Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-10-20

{ slightly in the left foot and ankl
Z HIS leg liz very much swollen.
f z. Angus q. Bennett, colored, SO
OF S. L. Bennett. was wounded severe
, ly in the groin ana left ankle.
? g. u. P. Church was wounded in th
} calf OF the leg, severely.
| 8. William Sineath was wounde
in the head and ear.
10. Lewis Jones was wounded il
the breast.
IL. E. A. Cobia was wounded
slightly in the thigh.
IL. Elmore Dukes was slight,
wounded.
| -. - Larrisey is also reported
wounded.
The wounds were dressed by Mr.. J
X. Farris on the Pocosin on the way
| home.
Nothing positive is known of the
| losses, if any, among the Republicans.
except what is stated by Mr.. Henry
Sanders-that a negro took aim and
fired at him, and negro, who was by
| bis side. fell dead at his feet Mr..
Sanders was not hit; the bal Intended
| for him had killed the negro There
| three, were seen to drop their arms
but this does not prove that they we're
hurt. A score of pistols, as against
| one or two hundred muskets and shot
guns, count Tor very little, We doubt
that any negroes were killed beyond
the one mentioned by Mr.. Sanders,
sid it IS as likely as not that none
were wounded
STATEMENT OF 8 l. BENNETT.
3. j.. Benn TT, a prominent cOiOred
CITIZEN OF Char eston. formerly county
andItOr. and now planting in st. Tho.
mas and st. DENIM Parish. who was
present at the meeting yesterday, gives
tie following account Of the difficulty.
He says: We reached the landing At
CaInhoy aud disembaEked peaceably,
and proceeded to the spot where the
meeting was TO take place. This spot
was hear the old Brick Church, aud
the stand FROM which the speakers
were 70 address the crowd was stu
ated on the top of hill, at the foot of
which was Il guilty hedged in on the
other side with bushes. a joint discus
sion was arranged for, and Whites an0
blacks assembled al ound the stand,
mixed promlscuousiy together, and all
apparently without arms. The Hon.
III. L. OConn0r was appointed time
keeper, and Mr.. St. Julien ,Jervey, the
Democratic candidate for solicitor of
the circult, made the orening speech,
which was listened TO with marked
attention and respect. We were to
have nice peaceable meeting, when
w. s. McKln!ay (coiored) registrar of
ms re conveyance, who, it was agreed,
should follow Mr.. Jervey IL behalf of |
the Republicans, took tie stand |
and began his speech. He had |
spoken probably for about two min-
utes, when l perceived conmotion |
Or a kind Of stampede on the outskirts |
Of the crowd. 1 do not know what |
the panic, and heard at this
time no shots. / thought perhaps that
4 horse had broken loose. I was look
ng to see what caused the excitement,
when 1 saw about forty or fifty col
bred men moving off: down the hill.
On reaching the bushes they stopped |
and as they rose again, eUery man Of |
hem had q gun IN has h0nd, and a
later they.raised the guns, took
lim and fired directly into the crowd.
The Democrats were then completely |
5urro urded and enfiaded on every
sled, and a general rush for the boat
followed. The firing ceased long
enough for the negroes to load, and |!
hey then poured another volIey into |
5he crowd. The firing appeared to be
The white men had no
guns, and did not see single white
nan fire O. shot. heard two or three |
pistol shots. but don't know who fred
hem. In retiring with the crowd
ha n Il 4
Bennett, and just as we assembled u
little bank, two negroes came out of
he bushes on the top of little hill, !
md took deliberate aim at myself and
,on and fired. / was wounded in the
nstcp of the left foot with small
)all, apparently buck or large duck
hot. My son was SHOT in seven
places two shots entering the hip, two
Z the calf of the leg aud three in
he foot. Tue negroes were armed
with Inuskets and some ten or fifteen
aero picked up in the road where they
lad been dropped. The party reached
he boat rs best they could, and the
legroes held undisputed possession
# the fed. No attmpt WAS made to
90 back Tor lie missing, as it was as
much as our lives were worth. I do not
snow the Eamea Of the killed Or
Wounded except from hearsay: and
'thor particulars Of the difficulty [
lave also only by hearsay. ] cons:':' -
iousIy believe that the 7cHOJe ,I.,ug
oas u 212ccOncerted plan, by whom [
'ann0t shy. to take advantage OF the
pTetext and fire upon the
,narmed crowd; for tbs moment the
disturbance started, the negroes rushed
O the bushes in every direction aud
began Il promiscuOus firing.
Bennett wa8 suffering considerably
rom the wound in the foot, and his
on is badly wounded.
STATEMENT OF J. R. JENKINS.
T. r. jenkins, the we'll know colored
Democrat " no was at the meeting at
}ainhoy yesterday, said, in addressing
he Fourth Ward Colored Democratic
)lub at their hall last night that the
Iifficulty had been brouht on by the
and upon them should be
the responsibility OF the affair.
lie also stated, as to it's origin, that it
7as caused by colored Republican
7ho lives at Cainhoy firing off pistol
everal times. jenkins said he could
lot be mistaken as to the origin of the
itficulty, as he was on the ground and
aw all that occurred.
Duplin county is always good and
rue and neither a sluggard nor vet q