The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-09-13

through him OF regainlng
power, we can see what the legitimate
tendency of such vote must be. Nor
have we, for this examination, to take
the exaggerated and unauthenticated
rumors OF the partisan press. There
is at hand plenty OF sworn testimony,
taken by special joint committee of
the national Senate and House, OF
which Senator Scott was chairman
and Hons. Frank Blair and Sunset
Cox were members. Our glance at
the results of their Investigation shall
be OF the briefest possible that will
fairly convey its spirit. And, for
convenience, we follow in our exam
ination the order of offenses charged
by Gen. Butler, who, as a member OF
that committee, knew very well what
he was talking about.
l. Offenses against womanhood.
In the nature of the case such wrongs
as these, grievous as they may be,
can be touched but lightly in a public
journal. Suffice it to say that he who
reads carefully report No. Al of the
Forty.secoud Congress, second sec
sion, will find that cases Of stripping
women naked and whipping them; OF
rape; OF abuse OF the most outrageous
description, causing premature child
birth, and of "brutality too revolving
in its details for publication" were
shown to have taken place again and
again in South Carolins, Alabama,
Kentucky Mississippi, and elsewhere.
[See PIP. "a, IS, 263 S66, etc.!
2. The burning of school houses.
The testimony before the committee
demonstrated that IL numberless
cases school houses had been fired
by the Ku-Klux, while the teachers
we're insulted, brutally whipped, and
in some instances murdered. See
DID. Al, 72, 7s, 70, 80, SO, etc.I Note
particularly the case of Corr relou'
Mcbride, a young Scotchman, who
taught a colored school near Sparta
Cbickasaw county, Miss, aneighbor
hood where the whites were friendly
to education and to him, and where
he, therefore, thought it safe to stay
while the school houses of other:
we're burned and they abused. Bu
in the last week of March 1870, th'
Ku-Klux came. They took him OF
into the fields, beat him with theil
pistols and sabers, koncked hin
down, stripped him, and then whipp
ed with "black-gum switches, whicl
sting and rise the flesh where the,
hitn) to the extent of near tw'
, hundred lashes, before he could max
! his escape with the blood running
: down his back The moral remar
with which this was accompanie'
> was with oaths which we canno
} report), "Don't you know that thi
, is a white mans country h [pp. a
E 79.I
8. The desecration of churche:
s In single district in Alabama 81
= churches were burned, four OF theI
9 within three weeks previous to tn
1 election of 1870. p. 72- This o.
= Cured with frightful frequency, ,whil
g in some portions of the South th
: outrages committed upon the mini:
Is ters were dreadful. Ten wei
b whipped, shot in the pulpit, murdel
o ed, or driven sway in single dii
" trict of North Alabama. p. 12
IT The organized persecution of IL
t; ministers of the Methodist Episcop
o Church as distinguished from Il
1, Methodist Church South was mst
:e effectual by many stripes, as well
s- with the dagger and the pistt
Is [pp. 70, 72.]
N 4. General Butler, had he chosen
le make the most of the subject, mig
es have gone on to charge the deadlit
," crimes against lite in the same ca
n. CORY. The dwellings of peaceful a
sii unoffending citizens, black and VIII
ng (loyal), have been burned or to
ar down Ipp 81, Al, SOL while murd'
its in cold blood have been 80 comm
lot in many parts OF the late insurrectl
Is ary States as almost to surpass bel
he A committee of the Tennessee Lee
ose lature reported that for six mon
in murders by Ku-Klux in that State
averaged one day LIP, Isl; Gene