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standing near me

returned the [[strikethrough]] crowd [[/strikethrough]] fire. I stood and begged them to remember the women and children on the camp ground, as they were standing between the White people, and the Colored people's meeting, and innocent persons were in great danger of being wounded and killed.

Previous to this I had noticed [[strikethough]] that [[strikethrough]] about thirty or forty young Colored men who had formed a line on the outer circle of the place occupied by the Colored people with clubs in their hands, screaming to me endeavoring to protect the Colored people while they were worshipping.

Some one suggested to me that the line formed by the Colored persons, with the clubs in their hands, was giving umbrage to those drunken men, and suggested the propriety of asking those Colored persons to lay aside their clubs, which I did, and the colored people did lay them down so far as I saw.

After a number of pistol shots had