The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-01-28
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Ed''0rs Losisvilie Commercial:
itbecomes my duty, as law abiding
ciusen, to inform the public, through
your columns, of the treatment the
blscks are subjected to here bys band
OF outlaws who frequent our peaceful
town % last Thursday, the 18th OF
this month, as party of colored men
were returning to their homes. they vere
met IN the road by party Of these out
iaFsand fired upon three times. with
the SIMMONS, Take OF your hats, you
damn black rsscsls, or We will blow your
dana brains out r. In the mesntime q
eitizsn, who resides near our little village
cha ned to be passing, and met the party
whet they remarked TO him that they
lntehed TO follow the negroes and shoo
then The old citizen replied that If h'
wssla their place he would let then
These are facts that can be eathentica
1 ted NJ any time. The Conservatives hsy'
NE majority here. and are, in general
very law-sbiding. There is no town Oh
the Mississippi river that is more peace
ful than Hickman. if those oatls~s wonle
remsin out OF it. The colored people
here are industrious and very Intelligent
sad have a church, which seems to be il
prosperous condition.
This party above alluded to. who ire
quent this place. live in a section o
country known MS BLACK Oak, and i
seems that they bid defiance to Law. Oui
city is blessed with good city marshal
q man who discharges his duty in every
respect, aud if this party of colored men
had informed him OF the shooting there
certainly would have been more than
three shots fred, or they would have
been brought back to the city.
The colored men alluded 10 we're re
turning from digging a grave for one oi
their own color. II does seem that the
inoffensive black people ought to be pro
tected-if not by the civil las, by the
strong arm of the Government
IAave given you the facts nov as they
are, and you can publish them il you
choose. l am taking your paper. and
expect to continue to do so rs long ss il
sdheres TO the principles ID nov so ably
defends. Yoour friend, NJ.
The correspondent is reasonably fair
for Radical. but il occurs to US that one
so very solicitous as "a CONSERVATION of the
peace, should have addressed his com
plants to our local authorities, who he
admits, ar, ready and willing to discharge
their duty in every respect From the
best information We can obtsin, We are
forced to conclude that the imprudent
actors in this affair attended no personal
Injury to the negroes, their pistols being
aimed in the air and not at the black
boys. The whole thing appears to have
been an imprudent, thoughtlessj joke, and
30 describe it a. the act of band OF
antlaws - pndslv sxsogerates the occur
renee. The correspondents charge thai
this band of outlaws from Black Oak, :
frequent this place, land bid defiance &c
law is certainly not sustained by the
facts. The incident alluded TO in the
above letter is the only misdemeanor OF
which ve can hear snythiug, and Their
frequent visits" is therefore, ali iuiagi
native The correspondent, also, should
have stated that the section known ss
BLACK OAK" is in Tennessee, and not in
Kentucky, and that it was always ehiet4y :
remarkable re for its loyal complexion