The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-17
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NEGsgE~ TD BLAME

NFGsEs> T0 BLAME.
The nerrO.cNterminaiiug white row.
diee OF \ ickshurg were not 10 blame fuf
the massacre al that place on the 5ih inst
We learn This from the Nicl sburg Her.
aid. Thr way al il was this, II had
been announced throughout The county.
in ali The negro churches that GU The 9Th
inst. there would De q celebration al
/ Nickshurg Of 99h anniversary az Ameri-
can Independence. ON The 5ih. The court
house was crowded with negroes. \
number az white Republicans. called car
4 pet-hacgers. were present and took part
in the organization Of The meeting. 1
number Of while men Doi Republican,
''on the contrary. quite the reverse
were also AZ the meeting. Of course
they Ind q right 10 he there.
For time al went on well. bat st las,
John Hill, 5 renegade white man. or. in
other words white Black Republican.
c2-ne puf 81 GilHser's private r0Oin. and.
a. The H,0a5S st-ongly expresses il.
forced himself into unpleasant pr0xim-
ity 10 several white ger'lenlel.' among
whom VA. Mr. Harvey Andrews. one Of
ibe Il am gentleman. begod' citizens
o. The sovereign state Of Mississippi.
We believe DO Republican will take il
slse with u. certainly % Democrat will.
~hen We say that renegade has no
right 10 force himself in or out Of pub
DC meeting. in.O close proximity to a
white gentleman. When. therefore, Mr..
Andrews, who il white gentleman. saw
the close proximity OF the renegade, Hill.
he. a. a matter of course. told him
10 get out Of the way: and. when Hill
did not DO so, struck him over the head
with pistol. The man who SAYS Mr..
Andrews had no right to strike this blow
and hit the renegade, Is a Radical beyond
all doubt. Mr.. Andrews would have
proved himself no gentlemen If he had
not hit Hill with his pistol. Having been
hit, il was Hills duty to "get out" as
Mr. Andrews had ordered him; but, be-
Ing peryer.e, he did not do so: he actually.
seen In n Southern Radical, exhibited
symptoms OF belligerency, whereupon
Mr.. Andrews, a. any "gentleman begod"
would have done. fired his pistol at the
irate Radical, the ball from which,
luckily, as all honest Bourbons
must admit, entered Hills left shoulder
and ranged down the flesh about four
inches. where it lodged. Al this moment
another Radical named Ben Allen mount
ed bench, and it is presumed drew a
pistol. Promptly he was knocked down,
and badly injured about the face.
About this time the aggressions OF the
negroes became so outrageou-ly conspic-
uous. that, as the HeraH says. "they
jumped and tumblcd and skipped over
the second story balconies with acrobatic
agility" While thi- was going on, q ne
gro named Edward caught Willie Green
by the coat skirt A. consequence.
Edwards was bruised and arrested. In
a the Sheriff Office he had the audacity 10
e be insolent, when "Mr. Green cut him in
: the face with his pistol Nh. Green did
Is not snoOt Edwards, an act Of forbcarancc
: that may cost him his high standing
~ among those who are "gcntlcmcn be.
Il god
N After this had happened, a negro wa
We killed at the Jail corner, another wounde,
~ in the vacant lot next to the Wild Coos
Exchange, and others, not mentioned
g were castlgated. Not "A white ''gentle
$ man begod' of the number that attendc,
Id the meeting was hurt, fact which zoe
of toprore that the niggers We're the aggrei
lot sors. We believe no honest man doubt
)t. that the niggers were to blame in III
matter, and that the whites acted cntirel
a on the defensive.