The Greenville Times

We elsewhere publish an account of the attempted seizure of the chief city in the State by bands of armed negroes; which attempt was, through the spirit and promptitude of the citizens, made to fail miserably; though it is none the less surprising that so audacious an attempt should have been undertaken.

This movement appears to have been for the purpose of reinstating Crosby, Sheriff, and Davenport, Chancery Clerk, into the offices which, after tolerating all manner of plundering and fraud, the tax payers of Warren county had induced them to abandon.

It further appears, from the movements of Crosby and Davenport prior to the outbreak, and from a letter of Cardozo's which we elsewhere publish, and from his instructions to the negro captain of militia, Hall, ignoring superior militia officials, that this campaign was undertaken with the cognizance and sanction of Governor Ames, and was a sequence of his proclamation, which we elsewhere publish:

If this is so, as we can but believe it to be, that Governor Ames incited a mob of irresponsible negroes to attempt the capture of Vicksburg, he has earned a load of infamy that will consign him to utter ruin. He will have forfeited the friendship and favor of all white men, of whatever party; and is responsible to the colored men for the slaughter of nearly a hundred of their race in a purely useless contest.