Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-09-04
Ku-Ixlux Khan.
MORE MURDERS OF UNION MEN.

South are at work for the democratic
party with great energy, and carry ey-
erything in the South with the most high
hand. Day after day they are driving
out and killing off the Union men both
black and white. BY this means they
are building up system of terrorism by
which the democratic party will be able
to carry the southern states.
The Memphis Post, a journal of high
character, prints the following;
Democrats have now in the South
two organizations, the one open the other
secret the one legitimate, the other with
the sole purpose of fostering treason and
perpetrating illegal outrages. 1t is not
the secrecy of this latter democratic or
ganization which makes it detestable /;
it is the fact that this is the first organic
alton which makes it detestable tits the
fact that this is the first association
known to have been formed in this coun-
try for the sole purpose of perpetratlng
at midnight hours, and in safety, outra-
ges upen political opponents. Demo
cratic leaders either wink at its outrages
or pretend to doubt its existence, or COM
mend it as, controlled by discreet and
excellent men. Within short time
these masked democrats in the State of
Tennessee have beaten many white and
hundreds of black men; they have COM
mitted numberless robberies of arms and
money; they whipped numerically
woman at Versailles, Rutherford county,
because they suspected that she told who
some of them were; They outraged
white man at Humboldt, Gibson county,
and at the same place whipped n negro
so that he died two days afterward from
the effects; and they searched the Mem
phis and Louisville train for Memphi-
an whom they intended to murder, but
whom, luckily, they did not find; in Lin
coin County they took from his bed and
outraged one of its best citizens, sena-
tor Of the State; they lynched two men
at Mckenzie; they have burned school
houses in Rutherford and Wilson Coun-
ties they have forced state representa-
tives, when going to Nashville, to travel
long distance out of their way to es-
cape assassination; they murdered Mr..
Francis and whipped Mr.. Winton almost
to death, in Overton County: they threat
ered death to those who dared to carry
Union flag in Lawrenceburg; they
strewed briars over the graves of Union
soldiers in Madison county: they muir
dered Mr. Bierfeld and his porter at
Franklin; they cheered when at Mem
phis and Brownsville Forrest threatened
to kill all white radicals; they have
driven hundreds of industrious colored
men out of Maury, Giles and adjacent
counties; and they have reign of ter
ror in Obion, Weakly, Lincoln and other
counties"
The Frankfort (Kentucky) Common
wealth adds to this formidable list Of
outrages the following:
"Will the Courier of Louisville dare
to deny that an armed, drilled and off
cered organization, calling themselves
the Regulators has existed for year
in the counties of Marion, Boyle, Mer.
Ger, Lincoln, Anderson, and others, and
the victims of their midnight work have
been composed almost wholly of Union
men? Every man punished by them in
the last six months has been Union
man. If it does, it SO states in the face
of what it knows to be true. A gentle,
man passed through this city last week,
on his way out of the State, because the
rebels of Anderson county had threaten
ed him with violence for daring to main.
tain, publicly and freely, his preference
for the candidates of the Union party
Another Union citizen of the same coun
ty, man of property and responsibility,
has been ordered to leave on the simple
suspicion that he informed the law au-
thorltles OF crimes perpetrated by band
OF ku-Klux on number of peacable
negroes. He will leave as soon as he dis
poses Of his property. A letter received
from. general in the Union army, now
resident in Southern Kentucky, informs
us that the Ku-Klux have given warn
ings and erected gallows in the vicinity
of the residences of Union men in his
section" ~
MURDERS IN ARKANSAS.
The Little Rock (Ark.) correspondent
of the st. Louis Democrat details the
rebel democracy's outrages in Arkansas /:
Week before last, Mr.. Wheeler, State
Senator from White County, left Searcy
in buggy for West Point, expecting
there to meet hack which would take
him to a point on White River, seven
miles beyond where he was, to take n
boat, being on his way to this place. He