Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-11-09
The Colored Man in Georgia-Conven-
vention al Macon-Report of Murders
and 0utrages, County by County

vention al Macon Report of Murders
and 0utrages, County by County
The colored men of Georgia held
Convention last week, in Macon,
to consider the interests of their race
in that State. Among the resolutions
passed were the following
WHEREAS, Having listened with horror to
the narrowing details of the most unparalleled
outrages perpetrated upon coored laboring
men, consisting in fraud, violence and murder,
committed under the most atrocious circum-
stances, and with the most heiIisA d-blood-
edness therefore,
RESOLVED, That we publish these facts to
mankind, aad invoke the aid of all the liberty
loving people OF the world, all the friends of
law and order in our country, and do sincerely
ask and demand the Teorgani cation of our
courts and, until this can be effected, that the
military exercise vigilant care over the State.
RESOLVED, That we advise our people, to
the extent of their power to defend themselves
against any aud all of these outrages'
A Committee on outrages was
appointed, and from its report we
gather the following facts showing
the actual condition of the State, con-
sidered county by county. Out of
forty-hve counties, murders of color
ed men during the past year are re-
ported in seventeen counties These
murders number twenty-nine actual
ly reported, beside that in Tatnall
| county, concerning which, we are in
| formed, murders are very common"
These twenty-nine murders have
been divided among the different
counties as follows-we append also
the short descriptive comments,
which accompany the numbers Civ
en-: Baldwin county, two murders
Butts county, three murders, nc ar
rests; Bib county, one murder
murderers sentenced to ten years,
new trial granted, now pending;
Burke county, one murder; Brooks
county, one murder-no justice from
county officers Early county, one
colored man shot with fifteen buck
shot, no arrests; Effingham county,
three murders ; Fulton county, two
murders Oglethorpe county, two
murders, no arrests Randolph county,
four murders within three months
one woman found with her throat
cut another woman found cut open,
with her child lying between her
limbs; nobody brought to justice ;
Sumter county, three murders; Will
kinson county, two murders Epson
county, one murder, and some as
saults with intent to kill Quitman
county, one murder. OF violent out
RACES, other than murder, and gen.
eral acts of oppression by the whites,
we have the following array of evil
dence from different counties. We
also append such other facts showing
the condition of the country as the
report embodies: In Baldwin coun-
ty, aside from the two murders,
there have been no outrages, and
there is no Ku-Klux organization
"for the purpose of whipping men to
mako them work or to run them off
after the crop is made" in Butts
county negroes are turned away af-
ter six months labor without pay,
and cannot obtain legal justice in
Burke county many colored labor
ers have not received one dollar
since 1865; Clay county, average
nominal wages IS cents, and cannot
get that after doing the work in
Cass county, Handwriting practiced
| by the white employers, "the same
as in slavery" wages 25 cents for a
man, food and clothes for women
in Cobb county, if a colored man
brought before the courts is a Demo
crat he is cleared, if Radical he is
found guilty in Clarke county the
negroes generally get justice; in
Dougherty county one colored man
was stripped and chained-has not
been seen since; many colored or
phans in the county, who are gener-
ally bound out to very bad men
many assaults on colored women no
Justice in the civil courts; Early
county, negroes whipped same as in
the days of slavery; no protection
under the law women whipped out
rageously; in Jones county good
feeling exists between landowners
and laborers no outrages except re-
fusal of civil courts to do justice in
civil cases Houston county, same
report; Liberty county, same; in
Marion county the colored people
are not doing as we'll as they did
during slavery-swindled out OF
their shares in the crop; whites are
still whipping and slashing as usual
Mitchell county, whipping prevails
to some extent; Newtown county,
negroes afraid to live at home-Ku-
Klux outrages frequent one girl W as
carried off, beaten, and not heard of
since Justices Of the Peace refuse to
order arrests no Ku-Klux in Putnam
county; in Schley county, one woman
beaten while defending her child a
lawyer said it was necessary to beat
a negro once in while to make them
know their places; school house
burned because political meeting
was held in it several men in jail
were promised their release if they
would vote the Democratic ticket
in Tatnall county the negroes don't
know that they are free-cannot
hold meetings; Troupe county, all
quiet no outrages; in Wilkinson
county the whites generally pay
fairly according to CONTRACTING
outrages; in Washington county the
colored people are getting along
we'll, with good wages and no out
RACES same in Webster county, ex-
cept that it is difficult to obtain Jus
tice before the courts.
Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe. ex-