Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-10-23
who Cook mp Southern Outrages.

WsslilxGTox oct. l6-Thc Attorney enc
raj employed six weeks ago Two cuusump.tc
villains named Hester sni Beach aud sent them
into sumter county, Ala. tor the purpose OF
incjtiu- ignorant and vicious men to violence
against the negroes. These two sCouuirclS
came into Alabama from the direction Of North
Carolina disguised as moungajnccrs, and hny-
in. with them whiskey and tobacco which they
rciai,el - nr.rpc, and poor whites. They
"a kct loudly about What the whit" people ought
20 10 with the uiEscrs, what they would do II
they had a chance, aud in this manned SouL ht
10 elicit expressions Of dis.oraity from those
thew had made drunk They told the white
PEOPLE % plots - murder them. which they
pretended th"y hai heard negroes talking about
while they were loaang about their shop drink
Ing. and urged the organization of bite Lea
CUES and ku-kluN klans Is offsets To The negro
plots. In one or two instances they pretended
70 know that negroes were assembled in Iaru-
cular localities. aud osrrcd 10 lead the whites
To the spot and make short work Of the black
Williams but they never succeeded in leading
even 4 drunken man into any adventures OF
this sort. The utmost that they succeeded in
doing WIS, As they aliege. to worm ont OF some
negroes the fact that they had been parties to
the murder OF Billin = that they had overheard
the whites plotting il, and had not told for
fear. These negroes gave the names oil certain
whites aS the parties who were concerned IN
the murder, and thcveupou Beach went 10 No
bile and obtained warrants for the arrest OF the
men denounced.
Tue evidence against these men would not
warranta United States Commissioner in hold
ing them one moment, yet hecommi,s them and
refuses bail and now the news Is received here
this evening that fourteen more innocent men
have been arrested on the afiidavi;s Of Beach
and Hester, and doubtless arrests VIII continue
until enough whites are locked up 10 ensure the
election of Charles AnaniaS HAYS 10 Congress
Hester is one of the fellows who was used in
ku-klux trials in North and South Carolina TO
convict innocent men. He was an applicant
for the position of Chief of the Secret Service
OF the Treasury Department, and failing 10 get
il came into The Sun office to complain of the
treatment he had received ut the hands Of the
men he had served. lie Acknowledged to your
correspondent that he was heartily sorry for the
part he had played in the ku-kluN business,
and declared that many of the persons who had
been convicted and sent to the penitentiary
were innocent of any intent to do wrong, hay-
ing been led astray 10y designing men. He said
that he would never again have anything to do
with this sort Of business. But it is quite evil
dent that his necessities were such that he was
only too glad to take Landaulct William blood
money and 90 down into Alabama and begin
anew the work of swearing away the lives and
liberties of people in order that the men Tho
had just snubbed him might thereby make poll
teal capital for their party in the North. Beach
was one of the laZzaroni who went down from
New York to assist Hester and other Scoundrels
in carrying the election in North Carolina III
1872 He is a fellow whose evidence would
not be sufficient to convict a chicken tibet III
any respectable court.