The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-04
TEXAS.
The MtlIican Riots-The Other Side OF
tho Story-Ths Il lot Inctted by Rebels.

The telegraphic reports from Rebel sources
we're in effect that the riots at M,llican, Texas,
we're caused by the insubordlnatlon OF the
colored people; but our exchanges show the
facts to be the reverse the Rebel whites having
ei Hesd ths q % aken he o Which
We quote the Austin (Texas) Repubttoan:-
The GRO Hd endeavorlng to make the
arrest of the nurderers were all negroes. The
posse of the Deputy Sheriff were all whites. The
whites allege that they were fred upon, and
acted in selt.deiense, and under the legal autho-
rity OF the Sheriff. The result Is that from fifty
to sixty negroes were killed, but not single
white man has been killed or injured. The ac-
counts add that two railroad trains
were seized, and that large bodies of armed
whites were sent from Bryan and other points
to Millican. Recently, an armed force
of two hundred whites surrounded ian
officer of the United States, in Freestone county
and rescued some prisoners from his hands. Oa
possession of the place, fortified the
houses, and picketed the roads leading to the
city. What means this? 1t is simply armed
rebellion against the Government. The Rebels
of Texas are to-day better armed and better
Organized than they we're during the late civil
war. kTney are looking forward to the Presiden-
tal election aud the refusal to count the "while
man'sn electoral votes of the Southern States,
which they propose to elect in informal cleo
tions, as they did the delegates to the secession
convention in Texas in 1860, as furnishing the
time ana the occasion Tor the renewal of the
Rebellion under the auspices of the President OF
the United States. This is what all this means.
The Rebellion may be said to be upon US.
TESTIMONY OF CoLoRED WITNESS.
The freedmen had been in the habit of con-
gregatipg at their hall, which the Rebs had
termed HAL of the Loyal League" Two
weeks ago, q number of the white citizens pro-
posed aud openly a-owed that they would break
up the Loyal League. They came there IN the
night fully armed, to the number OF twenty or
more, and fred several shots into the house
| where the cOlored men were congregated. 1t
! was then agreed by the colored men tnat, If
they came there again to molest them, they, the
| colored men, would protect themselves. Moth
| ing further occurred until Thursday last, when
| the Rev. Mr.. Brooks, a colered pastor, with
! twenty-five men, went to learn the fate
! of colored man who was reported
! TO have been hanged on the evening
previous. On their return to their homes, IN d
| peaceable and law-abiding manner they were
J waylaid and fired upon by body OF white citi'
! Zens, who lay in ambush Tor them, killing two
| colOIed men, This occurred without any threats
| or acts OF violence ON the part OF the coOreo
| men. The whites then increased in numbers to
| over three hundred. They went to every colored
| house and took what arms and munitions OF wal
| they could find, and deliberately killed ol
wounded every colored man they could find.
am really and positively sure that the mum
| Der of colored men killed will reach (60)
| sixty, while not one of the whites were killed
| | was one of the party who had to run away
| thus saving my lite. The whites went TO my
| house, and took away three guns | had, anC
| 1t is a well.knoWn fact, which can be fully
| proved here, that 1t was wilful determination
on the part of dsloyal white men to murder
| every Union man, white aud colored, in the
| neighborho ood. The leaders OF this outrage Wert
| three eX-Rebels, named respectively Henderson
| Hardie, Samuel Edwards, and George Stout, whC
reside here. Governor Hamilton corroborate
this testimony.