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

sin them are parts and when | declin
ed to tell him, re cursed me, and, witt
some of his companions, tried to draw
me into a quarrel. At one hotel
stopped at, the next morning the lana
| lord said to me if he had known l hat
any connection with the Freed Mig
gers Bureau he would not have allow
ed me to stop in his house for $1,000
have been told that there are negroes
in Boone County who are still held a:
slaves. The Regulators have driver
off most Of the colored people, and it /:
likely many of those remaining i'll the
county are either working for nothing
or very small wages. A gentleman
writing from Bourbon County says
"Joseph Riddle, of Riddles Mills, is
holding Enoch Calmers (colored) in
slavery" An officer writing from neal
Warsaw says: "The United States
laws here are not, enforced, and the
Regulators and Rebels are driving out
or Virtually enslaving the black peo'
ple." An officer writing from neal
Danville says: eve have a reign OF
terror here. A number ofpersons have
been hung by mobs, the laws are de:
fed, and the country under the control
of band of Regulators" A minister
writing from Jessamin County says
"The blacks are badly treated bands
of robbers and murderers intest the
country, prowling about shooting and
hanging both whites and blacks" In
October last colored man wrote the
Freedmen's Bureau: 1.-TWO of my
children are still held as slaves by a
man living near West Liberty, in
Morgan County," In conversation, a
few days ago, with one of the principal
officers of the Bureau, we asked him il
white men were punished for outrages
and murders committed on freedmen ?
He replied, 81 have yet to learn of a
single instance where the State Courts
have punished white men for commit
ting the most heinous crimes on black
people"
Another officer, in answer to the
same question, said: 'The State Courts
are farce; negro evidence is not re-
ceived or, if received, is not considered
by the juries.''
An officer of the Freedmen's Bureau,
writing to his superior officer, says: l
am well convinced that there is no
justice to be had in the Civil Courts of
Kentucky for black men. The trial of
white persons before the State Courts
for numbering, or in any way outraging
negro, is farce"
The following is copy of a notice
posted up in several parts of Boone
County, and sent to many negroes:
"Notis too Git.-As you hev bin
Runin at large for some time, you he'd
better gather up your buds, and leave
for parts unnon, OF you will get hell
under the shirt, and that by the tenth
ofnext month. Don't tail to co.
"Look out for The Rangers"
An agent Of the Bureau, writing
under date Of Sept. LIST, 1867, says:
Z" Alexander Frazier and Joshua Frazier,
white citizens of Kentucky, are waylay-
ing the roads with pistols, shooting at
Freedmen, and threatening them with
violence if they pass that way. Two
Of the sons of Fountain Garvin We're
stoned to-day by them.'
The following notice has been posted
up along the roads, and l fear means
serious mischief to the colored people:
Niggers take care Of your wool. -
" You are runin around corvortin up
and down the pike and you are hereby
notifyed that there is hickorys in the
Hills and grapevines in the hollows
and we know how to use them"
Another notice, now posted up at
Halls Gap, says:
g To whom it may Concern" Per
sons who are selling land to negroes in
the neighborhood of Halls Gap thereby
collecting and settling among us =
nuisance are notified not to sell any
more 10 them as it will he fair notcie
for us to make general cleaning out
in this county,"
This is the record of only one sub
district of the Freedman's Bureau,
but small portion of the
State. Despite the assurance of Ken
lucky journals that the State is all right.
and that the outrages reported on
Union men and negroes are islanders
uttered by paid emissaries of the Adolf
ton press Of the North" am disposed
to think that these emissaries have
told good deal of truth about Ken
lucky, and omitted to tell a good deal
to her discredit which they might have
told had they been the bitter enemies
OF the State that they are represented
to be.