Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-24
Another Victim of Southern Per
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A man calling himself no,o DANIEL BRU-
D BAKER has turned up at Mansfield, as ref
ugee from diabolicai persecution at Hick-
man, Kentucky. How terribly he has been
prosecuted (and the account is harrow
ing) is thus related by the Louisville
Courier gSt-rrEE zsgi5. 3CE
ANOTHER RADICAL ARGUMENr.-A week
or so ago we copied from the Hickman, Ky i,
Courier an account of the exodus OF a mil
Ter who f1ourished for time in those parts
and finally left his creditors in the lurch.-
Il The people liked him as a miller. petted
him as the only Radical in the county, be-
friended him because he babe fair to become
a useful citizen, and trusted him because
they contided in his honesty in spite of his
politics. He waded into their affections to
the tune of about $4,000 and then de-
camped. He found it easier to play the
political martyr with pocket full of ILL
gotten money than to pay his honest debts.
Figuring at Hickman as Mr.. FL. NJ. Rob-
inson, he turns up i'm the North with
new name. The Cincinnati Commercial OF
Sunday contained the following special
telegram 'r---.sza r=---z1-N > -. =.H.-z-H 4
GAN OHIO MAN BANIsHED FROM KENTUCKY
.r.. 80 af-- - BY THE KUKLUx. Z ..-r
--ry ....rf ......-r- :. MANSFIELD, o., Sept. 10.
...s. ssMr. Daniel Brubaker, miller, formerly
past living in Hickman, Kentucky, where
he was engaged in his profession, has just
arrived here, having been driven out of
Kentucky by the KukluX Klan. He was
always Democrat, man OF quiet, easy
and industrial habits, and had not mingled
in the political or social discussions at the
South. He believes he was driven out for
no other reason than that he is man of
~ Northern birth. ls-z-as. .-
The following is verbatim copy of the
first note of warning he received:
"HIcKMAN, KY, Sept. 2, 1868.
.sAfr. Daniel Brubaker:
LAS it is strongly believed that there is
secret organization in this city among the
negroes. and you are at the head of it,
would say to you, from what have heard
by OverheariDg some conversation, that
your whole safety depends on your imme-
diate escape from this city,
-ni Yours truly,
-.. ..rs- 9H- go "A FEMALE FRIEND"
Mr.. Brubaker. alias Mr.. Robinson, runs
away in debt to his employees and with his
pockets full of money out of which he has
swindled the too contiding farmers who sold
him wheat on credit, and is now paradng in
Ohio as political martyr, victim of the
Kuklux, driven from Kentucky
for no offence but the fact of
his Northern birth This is a fair
sample of the manner in which the Radicals
impose upon the Northern people. Every
swindler and villain who fees from the
sheriff and the ill odor of his own rascality
in any part of the South, is represented at
the North as the innocent victim of South
ern prescription. A party corrupt enough
to appeal to sectional hates as political
motive, is always vile enough to invent
ISLANDERS and pervert facts as means of in
flaming the prejudices of sectional bigotry.
we do not expect anything better of Rad
ical papers now. Their only hope OF sue
cess rests upon their ability to misrepre-
sent the Southern people, and every fugi-
tive sharper who is willing to "testify" is
O treasure to them.