Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-02
THE OTHER SIDE.
The Report of Judge Won Trump, of the
Sub Ka-KIux Committee Of Congress.
A Simple, straightforward Story, ExplaHa-
tory Of the UNANIMOUSLY Malignant
Purpose Of the Radicals.

Judge Won trump, OF the ku-hluX
Subj Committee, authorizes the state
ment that the recently published re-
port of the results of the committees 9
Investigations in South Carolina is un-
true in many essential particulars, and
the perVersiOn of facts in the others is
evidently eolored for the purpose of
producing partisan and false impress
sions. The testimony shows that
there are four counties, LaUrens, Ches-
ter, York and Spartansburg, where
outrages and acts of violence have
been committed. The testimony, as
given by negroes, was Of the
| lowest kind and utterly unworthy of
belief; they were attracted by the
fee OF two dollars per diem, and in
many cases were evidently drilled for
the occasion. At Spartansburg num-
bers of them were cOngregated in the
pOstOffice, while waiting to be called
as witnesses, and no doubt learned a
| lessonsWhich was afterWard rehearsed
substantially in the same words. Of
the various negroes who pretended
to have Deen punished, but one was
stripped, and one white man at Co
lumbia, who, while claiming to be
ACluSCG OA dCGU0Al VI gClAOAf was
ing office there at the expense of the
State. His fictitious wounds had been
healed with plaster. In the Radical
statement it is broadly alleged that
ten negroes had been taken from the
Jail at Chester and murdered by arm
ed bands, but the facts connected with
this transaction are all Intentionally
suppressed for effect. They were as
follows: A company of some twenty
five armed negroes appeared in that
neighbOrhOOd, and presently annOun-
ced their intention to shoot the first
white man they should meet. Soon
drayman named Stevens, with one
arm, who was universally regarded as
a worthy and amlable man, was driv-
ing along the road with a barrel of
whisky in his cart. He was stopped
by this band of ruffians and the
whisky demanded. He told them it
was not his property, but gave theIl
flask of his own, and started again.
After going short distance, the ne
grOes fired at his cart and struck it in
several places. A man who had Joined
him on the road fed for his life, and
he himself, seeing armed negroes in
pursuit, abandoned the cart and
sought refuge in a neIghbOring cabin.
He was followed by the wretches,
and, against the efforts of the negro
woman, whose humble shelter he had
sought, and his own, he was taken
out. After drawing lots, the gang
took him into the woods and
riddled his body with balls.
The perpetrators of this Outsage
were arrested and put in the Chester
jail, but before being secured they
killed deputy sheriff Smith, who
served the process. Suddenly a ne
gro came from Columbia with what
purported to be a writ of hd6eds corpus
from the Radical Judge Thomas at
Columbia, but which was not attested
in proper form. The sheriff called
into council the leading lawyers, in
order to determine what course to
pursue in regard to this in
formal and irregular requi-
sition, which bore no evidence Of
genuiness, and came in an envelope of
the daily express company; in the
meantime, the news spread and the
villagers became aroused into indig-
nation, and knowing how Governor
Scott had pardOned the worst crimi-
mails by hundreds, and believing it TO
be a trick to carry of murderers, de-
termined to administer stern Justice
themselves by making an example
to check the OutlaWing they took the
prisoners out of jail byi force and ex-
ecuted them summarily. One of the
number was released by the declara-
ton OF a white man that he was
believed to be innocent of the afro
ciOus crime of which the others were
guilty. While this act of vengeance
is deprecated, the extraordinary
prOVocation and alarm. created by
armed blacks, as well as their viO-
lence, must be considered. One Of
the principal witnesses, named Owen,
on crOss-eXalninatiOn admitted him.
self to be Congressman Mallory,
who was elected in the first place
by the House of Representatives
and then by stuffed ballots in dis
trict with five hundred Democratic
majority, followed the committe, and
was one of the most active
managers in getting up the tes-
timOny of the affair in which he fig-
ured at Spartansburg.