The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-10-05
DEMOCRATIC ANIHOSITT TO FEEE
SCHOOLS.
Authentic Record Of Outrages in His
SiSSippi.

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, J. EbbeTt, Principal of the Aberdet
: Academy, Monroe county writes /:
/ ''YOu are, no doubt, aware of the on
e rage committed upon Mr.. A. p. HUI
u gins, our county Superintendent
: Education. lam constrained tOmal
u this communication in view Of ii
e sad condition Of our schools. NJ
e Huggins has left and we do not knO'
: whether he will return or not. I'll
: Board of School Directors is disOrgaI
. lied large number of schools hay
2 been broken up, and Others have n
! ceived orders from the Ku-Klux I
1 discontinue. Every thing is in a dC
1 I mOEalized condition, our school sys
: tenn is bound to be broken up. Can
/ not something be done immediatel
2 to avert this calamity -
Col. A. p. Higgins, the Superinten
dent of EdUcatiOnTeferred to, was tax
en- out Of his bed by 4 band of KU
kluX assaSsins and whipped in a mos
unmerciful manner and ordered {
leave the county OH pain of death, a
b the hands of the Klan.
. J.sS. Jones, of Union county, writes
"AIr. NeWsOn, teacher Of a eOlOret
school, reports to me that a band 0
disguised men, numbering fifteen
called upon him at midnight, and OF
dered him to discontinue his school
or suffer a fearful penalty. Mr.. New
som closed the school. J."
From ChickaSaw county, A. j. Jam
:. isOn, County Superintendent, l Obtain
the following facts: "F. b, Emmen:
4 and Cornelius w. Bryde, both teach.
eFs of cOlOred schools, have been bad
\ ~ abused. The latter terribly whip.
\ ped by a disguised party; also
1 that threc school houses have been
burned, one, of three, was s church
\ rendered for the use of the colOred
\ people as asehOoi house, the other two
houses were built by the cO!Ored peO-
! pie expressly. for school purposes. y
AIT. Jamison, further, adds: "T am
unable to account Tor these Outrages
unless it be opposition to cOlOred
schools, all the damage being to that
| class of schools. Inseveral neighbOr-
hoods / have found it impossible to
obtain teachers for the coIOred schools,
80 great is the fear of these disguised
men, -..- .-...
j. w. Bishop, Of LOundes county,
hAALA11 ~ give y OAl C4iEAA anu CIV u y
case of unlawful disturbance. against
free schools in this county, would
swell my communication to an uneX-
pected length. / can only say brifly,
that several of my teachers have been
visited by n body of disguised men
known as Ku-KluX. All the teachers
were white and all of Southern birth
except Mr.. Farmer, who was obliged
to leave the county. Three teachers
of cOlorel schools were Obliged to close
their schools ~
Just after the demand of the Ku-
KluX that no more free schools should
be taught, / visited a white school
taught by lady, and found only four
pupils present. The children and
their parents were so badly frighten-
ed that the school was all but broken
up. requested the lady 70 continue,
which she did. The circumstances
have been such that in nearly every
case the teachers could do nothing
but obey the demand of the Ku-Klux
and close. school. a.. .l
One teacher is a Southern gentle
man and a Congregational minister.
On one occasion he went from home
several miles and preached to the col
Ored people. Tie X. K. called on him
at midnight and ordered him to close
his school, taught ON his own farm
and in his own house; they also told
him he would not be allowed topreach
any more. He disobeyed the order
and continued to do what he thought
right, they isited him again, called
him cut and said they did not propose
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that he could not preach any more,
but added perhaps he might tVIeIl the
election JCdS OCcr. They wanted him
TO promise them not to preach or
teach any more. He answered them
by saying, whether / shall obey God
or man, judge ye." 1 have not heard
further particulars.
Several parties in the country not
teachers, have been violently treated
by the Ku-KluX. Other information
relating to the KU-Klux and their in
Limitations in this county could be
given, but at present l refrain from
doing so. j"
From Holmes county. ''The same
spirit that elsewhere breaks in the
bloody acts of the masked assassins
and the dark deeds of the midnight
riders, has only found vent here in
decorating the cOlored shoOI houses
with a composition of tar, paint, or
lamp-black, insulting the lady teach
ers in the street and through the Post
Office, and i'm inditing letters of ad-
vice or warning to the county Super
intendent, subscribing always the ca
balastic Il. X. k
In Oktibbeha county. zone teach
eT was stoned and one school house
burned by incendiaries, a colored
school was being taught in it at the
time"
In Warren county, one teacher was
Threatened by letters from the X. K.
K, and closed his school.
Supt, WOOley, OF ChoctaW county,
states that late in the fall of 1870, two
churches were burned in that county; /;
also. a school house in April and an
other in May, were both burned by
unknown parties, and the school brok-
en- up. .-
The County Superintendent of Win
stOn county, Mr.. u. Bays, reports a
terrible state of affairs in that county.
He reports the burning of two church.
eS used for schools, and four school
houses; also, that a band of disguis-
ed men visited the house of Mr.. Fox
and compelled him to stop teaching a
free school, They then went on to
the house of a cOlored teacher, and
failing to find him they amused them
selves by burning his trunk and other
property and carried away between
twenty-five and thirty dollars in mon
ey. VIM. Kennedy and J. S. John
son, men of integrity and unimpeach-
able character were warned by letter
that unless they closed their schools
they would be killed. Also the Rev.
John Avery warned in the same way,
but continued to teach; his school
house was burned and he again warn
ed, but being a man of considerable
nerve he obtained another house and
again commenced his school. That
house was burned two days after he
began teaching.
In every case of violence or of house
burning the teachers were those chOs-
en- by the people themselves, and in
no case did the property destroyed be-
long to the county, but in almost ev-
cry instance, 10 the colOred citizens.
The cause of these Outrages is OppO-
sitiOn to the free school system, espec-
tally to that part of the law which
gives the cOlOred youth equal advant-
ages with the white. The men who
commit these acts Of violence are
those who have no interest here or
elsewhere, but are stimulated and en-
couraged by designing politicians
At present there is not a cOlOred school
in operation II the county. There
have been, by burning and otherwise.
eleven public schools broken up in
this county.
In Yallabusha county one school
house was burned.
In Lafayette county two school
houses burned, and one teacher fired
upon by masked mounted men.
In MOXubee county, one church used
for school purposes and one school
house have been burned. Two schools
have been entirely broken up by
threatening the teachers with hanging
unless they closed their schools.
The Supt. of Rankin county reports
one school house burned.
The Supt. Of HiHds county reports
two school houses burned.
A eOlOTed teacher of Lauderdale Co.,
writes that Isaac RadfOrd was notified,
by a drop letter, to leave the place in