Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-10-22
The aNew Issue !"
The Legislative Commit
tee Again!
''Hon. "Mr. Wyatt Testifes
So do the Negroes Richard
Moore and Prince Grifis!
They are lizard Down
on Lincoln county!


Radical pamphlet for Northern
circulation, entitled "Report of
Evidence taken before the Mill
|tary Committee in relation to
Ontrages committed by the QKu
XIX Khan in Middle and West
Tennessee. Submitted to the Elk
ira Session Of the Thirty-tifth Gen
eral Assembly of the State Of Ten
nessee, Wednesday, the End day
Iof September, 1865" In this
precious document, which we now
have before us, "Hon." VIM. Wy
att and the negroes Richard Moore
and Prince Grifis figure conspic.
ueusly, and as their evidence is full
er than the report heretofore given,
we copy it entire. About Dick
Moore we have but little to say, as
any statement that he may make
is not worthy ofbelief As already
intimated, his testimony conld at
any time be discredited in court
of justice by Radical evidence
The white men to whom he specif-
ically refers, know no more of the
Ku Klux Khan, we are satisfied,
than does "Hon." Mr.. Wyatt. OF
Prince Griffis we know nothing
except thathe bore a bad character.
The charge made by ''Hon." Mr..
Wyatt, that the Ku Klnx beat
down the Deputy-Sheriff's doors,
or in any way molested him, is not
true. The Deputy-Sheriff had a
difficulty with some negrpes-all
Radicals-who visited his house,
undisguised, for the avowed pur-
pose Of cleaning him out. |" Not
finding their political imam and
brother" they swore he should no
longer act as Deputy-Shefiff, and
that official acted upon the hint
and resigned Not a white man
was concerned in the Outrage"
as every one knows except "Hon-"
Mr.. Wyatt. The other charges
we have heretofore answered :aa
9a Hon. VIM. Wyatt, being called
as a witness, was duly sworn:
Question, State what is your
name and age, and where you re-
side, and how long you have been
a citizen Of said county; alsoyour
occupation. 'aoo & a . ~
Ansacer. My name is William
Wyatt; am sixty years OF age,
and reside in Lincoln county,
Tennessee, where Il have lived
for nearly sixty years. 2 / am a
farmer and a school teacher.
O. State whether you have
seen, or known anything of the
existence of a Ku Klux organiza-
ton if so, their object, and in.
general, all you may know about.
them.
A. Before I left Nashville, /
heard that there was an organiza-
ton known rs Ku Klux. and
heard of them riding into Nash
vile before | left, but did not see
them. On returning home to-
Lincoln county, | heard of the
same organization in our county,
in large numbers. Some time in
the month of April, they came to
my. house, supposed to be about
forty or fifty, dressed in masks
They rode up to my gate and hal
looed helloi! Some eight or ten
alighted and came into my porch,
and raped on the corner of the
house, as they came into it, and
showed up my windows and let
them down again. All this being
about 10 o'clock at night. Some
on horseback hallooing out, "wake
up the old man" They passed
out of my house into my lone
sisters parlor, and raped on her
room door, and then walked out;
no person in the houses speaking
to them. Some Of the boys in
my employment on the farm, we're
coming up the branch from fish
ing. The Ku Klux ran down on
them and shot 8 or 4 times. The
boys ran. They 1.-THE Ku Klux]
came back, and the company then
eft. !. Afterwards / heard of their
-aid through the country, whip
1ing some negroes very seriously,
md calling on a number Of other
antilles. Their visits hare. been
res,nent through the country at !,