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General driven from the town. He with his officers and a small squad of soldiers and some loyal citizens who volunteered were obliged to remain there during Thursday and Friday nights.

The origin and results of the riot may be summed up briefly as follows: 

The remote cause was the feeling of bitterness which had always existed between the two classes. The minor affrays which occurred daily, especially between the police and colored soldiers. 

The general tone of certain City papers which in articles that have appeared almost daily, have councilled the ton whites to open hostilities with the blacks. 

The immediate cause was the collision heretofore spoken of between a few policemen and negroes on the evening of the 30th of April in which both parties may be equally culpable, followed on the evening of the 1st May by another collision of a more serious nature, and subsequently by an indiscriminate attack upon inoffensive colored men and women.

Three negro churches were burned, also eight (8) school houses, five (5) of which belonged to the United States Government, and about fifty (50) private dwellings, owned, occupied or inhabited by freedmen as homes, and in which they had all their personal property, scanty though it be, yet valuable to them and in many instances containing the hard earnings of months of labor. 

Large sums of money were taken by police and others, the amounts varying five (5) to five hundred (500) dollars, the latter being quite frequent owing to the fact that many