The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-10-13
Georgia Murderers and Northern
Apologists.

CNAS .
| From tine New York Tribune, # September u
! We have printed, so far as we know, every
side to the story Of the outbreak in South.
western Georgia. We have suffered the
/ Sheriff who led in the dispersion Of the Re
| publican meeting, the murder e. several at
tendant Republicans, and the wouniing OF
nearly OF quite hundred, TO vindicate HIM
self at length. We have given the reports Of
the Georgians and the Freedmcn's Bureau,
the opinions of the Republican Governor and
Of the rebel Legislature, and We have made
no charge against the rebels Of Camilla
which any Of these versions does not warrant
In the face of these facts the World has the
assurance TO accuse US of manufacturing
Southern outrages for a Northern political
market. Probably now it may find it conve-
nient 10 accuse the Democratic adminiStra-
ton of hurEving General Meade TO Georgia,
not because there has been any uupleaS mt
ness but only means Of helping forward
the election of Grant
Let us briefly repeat the essential facts of
the Camilla mob and murderS-wIllinglv or
unwiling disclosed in every account, rebel or
Republican, of the occurrences:
|. Inc Republican procession, with
speakers anu lnu>lC. Was ptdltdUIt q ppIudCi-
ing the place at which the Republican meet
ing had for weeks been advertised to take.
place.
. Il was warned off byresident rebels.
3. 1t insisted on its rights, and advanced
toward the place of meeting.
4. 1t was first fired upon by drunken
rebel.
5. In the melee that followed it made lit
tie resistance, was speedily scattered, and its
flying members were pursued six or seven
miles.
6. Several Republicans were killed, and
between fifty and a hundred were wounded
Only six rebels were wounded, and none were
killed,
These are not our statements. Ih7y are
not even solely Republican statements. They
are the admissions of the sworn report Of the
rebel citizens of Camilla themselves. 1t is
not pretended that the Republicans made any
assault with the arms they charged with
openly bearing. 1t is not denied that rebel
citizen fired the first shot, and that his friends
straightway drew the arms they had been
land therefore Illegally bearing.
And it is absurd TO talk about the Governors
alton as foroidding the open carrying
Of arms by such Republicans other citi- |
zn,,- as hose, The Governor Of Georgia is |
1"t 2 fr~i. md he knows that it is two or |
the Constitu.. I. ~ me United States By a |
Southern proc. ana ion. Why, then, should
The procession have been forbidden to ap-
Droach the place for the meeting Who
claims that Union men may not bear arms
when paroled rebels do What more right
lad the Democratic Sheriff of Mitchell
county, Georgia, to warn a Republican pro-
,ession from entering Camilla than the
Sheriff of New York had to warn the Bows
u Blue from entering the Cooper Institute
Gut they were asked and entreated to % stay
,ut to avoid bloodshed." Precisely. And
+ they had stayed out, they would have been
aughed at as fools, sneered at as towards,
old that Republican scallawags" and
oval 'niggcrs could hold no meetinge in
hat State. And the World and the Express
rould have admired the admirable harmony
nd unanimity in Democratic Georgia.
1t will not do, gentlemen. Under the ex-
sting reconstruction, Republicans, both
lack or white, do not claim to have any
nore rights than paroled rebels. But they
o claim to have just as many, and the claim
ill be enforced.