Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-05-04
CONDITION OF FLoRirA.
A Terrible fst of Au-KIux Ousrsz.

Terrible 1 fst of Ru-KIux Outrsse
The Daily Union, of Jacksonville,
publishes the following record of hend-
isL outrages and prosecutions by the
ku- KluX, as having occurred in Golum
bia county, in that State.
| A little colored girl, hired at one
Reyles, went out for wood and nexeF
came back In few months her
| bones were found in a hammock wits
the skull cracked. Thomas Jaeo
| (colored) was shot in his iIelee 81
night, and two colored men swere
rested and imprisoned 4 long time fer
the act, but subsequently, it has been
asce=tained that the murder was com
mitted by four or five white alens
whom, We believe, have left the cean-
try.
James Green, colored, was taken
from his house and shot through the
body with pistol, to extort froinIiiln
some of the secrets of the Union
League and subsequently shot
through the head and sunk in the lake.
| A party of colored men, women and
children assembled at Prince WeaveFs
house, at a social party, and were fired
into by white men. Little Susie
Weaver, thirteen years old, was killed.
and several others were dangerously
wounded. Other colored men have
been missing, and it IS believed BY the
people that they have been murdered
and concealed. Morris, BLY,, Stevens,
and other colored men have been
taken out at night by disguised par
ties and severely whipped.
Not one of them has ever vet been
punished or brought into court. Not
one of the persons murdered or whip
ped were Democrats. Was not the
Sheriff assaulted at a public meeting
last fall at Ellisville, accused of being
Radical or Radical office holder,n
and plainly told that none of his
''stripe" should come to EIlisViIle?
Did not some twenty or thirty of the
''unterrified'' from Eilisville come into
Lake city in regular military style and
declare they were anxious to meet q
Radical? And when one of theirnum-
Der was arrested by the City Marshal
did they not, with knives and pistols
in their hands, and with yells equal to
a regular charge in battle, rescue him
from the Marshal?
hood of Ellisville, while the United
States Circuit Court was in session at
Jacksonville last winter, resist the
United States Marshal (which we have
not heard of in any other part of the
State), and when the United States
troops were sent into that neiehbor-
hood for their arrest they could not
be found 2 To speak plainly, there is
/ - r.
that section, and no man would dare
| declare in public that anything was
right except Ku KluXism and the
Democratic party. Some of these So
called honest and law-abiding citi-
f zens" are the ruling spirits in this law
lessness, not doing anything them
selves-no, no! There might be some
f danger in that; but they privately adj.
t wise and encourage. They look very
sweet, and are opposed to such things,
and will say it is only the imprudent
, boys-we can not control them while
l there is so much oppression DC.
} What is so about Ellisyille is so in
: other places, but not to the same exz
t tent. Only last night the Probate
: office and the Office of the Clerk of our
! Circuit Court was broken open, and ali
: the important papers destroyed or car
3 ried off
, Men who never had nerve enough to
5 shoulder their muskets and share the
: hardships of the deluded masses in
1 the Southern army, and who, long
after Lee and J Johnson had surrendered,
shouted the war cry of ''Die in the LAST
ditch p are really responsible agents
: for the anomalous state of affairs
: which surround the good people of
4 this country.