Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-16
The Ku Kux Reign of Terror.
.syaopsis of a Po,tsdss Of tie Testimony Fax
en- 6y the Congressional I'spest'g0-
ting Committee.
NO. Ill.
MISSISSIPPI CONTINUED.

Grand Jury in the United States Court at
Oxford for the five weeks commencing on
the first Monday in June last, testlfles that
a great many cases came before the Grand
Jury in which persons had been whipped
by parties of disguised men, the victims
frequently exhibiting to the jury their
lacerated backs. The following are some
cases which the witness gives from men,
ory:
- Eckels, dragged from his house by
ten or twelve disguised men, fired at once,
severely beaten with hickory poles, Dack
; Z" all Scared and knotted." His wife, IN
trying to screen him was very roughly
handled. This was in May last.
One Yarmouth, an old citizen of one OF
the prairie counties, and member OF
the Grand Jury with witness, had been
driven from his home ~ the Ku- -Klux for
the otfense of being a Republican.
Several colored men employed on a
railroad, near Corinth, attacked and Sc
verely whipped by gang of Ku-KlnX
while on their way from work,
A colored man working for Mr.. Lee,
near Corinth, shot by Ku-Klux in Febru-
airy or March last.
Witnesses came before the Grand Jury
from various parts of the State. Many of
them are afraid to return to their homes,
and are obliged to remain at Oxford.
Solomon Triplet (colored) murdered by
a gang of from thirty to forty Ku-Klux,
Several other murders were reported
against the same gang, the captain of
which was said to be one Charlie Doss.
As witness recollects, there were thirty
nine true bills found for Ku-K Klux outragcs
at the last term of the United States Court
at Oxford, as many as from five to twenty
five persons being sometimes covered by
one Indictment. The outrages had been
chiefly directed against colored men, 'but,"
says the witness, "whenevex they could
catch white Republican they would gen.
orally find a way to get rid ofhim."
: Another witness from Aberdeen, Mon
$ roc county, testifes that 'for the last six
/ or eight months, Testimony taken in the
Il latter part of july the eastern part of
l Monroe county has been in state of ter
a ror." Five or six persons were assassina-
ted, number whipped, among whom
l were Joseph Atkins (coloredD and very
a old colored man numed Santee Butler
T. Henry B. Whitfield, Mayor of Colum
N bus, Lowndes county Has resided in
t. Mississippi since 1889; is a son of ex- Gov
$ ernor Whitfield of the same State. He
testities that organizations "for the pur-
ot pose of controlling opinion" appeared in
y Lowudes county first in 1868, during the
g. Presidential campaign. Last February"
OF he says, ''the thing seemed to have broken
e loose again, with every Indication of vio-
at lence, and to very outrageous extent, in
u the northeastern part of the county
'e. The following are some of the cases OF
tn outrage which came to the knowledge OF
k, the witness:
el James Hicks (colored,) frightfully beat
81 en- in the latter part of February last. Tn,
oi lowest estimate of the number of lashe
sS administered was three hundred. Hick
oi was ordered to leave in ten days unde
ep penalty of death if he failed to do So
~ - Perkins, ordered to leave the coup
on try, and did so.
re,
y, VIM. b. Kolb. ordered to quit teaching
and did so. School broken up
- Mrs. Kennon, an elderly lady, with
: decrepit husband, and one-armed SOL
~ was teaching free school as her sol
means of support. Was warned to clos
her school Immediately, and did so,
Five other schools broken up about til
same time.
me ]. F. Galloway and T. ]. Leake. teacl
in ers, notified to close their schools.
Fn- - Mason (colored,) shot dead in Ia
ain own house in December last.
re- - Harston (colored.) terribly beate
it one night during the fall of 1870.
A Mr.. Kendrick compelled to leave
IAN place on which lie had crop of cotto
I'M and corn. Crop seized by another part
ON Isham Lowry, Ben. Daily, David Niue
for ler, and four other freedmen, whipped c
re- the night of March Z, 1871, near Brool
On vile, Noxubee county.
Der, Tupley Ann Tackett, Winston count
orn waited on by Ku-Klux and forced to leav
for Two colored men on the plantation
ack a Mr. Rice, in Oktibbeha county, severe
TIE whipped in April or May last on Il
ght charge that they were allowed too mut
ing freedom. s .s
nui Witness thinks the great and leadil
lere ob;ect of This fKu-KI,yl oro.r;,.,;on
'me political power, and belives that their OIL
lng' RACES, if left unchecked, would result
sell. putting the Democratic party in power
tnat the State. Fr-e..n-rrr IS -.4
that George B. Pickett, lieutenant U. s.
i or stationed at Aberdeen Monroe co,,,
ifhs testifies that he believes there are thu
an hundred Ku-Klux organized in that co,
'.eo ty, and thinks their object is to carry I
oieo elections against the Republican par
and to oppose free schools.
'omc The following cases of Ku-Klux o
looi RACES are testified to by various other W
Au@ii nesses;
Jesse Mayfeld, Monroe county, Kill
as ,'ss April 9, 1871. feta 80
:, - Lacy, (colored, killed in the fail
ha,d 1869, in Lauderdale county
for i.'oa' foau oreIseel'
c., it ''','e .orn'y' 'Ho' ~ oo'ooei' io'o
inc Jack Burton, killed at Lauderdale
4 we pot in the spring of 1870 by disguised m
man " Kaiser, shot, and lost.an arm
|. .,,o same time.
,urse Mclaughlin, Oktibbeha county, ore
cd to leave under threat of death.
fence, ''coDsorting with negroes" q