Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-01

Is to kill, drive away, or subjugate
Republicans, white and black, and
thus carry the elections. The
Shreveport Times, League organ,
boasts their intention to carry the
election this fall at oil hazards.
Orders are issued to "shoot, kill,
hang or Danish " all who are engag-
ed in teaching negroes, and all who
are favorable to the Republican par
ty. Here are few extracts which
will give some idea of the animus OF
this White League order and the
character of its work, the extent OF
which will never be known:
81 MURDERS IN THREE WEEKS.
Information from st. Martins and
Iberia Parishes, La, indicates that
the White League will make bold
stand In that portion of the State.
They have three cannon, and are
armed with Winchester rifles. They
have possession of the rations furn-
ished by the Government during the
overflow. During the last three
weeks fifty-seven negroes and whites
have been murdered in that vicinity.
The refugees from Coushatta state
that at least thirty have been mur-
dered I'm and around that place.
The registration officers in the north
ern and western portions of the State
decline to serve owing to the insecu.
rity of life. The regular police OF
Shreveport have been discharged
and the firemen, oil Of whom are
White Leaguers, have been appoint.
ed to succeed them. At banquet
at Dallas, Texas, they openly boast.
ed that they intended to kill or drive
every Radical out of that city.
Sheriff Edgerton writes that one ol
the prominent members of the
White League in Shreveport, Pear
son, declared We are for war.
We are now stalking our all. If we
lose, we lose all. If the negroes vote
for, or attempt to sustain any Repub.
lican in Office, it will cost them their
lives"
In another letter, Edgerton writes
"If the government wants cases ol
murder to act upon, they can find
plenty in DE Soto, where they have
murdered seven colored men, just to
see them kick"
swAMPs STINK WITH DEAD.
Refugees arriving at New Orleans
ordered by the captains Of Leagues IL
country parishes, report that the
swamps stink with the bodies o
murdered negDes. The Leaguers
are in many places organized as mil
itary companies, and are regularly
Differed and drilled. They shoot
down the negroes in the woods
where they are chased for the pur'
pose.
"PRoSCRIPTIOS.n
Let the negro alone; Withdraw all
patronage from him; prescribe him.
Prescription d! prescription! Mdts M1
rord. Let il be written upon every
gate post throughout the length and
breadth Of our State, that we will
not hemeforth patr0nize any one
who is our sworn public and impla-
cable enemy. Is prescription pract-
liable? How shall we introduce it,
and put the ball i'm motion 2 If there
is patriotism enough among the
people to make the sacrifice, we say
it il practicable, and win surely prove
available. we would state that our
State TX ecutive Committee Of tax
unions reconends this policy to the
people, and then let every subordi-
nate tax union throughout the State
take the matter in hand, adopt it by
resolution, and incorporate it in their
laws. so that every member shall
pledge himself by oath that after the
present years contract, he will nei-
ther hire, rent, lease tenant or pat