U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 31, 1876_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In response to the resolution of the Senate of July 20, 1876, calling
upon the President to communicate to the Senate, if in his opinion not
incompatible with the public interest, any information in regard to the
slaughter of American citizens at Hamburg, S.C., I have the honor to
submit the following inclosures, to wit:
No. 1. Letter of the 22d of July, 1876, from Governor D.H. Chamberlain,
of South Carolina, to me.
No. 2. My reply thereto.
No. 3. Report of Hon. William Stone, attorney-general of South Carolina.
No. 4. Report of General H.W. Purvis, adjutant and inspector general of
South Carolina.
No. 5. Copy of evidence taken before a coroner's jury investigating
facts relating to the Hamburg massacre.
No. 6. Printed copy of statement by M.C. Butler, of South Carolina.
No. 7. Printed letter from the same to the editors of the Journal of
Commerce.
No. 8. Copy of letter from Governor Chamberlain to the Hon. T.J.
Robertson.
No. 9. An address to the American people by the colored citizens of
Charleston, S.C.
No. 10. An address by a committee appointed at a convention of leading
representatives of Columbia, S.
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