The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-20
THE uAMRuRG RIOT.


white people OF the south as murderers.
The white men who. were concerned IN
the riot all surrendered themselves, ana
thus spiked one OF the guns of the bloody
shirt party. On the 10th inst. the white
men-Gen. NJ. &. Butler and the others
had preliminary trial before Judge
Makers court at Aiken, S. G. The Judge
is Republican of the strictest sect.
Prince Rivers. the negro justice at
Hamburg testified that Doc. Adams
negro company was not regularly or
ganized militia company. and that he
Rivers had ordered them to give up
their arms.
From the testimony given on the trial
we select the following, and ask careful
attention to it.
John Lee. colored. brother of Samuel
!. Lee, living near Hamburg, states in
his affidavit that IN June last he was re-
quested by Doc. Adams to join his com
pany, and that Doc. Adams said to him
that the company was organized to Kill
the whites. He also affirmed that on the
9th of July he saw Louis Schiller take the
train for Columbia, and on the next
morning he saw Schiller return to Ham
burg with large tin can. A number OF
Doc. Adams company were waiting at
the depot three of the number took the
can and sent it to John Williams house.
Judge Blunt, one OF the three who took
the can, upon being questioned, said that
it contained cartridges. The deponent
said further, that, since the riot, Tom
Carroll, one of the company. told him
that before o'clock Of the day of the
riot all the ammunition, measuring if
teen quarts of cartridges, had been car
ried up to the armory and distributed
among the mon by Doc. Adams and
others
Frank Taylor, colored. affirmed that
IN June last he was asked by Attaway
to join his company and on asking what
the company was for, Attaway said Il
hill ont the achitts.
Edward Rumley affirmed that previ
Gus to the riot he observed on different
occasions armed bands of negroes pa
trolling in and out of Hamburg. Thai
they committed all kinds of dcpredations
stole cattle and destroyed fences, ant
! also that after the fight and pending the
| inquest Charles Turner. the foreman Of
| the jury, told him that they were going
to put the white men in Jail and keep
them there until after the election.
Jerry Whitlock. colored, affirmed
that on the Fourth of July he heard At
taway make threatening remarks against
Henry Getsen, who was riding by, and
that. pending the inquest, he heard Tur.
ner, the foreman of the jury, say thai
they had got the white men where they
wanted. They would put them in jai
and keep them there until after the
election.
George Henderson, colored, affirmed
that on the Fourth of July he and Jerry
Merriwether, also colored. were asked IL
Hamburg by Attaway to join company
| he was getting up to kill out the whites
Neither himself nor Jerry Merriwethel
would join.
Jerry Merriwether. colored, corrobo
rated the statement made by Henderson
aaron +. Tyler affirmed that on tn,
9th of July Adams company had passed
his house in Hamburg and scraped thei
bayonets on his fence; he demonstrated
with them and they cursed and threatene,
him. A day or two subsequent a por
ton of the same company, armed
| stopped him while he was going hom
from Augusta. He asked what RICH
they had to stop him, and they reptile,
that no matter what right they had the,
would do as they pleased; threatening
and cursing him.
| ''Wm. F. Flint. the Waterman on tn
| Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta rail
road bridge, aiiirms that on the mornin,
of the sth John Thomas, one of Adams
company. passed him on the bridge will
| large pistol In his hand. That he sale
that Adams had been arrested, but the
boys were not going to allow him to b.
tried. The deponent further overheard
Doc. Adams that afternoon give order
To his men in the arnory to fire upon tn,
Buffers "a they came round the corner
| from Prince Rivers Office The Butler
| did not, however, come that way. Hear
ing these things, he warned several per
sons, among whom was Mr.. Franz
Kramer, that difficulty was brewing.
| ''GeOrge Kramer affirmed that he ha,
been frequently halted and insulted am
threatened by armed negroes in III
streets OF Hamburg at night, ihes
negoes having no authority to perpetrat
such Outrages.
Frank Kramer confirmed The test
mony OF his brother, George Kramer
and also the testimony Of WIN. F.. Flint.
Here are abundant preparations mad
by the 'docne and presented negroe
for bloodshed. let MS see who were III
aggressors:
Affidayits were submitted from W. 1
johnson. W. =. Roger. J. Il. Mckinney
George Dunn. John Sullivan, VIM. Coo
ney. VIM. Allen, 4. f. Coffin, Robel
Virgil, ii. ii. Bliss, Walter Mathney,
{. kirkpatrick. +. Il. Cunningham. lie,
poid Meyers and X. ". Habershan
showing that the hostilties and the firm