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below the camp. Col. Hinderson and myself immediately started off to investigate the matter. About the same time Mayor Withers came into camp and accompanied us. Before we got to the church the affray was all over, and unusual and somewhat excited gatherings of both white and colored people were the only symptoms of trouble remaining.
In front of the office of Turner @ Harrington on Royal Street a crowd of about two hundred colored people had assembled. A colored orator somewhat excited was addressing them. I worked my way into the crowd announced myself and spoke a few words, requesting it to disperse and stating that every effort would be made to have all disturbing questions satisfactorily settled, and assuring them that justice should be done in all cases that had arisen. They dispersed in the most orderly and quiet manner, thus going far to confirm the belief I have always had that the colored people are, left to their own instincts, the most orderly and law abiding of all citizens.
I took occasion to take to several of the colored people and to Mr Harrington of the firm above mentioned, urging the impropriety of all action tending to incite disorder, and the necessity of patiently awaiting in such cases the action of such means of redress and of enforcing rights as are provided