Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-02
The Radical Report Riddled.
IS Untrue i'm Many Essential Par
ticulars."
Negro Witnesses at Two Dollars
a Day. =
Outrages of the Negro Ku-Klux.

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Trump, of the Ku-Kiux sub Committee,
authoriz s the statement that the recently
published report of the results of the
committees investigations in South Car
o ina, is untrue in many essential particu-
lars, and perversion of facts in others,
evidently colored for the purpose of pro-
curing partisan and false Impressions.
The testimony shows that there are are
four counties, Laurens, Chester, York
and Spartansburg, where acts OF violence
were committed.
Parrot witnesses at 81 per Diem.
The testimony given by the negroes
was of the lowest kind and utterly un-
worthy of belief. They were attracted
by fee of two dollars per diem, and in
many cases were evidently drilled for The
occasion. At Spsrtanburg numbers of
them were congregsted in the Postofice
while waiting TO be called as Witnesses,
and doubtless learned the lesson which
was afterwards rehearsed substantially in
the same words.
A Refugee with a Fat SALARY.
OF the various Negroes who preteaded
to have been punished, but one was
stripped, and one white man at Columbia,
who, while claiming to be a refugee on
account of terror, was holding office there
at the expense of the State. His fci-
tious wounds had been healed with
plaster.
The black Fiends of Chester.
In the Radical statement it is broadly al
legged that ten negroes were taken from
;.;l - Thaa@ar onj y,ouvdarad nv on armS
ed band, but the facts connected with
this transaction are all Intentionally sup
pressed for effect. They were as iol-
lows: A company of some twenty-five
armen negroes appeared in that neigh
borhood, and presently announced an IN
tention to shoot the first white man they
Should meet. Soon after, a drayman
named S;evans, with one arm, who was
universally regarded as a worthy and
amiable man, was driving along the road
with barrel of whisky in his cart. H.
was stopped by this band of rUffians and
whisky was demanded. He told them it
was not his property, bnt gave them
flask of his own and started again.
After going short distance the negroes
fired at his cart and hit it in several places.
A man who had Joined him on the road
fed for his life, and he himself seeing the
armed negroes in pursuit. abandoned his
cart and sought refuge in neighb)ring
cabin. He was followed by the wzetches,
and against the efforts of the negro wo-
man, whose humble shelter he had sought
and his own, he was taken out. After
awning lots five of the gang took him
~. l., o,rl - tlol 20 hOHxr Nrifh
balls.
The perpetrators of this outrage were
arrested and put in Chester Jail, but before
being secured they killed Deputy Sheriff
Smith who served the process. Suddenly
a negro came from Columbia with what
purported to be q writ of hsbeas corpus
from the Radical Judge Thomas at Co.
lumbia, but was sttested in no proper
form. The Sheriff called into counsel
the leading lawyers in order to determine
the courfe 10 pursue in regard to this in
formal and irregular requisition which
bore no evidence of genuineness and
came in an envelope OF daily express
Company.
In the meantime, the news spread, and
vigilance committee, reused into
Indignation, and knowing how
Gov. Scott had pardored the
worst criminals by hundreds, and be-
lieyIng it trick to carry off the murder
ers, determined to administer stern justice
themselves, by making an example, to
check outlawry. They took the prison
ers out of Jail by force and executed them
summary.
One of the number was released by the
declaration of white man that he was
believed to be innocent.
While this act of vengeance is depre-
Gated, the extraordinary provocation of
alarm created by the armed blacks, as
well as their violence, must be consid-
cred. As an act of violence, on the
statements, it might be exposed with
equal effect at the bar. This illustration
is sufficient for the present purpose.
Taking Testimony of a Thief.
One principal named Owen, on cross
examination, admitted himself thief.
WaIIaee-Whisky and MIX
Congressman Wallace who was elected
first by the House of Representatives and
then by stuffed ballots in a district with
5000 Democratic majority, followed the
committee everywhere and was one of
the active managers in getting up tcati-
mony.
The affair in which he figured at Spar
tansburg, which was telegraphed al over
the country as @ great outrage, exhibits
the purpose TO magnify and exaggerate
the most insignificant insults for political
effect. He was seated near TO Mr.. Ste
Yenson of the committee at the hotel ia
bic, when man named Berry, who for
merly had a feud with Wallace,
entered in q state of intoxication. Dis
covering his old enemy he seized pitcher
of milk and threw it at him, whereupon
Wallace drew a revolver and would have
fred but for the intervention Of those
v>raoopt