The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-24

punished by a State Court for the /!
crime In two thirds of the cases no /,
one was arrested negro was killed. |
that was all, and why should sheriff /
bother himself with making an ar
rest. or Judge and Jury TO try a
white man for killing negro? /
Shame, eternal shame, upon this
mockery of equal laws. Ten thou
sand curses rest upon a system of
slavery that has 50 deadened the feel
/ ipgs of Kentuckians to the demands
| of justice toward this poor oppressed
race. Patiently bearing the yoke of
/ slavery for two centuries, freed for
the benefit of white men. as they were
] enslaved for his profit, yet when freed
/ he is murdered with perfect IMMUNITY,
/ and the arm of the civil law fails to
| rise for his protection Religion
4 teaches US that He who sits on the
1 great white throne, high and lifted
i up, is the protector Of the oppressed.
4 Yengeance is His, andI1e will repay.
He and He alone Is the only guar
dian of this poor people from the
CONSUMING wrath ofthe whites.
i Turning from the list of negroes
murdered TO that Of the white men,
/ we find such instances as these: Phos
Al Campbell. III ed by two brothers
/ named Motion. Campbell was
i Union man the Mortons were rebels.
4 They were acquitted before the Ex-
Lamining Court james Baker, Killed
!. by ten or twelve disguised men, in
4 Pulaski County; no arrests made;
Baker was called out of his house
in the latter part of the night seized,
| dragged a short distance, aud shot to
+ death-his body riddled. SO says
+ the record. It continues, Baker has
the character Of . law abiding, peace
f full, and good citizen; Baker was a
decided Union man, and was REPEATED
to have some influence In his neigh
borhood; his father and several bro
lslthers, one of whom lost an entire arm
5 I IN the war as q Federal soldier, have
left this county since the murder
| G3th OF June, 1668)-driven of = Is
lit not singular circumstance that
so many Union men are MUIR
dered by masked mobs2 But this
in the pence, good will and the kind
spirit Of fraternity that exists In this
S State. which Coy. Bramlette was so
carer to proclaim to the Democrats
| of Indiana Governor Bran will
s probably be refreshed by the fol-
II loving additional information from
| the ne ghborhood of Bakers murder.
! 1t viii also explain TO some extent
II why several more. votes were not
!. poIted for the Union candidate for
Governor. 1t is this: Some three
Fl or more men have been taken from
their homes and cruelty whipped IN
the same section; one of them. who
was so abused few days before the
+. Il August election, was a Soldier in the
i. | Mexican war, and who, in the late
: war, has been regarded as an honor
able man, good citizen, and is now a
! Justice Of the Peace. All these men
{. who were whipped Zone, at least, had
bis house burned also,) were Union
men" These ourages were COM
mitted at night by masked men.
These same regulators stuck up their
mysterious X. K. K, signed notices
. threatening any one who should talk
about these affairs. But, thank God,
;. the spirit of freomen was alive aud
strong in the Union men OF Pulaski.
They gave notice to the Democrats OF
that county that if any more such out
RACES occurred that they would hold the
innocent lambs of Democracy in the
ueighborhood of the outrages respon
sible therefor; and stranger still to
i " 70
y those outrages ceased. A few words
: fifty spakeD, how wonderful is their
T powerl But the Pulaski County
4 Unionists are not the only ones that
! have given the masked murdercrs
J. warning. The gallant boys of Jack
son County have also sent notices to
them promising to take care not only
of themselves, but to help the Madi-
son County Uuionists inhict summary
punishment upon those who think
themselves above the law
As long as the Ku Klux persist in
their deviltry they must expect to en-
counter armed opposition from those
f. experimenting their visits. Union
men are organizing for protection
and so are the negroes. The follow
= ing incident, which was related to us
= will illustrate this: Not long since a
+ company Of these midnight providers
: determined to visit negro. settlement
=, upon. the outskirts of town in Cen.
trail Kentucky, and -infiict summary
4 chastisement upon them. White on
their way to the negro settlement they
were met by a white. man, who told
them that the negroes of that place
were armed and Yigilant, and would
sur ~ hurt some OF them il ATTACKED
Tie company halted, consulted
II awhile, and concluded not to modest
the negroes.
Some days ago q man named Mont
fort was hung by a partyof disguised
men al NIGHT. near Coyan landing,
on the Kentucky river. Monttort
was. 4 rebel or Democrat. Tt is said
: he was hung because he talked TOO
freely Of the doipgs Of the masked
:, men. =" Recently the Henderson
Ne,cs contained an appeal from a
band Of K. *. K, to the citizens of
that town, stating that the orgauiza
zion numbered some one hundred and
fifty men, and was composed of the
sons Of the best families of that coau-
ty, and their object was to supplement
the laws. Such is the condition Of
i civil soeietyin Kentucky Such are
the blessings Of Democratic rule
DEMOCRATS make the laws, administer
the laws, execute the civil pro-
. cesses. Democrats have the en-
tire administration OF justice in their
: hands and these are the results. Muir
ders are common. Punishment there
: forts rare. Bands of men deal cut
: their deeds OF outrage almost nightly,
: and yet Democratic orators say all is
peace and good will in this State; that
! | order and law are supreme. The only
check that these things receive come