The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-01-12
MASS NETTING AT SUMMIT.
The People DisproYe and Indignantly De-
ROunce the Charge Of LaWleSsness.
a TriumpI.ant vindicafion.
Men of Both Parties Join in 1t.

We, the undersigned citizens of the tow
OF Summit, Pike county, Mississippi d
hereby endorse and approve the subjoine'
report prepared by a majority of the com
mittee who were appointed at the mas
meeting of the citizens Of the town of sum
nit, held ut the Masonic Hall. on Saturda.
evening, January 1st, 1876, for the purpos
OF investigating the charges made agains
this community in the dispatches of w. b
Redmond, through NJ. Shaughnessy, to TIN
Commissioner of L. 5. Internal Revenue, a
Washington, under date of December %
1875:
| signed by more than one hundred citizens.
I'VE, the Committee, beg leave to submit
the following condensed statement as tht
result of our investigations:
'W B. Redmond took up his residence
here at the house of Mr.. W. J. Bradshaw
sometime in the month of November-short
| Is after the general election-and continued
to reside here until about two days before
| Christmas. We knew nothing of his ofticia
capacity a Deputy Collector of [. 5. In-
ternal Revenue, except upon his own repre-
sentation, having never seen any public
announcement of that fact. and our inter
course with him during that period was of
personally friendly nature. His stay al
this place was characterized by repeated
acts of hospitality being extended to him
| by some of our .aost respected and worthy
citizens
On Thursday morning, the 23d day of De
cember, while encamped near the town OF
Sum NIT with their wagons and teams on
their way to market, party of citizens OF
Amite county reported that they were fired
into by unknown persons and one of their
number seriously wounded. Coming into
town, the report of the shooting created
considerable excitement during the day,
eliciting various conjectures as to who
were the probable perpetrators of the decd.
When, towards evening, quite a crowd
(white and colored) had collected at the
market house; while assembled there, and
during which time Christmas whisky flowed
freely, "a disturbance took place which re-
suited in blows being exchanged and the
firing of one pistol shot, without damage,
between two or three persons, which was
soon quelled by the peace officers of the
town. Redmond, it appears, was in the
market house at the time and near the scene
of the difficulty, in com pany with tire Mayor
of the town, and remained there until the
disturbance had subsidized and then repaired
to the store of Messrs. Levy 4 Moyse, where
he remained until about dark; and that
Thursday night he is reported to have
left on the north bound passenger train, at
which time we have seen no more of him
1IDa
derby and good government of the town. we
beg to refute the charge that our peace Off
GERS have proved inadequate to protect
either Redmond or any one else from being
STACKED and unlaWfqlly driven out. and so
far as we have been able to ascertain we can
safely assert that no such demonstration as
that of IAN armed body, mum bering from
fifty to seventy five men" pursuing him and
compelling him to leave this place has ever
occurred on the contrary, we boast that we
are l9w-abiding people and will lend not
only cur moral influence but also our ply
steal aid to the prompt and rigid enforce
ment of the laws. and the inviolate preser-
Walton of the peace of the community.
We haveAn o personal knowledge of the
facts upon which Redmond predicates his
report as to the people ofAmite county, adm
for that reasOn refrain from expressing any
opinion as to their Truth or falsity but for
the fair fame of our own people We disclaim
the general charge of threatening to resist
an officer of the Civil service, and repudiate
it with scOrn and contempt as being pn-
founded in truth and in fact.
We unhesitatingly express the belief that
no occasion ever existed to necessitate the
departure of hedmOnd from Summit, On
account of any demonstration made by the
people here toward him, either personally
or in his official capacity. and that he wonld
be as perfectly secure from personal injury,
were he to return now, as ne has ever been
since he has lived here.
We offer this public statement in the
hope that we, as a community, may be re-
licved of the stigma which such unfounded
assertions may haYe brought upon Us, and
in order that we may escape the disorder
and confusion into which our material in
terests will be drawn by the presence of
troops in our neighboring county of Amite.
We depreGate lhe necessity. II any such
ever existed, and confidently believe that
the whole people of this county will JON
US in the desire that so great public ca
laMity may be aYerted.
Respectfully submitted:
Signed] +. ENos,
WA B. HAMILToN,
W. LEE PATTON,
CHAs. w. BEAM,