Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-10-10
WAR OF RACES IN ALABAMA.
Armed Bands Of White League Democracy Spread.
ing Terror Under the Pretenss OF Hunting for.
Armed Bands Of Negroes.

The war of races is in full and fearful blast in
Greene County. But it is a war in which the
negroes are continually aggressed upon. We
have now reliable information to the effect that
the White League Democracy of Greene arei
daily seen parading the roads of that county,
spreading terrorism wherever they go, under
the pretense of hunting for armed bands Of
negroes" Daily rumors are put ahoat that armed
bands of negroes at such and such place.
1t is so easy to get mp such rumors. Forthwith
these armed bands of the White League De-
moracY seize upon these rumors, and put
out to the points indicated, only to demon
strate the utter fslsity of such malicious
statements. But it serves their purpose, which
is to intimidate and alarm the indefensible Re-
publicans of that county. Besides frightening
the negroes to an untold degree, these White
League Democrats have inaugurated not only
ostracism but persecution that is almost intol-
cradle lust as in Louisiana before the new
rebellion. These armed bands of the White
Leaguers 90 to the private residences of active
Republicans and demand their arms Some
times they draw the loads out of their gHnsfo
see If they have been loaded with dangerous
loads And yet these armed White Leaguers
have almost invariably found the guns of these
Republicans loaded with small shot But what
right have these men to invade the private
houses of the humblest citizens2 It would be
fortunate thing for the peace Of society if they
were all seized by the strong arm OF the law and
uaQ6 10 SuucE Tue pCAdAtAGo AOA AuCti u
regard OF the rights of the people OF that county.
And it may not be too late to apply this remedy
yet.
But why expect anything better in Greene
when the close proximity Of that outskirt Oi
perdition-Sumter County = IS remembered
Greene County was invaded last Saturday-l2th
Instantly band Of armed men from Sumter
The pretense was, that they were looking for
certain colored man. Hearing, or protesting to
hear, that he was in the Clubhouse OF old man
Berry Browne, these chivalroUs Christian White
League-Ku-Klux Democrats rode up to the afore-
said gin-house, and Immediately opened fire
upon i'll Immediately four or Eve little chill
dren ran out of the gin-house and OF TO the
woods. And when these valorous White League
warriors had all left the children thai had ran Of
came back, and it was found that one had dis
appeared.
Search was made, when the missing child was
found in the gin-house shot through the heGdf
The Sheriff of Greene, who is a Democrat, az
rived at the scene of the murder few minutes
after these valorous knights had ceased firing,
and he knows the facts in this cited easel Such,
we are assured, is the terrorism now prevailing
at some places in Greene, that hundreds Of
colored people have left and gone to the swamps
for protectionl And perhaps it was body OF
these terror-stricken colored Republicans, who
| had fed from their homes for protection, thai
were so easily and quickly dispatched recently
in the vicinity of Forklaud A letter before us.
from a citizen of Greene County, whose only
ofFense Is that he will nos Quit the Republican
party. exclaims: "0k, Godl hoU long griH thsss
I1vicEsa men be permitted 10 iHsTh and outrage
ne and make our EUss q blrdsRg