New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-06
NON NOBIS.

Leaguers. But at the same cime
We warned them that this forcibly.
if-we-must way Of doing business would
recoil upon themselves and the best in-
terests OF the State But the general Or
der of the executive was not exclusively
due to our remonstrance. We dlsclaifn
more than fair share OF the great COM
mendation due to all who aid in pre-
serving the peace and property ct tie
public
There seems to have been . general
determination 20 secure the object fol
which the Ku-N!Iy armed and biackesl
themselves by o!hes means. It has ex-
tended apparently across the cotton States.
from Alabama. to Texas. W. may sup
pose tho Presidea: has received appeals
throughout this region. Before embark
ing in the campaign. leading Republicans
from Louisiana repaired to Washington to
know whether it would be worth while to
risk life and labor. The reply has been
] made known.
( According to s Washington correspon.
den: Of the New York Times, similar rep
sesentations have been made from Ala.
bama. We give :: specimen. from which
il will be seen that ;Ieis case was as bas.
as ourown:
The Possofffce Department has receives:
Information tina: ou Friday last. near York
t sUariono On the Alabama aHa Chattanooga
( yaiiroad, IL oAiauaIna. \ paSsenge tram was
stopped by :aise signal OF danger. and the
I colored nla'S agent on duty was $40: :E cold
| blood by masked assassins.
Congressman Charles Hays. o: Alabama.
who is ncsv ieye. says to-day :hat DARN Z
the last :weive years. even when ku- K.ux.
| ism was a: It's height. he has never known
| a time wien the lives o: the coioreG people
| were so much endangered, and free speech
so nearly prohibited IN Alabama as to-day.
| His district. which is in the very centre Of
| the Black Belt. has 1900 cOiOred ma lority.
He has been returned several tines To Con.
gress by majority of that magnitude. yet
he says that his own life would De in danger
to-day in Sumter county, tue strocges. Re.
publican county in the district. and ttia. if
there was 10 be al election held 70 .iav. the
intimidation o.. the colore6 people by :he
rebel elemeI: is SO grea. !ha: the only votes
cast would be By white persons.
Representative Charles Pelham. .: one o:
the mountain districts III that State. who
recently arrived there from tle No..h. was
compelled 90 leave under cove: o! night.
the county seat of one of the counties cI his
own district to escape from a con TEN DtareG
attack upon MS life, OF which he was secret.
ly warned by a faithful negro. Some Of ,n.
white people Of the town. it appears. lad
assembled immediately after the arrival o:
Dir. Pelham, and mutually swore !ha: there
IL. -
gress there, and before moraing. THIS IL
telligence was secretly conveyed 20 Mr..
Pelham. who left the hotel unobserveG IN
the early evening, and walked with negro
guide ten miles through the woes 20 a
railroad station. The postmaster o; one OF
the towns of Mr.. Pelham's districts sUbse-
Guently informed him that he did nos dare
for his life to lodge him for the igh-. he.
cause his iPelhams yote for the civil rights
bill had so incensed the whites Of the coun.
try that if he did they would xii. the post.
master and Pelham both before morning.
Judge Martin, the Sixth Auditor OF the
Treasury. who has recently returned from
Alabama, felt that ne was in persona! dan
ger while on brief visit to his home. and
for the sole reason that he was known as
Republican. Mr.. Stokes, Republican em.
ploye Of the House of Representatives. who
is campaigning in Ala bama, Was surprised
one night last week in his bedroom. after be
had retired FROM speaking, bv q band Of
armed men, who approached his bed with
cooked pistols, and told him that he could
not be permitted to speak for black kepub--
licanism any more in that county, and
that if he valued his lite he must leave the
next day. AZ the meeting on the preceding
evening, when coiored man attempted to
speak, after Mr.. Stokes and Congressman
Hays had finished. a white person stepped
up on the platform and drawing a long
knife. told the colored persons that the
whites had determined not to permit the
negroes to talk in those parts any more.
Mr.. w. p. Billings, formerly lawyer and
n Liberia! and supported Greeley. He re.
moved 20 Alabama. bought farm. and
pracuice1 law. After residing in Sumter
county nearly year. announcing himself a
Republican. he took moderately active /!
part IN politics. He was shot dead return.
ing from q meeting. His widow and child !
are left IN straitened circumstances. as
his capitai was all Invested there. Every |
white Republican but Billings had heretofore |
been driven from Sumter county. No arrests.
have been made. Chancellor Fielder was re. |
Gently addressing a Republican meeting in |
Burler county. and when it closed ne was |
fired at and followed by mob. The house |
in which be took refuge was attacked. and |
only by great exertions were the lives OF |
Juuge reluer anu his nOSu saved. "A COlOreC |
Republican named Green was driven away. |
while speaking in Neal county. with threats !
of assassination In Coffee county. 3 SINH. /
lar meeting, including many women and
children, was recently fired upon and eleven |
persons were wounded. A considerable
body Of armed white men crossed from
Kinds county, Mississippi. into Alabama
about week ago, and have encampeG aear
the line, driving the colored families from
the neighbOring plantations They have
demanded that the colored fnen give ZIP
their arms, and threaten the Republican
whites living in the vicinity.
Authentic dispatches received here shis
afternoon show that more dastardiy oute
rage than any Of the preceding has been
perpetrated in Lee county, Alabama. A
gang of white Ku-Klux, without provoca-
tion of any kind on the part of any person.
deliberately fired into a colored church and
killed four persons These are illustrations
OF system of terrorism iE Alabama. the
existence of which is confirmed by many
witnesses, who have arrived
here within the last few days.
These are from Alabama alone. There
may be added the vicksburg and other
troubles in Mississippi and our owns
We do not doubt but these charges will
De all denied and denounced as untrue.
We can only avow our confidence in those