The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-31
THE KU-KLUX COMMITTEES IN
THE SOUTH.
Some Oftheir Observations and Expe.
rienCeS.
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- hNaSeVA JSthh NANA ANN NNI1ANaNulNtlNCd DtG
L. venson and Van Trump, reached Wash
lc ington to-day, returning from sojourn o
IN four weeks in various parts Of South Car
" olina, where they have been investigator.
=" ku'KluX outrages on the spots wherl
J. they occurred. They first visited tht
>. capital, Columbia. More than one hundred
n refugees, who had fed from violence II
the various counties, were there, but after
u examining witnesses for two days, the
d committee determined to go closer to the
l. scenes OF the alleged violence, and went
4 to SpartansbuTg. They expected to 10.
main there three or four days, but STAYED
t eleven. When word got out through
= spartansburg. county, that they were
r there, whites and negroes, victims of vic.
lence, came IN by scores every day from
all directions. Murders and cruel whip.
ping by the KuKluX bands, had 80 terri.
fled them, that in many nGighbOrhoods
, nearly every negro man and Republican
white man, had slept in woods Tor months
every night They showed scaritled
: backs, gun shot wounds, manned ears
and other proofs OF the violence they had
suffered. In Limestone Spring township,
one hundred and eighteen cases Of whip.
pings were proved, Tho committee awake
every morning TO find In the ward bv thc
hotel. now crowd oC victims IN mo Eu.
KluX some includnr whites WIN Lod
suffered oulroges which cant ia Gcscr;h'
ed with dcCcncy. After being whipped,
the victims, well known persons, were
often commanded under pain, to publish
a card rcnOuncing the Republican party,
ocratic nowsDapers. forty lw6 sich cards
wero found recently nubIished A. I'nion.
willie Tho COMMITTEES rnmoinoI iwn Jows
N0t nm ovownd, wLite PrnnLIi"or y"' "yns
iound in thc nlocc ,rho "Io, ,MaMhorS nc T"' ~"
committee wrrc nriya,c,v os,,,ro1 u hn VI" "
Ipw ihnt thcv wo,,lI ovo;y ,%"'no",,oSS II
protected. Tho terror NJ tho mn1roos 10 Lorn
il complete The Inst clrction wSs vac % or.
ried Lv ~ Renuhlicon moioriiy @ h~, ~ tno
RennI;liCan county officers reccivcI Em, @
KIny nn,icoa oni nj rcsirnoJ nv GaI |
Thc nolicv thnTc hoo hs"n n,nro w.
wards murior ""J @ % ices O,U iOworIs tS
whinnirr Tho Liiiinr oT - Ior M"% "onrooo
taken lrom iail bw scvorSI hm5GroI
KuEhI ACTING unIcr tbc miIii"rv or'
gnniyation wns invcstirotcj A i"yvor
Of ihe mace Mr. ShoJ On crosa.ov",n Tyo Mia
tion startled thc committoo hv Sto,inC
thai he believed lint almost ovcry rcSNoc pSSs
table unmarried man in the co1,mTrity
belonged 10 Inc Ku.Klux md ih,t hc hS.
lieyed thnt thousand Ku.Kluv ,voro
within day's march Of tho yillooe
negro Methodist preacher. named T2omn.
son who hod nm annoInir,onI IN nrooct a.
Goshen Hill Church, in Union county, on
June II, received notice in tho usual
form not TO preach. He preached, not.
withstanding, to a very few, most of the
congregation fleeing when they saw the
notice. In the evening twenty mounted
n, Au.KItix came, tied and whipped him.
They then led him of several miles, |
dragging him part Of tho way tied to a
horse, whipped him again until ho was !
dead, and nutiIated him In n way that !
cannot, with propriety, be described =
They then threw the body into the Tiger u
river, leaving notice forbidding any one r
to Dury him. Before the committee re. = !
turned Senator Scott sent Thompsons !
brother, now refugee from Columbia, 10
Union county, with a letter to insure him ,
q strong guard OF United States cavalry, j
10 bury the body, which was reported TO r
DO still lying, half decomposed, on the ?
edge OF the river. Two more days were !,
lpent In examining witnesses In Columbia. y
IN returning from Spartansburg, day =
vas spent IN hearing the statements Of
gen. Wen, Gen. Wade Hampton and Gen.
3utler, Democratic candidate for Cover. 0i
Tor last fall. v
The committee then visited YorL pC
ounty. where thew yemained nearly al
week. They discovered at Yorkville \ OF
,etter spirit among the white citizens' Al Ia
upper, at the hotel, on tho evening of -,
heir arrival, Major James her. L
Y threw pitcher of milk nvnr
Ion. A. s. Wallace and Ilon
.. +. Stevenson. A C0nvresumSn
hey were lust seating themselSes nj tha 7.
lble, and not a word Ind bppn anokan W
Tr. Wallace ierked ont n revolver and VI
lised Il 10 shoot Berrvthc ladies' scroSm' m
", but the landlord threw himsclChoi0rc ~
erry, and Mr., Stevenson coollv caught I'm
yalIaco's hand and ordernd the lanIl9ri nj
, take that man out Of the room IIaif" nm
Oxen friends gathered Hrot,nd Harry % and fri fri
G went out. In the course of mn hnnr
,veral citizens of prominence came in
nd apolopized In the Ntnnlest manner m
ehalf Of Berry. who was willinr ,n Cn m m he
is knees, If reuuirgd inr what t'c oIIogoI SET
as unintehtional 10 RfTront Mr. Stoysn' TO
m, II was snbupnuen,lv oacerta;noJ Nat do
Ie business had been discussed bv i,crrv ~ he
I'd his friends during Tho afterrGon on1 da
was TO be carried ont. that Kerry Ind II
opposed TO use llot coffee. int flnniiv ron. FAC
uded on milk. A colored band sereHNded ha
q committee later in ihe eveninC 4 bel
owd of Young white mon f,lled ihc Sorch col
ID were about The band, ireouentlv cnra. I'M
& tho negroes and Yankees In an insult.