The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-30

L commence first WITH ths state OF Alabama
There security for the life of Republican
in Alabama. De ne white or black. But those
crimes lsll chiefly upon the colored people. They
nunted like squirrels; men go cunning Tor
theu. When they murdered in groups or IN
ero,f1s you bear OF it. but the solitary killings.
b shoOlngs in lonely valleys and forests the
pubic hear out little about. | nave just read a
Of Congress rom Alabama. lie represents the
largest Republican district in that state. He is
natiye-borR Albanian, and the largest
stakeholder but one in the stats before
the war. He commanded Confederate
regiment duang the war. but after the
accepted the situation, and gave his allesianee TO
native State and dare not g alto the district he
represents. In this letter Of colonel Hays there
are many things / would like to read to you II /
had ene and strength sufficient ! viii ali your
attention to two or three Speaking of Piekens
county. in the State Of Alabama. ne says:
-'Tsis i. a county in West Alabama. where the
cast a Republican vote and lived through the
year In the days OF the former reign ku-
kiuxIsni. II was regarded as perfect hole OF NJ ur
der and crime. The report OF the congressional
Investigating Committee fully eIucidates the
former glory OF PiekenS county To-day It Il
man who would dare to make a Repubiieaa
speech IN the county would be shot down ike a
mad dog in one of our public theroughfares
slaves than when the chains ami the handouts
were the insignia of their condition. and the
sharp lash of brutal driver WAS the reward
liberty. but never tasted its sweets. { ntouched
by the civilizinz Influences of railroads and
masters upon their secluded plantations. No
niger school house adorns our county, is the
dition Of the black race in this county IS heart
rending and terrible in the extreme. ONraEes
IN this county age the rule yet, from the terror
~ urder leaks out. I cite two s. Ia Carol
ton. Plc5cns county, touf !olored men. who were
supposed 70 be temIs-aries, sent to post the
negroes on their rights, were taken the third
week in August from their cabins. and hung by
IA 1SIl AHI nzr -3f ted in ON
daylight ~ a body OF unmasked white men. y
He says that is the condition of things in many
counties in the South Tie cites from the Selma
Times the killing of colorrd mail agent. and. as
illustrative OF the spirit of the people. wish to
The killing of Tom Ivey. the negro route
agent the circumstances Of which are noted else
where. has. so are informed. caused 0nsid-
erabfe excitement among the negroes IN this city
Some of them. so we are in orined. have used
n arieied By Kukiaz. Would not these blatant
The purpose o. us band Of OUTLAWS simply
to get rid of Ivey. for after the killing occurred.
touched and unmoiested. This is these sscoal
route agent murdere on this route,
Dem, an account OF the killing of i've negroes
in North Sumter on the night OF August "a, 1874
killed. They were all shot. The correspondent
Of the MsfeY W. Writing from GsinesEiiie Ala
the crowd went dead in a cornfieid; This Dem
ocratic correspondent concludes his article as
follows: IAN these deatt% occurred on the night
OF the 2ith. except the negro woman. who was
killed early in the morning OF the 18th. Mr.. Vim
the items of news being asked if it was a good
night for KILN answered. no, i bad been dry
that of the assassination of Simon Edwards
which l clip from the Meridian Ga-ette. This
Every Midnight breeze brings to US the dying
groans OF soine man. WHO has allen in the cause
white Dernocrat has been murdered outraged or
otherwise rnaltreated IN any way IN the State Of
Alabama. The killing has all been side.
The reports even of our own suiferins5 have been
held back and kept back from the people of the
Press alone furnish news to your papers. Every
agent of this ASSOCIATION in Alabama tand in the
views, speeches, platforms. writings and actions
generality are garo4ed ana mlssent to deceive the
South is being pinndered by adFsnturers; that
corruption and IN amy stalk forth with mons
every man who dares to raise his voice for the
principles of Repubiicanism is q felon, and un-
these tainss: and more too. have we borne in
silence. The faithful old slaves WHO fell upon their
an Il eas and ho,ss of po9er AMI do ta
sent forth prayers and thanks to heaven for Lin
and 81 to 6 nut nta aFi aysr
10 protect themselves and their little from
n urder and destruction. Many, many OF my old
slaves have come 10 me anu begged he 10 take
desperaao.
[ might read to you other passages from this
letter OF Colonel Hays. show ing the con dition
Of things in Alabama. gu have recently seen in
Billings, prominent ana respectable gentlemen
Who had recently removed to that State
On his way home. In Kentucky. Just across ' the
borders. we are told by the louisville Courier
JoarEat. that there is no punishment
1or murder, that there is no protection from yi0-
ence. We have Il from the highest authority on
he other sid and might say that far a. the
violence has been sa.hersd. no, white
he war for killing negro and r
! now OF no white msn having been punished in
pr life, If we are to believe the Gos gss.
rucl in that State for the past three or four
years. VS. hare the evidence OF their Governor.
now Senator Stevenson. that in many counties in
Kentucky the hukhx have bsen organize
md ensaged in their outrageops AMI
10 punishment inflicted in single instance.
cry recently there have been murders over
here. We have the authority Of their own mar
hal for the statement that in the last three years
'Ser one hundred men have been killed, wounded :
r driven into exile in two counties Of Kentucky /
lave recently Sssn the terrible slau-hter in Ten
lessee. In one instance sixteen negroes pat into
ear Of it; bit single murders in the cotton
elds, in the corn fields. where they are called 4
p III the night IA their cabins and sho. down. /
a9 Of woua haf3y Re
,hile to make paragraph in newspaper
qSsp "a MolIb While 81 70 s pnb tbs fh0ush
dozen or q score at one time.
There tive excuses assigned throug out the
outh for these murders. Tho first IS given
iorth as welr as South; it is the robberies and
lqnderinss BY what they call carpet -baggsrs.
no are the carpet-haggers in the South? Nine
zen out OF twenty OF them are Union soldiers
no remained there after, the war was over: "a
hey were pleased with the climate. thought it
as 4 good place to kegin life again. They
bought there were openings there. The South.
m States are sparse in population, and wanted
dor and capital. and they remained there to
We; They have oeen treated ~ enemies, hunted
,ntions. everything was done 10 break them
own. Some of them turned out to be
al men. not many. Most of them
ere good men. and would have made the best
tizeus in the South If theE- had been left alone
hey have been hunted ike wild beasts; many
ave been killed. and the characters of all have
zen covered with calumny aud shame. II
But they say these men have committed crimes:
At thew have rohhsti plun1erei and ,