Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-28


Last Saturday week the smith and
Mum wings Of the Radical party at
tempted TO hold meeting At the same
time, and armed and prepared them
selves for the occasion. The result was
most disgracefal disturbance, about
which the Radical papers have made
false representations with view TO party
advantage, and to make Il appear that
Democrats and whites, not Of their party,
we're to blame, when they had nothing to
do with II, unless 1t may have been
TO look on and then be maltreated
for il. "Let us have peace" We insert
below from the Upton Record what we
suppose to be fair and truthful account
of the whole matter. II is confirmed by
the people at Mason's depot, who uni
formly attest the after falsehood OF the
statements published by the Radical
press of this city. Some nine or ten ar
rests have been made Of those concerned
in the riot, breaking into the hotel, etc.
NOT by Mr.. Maclin, however, as has
been stated, who is not magistrate, but
a practicing attorney, dwho is defend
ing some Of the accused parties in as fair
a hearing as was ever had The Record
says:
From parties that were present aud
witnessed the whole affair. we learn that
the fuss originated in the first place from
drunken white man striking a negro;
the blow was only slight one, and the
white man was not armed. As soon as
the negro was struck, gang Of negroes,
half drunk, gave chase to the white man,
but he succeeded in eludng them, or
rather his friends locked him up where he
could not be found. Mr.. Wall seeing that
riot was about to be commenced, at
tempted to run to his store Che was at
the depot, when the mob Of drunken and
Infatuated negroes gave chase and with
demoniac yels, fred at least hundred
shots at him before he reached the hotel.
He passed through the hotel and made
his escape. The negroes then rushed TO
the hotel, and with pistols, guns and
clubs, broke in the doors OF the house, |
and entered every room and closet in the |
building, cursing and swearing ven
geance upon Mr.. Wall, who had never
said or done thing to them. We are
told they broke into Mrs. Poindexter's
room, the wife of the proprietor Of the ho.
tel, who was very i'll at the time, and
came near frightening her to death;
finding they could not succeed in their
search for Mr.. Wall and the party who
struck the negro, they then commenced
an indiscriminate firing of their pistols
and guns in every direction. Nearly all
the negroes were armed either with pis-
tolls or guns, and the whole of them were
more or less intoxicated. The train from
brought down three cars
loaded with drunken negroes, all armed
TO the teeth. Hon. ~ Dave Num- was
with tbem-they we're his escort And
we are informed that he told Smith that
If he did not divide time that his negroes
from Brownsville wouldraise row.
There were very few white men present,
and they were not armed. Not a single
shot was fred by white man, but over
I'VE hundred and fifty pistols and guns
we're discharged by the drunken negro
rabble We have but very few comments
10 make upon the affair; but we call upon
he sheriff of the county to be upon the
ground should another of these Radical
mobs of drunken negroes and their vii
ainous white leaders be called together
IN this county, and, in case of disturb
ance, make arrests he can do it, and,
what is better still, we know that
be will do it. The blame Of the whole
affair rests upon Dave Num-, the das-
;ardly sneak, who has been attempting to
palm himself off as gentleman, but who
s as miserable a villain as his competitor,
Smith. This man, Num-, came for the
purpose of raising row, and neither he
nor Smith attempted to quell the disturb
,nce. We would advise them in the
'uture not to try that little game again,
{ they do they will have force for force
Since writing the above, We learn that
, great many of the negroes who broke
INTO Mr.. Poindexter's hotel and other
houses, have been arrested and bound
,ver to appear at the next term of the
Circuit Court. Six were committed to
all Wednesday night, ia default of bonds