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0597

Baltimore, Md. Sept. 28, 1866.

I was at the Camp meeting at Shipleys Woods on Thursday Aug. 30, 1866. Previously to any firing of pistols I saw ten or twelve young men - of those two or three were noisy, and talking loud. I asked what was the trouble, one of them said he had been knocked down with a club by a negro. This man manifested a disposition to get hold of the negro to punish him. I then begged of him to desist, and if he met with him hereafter punish him for the offence. He or some other of the party then used abusive language to me. I then called the attention of one of the managers of the ground (Mr. George Warfield ) to the manifest disposition on the part of the blacks as well as of the whites to fight - the negroes as well as white men were at this time brandishing clubs. Mr. Warfield having said I think there will be no trouble, I then turned to Mr. John Mulineax a constable of Ann Arundel County stating to him that I feared there would be trouble - he in reply said these young men are not in sufficient number to attack the blacks, I then said to him, you see these negroes brandishing their clubs,