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clubs within the circle of the white people's tents and he must have been killed, had it not been that he rolled under the seats, which sheltered him from their blows, until he was rescued.  This man was not in the fight at all, but was [strikethrough] said to [/strikethrough] attending to his master's business about the grounds.

The fight with the blacks was entirely on that portion of the ground which had been allotted to the special use of the col. people, and one of the rules for the government of the meeting was that there should be no mixing of white and colored and when ever any white man except those having the control of the camp went within their bounds, he did it in violation of a rule of the camp-meeting, which had been published from the preacher's stand to the whole congregation.

The grounds allotted to the Col. people were from the rear of the preacher's stand back to their own tents.  It is a fact which no truthful man present can deny, that when the blacks charged  the rioters, which they did several times, they always retreated within the circle of the white people's tents.  They could have as readily retreated through the open space to the right and left of the colored people's tents, where they would not have produced the one hundredth part of the alarm among the women and children and would not have endangered the lives of any of the white people tented on the ground, as the whole melee would then have been outside the white people's encampment.  But it was evident the object of the rioters was to get all the blacks inside the circle of the white people's tents and have the riot among the women and children,