New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-08
FOURTH OF July At vICKsBURG.
several Coiored Men Killed aud
WO0nded.

Several Celered Men Killed aa'
W0anded.
Last week In tho Vicksbure papers up
peared call for. a fourth OF July meeting
! signed by number Of prominen: Repub
leans. The meeting took place at thu
vicksburg courthouse on Monday. 1t VA
an ordinary assembling of patriotic citi
zens. usual upon The anniversary Of oul
! national independence. The color line
Monitor called it q ''Radical meeting
! About two thousa and persons assembled il
an orderly manner. and Hon. G. w. Dsven
] port. clerk of the Chsncery Court. pro
| ceeded to organize the meeting. Deputy
Sheriff J. P. Gilmer was chosen president
and r. G. Hall. Esq. was chosen
| secretary. II was announced that
| several prominent gentlemen would address
the meeting. Rev. &c. Embry made q few
! remarks and read the declaration of indie
pendence. Judge George F. Brown then
made an excellent speech which was not oh.
jected to by the white men who had assem-
bled to wstchproceed;ngs The next speaker
was Hon. James Hill, Secretary !Of State.
He unfortunately alluded to tho par, col
ored men had taken in forming and pre-.
serving our nation. He spoke of Crispus
Attucks, colored, the first martyr OF the
revolution. This speech it appears was
very distasteful to the white gentlemen
present, and it is strange they did not avail,
themselves Of tho privilege OF leaving: but
they did not leave until their bloody work
was accomplished. The color line Monitor.
in its account Of the affair. says:
When Hill said the band Of white men
who threw the tea overheard in Boston
harbor hundred years ago were led by q
negro. young man, we think Mr.. Elmore,
but in this we may be mistaken. said in a
low rome that Hills statement was id
lie. That he had never heard OF such a
thing before.
A white Republican. named John Hill.
protested against the interruption Of the
speaker. Here. 40 learn from the Hsrold,
Mf. Harvey Andrews, white gentleman,
told John Hill 10 get out of the way. It
was not easy for man to get out Of the
way in such q crowd. The Herald says:
Hill did not heed, but continued to press
forward, using insolent language; Mr.. An.
drews then struck Hill oyer the head with
pistol. which forced him forward, but still
belligerent, when Mr.. Andrews fired, the
ball entering Hills left shoulder and
ranging down the flesh about four INCHES,
where it lodged. Hill made his escape back
to GDmevs room.
At this moment Mr.. B. Allen. colored
man. mounted a bench, and attempted to
say something. He was knocked down by
the white gentlemen and badly injured
about the face. The colored men were then
seized with panic and attempted to save
their lives by fight. The Monitor says:
When the first pistol was fired terrible
the negroes were attacking them. and the
greatest portion of the negroes were filed
with terror. Some of the whites ordered
them out, and they surged in terrible com.
pulsiOn toward the front door. up to the
beltry and to the balconies. They soon
choked the front door up and piled up on
one another. until they almost reached tho
clock fnlly twelve feet from the floor Of the
hall. Large numbers jumped down the
steps. swung down from the balconies, and
bid away in every nook and corner OF the
building.
And then came the sort Of shooting that
kills only colored men. Henry Carter, who
was "us,ng very improper language was
shot near the Jail. Another coiored man,
James Perrin. was shot near by. on Grove
street. The only white man injured was
Hill, q Republican. The dying and wounded
we're taken into the Jail yard. Allen Ross,
he first man killed outright, remained
here until taken away for burial. These |
are the facts as We CLEAN them from Demo.
,ratic papers. Relate them how you will
md the horrible outrage OF armed white
men on peaceable negroes can not be dis. [
,uised. 1t was not q war upon carpet.
)sggers. II was the murder of black by
he white citizens Of Mississippi. We think
he colored men had . right to meet as I
hey did. and to speak, and to gain all the /
,lory they could from history. and to
ulogize the American flag to their hearts
ontent. We think the white gentlemen
lad no righ: to be there unless peaceably
isposed. We learn that q number Of the
est citizens of vicksburg regre. the occur.
ence. The Monitor does not. It says:
The whole affair teaches one lesson: That
he whites have borne all they will bear.
heir passions have been SO wrought upon
v the Outrages and insults they have had
0 endure that the least thing is sufficient to
end away the frail barriers and precipitate
conflict.
A fourth Of July oration is one of the
things" calculated to rend the barriers
brown about law and order. This riot and
egro massacre occurred in vlcksburg on
be fifth of July. 1875. and its purpose and
feet was to break up a celebration OF the
Of the declaration of American
Rev. DR.. Sears recently said a: Ba!ti.
lore:
1, too, have made tour of the Sou :h, and
tell you the war is over. The Southern
eople simply ask not to be annoyed by
,cklees adventurers. Treat them right |
nd you win their confidence. Send no in. ,
ldicioue man down there, with friction
atches. Such man sets whole States on !
re. For heavens sake. keep your rash.
artisan men At home.
DR.. Sears is agent for the Peabody educa.
onal fund. He should correspond with
,perintendent Csrdozo. of Mississippi, and
,t further Information about not being
lnoyed. The attention of William Allen
ID Charles Nordhof is invited to the man.
Y of celebrating the national independ-
ce in vicksburg. 1aboring men Of the
orti and West about to emigrate South
;+h fom;l;aa paodino al M tiop an6 r~J; |