The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-28
FIRST EDIT o n
THE SOUTH.
n1dtIof Union Men by the Ku-KIux-
Khan.
The Memphis Post prints the following:-

The Memphis Post prints the folowing:-
"Democrats have now in the South two
au.zaiions; the one open the other secret;
he ole legitimate, the other with tue sole
puIp pose OF fostering treason aud perpetratlng
Illegal outrages. 1t is not the secreSy OF TINS
latter Democratic organization when makes 1t
detestabe; ii Is tue fact that tnls Is the nrst
association known to have been formed IN this
C untry Tor the sole pupose OF pelpetratlng at
m,duieht hours, and i'll safety, ourages upon
political opponents. Demo c1atic leaders either
WINK at its outtaees or pretend TO doubt its
existence, or commend 1T as controlled oy as
Greet and excellent men, Within short time
these masked Democra 8 in the State OF Tennes-
zee have beaten many white and hundreds OF
back men; they have committed HumoerleSs
roob lies OF arms and money; they whipped un-
mertituly a woman AT Versailles, Rutherford
con,ty. because they suspected that she told
who some of them we're; they outraged white
man at HUMBOLDT, Gibson county, and at the
same place whipped negro 50 that he died two
days afterwards from the eHects; and they
searched the Memphis and Louisville train Tor
Mpml hian whom they intended to murder,
but whom, luckily they could not find; in LIN
co II county they took from his bed and out
ragged one of its best citizens, Senator of the
S ate; they have lynched two men in Mckenzie;
they have burned school-houses in Ruther-
fori and Wilson counties; they have
forced State Representatives when gong
to Nashville, to travel long dis
tance out OF their, way to escape assassina-
ou; they murdered MIR. Francis, and whipped
Mr.. Winton almost to death, IN Overton county;
they threatened oeath to those who dared to
carry q Union flag in Lawrenceburg; they
sttewed brlars over the graves of Union soldiers
in Madl, on county they murdered Mr.. Berdeld
and his porter at franklin; they cheered when
at Memphis and Bro wnsville; Forrest threat
cned to kill all wnte Radicals; they have
driven HUNDREDS Of industrious colored men out
OF Maury, Giles, and adjacent counties; and
they have a reign of terror in OJOn, Weakly,
Lincoln, and other counties"
The Frqukfort (Kentucky) Commonwealth
ADDS 20 this formidable list of outrages the fol
"WilI he Courier Of Louisville dare to deny
that an armed, drilled, and othCered organlza'
ton, calling themselves the Regulators has
exis cd Tor year in the counties of Marion,
BOYLE Mercer, Lincoln, Anderson, and others,
and the victims OF their midnight work nave
been composed almost wholly OF Union men?
Every man punished by them In the last six
months has been Union man. II it does, it SO
states in the face of what 1t knows to be true.
A qertleman passed through .t this city
ss becaue TeeA the w Rrbels We" Of Anderson ~ county %
had threatened hlm with violence for daring
to MAINTAIN, publicly and freely. his
preference tor the candidates Of the Union
party. Another Union citizen of the same
county h man of property aud respectabillty,
has been ordered to leave on the simple susp-
cion that he intormed the law authorities Of
crimes perpetrated by band of Ku-KluX ON a
number OF pcaceable negroes. He VIII leave as
soon as he disposes OF his property. letter
received from general OF the Union array, now
resident in Southern Kentucky, informs us that
the Ku.KluX have given warnings and erected
galows in the vicinity OF the residences of Union
men in his section"
The Little Rock (Ark. } correspondent of the
st. Louis Democrat details the Rebel Democra-
cys Outrages III Arkansas:-
"Week befole last, Mr.. Wheeler State Senator
from White county, left SearcY IN buggy TOR
West Point, expecting there 10 meet hack
which would take him to point on White
river seven miles beyond where he was, to take
boat, beno on his way to this place. lie ar
rived too late for the hack, and hired one Hicks )
IN DlOUV.
Thr ee or four miles from West Point they came
upon two men on horse seback, with pistols cooked,
in waiting Tor tnem. Taey were ordered out OF
The buggy. Senator Wheeler was made to give
up his money aud two gold Watches ami then
to take Oft his coat aud waistcoat, when both
men were ordered OIL IN direction indicated
by the assassns. Wheeler ran tor the woods, II
hundred yards distant. Both men started after
him, still mounted, and commenced drlng. His
al, hat, and valise were found and report was
sent TO this place the next day that he was
killed. That evening despatch received
here from him at Duvali's Bluff, where he had
lust arrived. The men who attempted to kli
him were both known to him; one resident o.
the county bv the name of Lewis, 6rother-in-
law of the Rebel General McCTav, the other a
desperate by the name OF HUI, having lately
come into the county from the Southern part OF
the state, from which place he had been
compelled to fee for murder That
night, after the attempted ASSASSINATION, tue
two outlaws went 10 West Point. Their
friends collected, and they had a time OF
general merrimcnt, healthS being drank TO the
man who wasted his powder. On the same day
a despatch was received from Memphis that
Senator Barber OF Cruenden county, had been
shot through a window with Duck-shot, three
taking effect in the head, and one in the arm.
The simultaneous attempt to assasslnate men,
bers of the Legislature IN parts of the State
widely separated, with the undenIable evidences
of a general understanding among the assassius
in Whie county, coupled with the advice OF the
GazfL'e, and the threats of leading Rebels, alias
Democrats i'll various parts of the State, are
suflicI Mt to convince the writer that assassin a.
tiop is a part of The proGram ne for the fall cam
paign. and hat the leaders of the Democracy in
this part of the State are responsible Tor it.