Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-10-09
From the Tribune Special Correspondents

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From the Tribune Special Correspondence.
ALBANY, Ca, Sep. 20.
I hasten to lay before your readers
an account of the recent important
events in this section. On the 10Th
inst. Captain William Pierce, a Ken
tuekian by birth, a gallant officer of
the Union army during the late war, a
staunch Republican, and the regular
nominee of the Republicans of this (2d)
Congressional District, for the United
Nstates Congress, proceeded to Ameri-
Gus, Sumter county, town but a few
miles from Andersonville, for the pur-
pose of making his first speech in the
canvass of his district. He was ac-
companied by Mr.. John Murphy, a
native of Indiana, and now a citizen
and sheriff elect of this county, elected
by Republican majority of about 700
in a poll of about 2,200. Reaching
Americas they registered their names.
at the hotel. Five minutes thereafter
they were informed that his boarders
insisted atpoa his turning these gentle
men out of the house. They were Radi-
Gals, they must leave, or no could not
That gentlemen replied, Erase our
names from your books" Shortly
after this they addressed the ColeFed
Republicans, amid the mutterings and
curses of the white citizens, who were
in town in force After speaking,
they went, by invitation, TO the house
of III. K. Mccoy, a Republican and as
sOeiate Chief Justice of the State.
While there the colored Republicans
attempted to march through the pub
lie square with drums and fife, though
snarp7ea. They were ordered by the
Judge of the Superior Court, then Ia
session. to stop the noise, meaning that
of the drum and fife, Some colored
man, not hearing the -erder of the
Judge, nor comprehending the cause
of the cessation of the music, called
out, $50 on with the music. where
upon the lohites dYelo their pistols, shot
GUNS, bnives. ETC.. and droUs the c0t0Tie1
g1ea from the SQUARE Messrs. Pierce
and Murphy, knowing nothing OF thls
approsehed the public square, paying
little heed TO the warnings Of the coll
ored people who told them that the
whites had sworn to kill them.s
The Mayor addressing the mob was
informed By angry men, that the blacks
shouLd not be harmed, but the tg10 id
7oHite scouadreIs' ehOuld die. AS
Messrs. Pierce and Murphy neared the
square, an old white man said, more to
himself than to either of these gentle
men, tts God id you, gail qever
leaUe that square dtiUe, They then.
turned, and by q circuitOus route
reached the Office Of Mr.. w @. Nor.
rill, Agent of the Freedmen's Bureau,
where they took refuge. They Ten5di1t-
ed concealed thus aa,tit after 9sjghtfalL,
when Bar, Morrill, sent his servant with
them through the fields to a point OUT
side the town where he met them with
a wagon. in which they escaped into
Lee county and thence into this place.
Returning over the road from which
he had taken out the wagons Mr.. ID or
ril found 1t picketed by halt O d0zeH
armed men. These men inquired Of
coIored men who passed over the road
after Mr. Morrill,, giUing q careful deS-
cription of Messrs. Pierce and Mur-
phg.
Americus in any direction, 10dS pick
eted bv armed bodies of achtte men.
Similar bodies of men kept watch over
houses where the two gentlemen were
supposed to be concealed. None Df
these people made any secret of G6etr t1t :
tentiOas Of numbering .1HessrS Pierce
and MWrphy. Yesterday. the 18th
inst, Mr.. Pierce. accompanied by Mr.
Murphy, the Rev. r. +. Putney,
Philip Janin, Ia cOlOred man, recently
a member of the. Georgia Legislature,
but who was expelled on account of
his Color and about seventy-five coll
ored men approached the town of
/ Camilla, Mitchell county, where Messrs.
| Pierce, Murphy aud Janin were to ad-
dress the colored Republicans. miles
from Camilla they were met by e white
man named .JOhns, who at hrststat-
ed that he was in search ola doctor to
attend a colored man who had beenin-
| jured by a fallen tree, AS soon, how
ever, as be learned the character of
the party approaching, he declared
! himself a courier sent to notify Mr..
Murphy that thespeople of Camilla
and of Mitchell county s0olttd permit
I of no Radical meeting igt Camilla,
that the County lods theirs and theyjR
tended to rule II. o,i
He then dashed off TO town, and the
party moved toward the town, not be-
/ lieving that the people would use force
to prevent a political speech. Mr.
Pierce, however, needed the warning
of the warming of the man Johns SO
much as to send note by Freedmen
to the Sheriff Of the county, the con
tents of this note are unknown to your
correspondent, but from subsequent
actions of the Sheriff it is supposed to
have been note asking the projection
of the ciUiZ authorities. At a point
two miles from the town the party waa
met by the Sheriff and a posse. The
Sheriff asked that in Differences to. the
wish of the citizeps, Mr.. Pierce could
not enter the to1vn. Mr.. Pierce answer.
ed that as he was violating no law oi
the county, and no right Of the people
he would speak in Camilla. Fl thought
he bad the right to do 50. Upon thai
the Sheriff and his posse, all being
armed and mounted, dashed off C
4 town. on
Mr.. Pierce, in a buggy with Mr.
! Putney, proceeded to town, followed al
some distance by the rest of the party
With these latter was a PLANTATION
wagon, drawn by four mules, contain.
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