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these young men will keep agitating the thing until their numbers increase.  I then stated to him a scene which had taken place at a Camp Meeting a year ago - which was similar to the present and asked Mr. Mulineax to go to the blacks and request they put away their clubs and if they did so I did not think there would be any further trouble, not believing that the blacks would make any attack upon the whites. Mr. Mulineux started in the direction of the blacks - before it was possible for him to arrive at the confines of their encampment, [[strikethrough]] then I saw Then I immediately left for the [[/strikethrough]] the blacks commenced an indiscriminate fire in the direction of the young men and the white encampment.  This I saw - then I immediately left for the white encampment, and saw no more of the fighting. At the time of the commencement of the firing, I was about 20 or 30 yards from the black facing obliquely towards them. I saw no one return the fire of the blacks. I saw not less than 3 or more than 5 shots fired by the blacks. I left the camp ground early in the morning. On the evening of the riot I had my family upon the Camp ground - the females of the family left the camp ground between 10 & 11 o'clock in the evening. This is all I know about the matter of my personal knowledge.
F.G. Harman