The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-19
KENTUCKY OUTRAGEs.


MURDERS AND oUTRAGEs ON UNION
MEN AND NEGROES-MURDER, ARSON,
RAPE, AND ROASTING OF MEN BEFORE
FIRES. ...... l.-.....
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 1867.
Some time ago we read in the papers
that an officer of the army objected to
having the rebel guns at West Point
marked with the place of their cap ture,
lest IN future years some youth from
the South who came there to be educa-
ted should see the marks and have his
feelings hurt by being reminded Of the
treason or his State. We also heard
of gentleman in the late canvass in
kentucky who was so fearful of hurt
ing the feelings of his auditors that he
always spoke of the war as {" our slight
differences with each other" The sen
sitlveness of these gentlemen was moth
ing, however, when compared with the
deep emotions of kcntuckians. Some
one having recently said that few per-
sons had been deprived OF life and lib
erty in the State of Kentucky without
due process of law, there was forth
with a profound agitation, and the mis-
chirvons person was bitterly dcnounc
ed as a hired Abolitionist sent down
here to SANDER the sublime State and
the angelic inhabitants thereof.
An examination Of the official records
ot ti:e Frcedmcn's Bureau shows that
during the past year nearly five hum
dred murders aud outragrs had been
committed on freedmen alone, to say
nothing of as many more on white
nIen, and perhaps another five hundred
that had never been reported at all, or
taken notice Of officially.
The first paper, voluminous dOcu-
ment, states that in Kenton County,
Amanda Bishop, a daughter of Henry
Bishop, Il colorcd Sergeant in the Uni
ted States Army, was taken while at
work and heaton with club until she
was senselcSs, because she worked for
4 Union citizen, and refused to work for
the rebel who beat her.
On the 18th Of March, 1866, 0. 3.
Duke, at Mount Sterling, KY, shot and
killed an inoffcnsive negro named Hen
" Stone. On the 18th of March, in
Montgomery County, a poor black man
named George Baity was murdered by
some one unknown. On the 2Gth of
March, William Thomas, colored man,
was taken from the Jail at Paris, KY,
and hung by a mob. On the 9th of
April, i'll Montgomery County, Sandy
Crook was murdered in cold blood
On the 18th of May, in the same coun
Nnlc r,.l,
short time before, Ann Rogers, color
ed woman, was killed in Madison
County by William Shaw, a white man
living with Mr. Estill. Ann Rogers
was poor, harmless old creature,
known best as the name of "Antie
Rogers" None of the above murder
ers have been punished. In May, 1866,
a band of men, styling themselves Re
gnlators, went through Boone County,
robbing, burning, and killing negroes.
In the same month, many negroes were
robbed, their houses burnt, and bodies
mutilated, in Owen County. In Mason
County, Harvey Sharp took knife and
cut to pieces VIM. Johnson, a poor
black man. On the l7th of June, three
men beat, on the Tate Creek road,
poor colored man, because he would
not say he stole horse found in their
possession, and which he said they
themselves had stolen.
On the 23d of June, 1865, in Mason
County, Kentucky, Owens Lume out
ragged the person of Cordelia Turner,
black woman. This case, on being re.
ferred to the County Judge, His honor
replied, ''This Court does not receive
negro testimony" Tillman Dusenber
ry, quiet negro, while returning home
from church on Sunday, the 14th day
of July, was shot down by Thomas
Fullalive, and on the 25th of July, this
same Fullalive assaulted with pistol
and attempted to kill a black man
named Henderson, The case of Fulla-
live was referred to Judge Carr of
Lexington, who issued a warrant for%
Fullalive's arrest after he had left the
country. A well-to-do colored man,
named Thomas Banks, who bad bought
a farm in Scott County, and moved on
it, was, in the month of July, 1866, at
the instigation of Dudley Morrison,
Fleur Glass, and others, driven off, his
furniture destroyed, and his stock taken.
Lewis Sanders, George Sanders, and
two other white brutes, on the 18th of
July, 1866, went to the house of Lou
isa Ghent, colored, whipped her cruelty
and broke up her furniture. This hap.
pened near Warsaw, Ky.
On the 9th Of July, in Clarke Coun-
ty, an inoffensive black man, named
Charles Martin, for no cause whatever,
was killed by G. X. Johnston, who is
still at large. While sitting in his own
house, in Mercer County, on the 18th
Of August last, Harrison Benton, black
was shot and killed by William Clark,
white. On the 9th Of August, in Gal 4
latin County, KY, L. Bottom, George
Summers, and j. Williams, with five
other white men, went to the house OF
Kane, a thrifty colored man,
and robbed him of all he had. including,
5000 in silver. In the same month, in !
Gallatin County a mob, styling them
selves negro regulators, beat and drove
off great many negroes. A band of
white men, thirty strong, on the night
of the. 9th of September, robbed, beat,
and maltreated a great many peaceable |
negroes in and about Camp Nelson