The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-09-01
Negro Riot in Georgia.

In the Augusta Constitat;onalist, Of
yesterday, We find the following parllo.
ulars OF an outrage committed in Burke
county, Georgia:
On Sunday morning last the dead
body OF negro man was found in the
road near No. 8 Central Rail Road.
with bullet hole through his head.
The negroes soon gathered TO the num-
Der of one hundred and fifty to two
hundred, and without knowledge or en-
curry as to who had committed the
deed, arrested two white citizens, NAM
ed Belcher and Smith, and tried TO ar
rest Mr., Henry Wilkes Jones, near
whose house the d. ud body was found
but Mr.. JONES evad"d them and spread
the report OF their d"rgs through the
neighborhnod The news was brought
to Buckhcad hnrch dnrlng service,
when mos, Of the while u.en proceeded
Immediately t" til" scene II lis'ul baucr
and on arriving there found nbou. one
hundred and fifty negroes. many .! them
being armed will, n.u>kn,e, having bay.
onets attached, "nd having the Two
citizens named above under iurclble ar
rest. Up to that 'ine but few whites
had arrived, and the negroes were in.
Sultlng and defiant, and refused To re-
lease their pr oners. Soon, however,
white men came from other parts OF
Burke ana Emanuel counties, when the
negroes were plainly told that they
would be made Lo release The white men
by Iorce. if necessary. Still, five or six
OF the negro ringlra'lrrs would not con-
sent, and had IL not Lcrn Tor tho cool,
determined bearing oi the whites, a
deadly conflict would have been THO r..
suit. One moment longer our intormant
says, and firing wonlH havc commenced.
Mr.. Balcher an! Mr.. Smith were relras.
e'l, aid Ave or six Of the negroes arrest.
cd. Three OF them were afterwards
lodged IN Wayncsboro' jail, Que Of
whom has said that the fuss is not over
yot they (the negroes) were after the
land owners.
No ono yet knows who killed the ne.
gro who was found dead in the road.
Many negroes in the neighborhood be-
lieve that he was killed by one Of lis
own color, and in the atfidavits made
before tho negro notary public IN this
city yesterday by two negro men, il is
| stated that negro was concerned in
the killing On" of these swears that
on Wednesday night, about 10 o'clock.
ne was informed that cclorcd man was
killed by four white mrn and one black
man." Who informed him2 Where
is the witness or witnesses that sa " the
deed2 All the information received in
Savannah and in this city state positive
y that the dead body was discovered
on Sunday. but these negroes swear
they "were told OF il on Wednesday,"
and arrested three white men and ne
gro on Saturday. Here are these sworn
statements as furnished us by a person
who was present, aud which WI believe
to be manufactured out Of tho whole
cloth:
"The following statements were made
and sworn TO before George w. Snow
den, Notary Public, enc0icio Justice OF
Peace, by two colored men, (names sup.
pressed for good and sufficient reasons.
One OF the party states that on We'd
neaday right about ten o'cl ,ck he was
Informed that n cnlorcd man by The
name Of Edward Lewis was killed hy
four white men aud one black man. He
and six other colored men went to the
plantation of Mr.. Henry Wilkes Jones,
and about one hundred yards from the
residence Of Mr.. Jones they fonnd The
body Of Lewis on The road laying on his
face; examined his bolv, and found a
ballet hole in the back part of his head,
the oall coming out Oh the front OF his
head. We suspected from threatening
language made lew days before that
one MIR. Crane, an oversecr on Mr..
Jones' plantation, was the guilty party.
On Saturday, the 22d six OF Ls wen, in
pursuit Of said Crane found him m the
woods, arrested HIM and three white
men, strangers IN the nrighhorhoo,i, and
one colored man named Peter Owen
Carried them to MIR. Henry Wilkes
Jones, Magistrate in and for tho coun.
ty Of Burke. Mr.. Jones told us to let
them loose he will prosecute them we
did 80.
| The same evening some two or three
hundred whito men collected together
and arrested some forty negroes, and
locked them up in DR.. William Jones
carnage house. Hc escaped and came
to Augusta.
The others testify to abon' the same.
with the exception, that when Lewis
was found the clothes OH his person
were burned up to tho waist.
|
Gov, SGoTr UP A TREE.--Under this
head the Edgefeld advertiser thus
"grins and bears" Gov. Scotts s,x,een
shooting negro mellsh and State Con-
stabulary:
Gov. Scott, head and front Of tho rat.
tlesnake party Of South Carolina, is in
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