Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-08
WHITE LEAGUE OUTRAGES.

in the library room.
WHITE LEAGUE OUTRAGES.
| We have collected list of some of
the outrages recently committed in AL
ALBANIA and other Southern States. This
list will be published from month to
month in order to let the perpetrators
of those deeds see their acts as others
view them:
| ALABAMA.
July 13-At night, because they had
attended Republican meeting, Cham
ce!ler Fielder and Colonel Seawell, Of
Greenville, in Bultier county, were
fired upon and followed to Col. Sea-
welI's house by assassins, who were
prevented from carrying out their
bloody purpose by the timely arrival
| Of the sheriff and his posse.
A few days later the Republicans of
Barbour county called Republican
meeting at Clayton. When the meet.
ing was organized White League mob
entered the hall and attacked the
speaker on the stand with sticks, knives
and pistols"
August 1.-Walter P. .Billings,a a young
and promising lawyer, was riding on
horseback from Republican meeting,
at five O'Clock in the afternoon, when,
in passing through piece of woods
within half q mile of his house, he was
shot by essassins lying in ambush. He
and his horse were found dead on the
road in the morning. His money and
watch were untouched.
August ga train on the Albe-
marie and Chattanooga railroad was
stopped at York, Alabama, by false
signal; a band of armed entered the
mail car and shot the Colored mail
agent (Ivey) in cold blood.
In Lee county q body of armed white
men surrounded colOred church du-
ring divine service and fired vOlley
into the building killing four persons
and seriously wounding several others.
In Livingstone, Mr.. Allen, hotel
keeper, was brutality beaten because he
dared to say he was Republican.
Within the last ten days no less than
fourteen murders have been commit
ted within an area of thirty miles Of
Meridian.
Up to this time not single white
Democrat has been murdered, outra-
ged, or otherwise maltreated in any
Way in the State of Alabama. The kill
ing has all been on one side.
ARKANSAS.
August IA white man was mur-
dered in Eagle township, near Little
Rock. A negro WAS charged with the
murder, and without evidence or
probability of guilt he was seized.
mounted on horseback, ostensibly to
be carried to Little Rock for tIial, with
his feet fastened under the horse and
his hands tied behind him. When on
the way melee was purposely started
by those having him in charge, and he
was shot under q pretense that the shot
was fred from the bushes.
Augusta colored preacher named
Cook Ross was taken from his church
door in Lafayette county, at the close
of the Sabbath services, by mounted
and armed white men. He was order
ed to walk of q few PAGES, when one
of the party said: i haven't killed
Cd d-n nigger son of b-h forsome
time; now, take that He was shot
dead in the presence of his congrega-
ton.
August.-Saturday at midnight a
party of White Leaguers went to the
house of colored widow in Tennessee
and called out George, her
only son, harmless, industrious young
man of IS years of age, and a nephew
Of the widow, young lad who was
visiting his aunt. While crossing field
near the residence of Martin Burke, the
widows son was shot, and the other
escaped to the woods; whether he was
pursued and shot is yet unknown.
August.-Three leading colored men
were arrested on trumped-up charge
Of petty larceny, and dragged to jail in
At night they were taken
10 the woods by gang of white leag-
lers, mile from town, and each re-
,eived 600 lashes, with instructions to
cave the county before daylight or
hey would be killed at sight. They
we're found next day with parts Of
heir bodies pounded to a jelly and
blood trickling from hundred wounds.
KENTUCKY.
We find the following in the Lexing-
on (Mo.) Caucasian, leading Demo-
ratio paper:
'.Kentucky's criminal record rivals
human language can
.ward it no moro appalling pre-emi-
renee. He'll seems to have been upset
md spilled all over the State. Its very
cd is reeking with the blood Of slaugh-
er. Eleven murders, twenty-five
hooting & stabbing affrays, the whole
ale killings and burnings at Lancas-
er, all in four weeks, and not one legal
.anging in four times as long,is enough
o blast, for generation, the fame Of
ny ordinary half dozen common
vealths, even though the bones of
lay and Crittenden reposed in each of
hem. II Is horrid blot upon South
rn civilization. 1t gives q tinge Of
astice to the Yankee howl about our
uffianism, hesthenism, ,barbarism. The
rue men of Kentucky should rise in
he resistless might and majesty Of
ight; crush out this hideous lawless-
ess at once and forever; rescue their
tate from reproach; and render the
eauteous Blue Grass Realm, what ma
ure designed Is to be, Paradise in
tead of Pandemouium.H