The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-10-08
white League Outrages.

white League Outrages.
We have co objected list Of some of the MUIR
ders and other outrages recently committed IN
Alabama and ether Southern States. This list
will he published from month to month IN order
to let the perpetrators of those dee,ls their
acts as others view them. Additions will he
made to the list as fast the facts in each come
to u.s. authenticated by reliable Southern CORES
poDdents.
ALABAMA.
July I3-At night, because they had attended
a Republican meeting, Chancellor Fielder and
Colonel Seawell, of Greenville, IN Butler County,
were fired upon aud followed toColonel SeawelFs
house hy assassins, who were prevented from
carrying ont their bloody Purpuse by the timely
arrival Of tue sheriff and his posse.
A few days latter the Republicans of Barbour
County called Republican meeting at ClsS ton.
When the meeting was organized White Lrague
mob entered the hall and attacked tbe spraker
on the stand with sticks, knives, and pistols
August l.-Walter Z. Billings, young and
promising young lawyer, was riding nn horse
back home from Republican meeting, AT i've
o'clock in the afternoon, " hen in passing through
Il piece of woods within half mile of his house,
he was shot by assassiLs lying in ambush. He
and his horse were found dead on the road in the
morning His money and watch were untouched
Aug. 25.-A train on the Albemarle and Chat
tauooga railroad was stepped at York, Alabama,
by false signal; 4 band of armed men entered
the mail car and shot the eolored mail agent
Uvey) in cold blood.
In Lee County a body of armed white men sur
rounded colorcd church during divine service
and fired volley into the building, killing four
persons aud seriously wounding several others.
In Livingston, Mr.. Allen, hotel-keepcr, was
brutally beaten because he dared to say he was
Republican,.
Within the last ten days no less than fourteen
murders have been committed within an area OF
thirty miles of Meridian.
IN tisf tt.,f oUl. tvlita Danaorraf
has been murdered, outraged, or otherwise NAL
treated iu any way in the State of Alabaua. The
killing has all been done on one side.
ARKANSAS.
August LA white nan was murdered iu Ea-
gle township near Little Rock. negro was
charged with the murder, and without evidence
or probability of giilt lie seized, mounted on
horseback, Ostensibly to be carried to Little
Rock for trial. with his feet fastened under the
horse and his hands tried behind him. When on
the way melee was purposey started by those
having him in charge, aud he was shot under a
pretense that the shot was fired 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 ordered
to walk off a few PAGES, when one OF the party
said: II haven't killed a Cd d-D nigger
Of a b-h for some time; new, take that" He
was shot in the presence of his congregation.
Aug.-Saturtiay at midnight parry of White
Leaguers went to the house of Il colOred widow
IN i.r I,anI, ;Sns,r;,n. ,'a,,,o', -. ..
s ~ ~ go - - 49,. and n nenL.v Of ,b., xyiiorv a
young lad who was visiting his aunt. While
crossinga field near the residence of Martin Burke
the widows was shot, and the other escaped
10 the woods. Whether he was pursued and shot
is yet unknown.
Ang.-Three lcatling colored men were arrested
ON trumped-up charge of petty larcency, and
dragged 20 a jail in Clarksvillc. At night they
were tax en to the woods by gang of White Lea
guers a mile from town, and each received 600
fore day light or they would be killed at sight
They were found next day with parts of their
bodies pounded to Jelly and blood trckling
from u hundred wounds.
KrxrrCKy
~,
= we nhd tue inllowIhs IN lne lexington (N".)
'ancasah, it'uilg DeiiocIa'ie n n Php1r!
hentu! cIinn'l IeeoIu n. y. NE niSs,"'i
ii;, nun,,"a en u,II 49,, ~ =, nv hax I ap
p',..t and sniii.5 ali over Nh. Sfate Its very
sod is reekng with the blood of slaughter. Elev-
EN- murders, twenty-five shooting and stabbiBg
atfrays, and the wholesale killings and burnings
at Lancaster, all in four weeks aud not one legal
hanging in four times as long scnough to blast,
for "a generation, the fame of any ordinary half
dozen commonw ealths, even though the bones of
Clay and Crittend-n reposed in each of them. Ii
is horrid blot upon Southern civilization. 1t
gives a tinge of Justice to the Yankee To howl
about our Ynifianism heathenism, barlarism. The
true men of Kentucky shonld rise in the resist
less might aud majesty of right; crush out this
hideous lawlessness at once and forever; rescue
their State from reproach; and render the beau
teous Blue Grass Realm what nature designed it
to be, a Paradise instead of Paudemonum."
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saSreu ioit! 10 i'i! cil|ehs On shc s'rse'soi new
oIieans, .ook possession oI tne otats house. house. anu
uio'e ou' 'i'e "o' ei"'i anu "sa'e 'ihoe's'
TENNESSEE.
August 1-Burning of the sehool-house at
Commerce Smith County
August 6-CasL Warren WAS shot in Sommer-
Vile.
Aupust 7.-Massacrc of the Reeves brothers at
A,a,s, m Rrrrir, of +n.o oI,r.b.s roar
cynress West Truness.e