New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-25
. FEW FACTS ABOUT THE KU.KLUx.


List of Outrages Upon Republicans.
From the Washington Chronicle
Colonel A. p. Higgins, of Aberdeen, Mis-
s'ssippi, was before the committee yester
day. He testified that Ku-klux first mad
their appearance in Monroe county, Missis
sippi, in August, 1870. Fifty disguised mel
took from the Jail three colored men-Saun
,ders Flint and his two sons; the old NAL
escaped but the two sons bodies Wer
found about ten miles from the Jail few
DAYS after, filled with bullets. Five Of tn
Ku-Klux in this case were arrested, IN
dicted, tried and acquitted by Ku-kluI
Jury. On February /, 1871, Alfred Whit
field, colored, was taken by ku-klux anC
whipped for being Radical; on the third o.
February an old man, near the Lee county
line, was whipped because he was hepup
lican; on the tenth of February, 1871, JacB
Dupree, president of Repu bllcan cup Ii
Monroe county, was taken out by Dand o.
sixty Ku-Klux, stripped i'll his own yard
taken five miles, beaten nearly 10 ueatn
his body split open and dIsem6oweled ano
thrown into creek near by. ON the nlntf
of March, while witness was staying III the
,eiphborbood where this murder was com
lifted. about one hundred and twenty ku
hux came to the house, whipped hin
seSrelv-until be became insensible, in
sistd ON his reducing the taxes, etc.
III same night another band, about five
miles away, took a school teacher named
Farme, beat him severely and ordered him
TO quilts school and leave the county. His
ottense Nas teaching colored school. On
the eleVuh of March. colored man IN the
same neltlbOrhood was whipped and told
by the huklux it was because he had sued
wniee nSGthat negroes should not nave
such remedhs The freedmen fired into the
hu-hluX WIN tbav UllnnInp fins
colored man. The khan returned the fire,
became demoraled, threw Oft uniforms and
ran. Many OF dtn were recognized by the
freedmen who wee present. On the four
teenth of March, tn miles north of Aber-
deem, another banl attacked Alfred Skin
ner in his house; be vas armed and kept
them at bay. Aooutte same time Joseph
Atkins, freedman, was taken by the Ku-
hlux and made to IN; sappling while
they whipped him. Alaher c6lored man
named Simon, a federal s.her. was whipped
for no cause.
On March %, the Ku-Ekx went TO the
house OF Alex. Page (cOlerdl. took him
from under his bed, bound ala with a bed
cord and carried him four mie. from home.
beat him until near dead, hun. him TO a
limb until quite dead, and, to be,ure of it,
smashed his skull with an ax-poved bv
States evidence.
"A cOIOreu MeJHOulsl preacher named
Abel Wamble was taken from his hose by
about sixty Ku-Klux on the twentieb of
May, and Shot seven times without cermo-
nv. and killed instantly.
About the first of April, Tom Harnbergr.
colored, was taken from his home by X
Klux and killed with shot. April 4, MAI
named Peter was whipped, with his necl
under fence, until he would promise t.
vote the Democratic ticket. Two member
of the school board in Monroe county wer
ordered to resign by ku-klux, and one die
so. All the teachers of free schools on TIN
east side of the Tombigbee river were mott
fed to close their free schools, and all OF
that side were closed. The whole numbe
was twenty-six. They notified the teach
ers of the high schools in Aberdeen to close
Three schoolhouses in the northwest par
of the county were burned; two were white
one a colored school. The Rev. Mr.. Gallo
way, native white, was notified that b,
must not preach. Mr.. Galloway is Re
publican, and teaches a cOlored school III,
still continued to preach, but was visited
and threatened with death if he continued
Rev. Mr.. Mclaughlin, a Northern Method
ist, of Oktibaha county, was driven from
his field by Ku-klux, who threatened hi
death if he returned.
On March 80, Mr.. Mcbride, of Chickasav
county, teaching a cOlOred school, was
taken ont by Ku-Klux and given one hun
dred and seventy-tive lashes, and compelled
TO leave the county. A colored man named
Joseph Turner, was whipped June II, 1871
by Ku-Klux, in Loundes county. In LOundei
county many of the colored schools wer,
broken up, the collection of the school tai
stopped after it was assessed and partly
collected what was collected was refunded
to the taxpayers.
The trouble in Mississippi is generally
confined to the Alabama border. At the
the time the Ku-Klux outrages commenced
no election was at hand, or any unusual ex
element.
The local courts in all Ku-Klux cases
were pOwerless, terror ruled courts anC
witnesses. The greatest CONSERVATION anC
and fear take possession of the freedmen
wherever the outrages have been commit
ted. Not Democrat has been harmed in
that part of Mississippi: the victims are all
Republicans. The prisoners that have been
arrested as Ku-klux are all Democrats
The Republicans all denounce the outrages.
The great majority of the whites sympa
thize thoroughly with the ku-KluX. The
Ku-Klux are being demoralized by the
action of the general government; the arrest
of prisoners has very quiet aud calming
effect on the community; while many citi-
ZeDs manifested sympathy for the ku-klux
they offered no resistance. The people are
now being relieved of the terror that has
been over them; the law-abiding people feel
more security and have confidence in the
government.