The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-15
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the 10Th ult, we find the following
synopsis of the evidence of A. p. HUG
Guns, formerly of this city, and we'll and
favorably known to many of our citi.
zens, given before the Congressional
Committee on the Ku-Klux outrages =
Mr.. A. p. Higgins, of Aberdeen,
Miss, was before the committee yester-
day. He testified that the Kuklux
first made their appearance in Monroe
county, Miss, August, 1870, Fifty
disguised men took from the jail three
colored men-Saunders Flint and his
two sons; the old man escaped, but the
sons bodies were found about ten miles
from the JAIL few days after, filled
with bullets. Five of the Kuklux in
this case were arrested, indicted, tried
and acquitted by Kuklux jury. On
February /, 1871. Alfred Whitfield,
colored was taken by the Kuklux and
whipped for being Radical on the Sd
of February an old man, near the Lee
county line, was whipped because he
was Republican; on the 10th of Feb,
ruary, 1871, Jack Dupree, president of
a Republican club, Monroe county was
taken out by band of sixty Kuklux,
stripped in his own yard, taken five
miles, beaten nearly to death, his body
split open and discmboweled, and thrown
into a creek near by. On the Sth of
March, while witness was staying in the
ncighborhood where the murder was
committed, about one hundred and
twenty Kuklux came to the house,
whipped him scvercly-until he became
inscnsiblc insisting on his reducing
taxes, &c.
The same night another band, five
miles away took u school teacher,
named Farmer, beat him severely, and
ordered him to quit his school and the
country. His offence was teaching a
colorcd school, On the 18th of March,
a colored man in the same neighbor-
hood was whipped and told by the Kuklux
that it was because he had sued white
man; that negroes should not have
/; such remedies. The freedmen fired into
the Kuklux while they were whipping
! this man The Klan returned the fire
became dcmoralzcd, threw off uniforms
/ and ran Many were recognized by the
= frcemen. On the 18th of March, ter
miles from Aberdeen, band attacked
, Alfred Skinner in his house he was
7 armed and kept them at bay. About
the same time Joseph Atkins was takcl
by the Kuklux, made to hug sapling
} while they whipped him. Another man
= named Simon, Federal soldier, wa
! tipped for no cause.
GA March 29th, the Kuklux went t.
the house of Alex, Page, colored, tool
/ him out OF bed, bound him with cord
5 and carried him four miles from home
r. beat him nearly to death, then hun!
him till quite dcad-and to be sure o
it, smashed his head with an axe-thi
= was proved by States evidence.
4 colored Methodist preacher, nance
G Abel Wamble, was taken by about sixt
0 Kuklux on the Doth of May shot seve
t times without ceremony, and was kille
d instantly.
+ About April 1st, Tom Hamburger
;. colorcd, was taken by Kuklux, AM
killed with shot, April 4th, ma
|. named Peter, was whipped with hi
: neck under the fence, until he woul
g promise to vote the Democratic ticket
Two members of the school board i
;. Monroe county, were ordered to resign
d one did SO. All teachers on the cas-
side of the Tombigbcc were notified t
: close their free schools, all on that sid
r. were closed. The whole number wa
twenty six. They notified the teacher
5 of the high schools in Aberdeen to Close
/ Three school houses in the north-wes
|. of the county were burned two wer
n white and one u colorcd school. II
II continued to preach and was threatcne
with death if he continued. Rev. NJ
k Mclaughlin, a Methodist, was drive
4 from his field by Kuklux, and thrcatene
il with death if he returned,
m On March 10TH Mr. Mcbride
4. Chickasaw county, teaching colorc
school, was taken out by the Kuklu;
e, given l75 lashes, and told to leave Il
county 4 colored man, named JOSEF
=? Turner, was whipped June 10Th, 1877
# by Kuklux in Loundes county.
Loundes county many of the colort
schools were broken up, the collectic
IN of the school tax stopped after it w
be partly collected what was collcctc
was refunded to the tax payers.
The trouble in Miss, is mostly co
.ic fined to the Alabama border. At Il
time the Kuklux outrages commence
cd there was no election or unusual excit
Ie mcnt
g, The local courts in all Kuklux cas-
"a were powerlcss /; terror ruled courts al
ne witnesses. The greatest considerable
NJ seized the freedmen wherever the OF
l'9 RACES were committed. Not Dem
Nv crat has been harmed the victims bel
hG all Republicans. The prisoners tn