New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-28
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taxes themselves. No. not the poll tax for the
niger legislature mighty careful 10 put Il I'm the
law that they needn't pay the tax to get b. vote
Look here, stranger, wharabouts do you come 'front.'
replied that my native State Ohs. "wall do you
think folks in your State would stand Il to have lot OF
ignorant degraded nggers. not worth dollar, maxim
laws and holdn all the Offices and taxin their property
and they nut a word TO sayf"
irephed that was confident the people of Ohio would
NOT Ike such a state Of affairs. "Eo. reckon they
wouldn't and they wouldn't stand neither not for sin.
gle day And. tell you Sir, that we've borne it "a long
a we esn aud now its got TO stop The nggers hive got
u e' men OF property and intelligence hold the Offices
OF tneyve got to leave this part Of the country"
Ihs hnd TO be the unanimous setSrpent of the white
men here with whom have taIlud A one-armed Law.
yer who had been colonel In ssss rebel army told
me this morning that he believed the negroes would
soon abn son this part Of the STATE sd 20 TO the sec
tions where they are largely In tie majority Il asked
him what he thought Of intelligence qualfeaion for
Suffrage a remedy for the present OWL THAT would
suit he replied, "but how are we going to get it,
The negroes will pass law aisfanchising them
selves The only way is to force them give up the
power they have got, and we mean to do it."
It is perfectly evident that the whites TO try to
get control of the State and that they have
thorough organization for this purpose. 1t matters
not whether II is called the Whts Brotherhood, the In
visible Empire the Ku-Klux Khan, the Council OF
Safety-the last being the name which they gVs hero
in Cheserts purpose is the same and that so to In
tnidate the blacks that at the next election they will
not dare to vote for any Of their for Office or
for any white radical. The troops stationed here are
under command OF Maj Van voas OF cbe 18th infantry.
and consist Of company Of his regiment ard troop
Of the 18th cavalry. They are quartered In
the outskirts Of the village and use
an abandoned warehouse for barracks The officers say
they have heard of murders in the county since they
came, but that tho whipping Of the blacks by masked
still goes or, extent in the surrounding dis
trcts Sometimes the victims whipped for suspected
thefts, but usually they told that IL for votinga
and they made 10 promise never TO
do SO again. The troops have no authority to mako
arrests and can do nothing unless called upon by
revenue officer by the sheriff to act posse eoftd-
tbs The officers expecting orders now that the
Ku-Kux bill has been passed. They think they viii be
directed the OF affairs In the vicinity, and
all acts Of violence In order THAI the President
may know when H is necessary 10 evaN himself OF Tho
iscreaoDary powers given him by the bill.
In counties where garrsons have been established
the condition OF things is much wOree than here. In
County, negro, his wlfe, and daughter
were murdered one night last weak The man had been
collecting the delinquent tax. In Clarendon County, two
days ago. County Commissioner found dead In tho
road shot in six places. The KuKIux seem determined
TO murder all negro ofiee-holders.