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(pointing in the direction of the white peoples encampment) had been hung, we should not have had any of this trouble. A man who I afterwards learned to be by name "Hall" living at Guilford, Howard County - remarked that we had no business to have the negroes there anyhow - to which I replied it was a time honored custom which had never been departed from to my knowledge - he replied that we never had a "Civil Rights Bill" before,- I told him we were not there to discuss the "Civil Rights Bill" and left him. I subsequently saw Mewburn in the white peoples enclosure talking very loudly - cannot remember what he said.  About daylight I visited the place of the confligration [[conflagration]] again and then I found that they had removed the work of destruction - (from which they had been deterred by the Revd & Mr. Robinson - who stated to them that we were strong enough to stop them and meant to do it.) Then I again met Mr. Mewburn, who was as before not actually engaged in the vandalism but was walking about among the ruins of the tents vying on others to the work of destruction and calling their attention to sundry articles such as dishes, plates, bonnets, boxes &c., all the time engaged in denunciations of the negroes, and in loud and boisterous

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