Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-10-05
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by the people themselves, and in no
case did the property destroyed beIono
to the county, but in almost every in.
Stance, to the cOlored citizens.
The cause of these outrages is oppo-
81 ton to the free school system, espe-
cia uy to that part of the law which
gives the colored youth equal advapt-
with the white. The men who COM
NIT these acts Of violence are those who
have no interest here or elsewhere, but
are stimulated and encouraged by de-
signing politicians. AT present there
is not a col0red school in operation
in the county. There Las been, by
burning and otherwise, eleven public
schools broken up in this county.
/ In YaHabusha county one scho0lhOnse
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 burnedg Two schools
have been entirely broken up by
threatening the teachers with hanging
unless they closed their schools.
The Supt. of Rankin county reports
The Supt. of Kinds county reports
two school houses burned
A Coiored teacher of LauderdaIe
county, writes that Isaac Radford was
notified, by drop letter, to leave the
place in given time or forfeit his life.
He and his family Immediately moved
away. Things are very unsettled here,
and the colored people are making ar
rangements to leave unless the mur-
derers and midnight riders can be fer
reted out. If the, U. S. kGovernment
does not take hold of the ease the
schools viii be of no benefit to the col
ored peDple. Esa S.
The Supt., of .Tippah county writes:
"On or about the 3rd of March 1871,
Mr.. C. T. Dry. a white men engaged as
a teach ar in co1ored public school,
was waited upon by several masked
men AMI ordered to quit teaching and
to leave the county; the reason assign
ed these men was that the negroes
must &c to work. A school house has
been burned in this county,
A report from Waynes county shows
that onor about the 18th of March, a
school house was burned near Waynes-
bore. ss,.s-- t,- III .,-f- s.. -.s5ll, 90. y
a teacher in Chickasaw county re-
ports that body of masked men sur
rounded his house about midnight and
demanded that he, come out, or they 7
would hpTn the house He managed to
get out. of the housethT19gha a back win
dow when he was discovered, where
upon, several shOtsiWere Ared~at him.
The assassins pursued and; caught him
and beat him in a most brutal manner. !,
His Offense was teaching. colored
school. sGl f II f--..- -ft-7.. ~. II .--.,-s-
The SHpt. of Lauderdale county re-
ports: that on or about the 26th of
March, party of seven masked men.
waited 4pon John Ritter, teacher, and,
ordered him to leave the county on
peril of his life. They then proceeding
to his school house and burned it to the
ground. = ss 4 -4tf..T..-e Ii -lr-a y
Another teacher, by the name of V.
Granger, was visited on the night Of
the 10th of March, by a band of Ku-
Klux and taken from his house, strip
ped OF his clothing and beaten. with
one hundred and fifty IasheS, literally
the flesh on his back into shreds; he was
ordered to leave the county in twenty q
four hours on pain of death. This teach
er was quiet, inoffensiye man, having
never meddled with politics. +, r.--r
All the teachers engaged in teaching
the negroes at Meridian, were driven.
away at the time of the riot. - 7.-;.
-Four school houses have been deS-
troyed by fire, the work of Ku-Klux
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