Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-11-09
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mouse was burned down. InlS was III
February last, and occurred about three
miles from where witness was teaching
A teacher in Okalona, whose name wit
ness does not remember, was forced to
leave his school.
Witness says there was no fault alleged
against any of these teachers save that of
teaching colored Schools. He says
The people object to them H. E., the col
-ored schoo1s1 on the,ground that they own
the property ana chat they have to pay to
keep lazy niggers at SCHOOL, use their
own expression-and they say they are de-
termined not to pay for educating people
that they don't believe in educating" si4,
!. Two other school olchorises besides
Moore's were burned in Chickasaw coun-
ty.
The animosity to the colored schools
attaches itself to the entire free school
system, of which, these form apart, and
the Ku-Klux Accordingly threatened to
whip every teacher ofa free school (white
schools as well as blacll) in the entire
county @
The same witness testifes to the fol
lowing additional eases of outrage which
occurred in tile same section:
.Parson Murf, presiding elder in the
N. E. Church South, held a position as
school director in Winston county, ant
was forced to resign by threats against his
life.
Rev. John Avery, teacher of white
free school in Winston county, was threat
ened with death and his school-hous,
burned. He was Il Southern man and
minister of the NJ E. Church South Th,
order in Winston county was to ''pu
down every free SCHOOL, and witnes.
does not believe there is single fret
school open in the county "The infor
nation is that they are all closed
In Louisville, Winston county, color
ed man named Coleman, a sober and in
dustlious man, was whipped for havin:
bought so acres of land Coleman tolt
| witness of number of colored men il
the same county who had been whipped
| for the same oifense. i- oa* ~
A colored man named William Mile
was whipped for not raising his hat TO
white man ..g... rs. ~. 3
] Andy Foster (colorcd) was whipped il
| Winston county for buying land
Aleck Hughes, Noxubce county
whipped for threatening to sue a whit
man for $f7 which the latter owed hin
After whipping he was hung up by tn
neck until he bec9me insensible
Zach job and Henry Lcadbetter. Noxu
bee county, whipped by disguised men il
March, 1871.
George shubb, Fanny Honevsucklt
and Mr. Campbell, were all whipped il
one Ku-Klux raid near Corinth
| Witness thinks the prevailing hostili
ty to the free school system is not on az
count of its cost, but because it enable
the colored people TO get an education
which most OF them could not get unde
| a pay system. The present system is spc
ken OF as "a ID Radical free school sy.
tenn"
Witness believes half the white men i
Chickasaw county belong to the Kr
KluX Klan. Those who whipped hil
told him there were 5000, 900 of them
the United States. The sympathy of me
of standing and property with the IL
klux is plainly exhibited in their read
ness to go bail when any of them get ipt
trouble. In the case of the twenty eigl
men indicted at Oxford for the murder
Aleck Page, the citizens held reli
meeting, and took them beds and chai
and playing cards, andall that" 1t wou
: be "sheer nonsense to talk about pros
tcuting anyone fer Ku-klux outrlgcs
= the State codits'F . 7o fsi1 "A e.-1.l
Witness testiiies that the colored poop
in the part Of the county. where he live
i are in great fear of the Ku-Klux, al
D would not dare to vote in an election.