The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-10-24
FROM KENTUCKY.
Outrages upon the Freedmen, and the
innehici mcy OF the law for ,heir
trOtcCtiOu.

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relate II few instances selected from many
which have come unler my own obs,rva
ton, of fearful rulrag,s upon the freed.
men, illustrating the entire inadrunacy of
the protection afforded them by the ex.
isting laws and institutions of the state.
The state laws at best are but poor aifdlrs
Tor the protection of life and property,
and what is worse they are wholly inop-
erativc so soon ms black man is CONCERN
ed The Freedmcns Bureau. of which
lam the representative here. is their only
hope.
The latter prrt of May last, white
man by the name of Brace came up to a
coloreI man with whom he had ,ome
trouble, took large cypress, stick aud
while the cUlorcd man was ARRANGING
something about his team, gave him a
full blow on the side OF tie head nearly
laying lis skull bare for Ihee or foar
inch~. The colored man rel ortcd to me
~ soon us he could yet to my office.
Ills head WIS one complete cot
OF blood and hi, clothes were suurat
his was in the evening. ! mn, diatc.y
had Bruce arrested aud the next day
tined, AMI fined him. lie has not lroub.
led me since When urged to do 50 he
SAID such dongs cost him riIht smart Of
money once, an he should not e caught
80 again. In June had similar cl,c
and administered the same punishment to
one Doughty. lie was sentenced to he
hurg once daring the war 10y Gen. la NJ.
but the removal of the General aboa
twelve hours before he wa- to ~ inr saved
hIs lie. II that removal had not taken
place ! should have one less drsprrat..
character to deal with. In July w came
very near having Il seIiou, riot here
Two railroad men. brothers. by the name
OF Collins, having imbibcd rather freely
OF whlskey, saw IA coIorrd man in the
street having on a uniform coat with /
>. buttons on it, and walking up 10 him
ordered him 10 cut off the buitors; on
his refusing, they attempted to cut them
of, he resented it, and from words they
soon came TO blows Soon the WINE
men began to use knives freely, and other
freedmen came to tie assi-lancc of til,
black man The white men soon LETT.
passing through the dIot upon the
railroad and escaped. The blacks pur-
sued after them, other white men took
guns and started, then other black men
did the same, and for a ,hort time il
looked ike II skrmi,lrine for mrlc on
the railroad. but we were fortunate
enough TO qucll it before any were killed.
and tut ,wu woun led s,v rely and they
have since got we'll. lhetNo white mcn
have kept themselves ont of the way
,iuce then. In September, in Ballard
County, one Oscar turner whipped I'm
mcrciiully two cOlprcd women, Maria
Turner and her daughter Annie The
mother stated unler oath chat the brute
called the girl t the cider house ami
whipped her numerically because the
bune OF barrel WAS Loose and the cider
escaped. Two weeks afterwards he
drove her to his house, took her into the
field, stripped off her clothes, whipped
her with switches, locked her up in Il
hay press aud next u.orning compelled
her to go TO work without breakfast The
next morning he tied up the mother to M
tree, stripped her naked, and beat her
severely leaving her liedtD tue tree. Th;s
was reported to me last Wednesday.
shall try the case on Moniay. The par
ties live about thirty five miles from here.
We had another hard ease last Thursday
evening. A colured man by the name ol
Evcrhart, having Il boy living with IA
Mr.. Howell some nineteen miles away
and having made all preparations to move
INTO Illinois, sent an Older son some nine
teen years Of age accompanied by another
c"lored boy about the same age, after his
younger son, on thursday morning last
MIR. Howell was not at home and his
brother who was there nterposed no OBJ
jeciion to the lad 5 going home to see his
parents, When within about mile Of
home Howell and another man supposed
to b" his brother rode UP ,,hini them
and ordered them 10 halt. They did ~.
Then they ordered them to diSnount.
which they did; Howell holding navy
revolver IN his hand and his brother
shot gun hey then separated the boy
swearing and threatening them. and fin
ally shot one OF them 50 that he died next
morning. The officers are after the muir
dcrcr-, and will have them dead or alive.
\ man from Arkaus IS was passing along
this railroad, AMI was asked how they
managed there 10 get along. lie said
they ''got along lirStrate the Id Yam
KEGS they drove off, made it too hot for
them to stay, AMI as for the Niger if
they did not do as they told them, pad
died them like hcN and brought them to
it, So we get along as well as we did
when they were slaves DR.. Case of
Obon County, Tenn, Senator in the
Tennessee legislature, had his only son
shot and killed not long Since for no
other cause than because the doctor is
strong Union man. The doctor ON The
report Of the gun ran TO his son, who
gasped bur twice afterwards. Imagine
fathers feelings in such a situation.
These mnrderers, women whippers. &c,
are very faiI type OF Johnson's recon