Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-28
Speech of MIR. Rainey.
ON THE HAMBURG MASSACRE,

dressed the House as follows
) Sir, / regret as much as any man herr
that outbreak at Hamburg. | regre
that the proceeding was measurably
countenanced by cavalier who has de
scended from noble stock, the very
best that peopled the soil of Carolina
When l make the assertion ! am not in
fuenced by partisan prejudice. ] dc
not speak from hearsay or mere conjec
ture. | am sustained in what | say by
the democratic papers of South Caro-
lima. have in my hands the News and
Courier, the leading democratic paper
of the State, which contains an article
from the Augusta Chronicle and Consti-
nationalist, stating the very fact that
General Butler went from Hamburg
across the bridge into Augusta, saw
young men over there and said to them
Things over in Hamburg look squally.
Young men, we may want you over
there this evening. Get yourself in
readiness"
The edition of this democratic paper,
published in the city of Augusta, says
that Gen. Butler made use of that ex-
preston, and that those young men, full,
ly armed, and to the number of two or
three hundred, went over there, and, sir,
what are we to say of the brave white
men who fought in the Confederate army,
coming out in an armed force to cap
ture and subugate forty defenceless me-
groes collected in building? In there
they could not defend themselves. These
men said they were willing to surrender
the few arms they had, but not until
Gen. Butler or some one else high in
authority should give them assurance
that they themselves, their lives and
their property, should be secure. Did
they expect from Gen. Butler any more
than is acceded to them by the Constitu-
ton?
| ask whether they had not as much
a right to bear arms as General Butler
or any body else? Had they menaced
or threatened any one while engaged in
that parade on the 4th of July? No,
sir The whole trouble arose because a
few men, infamed with whiskey and
with determination to subdue the me-
gro in the South, told them with threats
that they must stand from across the
road 80 that these men might be enabled
to drive by unmolested. Why sir, just
think of it; what would be thought OF
it here in Washington city, if when a
military company was parading on the
4th of July two men should come up in
buggy and demand of the officers that
the company should get out of the way,
and if they did not should at once set to
work to murder the men of that mill
tary company?
| hSh JOuS tlLlACn5 VI bllt lJulIEll
States, would you stand it2 / ask you,
brave men who fought for your coun-
try's liberties long before you took part
in the war of the rebellion, would YOU
stand it l ask you, proud Southern
men, who boast of your gallantry, your
intelligence and your superiority to my
race, would you stand it? l ask you,
men of the North, who sacrificed your
blood and treasure, who sacrificed the
lives of your sons and your relatives
would you stand it? Do you then ex.
pect the negroes to stand all this Dc
you then expect my race to submit
meekly to the continual persecution ant
Massacre by these people in the South
Are you not going to allow us any RICH
of self-defence in the name of my race
my people; in the name of humanity
in the name of God, ask you whether
we are to be American citizens, with al
the rights and immunities of citizens, Oh
whether we are to be vassals and slaves
Again | ask you to tell us whether these
things are to go on, so that we may un
derstand now and henceforth what w,
are to expect.
At the expiration of his time Mr.
Rainey produced editorials from tn,
Charleston News and Courier candemn
ing the killing of the prisoners, will
, other extracts from the same subject.
An lrishman was brought up before
Q justice of the peace on charge of va
grancy, and was thus questioned
t :" What trade are you ?" "Sure, now
your honor, I'm sailor "You
: seafaring mani question whether yor
: have ever been to sea in your life
0 Sure, now and does your honor thinl
: | came over from Ireland in a wagin +?
AN IMMENSE HoG.-A hog raised i
Monroe, Mo, to be exhibited at the Ger
q tennial, is described as being Of blac
i and white color, and is cross of tn
China and Poland 1t is five years ole
j was born in Missouri, on the farm
! Joseph Pond. 1t measures seven fee
Al