Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-10-19


Was compelled to leave his home
March, 1S71) ,,,rsr - -
A coloed man (name unknown) WHIT
had been in the Union army, whipped TO
leaving Employer without consent
| March, 1917
| March 29th.-Aleck Page (colored
dragged from bis house, whipped aimos
to death, and then hung Head split oper
with an axe. Buried with rope round hi.
neck. Sworn to by Joseph Davis ant
Henry Hatch, members of the Klan, whc
turned States evidence. Page was 50
perfectly quiet and inoffensive man." but
a Republican.
May 2oth.-Abraham Wamble, color
Ell preache, taken out by fifty or sixty
masked men and shot. Mr.. Marshall, q
bitter Democrat on whose place Wamble
lived, states that he did not know more
q iiet and well-disposed man in the neigh
'rhood. But lie voted the radical tick.
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April tom Hornberger (colored)
dragged from his house by thirty or forty
Kr-Klux and killed. Body riddled with
shot. No ofense alleged against him.
April 4.-Peter (ulored, last name
unknown to witness) hipped, with his
neck under fence rail, till he promised
to vote the Democratic ticket
DR.. Ebart and Mr. Mccoy, members of
the County Board of School Directors.
were ordered by the Ku-Klux to leave the
Board, and did so, being threatened with
death in case of refusal This was carly
in April last.
About the same time all the teachers
east of the Tombigbee, in this county,
tMonroe,1 were waited upon by the Ku-
klux and ordered to close their schools.
and did so. The Ku-Klux went round in
body to each teacher. A crowd ofthem
entered the bedroom of Miss Allen,
from Geneseo. Illinois, struck light, and
made her promise to close her school. and
leave on the following Wednesday.
Mr.. Elston Ebart, teaching the Union
School at Aberdeen, was visited bv Ku-
klux about this time and ordered to "get
out OF there" He was told that he might
teach pay school, but should not be paid
out ofthe public funds. He was South
ern gentleman, and the only objection to
him was his connection with the free
school system
Twenty-siX schools were interrupted
about this time, and three school houses
were burned. Two of the latter were those
of white free schools.
Rev. Mr. Galloway, a Congregational
minister, in Lowndes county, was waited
uHon some time in June and told that he
must stop his preaching. He is white
man, native of Mississippi, and college
graduate. His offcnses seemed to be
preaching to freemen, having taught a
colored school. and being Republican.
April CD. McLachlan, a Methodist
minister, at Starksvllle, Oktibbeha coun-
ty, was visited twice and ordered to leave
the place. he was finally forced to go.
He belonged TO the Northern NJ, E.
Church
March 30.-Cornelius Mcbride, teach.
er OF coiored school in Chickasaw couu-
ty, was taken out at night, received one
hundred and seventyfive lashes, and COM
pelied 10 leave the neighborhood to save
his life. He is well educated and re-
spectacle man.
June IA man (name unknown)
whipped by Ku k'ux in Lowndes coun-
ty.
The ku-Klux stopped the collection of
the school-tax in Lowndes county. and
compelled the county officers to return all
that had been collected.
The above cases, except where other
wise specified, all occurred in Monroe
county. In only two OF these cases have
there been any legal proceedings against
the perpetrators of the outra.cs. cne of
these WAS the + lint case, in which the
three men charged with participation in
that crime were discharged last January
as above stated. The other was the mur-
der of Alcck Page for which indictments
were found against twenty eight members
OF the gang These men were released on
bail; and, although the indictments
against them were for murder in the first
degree, they were received, on their re-
turn home, with shoutings, the firing of
cannon, and every demonstration of pop
ular sympathy
The : embers of these bands, so far as
known, are all Democrats, their victims
invariably Republicans; and their out
RACES inspired such terror among the col
ored people, that, to use the language Of
the witness, they ''darei not even go to
town" Witness believes that if an cleo
ton had been held in Monroe county be-
fore the Government sent troops there
few months ago. scarcely a freedman in
the entire county could have been induced
to cast his vote s M
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