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negroes with their pistols, canes and revolvers.

There were wounded Samuel Wise (color.) in neck and shoulder by pistol shot, George Savage (colored) about neck and shoulders, cut with knife, Jacob Crop (colored) badly beaten by Lewis. A Colored Boy badly shot. An old white man (name unknown) shot twice in arm. A colored man (name unknown) arm scratched by pistol ball but not injured. Major Parker (colored) was beaten and bruised. Martha White (a colored woman) head badly cut by a blow with a revolver in the hands of Edward Bird. A white man (name unknown) in finger by pistol ball

None of the persons wounded, except the white man last mentioned, had taken any part in the quarrel, but were peacable and well behaved. And no colored person except Henry Strattan (unless perhaps Snead against Lewis' horse) at any time raised a hand against any person, and he was perfectly quiet when the assault was made upon the colored crowd

Whatever may have been the individual quarel between Lewis and Snead or between Lewis and Strattan, or whoever may have been to blame, there is no ground upon which the assault upon the inocent inoffensive and helpless mass can be justified. Had Snead or Strattan violated the Law there would have been no dificulty in bringing them to justice by the usual process of law. To which course there could not have been any objection. It is not my purpose or wish to attempt to save any freedman from sufering the penalty of a law he has violated. But I do object and protest against