New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-10-08


The white man had placard pinned to hi.
} neck, saying, "This is the way we treat
Dutch niggers," evidently abiding to the
nativity of the man. who seemed to be a Ter.
man. The other two were placardcd. "Tc
Mobile, with the compliments of Pickens
county,"
HALE COUNTY.
At Greensboro, in this county, for MANY
years the cOlored people have hadtwO or three
purely benevolent societies. Their meetings
were originally intended to be secret, hut act.
ing upon the advice of a number of white re-
publicans (myself included.) this feature was
abolished, and white men were invited to at
tend their meetings whenever they chose to
do so. This step was taken to prevent the
possibility of the democrats crying out that
the negroes and their white leaders were con
cOcting mischief in secret. On Wednesday
night, August &c, the meeting of one of these
societies was waited upon by body of white
men and notified that they must not meet
again" that they were devising means to
murder the whites" Instantly and peace
iuiiy the colored men and women dispersed
to their homes, and in this way prevented
another bloody riot, where the "black man
invariably is in the wrong, and always gets
killed."
James Bliss, an inohensive colored man,
was delegate from one Of the country pre-
cincts OF Sumter county to the late Republic
can convention. On Wednesday night, Au-
gust %, body of masked men visited his
house, but Bliss, seeing them, had fled. They
searched in vain for the radical niggcr,"
but told his family they would return again.
The result is, Bliss has fed from the county
A few weeks ago, Major John &. Stokes,
formerly editor Of the Dniy Journal, at Mont
gomery, Ala, and district attorney before
the war in Alabama, himselfa Southern man
and Confederate soldier. made Republican
speech in Greensboro, Hale county. That
| night he was warned (after his room in the
| hotel had been entered at one O'Clock at
night by a band of pistoled and armed ruff
| fans that he must not visit the county again
to make radical speeches. Major Stokes is
well known in Washington.
Russell COUNTY.
In Wacoche Valley on Thursday night,
August q, the negroes were holding a pro-
tracted religious meeting at Ebenezer church
The services were interrupted by body Of
men, who called the preachers out and told
them "thcy (the whitcs) understood the ne
groes were preparing to have an insurrec-
ton" This the colored man denied, and in
vited the white men to remain then, and
come regularly to see that they were only
holding religious meetings. The whites re-
fused and ordered the meeting broke up.
This was Immediately done. Many of the
! colored men and women were cruelty beaten
aud whipped that night on their way back
home. The same night this church, another
one for colOred people a mile distant and a
school house for colorcd people, were all
burned.
MACON COUNTY.
Hon. Charles Pelham, member of Con-
gress from the Bird district, was compelled a
few weeks since to escape from the town OF
Iuskegee at night to save his life. He was
warned of the danger by faithful negro,
and jumped from his window and fled to the
railroad six miles distant. They intended to
murder him, because he had been elected and
had voted as a Republican, at the last session
of Congress.
Hon. John j. Martin, sixth auditor of the
tfur s to te war Me Was one Of The
largest shareholders I'M Alabama. and be-
longed to a family whose history has been
blended with that of the State from the time
1t was territory up to the present date. He
has held varions positions of honor and trust
in the State; was Union man all through
the bloody scenes of the rebellion. and is
noted for his urbanity, politeness, and gentle
manners. On the Goth Of August he visited
Alabama to attend the State Republi-
can Convention. While there the Demo-
cratic paper, published in the town where
he had lived for many years, advised his
Old friends to have nothing to do with
him, that he was a radical, and must he
treated with "that scorn and contempt he so
richly deserved for allying himself with the
radical party"
COFFEE COUNTY,
AT Clintonvile, in this county, the 4th of
July last, the colored people were holding
SUNDAY school meeting" Large numbers
OF men, women aud children were present,
when body OF white men rode up, and with
out saying a word opened deadly fire on the
assembage. Two were killed and six badly
wounded.
CHOCTAw COUNTY.
On or about the lst of August the news
papers of Alabama were filled with accounts
OF large bodies of armed negroes congrc-
eating in Choctaw county for the purpose of
commencing war upon the whites. OIL
course the excitement was intense. Hun
dreds OF whites from different sections swiftly
hurried to the scene of the supposed conflict,
but when they arrived no fire-armed negroes
could be found. Yet something must be done
to make an example. So company of
whites ambushed party Of negroes return
ing from church, killed ten and wounded tbir-
teen.
Again, Green Lewis, colored route agent
on the Selma and Meridian railroad, was
warned that it he continued to run on that
road they would murder him. | had his route
changed to save his life.
Again, the Hon. Joseph ii. Speed, super
intendent Of public instruction, was attacked
and beaten bya mob, at Marion, Ala, be-
cause he had that day made a Republican
speech in the town.
The Hons. Adam c. Fielder and William
II. Seaweil, two prominent white Republic
cans, were shot at in Greeneville, Ala, some
night in July last, on their return from the
courthouse, where they had been making
Republican speeches. They were also "rot
ten-egged" and otherwise insuted. Full
particulars of this outrage were published at
the time.
w. A. Lipscomb, belonging to one of the
most reputable families in the South. was
found dead in the public road in Marengo
county last week. He was shot to death.
and was an earnest Republican.
The following telegram will explain itself:
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, Sept. 5, 1874.
Hon. George E. Spencer, Washington, ID. C.:
An attempt was made on the night of the
Sd inst. to assassinate United States Marshal
Thomas. AS he and another gentleman
were returning from a political meeting. the
assassin, who was concealed in the bushes by
the roadside, shot at him as he passed. but
owing to the darkness missed his aim, The
active part Thomas has taken in the political