared in the
Tribune, and waited for additional
Information himself, from his State.
that he might be sure of correstness
in what he writes. He makes the
following points:
1. The chief information upon
which Maj. Howard's first letter was
based, and upon which Bullock based
his message to the Legislature, and
upon which your correspondent from
Albany seems to rely, was derived
from the statements of q notoriously
bad negro, who had served a term in
the penitentiary, and whom 500 wit
nesses, black and white, would dis
credit on oath in court of justice.
2. I have been planting several
years in that region. I am there
habitually. It is one of my homes
in the State. L have never seen or
known of, or, before L read it in your
paper, heard of bloodhound in that
country. L am assured, and do be-
lleve, there is not one in that whole
region; and I do not believe there is
dog there, of any kind, trained to
track either black or white man.
3. l know, personally, Judge Vason
and the gentlemen who acted with
him in investigating this matter, and
whose report throws all the blame on
Pierce and Murphy. [ know also
some OF the witnesses who gave their
evidence under oath. We have no
more reliable citizens in our State.
Judge Vason is an old Whig and
Union man; was long Judge of our
Superior Court; is Christian gen
tleman of fine education and most
exemplary character and elevated
mind, and whom any Northern Jury
would believe without doubt or hesi-
tation.
4. The letters of your correspond
ent, at least the statements they
make, are originated by some per-
sons for the express purpose of in
flaming the Northern mind, and
influencing the elections pending.
b. You think it strange that 80
many negroes were killed, and so few
whites injured. To me this is not
strange. The negroes were slaugh-
tered, as they will always be under
such circumstances. Their white
leaders escaped, as they intended
beforehand to escape. If the people
of the North will not be moved by
the wrongs and dangers to the whites
OF the South, [ beg them to rescue
the poor negroes from sure destruc-
ton, by repudiating these reconstruc-
ton measures, and thereby remove
the inducements offered to carpet
baggers and renegades to breed strife
and hate. that they may get Office.
6. is it not singular that so MANY
Northern people will persist in believ-
ing, with implicit confidence, the wild
statements of frightened convict me-
glroes, and of bad white men who
abandon white society to use the
negro for selfish ends, and of anony-
nous writers, and summarily set
aside the most solemn statements
under oath of our best white people.
and the assurances of the whole white
race of the South, as mere ATTEMPTS
TO "white-wash rebel outrages 2"
strangers and renegades, of the most
original secession stamp, are melting
negroes to acts which lead to their
slaughter, Ill order to make dupes of
educated, refined Northern whites,
that these Northern whites may. in
turn and for vengeance, make vic
tims OF the Southern whites, ali to
Inc end that these strangers, and
worst secessionists, may get the Offices
Tor their loyalty. These are the onlv
fruits which the reconstruction mea.
sures have produced, or can produce
at the South. Ought such measures
to be maintained and perpetuated ?"