The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-09-29

was soon cut off from them entirely |
after the firing begun, and never did |
succeed. in getting to them where they |
we're the negroes soon begun shooting |
1T me, and / made my escape as soon as
| could l suppose | saw from three
hundred to four hundred negroes armed
with pistols, and shooting in every direc-
ton think twenty-five would include
all the whites on the ground during the
day think there were more than 1900
negro men on the ground, besides women
and children the negroes continued to
follow and shoot at me until crossed
the railroad and got nearly to the town.
H. G.. MARSHALL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
on this 4th day of September, 1915.
TsEAL. SILAs j. CASEY, J.P.
The sworn statement of Washington
Slayton (coPd),
am a colored man. and about twenty.
seven years old; am a citizen of Kinds
county, where l have lived for ten years
or more / live near Raymond; am a
Republican, and a member of the Ray
mond Republican Club; on the 4th Sept,
1875, I went to Clinton with my Club to
attend Republican meeting, where, l
vas told, there was to be joint political
discussion the first saw or knew of the
difficulty which occurred that day was in
this wise: while Judge Johnston was
speaking, a colored man created dis
| turbance in the crowd Immediately u
colored man came up and called for a
policeman, and told him to 60 down the
hill, as there were some white boys max
ing fuss; I asked him what he wanted
with policeman, telling him there was
no one down there going to start row ;
/ said to the policeman, come back" ;
that his business was at the stand let
US do as the white people did at Ray
mond, and keep quiet and listen to the
speech, and pay no attention to that at
fair; he said he was here to arrest any
man who did not behave himself; he had
heard that the boys had bottle of wits:
ky down there, and he was going to arrest
them; / at once left the stand myself,
Chas. Caldwell, ST., going at the same
time; ne got to the white boys and said
to the colored people, g go back, we will
qualify these young men directly;
got in then. and said to the colOred peo
pie, +" for Gods sake, do go back, and
start no fuss here; there was then a
large crowd Of colored people around us,
led by big colored man crying " rein
force, police; the colored people kept
coming down the hill; got few to
stop before pistol fred Caldwell said,
" God Almighty, people, are you no;
going to hear me when l speak to YOU p
the same big black man again cried,
60 reinforce down here, men-GOd damn
it, let us kill the men-don't be fooling
with them any longer; at that time the
colored people were between fifteen and
twenty feet deep around the whites, who
were falling back and the colcred people
pressing ON them l then broke ranks
got out of there, and jumped my horse
and run; | was satisfied there would bt
a fight, for the negroes around us haC
out their pistols, and [ saw large GROVE
of them running down the hill with pis
tolls drawn, and heard as many as twenty
CRYING, +" kill them, kill them damned
white folks; | am true Republican
but l give it as my deliberate judgmen
that if the colored people had behaved
themselves there would have been ne
fuss the white people seemed to do al
in their power to avoid it; they had KEEP
quiet and respectful all day; l do no
believe there were over fifty or sixty
whites on the ground the boys had ne
pistols out when they were surrounded a
before said, except that boy named
Waddill picked up rock or something
and Mr.. Martin Sivley taok out his pisto
and said to him, &c if you do not behav'
Yourself, | will knock you down with m,
pistol; Sivley Immediately put up hi
pistol. his
WASHINGTON SLAFToE.
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day of Sept, 1875.
| SEAL. SILAs j. CAREY, J.P.
Statement of Frank Guiol, (white) =
| reside in Clinton; | went out to thu
grounds where the barbecue and speak
ing were had on last Saturday reached
the stand while Judge Johnston wa!
speaking was near Charley Chiffon
about thirty steps from the speakers
stand; about the time that Fisher Re
publican), commenced speaking, Mr.
Chiffon said he would go home, and he
then left for home Chilton's residence
was about quarter of mile from the
stand after Fisher had spoken about
five or ten, perhaps fifteen minutes,
noticed some excitement off in the direc-
ton of little branch, about 100 yards
distant; a white man and negro seemed
to be disputing the crowd of negroes
commenced to move in that direction !;
heard a negro say, ''there is fight,
and the same person said ego down boys,
to the negroes then the drums were
! beaten there was one drum at the stand,
and another in the crowd, thirty or forty
steps from the stand; as soon as the cry
of fight was raised, these drums were
beaten; the negroes all rallied in II
crowd, and rushed down towards the
spot where the excitement first COM
menced, which Ihave already described (;
up to this time not shot had been fired;
when the drums were beaten, and the
! large crowd of negroes had rushed down
to this spot, then a shot was fired, and
the firing instantly became general do
not know who fired the first shot when
the drums were beaten, | heard several
negroes say, orally boys, rally" and
this was before shot was fired; the ne
groes near the drums, and where this
command was given, were about one
hundred yards from the place where 1
witnessed the alteration, and | do not
think it possible that they could have
known anything about the merits of the
alteration. and beyond the fact that an
alteration or dispute was going on be-
tween white man and negro ; as soon
as the firing commenced, being unarmed,
| started for Clinton when | reached
hilltop, about $50, or 200 yards from the
spot where the fighting began, 1 met
three or four white men who were also
unarmed; we proposed to keep together,
;f vNOes;hla and mob q oY,r uox, fO Cl;n&o,,