The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-10-30
KENTUCKY oUTRAGEs.

MURDERS AM ovtisTfNftiiiff' ~ :, 49,
MEN AND NEGROEs-MURDER, ARSON,
RAPE, AND ROASTING OF MEN BEFORE
FIRES.
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 capture,
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 of his State. We. also heard
of a gentleman in the late canvass in
Kentucky who was SO fearful of hurts
ing the feelings of his auditors that he
always spoke of the war as " our slight
differences with each other" The SEN
sitiveness of these gentlemen was moth
ing, however, when compared with the
deep emotions of Kentuckians. 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 profound agitation, and the mis-
chievous person was bitterly denounca
ed as hired Abolitionist sent down
here to SANDER the sublime State and
the angelic inhabitants thereof
An examination of the official records
OF the Freedmen's Bureau shows that
during the past year nearly five hun
dred murders and outrages had been
committed on freedmen alone, to say
nothing of as many more on white
men, and perhaps another five hundred
that had never been reported at all, or
taken notice of officially.
The first paper, q voluminous docu-
ment, states that in Kenton County,
Amanda Bishop, daughter of Henry
Bishop, eolored Sergeant in the Uni
ted States Army, was taken while at
work and beaton with a club until she
was senseless, because she worked for
a Union citizen, and refused to work for
the rebel who beat her. 4
On the 18th of March, 1866, 0. B.
Duke, at Mount Sterling, Ky, shot and
killed an inoffensive negro named Hem
~ Stone. On the 18th of March, in
Montgomery County, poor black man
named George Baity was murdered by
some one unknown. On the 26th of
March, William Thomas, colored man,
was taken from the jail at Paris, Ky,
and hung by mob. On the 9th of
April, in Montgomery County, Sandy
Crook was murdered in cold blood. =
On the 18th of May, in the same coun.
ty, Henry Nelson was murdered, and
short time before, Ann Rogers, a 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 ssAntie
d Rogers" None of the above murder
ers have been punished. In May, 1866,
band of men, styling themselves Re-
gulators, 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 a knife and
cut to pieces VIM. johnson, poor
black man. On the 18th of June, three
men beat, on the Tate Creek road. a
poor colored man, because he would
not say he stole a horse found in their
possession, and which he said they
themselves had stolen. eisaHs
On the 23d of June, 1866, in Mason
County, Kentucky, Owens Lume out
ragged the person of Cordelia Turner. a
black woman. This case, on being re.
ferred to the County Judge, His honor
replied, 6 This Court does not receive
negro testimony" Tillman Dusenber-
ry, quiet negro, while returning home
from church on Sunday, the l4th day
of July, was shot down by Thomas
Fullalive, and on the 25th of july, this
same Fullaliye assaulted with pistol
and attempted to kill black man
named Henderson. The case of Fulla-
live was referred to Judge Carr Of
Lexington, who issued warrant for
Fullalive's arrest after he had left the
country. A well-to-do colored man,
named Thomas Banks, who bad bought
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, 1865, went to the house of Lou.
lisa Client, 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 inofensive 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 10Th
OF August last, Harrison Benton. black
was shot and killed by William Clark
white. On the 9th of August. 81 Gal
latin County, KY, T. Bottom. GEORGE
Summers, and ]. Williams, with five
other white men, went to the house O.
William Kane, a thrifty colored man
and robbed him of all he had, including
$2ooin silver. In the same month IN
Gallatin County a mob, styling them
selves negro regulators, beat and drove
on a great many negroes. A band o.
white men, thirty strong, on the night
OF the 9th of September, robbed. heat
and maltreated great many peaceable
negroes In and about Camp Nelson
Ky.
In October last, at the Paris Fair in