The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-09-13
A BLOODY RIOT.
The Spirit Of Republicanism Showing
Itself.


graccd last night by one Of the most
! infamous occurrences which has
ever taken place in our community,
For over in hour the uppor portion
Of King street was in the possession
of mob of infuriated negroes arm>
ed with fire arms, huge o#kcn clubs
and such other weapons as they,
could handily get or had prepared for
| the occasion.
The difficulty grew outof the de-
termination on the part of the col
orcd Republicans that tho colored
men, Isaac b. Rivers and j. w.
Sawyer, who hpd rcnounced Repub-
licanism and allied themselves to
the Democratic cause, should not
enjoy that freedom of speech which
Republicanism has been boasting is
an essential feature Of it's doctrine.
THE DISGKACEFUI AFFAIR
began, properly speaking, at Arch
er's Hall, at tile corner Of King and
George strocts, where the colorcd
Democratic club was holding meet
ing. Rivers and Sawyer were press
ent.
The determination to break up
the meeting was not carried out be-
cause, perhaps of the presence, OF SO
many white men. 1t was very ovi~
dent, however, that the black and
colored DULLES had premcditated
something, rs will hereafter be
shown.
The meeting had ended the
white men saw plainly that trouble
was brewing, and justifiably belicv
ing that Rivers and Sawyer would
be the object of tho venom which
the noisy black Republicans had
manifested at the meeting, deter
mined to escort these two colorcd
Democrats home. A hollow square
was iolmcd and they were placed in
ana the march homowaru begun and
continued until the escort got in
King street, II little beyond u point
opposite the Old Picket Gunrdhousc,
Oh Citadel Green. Here the escort
was swa'mcd by IL dense crowd Of
rampant negroes, armed with clubs,
and crying aloud for vengeance
against Rivers and Sawyer.
The white men escorting them
forborc dong anything in retali;t-
tlon, although tile agyravation Was
amply sufficient to have caused them
to resent tho insults hcapal
upon them. Presently, IL colorod
man in the rear of the escort struck
II white mln with II club, and the
blow was returned. humcdiat CIV,
as well rs could bo learned last night
III the great confusion which pre-
vailed, the negroes began firing into
the whites, and then the whites,
losing their forbcarnncc, returned
the saots. The firing was contin
uc,i rapidly for some time, variou$Iy
estimated at from il quarter to II half
hour, and clubs four and five feet
long brandishcd in every direction.
The white men never forgot Rivers
and Sawyer, and chung to them with
praiseworthy tcnncity, until, it was
said, they got them safely landed in
viz SlOtlCl. iiC oCcHC
AT THIS STAGE
of the row, resemblcd a Pandc-
monitlm, the negroes crying for
vengeance ut the top of their voices,
and striking right and left BY this
time Captain Hendricks the Chief Of
Police learned what was happening
and Immediately headed q squad of
about thirty men, all available in the
emergency, and hurried to the locali-
ty in King street, near Vandcrhorst
where the black bullics and fends
were still demonstrating, and drove
them off as best he could. But
what could SO small force Of police
men do with such formidable
crowd, numbering many hundred,
and Enthusiastically armed with fire
arms and heavy clubs? The police
mcn were dciicd and the arrest of
any one WAS utterly impossible.
The important matter was to save
those-the white and colored men
were protccting-from the fury Of
the mob, and several well known
young gentlemen and u colorcd
Democrat had to be escorted by the
policemen TO the Upper Guard
house. 1t was then discovered that
several persons had been shot and
beaten, and these were taken uD and
either carried or assisted to tho
! Upper Gumdhousc. AS soon as
possible Drs Aldrich and Yates
were called on, and examined those
hurt. The following is tho
LIST OF TIE WOUNDED.
Charles Green, colored policeman,
shot dangerously in the abdomen.
He will probably recover.
j. NJ. Buckncr. bookbiD der, shot
in the, c,abdomen, and supposed fatal
! ly. Last night he lay unconscious
on the floor Of u room in the Upper
Guardhousc, and unable to State
anything in relation to the row.
Jake Lloyd, colorcd policeman,
severely injured on the head by q
club, was last night delirious.
j. II. Holmes, son Of Professor
T. S. Holmes, inhumanly beaten
1,