Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-16
Persecution Of Union Men in Hen.
tuCkV and Tennessee.

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ter, prints the following list of outrages
recently committed on Union people in
Tennessee.
democrats have now in the South two
organizations, the one open, the other Sc
cret; the one legitimate, the other with the
sole purpose of fostering treason and per-
petrating illegal outrages. 1t is not the
secrecy of this latter democratic organiz-
ton which makes it detestable; it is the
fact that this is the first association known
to have been formed in this country for the
sole purpose of perpetrating at midnight
hours, and in safety outrages npon pollit-
ical opponents.
democratic leaders either wink at its
outrages or pretend to doubt its existence,
or commend it as controlled by discreet and
excellent men. Within a short time these
masked democrats in the state of Tennes-
see have beaten many white and hundreds
of black men they have committed num-
berless robberies of arms and money they
whipped numerically a woman at Yer
sailles. Rutherford county, because they
suspected that she told who some of them
were; they outraged a white man at Hum
boldt, Gibson county, and at the same place
whipped negro so that he died two days
afterward from the effects; and they
searched the Memphis and Louisville train
for Memphian whom they intended to
murder, but whom, luckily, they did not
find in Lincoln county they took from his
bed and outraged one of its best citizens,
senator of the state; they lynched two
men at Mckenzie; they have burned down
schoolhouses in Rutherford and Wilson
counties; they have forced state represen-
tatives when going to Nashville to travel
along distances out of their way to escape
assassination; they murdered Mr.. Francis
and whipped Mr.. Winton almost to death,
in Overton county; they threatened death
to those who dared to carry Unioh flag
in Lawrenceburg they strewed briars
over the graves of Union soldiers in Mad
ison county; they on last Saturday night
murdered Mr.. Bierfeld and his porter at
Franklin; ; they cheered when at Memphis
and Brownsville Forrest threatened to kill
all white radicals they have driven hun
dreds Of Industrious colored men out of
Maury, Giles and adjacent counties; and
they have caused perfect reign of terror
in Obion, Weakly, Lincoln and other
counties"
The Frankfort (Kentucky) Common
,ceaLh adds to this formidable list of out
RACES the following:
"Will the Courier Of Louisville dare to
deny that an armed, drilled aud officered
organization, calling themselves the Reg /
ulators,' has existed for year in the coun-
ties of Marion. Boyle, Mercer, Lincoln, An /
derson and others, and the victims of their
midnight work have been composed almost /
wholly Of Union men? Every man pun
ished by them in the last six months has
been Union man. Does the Conrier dare /
to deny that this organization has kept +
Union men from voting? If it does, it /
states that which evidence in our posses
sion proves to be untrue Will the Courier /
dare TO deny that secret organization of
democrats exists III many portions OF this |
state, with a lodge in Louisville, whose |
work Is to secure at every hazard the su
premacv Of their cause, aud are bound by /
a solemn pledge to give each other aid and
assistance If it does it so states in the /
face of what it knows to be true.
A gentleman passed through this city |
last week, on his way out of the state, be- /
cause the rebels of Anderson county had t
threatened him with violenne for daring
to maintain, publicly and freely, his pref
erence for the candidates of the Union
party Another Union citizen of the same
county, a man of property ana respecta-
bility, has been ordered to leave on the
simple suspicion that he informed the law |
authoaitiies OF crimes perbetrated by
band Of ku-klux on number of peace
able negroes He will leave as soon as he |
disposes of his property. letter receiv-
ed from general in the Union army, |
now resident in Southern Kentucky, in
forms us that the Ku-klux have given |
warnings and erected gallows in the vi
cinity of the residences of Union men in
his section"