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THE DARK DAYS Tillman Tails tha Story of the Struglas of 1875 IN SOUTH CAROLINA An Address Delivered by Senator Tillman at the Red Shirt Reunion at Anderson, S. C., on August 25, in the Presence of Several Thousand Enthusiastic People. The Hamburg. Riot. Tl<rl<rs> AM.I.k 1?' >uubc niui l\,u IUIU JUU I HO L Ulglll that he could tell more about the Hamburg riot than I could because he would not have to criminate himself. As for that I have nothing to conceal about the Hamburg riot. I told the Republicans in the senate that we had to shoot negroes to get relief from the galling tyranny to which we had been subjected and, while my utterances were used in the Republican campaign book for J 900, I think my very boldness and the frankness with which I explained conditions did more to enlighten and disarm the fanatics than anything else I could have said. Even Senator Hoar was so impressed that he became my warm personal friend. Because of the potent influence in arousing the white men of the State to their duty, 1 shall give you the story of the Hamburg riot in full, not dealing at this time with the two Ned Tennant riots and the Ellenton riot. The third of these disturbances or riots occurred in Hamburg in July, 1876, and this tragic episode in the rtruggie for white supremacy caused more widespread comment throughout the north and was more far reaching in its influence upon the fortunes of the white people of South Carolina than anything of the kind which ever occurred in the State. Congress appointed an investigation committee to take testimony and the bloody shirt was waved by the northern press and politicians from one end of the country to the other. The two preceding disturbances, of which I have spoken, while causing great excitement atjd uneasiness, had resulted in no blood shed other than the wounding of two negroes, near Dr. McKie's, but the Hamburg riot caused the death of seven negroes and one white man. while two negroes and another white man were seriously wounded. The cause of the trouble, as in the two r\ea lennant riots, was the ne gro militia. The town of Hamburg, opposite the city of Augusta, and thirteen miles below where I was born and reared and was then living, had been a prosperous mart of trade between 1840 and 1860. At one time it had a population of between 3,000 and 4,000 and did an immense business with the South Carolina planters . Owing to its liability to overflow by the Savannah river it had begun to decline and at the time of which I write it was occupied almost entirely by negroes. The white population consisted of a few families. The number of stores was small. The negro population in 1876 probably numbered 1,200 and it bad become an harbor of refuge for all of the cow thieves, cotton thieves, house burners, and other types of crimiuals among the negroes. Owing to the fact that the municipal government was composed of negroes, the town marshal was a negro. Gen. Prince R. Itivers, an ex-Union soldier, commander of the negro militiu. State Senator from Aiken county and Trial Justice, lived there and the negroes were exceedingly insolent and it was dangerous for white men to go through the town unless they were well armed. A negro militia cotunanv of about one hundred men had been organized In this lawless den and one Dock Adams was captain. On the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1876. thiB company was drilling and parading on Main street and as was usual a very large proportion of the negr > population were admiring specta^ tors. A young man, Thomas But; ler. whose father lived on the Li/h | hill two miles away, returning home from Augusta whither he had been on business found the street blocked by the negro militia company. The militia were inarching "company front" and the line extended from sidewalk to sidewalk. As young Butler approached, instead of throw: ing his men Into "column of fours" or "column of platoons" or wheeling them out of the way. Dock Adams gave the order to "chargo bayonets" with the view no doubt of showing ofT before the assembled negroes and to compel the young white man to turn his horse around and flee. But he was not of that I kind, and knowing he had a right to the highway, as th? annrAaem?-?r I _ . - ? ? v/?V/U4U"Jj line of leveled bayonets came forward be stopped bis buggy and reached for his pistol, cocked it and shouted. "I'll shoot the first, man who sticks a bayonet in my horse." He was alone and there were more than 100 negroes with Springfield rifles and gleaming bayonets and several hundred others looking on. He knew and the negroes knew that they could butcher him with great j ease, but they felt certain he would klil one or moro of them before it. could be done. The captain shouted "halt!" and opened the 1 ranks so that Butler could pa3& and ' in a little while dismissed his com- < pany and went to Gen. Prince Rivera and swore out a warrant hcarg- ? ing young Butler with interfering p with his company at drill. Butler 1 went on home and told bis father 1 wfeat had happened, and Mr. Robert 1 Butler, whose plantation lay above Hamburg and who had a great deal of trouble with negro' thieves and was in every way a very pugnacious man, hurried to ?the trial Justice and swore out a warrant for Adams for obstructing the highway. The trial was set for the succeeding Saturday. July .8 The incident was noised about all over the counties of Edgefield and Aiken in a very little "while. It had been the settled purpose of the leading white men of Edgefield to seise the first opportunity that the negroes might offer them to provoke a riot and tach the negroes a lesson, as it was generally believed that nothing but bloodshed and a good deal of It could so well answer the purpose of redeeming the Sfato f rnm noorrn ?n?l carpet bag rule. Mr. Robert Butler sent to Edgefield for Gen. M. C. Butler to defend hiB son and prosecute Adams at the trial. Col. A. P. Butler, the captain of the Sweetwater Sabre Club. summoned our company to meet at Summer Hill, three miles from Hamburg at 12 o'clock. It was our purpose to attend the trial to see that young Butler had protection and, if any opportunity offered, to set the ball rolling, and if one did not offer, we were to make one. We did not go in uniform and were expressly ordered to leave our rifles and carbines so that when assembled we were only armed with plBtols. Various schemes were presented and discussed but nothing definite was arranged except that we would go to Hamburg in a body at 4 o'clock, the time for the trial and see what would turn up. The fact, however, that we had assembled was made known to Prince Rivers and when the company reached Hamburg we were Informed that the trial had been postponed and it appeared for a while that all of our trouble and pains as well as the schemes we had formulated would come to naught. Dock Adams had assembled his company in the armory of the Sibley building, a two-story brick structure on the corner of Main and River streets. General Rivers had disappeared from town. There was much talking and planning among the leaders, the two Butlers and others of the leading citizens. At about 5 o'clock it was de i mfu mai me aemana should ho made of Dock Adamms to surrender his guns, and notice to that effect was sent him by Gen. M. C. Butler with the further information that he had Bhown that the guns were a menace to peace and good orde>aud that the whites having lost nl! patience were resolved to put an end to his outrageous and Insolcn* conduct. When the demand was made he promptly and peremptorlally refused. He was then told that we would take them. When the sun was about half an hour high the little band of white men, num bering about seventy in all, of whom forty-five belonged to the Sw??-twater Sabre Club, rode down Main street towards the armory and wheeling Into a cross street we approached the river and halted In the street which was oompied hy the trestle of the C. C. and A railroad. now the Southern railway. The Sibley building was on the southwest corner of the square. We dismounted in regular cavalry fashion and linked bridles. All of the disengaged men lined up. Then the order came. "All men having carbines or rifles stop five paces to the front." Only five responded. It was now shown how great a mistake had been made in ordering ???" I left at home. The purpose of that order Is easy to understand. We did not wish it to appear that we had come to Hamburg with malice nforethought, but merely as spectators at the Butler trial. Events had shaped themselves so that the purpose of compelling the surrender of the arms by the. negroes once formed th?re was no time to make new preparations. Sixty white men (the others were detailed to take care of the horses) were about to attack 100 negroes who were armed with the most approved army rifles, had plenty of ammunition, and were fortified ao to speak in a brick fort, while the whites had shot guns and pistols. But the difference in the blood and the color of the skin far more than made up the odds in the armament. The five men to whom the duty was assigned of opening the attack were Henry Getsen, Banlap Phinney, McKie Meriwether. Thos. Settles and DemitriouB Myers. I will always remember with sadness an incident which took place just at this time. Young McKie Meriwether, belonging to the sabre vluh, but his father did not. The older man, Joseph Meriwether, it will bo remembered, was the manager of Shaw's Mill two years before, who had manipulated that ho* ana ed the negro majority into a white majority. He had heard of the trial and had brought hi9 Wincester i rifle with him. When the elder Meriwether joined the squad, which was to take position behind the 1 abutment of the railroad bridge, i diagonally In front of the Sibley < building and some seventy-five yards ' away, his son, a very handsome 1 young man, about 2.S years of age, i came running towards him and un- i buckling the pistol as he ran. he < handed the two pistols to his fatb- ' er and said. "Here. papa, take these < and let me have the rifle." The 1 exchange was made and the elder ! man took bis place in the rankB. 1 while tbo younger, along with the 1 other four, stepped off at a lively ' pace towards the end of the bridge. ' They marched in full view of the 1 negroes who could aee them from 1 the windows of the Sibley building. 1 The rest of the men were deployed s :>n the other two sides of the square, ' being on the north and eaet sides 1 Df the Sibley buildinr. which had no 1 windows on those sides. In fact. It < bad no windows at all exdapt on the ? front towards the river. At ? be ' onged to th* $r&t vet of fo\ird, I, < was detailed along with Pierce Butler and James McKie and one other whose name I forget, and placed In position at the northwest corner of the square directly In the rear of the Sibley building. The square, I will state, was a small one, with sides probably seventy-five yards long. The entrance to the second story of the Sibley building where the negroes were in hiding, was by a pair of steps running up on the outside from Main street to a landing in front of the door on the west side. The sun was just setting when orders were given to the sauad at the bridge abutment to begin firing on the building. The other whites were stationed up and down the sidewalks on the northern and eastern sides of the square, while the western side was left unguarded. As both side3 were using breech-loading guns notwithstanding only five white men were doing any shooting, the fusilade of shots was very rapid. The armory had five windows and the negroes were firing from these, but most of the shots must have been fired while they were squatted below the window sills and their guns were elevated as there was littlo or no signs of where the bullets went. The marks of the bullets on the sand stone window sills are still to be seen though filled up level with cement. The noise of the battle, if it may be termed one, was of course heard in Augusta and soon a considerable body of men gathered on the Georgia bank, but as some stray bullets from the negroes" rifles at the winlows gave them notice that they were in danger, they very soon retired out of sight. However, It was not long after dark before men belonging to the military organizations in Augusta and others began to pour across the bridge with arms to take part in the fray. The square on which the Sibley building stood had two or three other stories on the Main street side. The old bank building was on Jthe southeastern corner and there were several small wooden shanties on other pans of the square. As soon as darkness fell the whites began to search all of these buildings and very shortly a negro man was discovered in hiding. He was dragged out while quailing at the top of his voice through fright. He was shot by some one who in the excitement and anger forgot himself and thnilD'h n r\t carinnaN* J LI UUV Dutiuumj nuuuucu UIH screams and cries resopndcd so as to be heard for half a mile arodnd. Just alK)ut this time we were all shocked and enraged by the news from the bridge abutment that McKie Meklwether. the brave young man whose exchange of arniB with his father, I have mentioned, had been killed. There has always been some mystery about his death. He along with the other four riflemen, had been firing at the windows when his brain was pierced by a ball which entered at the top of his head. It was never known whether he was shot from above by some one who crossed the bridge or was struck by a ball from the armory which hit some piece of iron of iron and glanced downward. If the white men were determined when they began that bloody business, this sad and unexpected death added ten-fold fury to their feelings. The men who I were holding the horses had hitched them all by this time in a vacant lot and without orders from anyone and apparently without plan they joined in. A? soon as it was entirely dark the negroes in the armory took advantage of the opportunity to make their escape down the steps of which I have spoken and to flee UP the river Snmo ' ui Uicuin were too much frightened to make this attempt arul sought concealment in the cellar and other hiding places in the stores. Some of them ripped up the floors and hid under them. The whites from Augusta brought over at Gen. Rntler's request a small piece of artillery which was loaded with pieces of iron (no regular balls were available) and fired off in the front of the Sibley building. After two discharges there was no further firing from the negroes as all who could had fled and the town was deserted. The square which was entirely surrounded by this time was searched thoroughly. Every nook and corner of every building was examined by the whites who broke in the doors with axes. Prisoners to the number of some thirty or forty men were captured and as soon as taken were placed under guard on River street some 7 5 yards above the wagon bridge. About 8:30 o'clock after a period of intense darkness the moon rose and began to cast its lurid light over the strange and unaccustomed scene. The number of whites had increased immensely by this time and the cnQrenlnn? ?pitrues worxed northward from the Sibley building, which had been the first one taken and thoroughly searched. Two negroes who had reasons to know that their lives would not be spared if captured, tried to make their escape by Jumping over the fence on the north side >f the square and running down tbe street towards the trestle. The first to do this was dim Cook, the tow*n marshal!, who had in the years of aegro rule, clubbed a great number of white men and in every way Illustrated his brutal and fiendish hate af tbe whites as well as the delight he took in degrading them. As he sprang ove.r the fence tbe squad to which I belonged was tbe first to fire. We all fired once at him. fie ran down the center of the street ?wards the railroad trestle, towards :he moon so that It was easy to see he whole performance. White men were standing or sitting on both sides of the street and as he ran between these they fired at him. the wonder being that as the street was larrow tbe bullets did not wound 1 >r kill the white men opposie. It seemed as though Cook was hound 6 escape as be had nearly reached be trestle and none of the pistol bullets appeared to have taken effect. Fear lent speed to his flight and the crack of the pistols, some forty or fifty of which must have been fired at him, sounded like so many pop-guns. Suddenly the loud reprot of a shotgun rang out and Cook tumbled In a heap almost turning a somersault. Pierce Butler and I, hearing that it was Cook that had been killed, had the curiosity to leave our posts and walk down to where be was lying and as the shadows made it somewhat doubtful, Pierce struck a match and being very familiar with Cook's face, remarked with satisfaction, "Yes, it's Cook." This negro was more hated by the whites of the surrounding country than any other Individual of the race. A large part of his face had been torn away by the buckshot which had laid him low after all of the pistol balls had missed their mark. A while afterwards when the searching parties had worked their way through the different buildings on the square another negro jumped over the fence at the same spot, but he had no time to run. Pierce Butler and I, who had remained togethei the entire night, were standing or the back stepB of Lipfleld's store waiting for him to bring us some wa ter from the well. Two men fron Augusta, whose names I never learn ed. but who wore the uniform of th< Clinch Rifles, had just obtained wa ter and were standing on the side walk. The negro leaped the fencr at the rear of the store, but fel dead almost instantly. The two ri flemen had thrown their guns, whicl gleamed in the moon light, to theli shoulders and fired with deadly ef feet. This was one of the negr< militiamen. The moon by this tim< was getting high in the heavens, am it must have been nearly elevei o'clock. The searching was ende< by breaking in the front door o Louis Schiller's store, which was al so his residence. Schiller was a lov Jew, who had joined the negroes and had been given office by them having held the position of count; auditor until the county of Aikei was set apart. We wanted to hani him as the resentment against whlti scalawags was intense. He had beei born and raised in Hamburg am had really sold himself to the ne groes. We did not find him in th< hnilRO loornn/i ..w-wv, v?.v .v?i avu uun ndiUH lUit the poor wretch escaped us by climb ing through a trap door which lei out on the roof and that he wa lying behind a parapet on top o the house while execrations agains his name and the purpose to swim him was being expressed by tin white men below. All of the worl being practically finished the white began to disperse and those fron Augusta to retrace their steps acros the bridge. Gen. Butler and Col Butler had very quietly departei some time before, without leavini any orders and the mob. if it ma; bo called such, rapidly thinued out About this time Jas. Lanham, m; neighbor, and Jas. McKie, who hai been on the post with me a grea part of the night, and both firs cousins of young Meriwether, win had been killed, came to where i group of us were standing. One o them asked the question as to wheth er it was not a dear piece of worl for us to lose one of our best mei and have only two negroes dead ant another wounded. It was agreec that we could not have a story like that go out as a record of the night's work. Bantham said to me, "I hav< no balls In mV nlaSnl an.* nn ?j , .iw >-?l LI lUfi' es." I told him that I had only shot once at Cook and had five balls loft We exchanged pistols and he and McKle soon found others of their way of thinking. The party made thoii way to the place where the ncgrc prisoners were held and Henry Getson, who lived two miles frotr. Hamburg and who knew all the negroes in the town and neighborhood, was asked to designate those of thr meanest character and most worthy of death. As fast as he would select from among the prisoners those he thought ought to be killed?all militiamen?they were taken off a little ways down the street and shot. After five had been thus dealt with the little squad of white men who were still remaining In town seemed satisfied and it was decided that the rest of the negroes, some 25 or 30 in number, should be allowed to go. The permission was given and they were told to go up the street and you may depend on <it "that they were not slow to move. When they had got about 50 yards away the crowd fired a volley over their heads, but I could not Bee that it added anything to the speed which they were making. If young MeriWothor HoH i-*? * * - ...... u.u uui iubi nis 11 ie i do not think any of these last negroes would have been killed, but the purpose of our visit to Hamburg was to strike terror and the next morning (Sunday), when the negroes who ad fled to the swamps returned ^ftome of them never did return, but kept on going) the ghastly sight which met their gaze of seven dead egroes lying stark and stiff certainly had Its effect. One of those doomed to die es<wped in a rather curious way. Whether It was that the white men were sick of the bloody work or something el6e. I do not know. Being the last of the Aoomed men. they either aimed badly or some of them did not fire at all at the word of command. When the shots rang out this negro fell as though dead and as soon as the whites went away ho crawled into the high weeds which were near the road and thus escaped with only a wound in his thigh. He was afterwards the star witnese against us and the means of getting the names of some of the men who were there. His name was Pomp Curry and by a strange coincidence he was the boy who. when I went to school at Liberty Hill In 1861 and 1862 and hoarded with Mr. Klab Edwards, oaado our fires, brought wood, blacked ebbos, etc. He disappeared, whether by death or (right, 1 do not know. After the election of 1876 1 never heard of him again. It was now after midnight and the moon high in the heavons looked down peacefully on the deserted town and dead negroes, whose lives had been offered up as a sacrifice to the fanatical teachings and fiendish hate of those who sought to substitute the rule of the African for that of the- Cancasion in South Carolina. The party with which I left Hamburg was the last to leave the place, i We got our horses and when we approached the outskirts of the town we stopped at the famous Sipoui ' Spring, whose waters gushed from i the bluffs back of the town. In the better days of the town this BDrine ! had been provided with granite coping and cover and was always a place for travelers to slake their ) thirst as they came in or to guard against it as they were leaving, the > roads leading through a dry and i sandy region. The names of the ? men in the party, as I remember, were: Henry Getsen, chief of our ' drum head court martial, Milledge i Home, who lived two miles below > me, James Lanhan, Gus Glover, Joe - Mays, Sam Mays, Henry Simpston, i John Swearingen, Dunlap Phinney, - William Cook and myself. Many i of these are dead. When we had - drank and washed, John Swearingen - stepped up on tho bank behind the 3 spring and seizing the post upon 1 upon which was nailed a notice, - "Five dollars fine for dipping any 3 unclean vessel in this spring," broke r it off at the ground and threw it - into the middle of the road, saying 3 with an oath, that Jim Cook would 5 never arrest another white man for ^ drinking at that spring. 3 Tills was an allusion to an Incident 1 of the preceding year when Kev. f Mahlea Padgett, who was carrying - cotton to Augusta, having no cup v had stopped at the spring and drank ? and had been arrested by Cook and ? hurried before the town council, y charged with having broken the or3 dinance of the town because having 5 drank from the spring he had dipe ped an unclean vessel in it. He 3 was found guilty and fined five dol' lars. This had been a momentous and e strenuous day's work. We were all 1 tired but more than satisfied with " the result. When wo reached Henry Getsen's liousn li*> nnVnH <jo V.V ?U|I 8 and eat some watermelons, which f we very gladly did, and as all of the 1 others except Home lived further ? up the road than myself, we kept 0 company as wo wended our way 1 homward. The first streaks of dawn 8 were reddening tho east when 1 1 reached my mother's, where I had s left my wife. My mother was taken ill a short time afterwards and died ^ the latter part of August. Most of < the men who had organized and cary riod out this program lived in Edge field county, but a t few were citly zens of Aiken living along the Edgei field line. t 1 FEMALE COLLEGE BURNED. 3 1 f The l'ride of the Methodist in the State Laid hnv. c i The Columbia Female College, the pride of the Methodist of the 1 State, was destroyed by fire at half" past two o'clock Thursday morning. [ It was totally destroyed. It is supposed the fire was caused by de. fective electric wires. The plant was valued at $250,000 and was insured for seventy-five f thousand dollars. There was ten . thousand more on the equipment. ( The property was bonded for sixty thousand and twenty odd thousand more in floating debt. I .InnMotln- ? - - - ( nuuiu leave nothing ' but bare ruins and grounds, but | arrangements are going right ahead for the rebuilding and opening for the present session In the Colonial hotel property, tho former plant of the college. The trustees are called to meet next Tuesday. COTTON HARVESTER. To Ho Tried at Bennettsville in Very Hliort Time. Mr. Augus Campbell, representing Mr. Theodore H. Price, of New York, was in nennett8ville Wednesday for the purpose of securing a field of cotton to be used in the demonstration of a cotton harvester. Mr. Campbell found what he wanted, and has purchased one hundred acres from Ex-Stnator John L. McLaurin. 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Somebody has figured out that the average boy who is dependent upon his parents for a livelihood until he reaches the age of twenty-one years cost them four thousand dollars. On this basis of calculation a brood, for instance, of six boys would represent an nuH-f -' * * ui iweniy-iour thousand dollars by the time they got away from the home roost. The question arises does it pay to raise boys and are there no other crops that would prove more profitable? If a boy turns out to be a cigarette fiend with a breath like a turkey buzzard and a laugh that would make the untutored donkey feel perfectly at home in his society and with an untrammeled and unconquerable desire to avoid work, it is safe to say that that his parents might have invested their four thousand dollars at a much better advantage. But if the boy grows up to manhood with the lesson well learned that wealth and success grow only on bushes watered by the sweat of one's brow, the parents need not begrudge whatever they have spent on him. for he will b-? a source of increasing pride and Joy to their hearts, and when they v>c.w old and their hands tremb'o and their legs wabble and their step is slow and tattering they have two strong .arms to lean upon and help .hem over ail the rough places thai lie in their twilight path. Killed by Airship. At Juvis sur Orge, France, E. I.efebvre, the French aviator, was killed by a fall in his aeroplane in which he was practicing over the aviation field Wednesday afternoon. M. Lefebvrc sustained mortal injuries when the machine crashed to the ground. Aid was rendered him but he died soon after. The cause of the accident remains a mystery. Tf all ?- -- - .. .... num una no piay Is bad for the children in the home, ns It certainly is, it is also true that all play and no work is just as harmful. In many homes while the mother weare herself out in doing the entire household work the daughter is always well dressed and spends her time in idleness. And while the father toils hard throughout the day tho son struts around with a cigarette in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, to develop Into a first-class loafer. Such a condition is bad to both parents and children and ruinous to home life. Tl^ere seems to be a determination on the part of some of Peary's friends to try and make it appear that he and not Cook was the first to discover the North Pole. But wo do not believe that the little scheme will work. a Shingle Mill. ir1e*<4 ? l?/ ~ wc i*ma n n i nki e m i li on ih6 MOO to U>/X? shlnglss prr day. 4 to 10 H. P.J ?. Carriage has automatic return notion. eST GOODS -BEST PRICES'* rlt? ot for cIom price quotations. 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