Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-09
MORE POLITICAL MURDERS.
Wantou Murder of Six itizens In
Louisiana.

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Louisiana.
six white Men Murdered I'm Red River
Parish-FOur OF the Victims Northern
Mcn-The AtrOciiy Planned by The
white League-NurdCr OF Negroes in
Alabama.
The following dispatches were re-
ceived by the Attorney General yes
terday
NEW ORLEANS, sept. /, a.
Hon. George Williams, attorney GEN.
erdl, Washington :
t~elegraphed you last night regard
ing the COushatha affair 10 Long
Branch in care of the President. If
you have not left Washington, please
direct the operator at Long Branch to
repeat. Further Information makes
the affair worse even than at first re-
ported. The six white men killed were
all of good character, planters and bus
mess men, but four of them were
Northern Republicans.
w. p. KELLOGG.
The following is the dispatch refer
red to above as having been sent to
Long Branch.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 81.
Hon. George H.. Williams, Attorney
General, Washington:
The statement telegraphed you last
night regarding the outrage at Red
River parish, has been fully confirmed.
Further information has ju.t been re-
ceived that the parish officers and
others, who surrendered to the White
League were being taken To Shrieve-
port by a number of white men.
Whole en- route they were all shot in
cold blood. Among the murdered
men We're Homer j. Twilchell, who
came South in Il Vermont regiment
during the war, and settl-d rs "A plant
er in Red River parish EgglrstOn,
sheriff; Deweese, Supervisor, and
Holland and Howell, lawyers. There
were six white Republicans, all but
two Northern men, aud several color
ed murdered in this affair. Red river
is neal the Texas line, and is among
the strongest Republican parishes in
the State. Predatory bands of armed
men are securing several of the Re.
publican parishes in that portion of
the State driving out Republicans, and
intimidating colored men. Registra-
ton commenced to-day, and an open
ly avowed policy of eXterminating the
Republicans was inaugurated.
w. Il. KELLOGG,
THE SITUATION IN ALABAMA.
\ Washington special TO the New
York Times, of the lst inst, says:
Congressman Charles Hayes, of Ala.
bama, who is now here, confirms this
story, and gives some remarkable in
stances of outrages which have come
. Nrithin his nXyn nhLDpyratinn uyitlfn
the last few weeks. Although a Con-
federate, Mr.. Hayes has been a consis-
tent Republican since the close of the
war, and has been a personal witness
of most of the troubled scenes in his
State since hat time. He says to-day
that during the last twelveeyears, even
when kukluXism was at its height, he
has never known a time when the
lives of the cOloTed people were so
much endangered, and free speech SC
nearly prohibited in Alabama a. to.
day. His district, which is in the very
centre of the Black Belt, has 1900
+. colored majority. He has been return
ed several times to Congress by a ma,
7 iority of that magnitude, yet he say.
that his own life would be in danger
to-day in Sumter county, the strongesI
Republican county in the district, anC
q that If there was to be an election held
. to-day, the intimidation of the coloreC
people by the rebel element is so grea.
that the only votes cast would be by
white persons.
ESCAPE OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
/, MAN.
e Representative Charles Pelham, o
one of the mountain districts in tina
State, who recently arrived there from
> the North, was compelled to leave
under cover of night, the county sea
of n of the counties of his own dis
a trict to escape from "a contemplated
u attack upon his life, Of which he wa
+ secretly warned by a faithful negro
Some of the white people Of the town
" it appears, had assembled immediatel,
: after the arrival Of Mr.. Pelham, ant
e mutually swOTe that there should b
l. one less Radical member of Congress
there, aud before morning. This in
telligence was secretly conveyed {
10 Mr.. Pelham, who left the hotel unob
s served iu tine early evening, and walk
ed with a negro guide ten mile
through the woods to IA railroad station
The Postmaster Of one of the towns {
Mr.. PclhRm's district subsequently in
Dr. formed him that he did nor dare, .fC
g., bis life, To lodge him for the night, bC
cause his iPelham's) vote for the Civ
" Rights Bill, had so inceused tn
whites of the country, that II he di
.r they would kill the Postmaster an
% Pelham both before morning.
Judge Martin, the Sixth Auditor {
tha Treasury, who has recently return
y ed from Alabama, felt that he was I
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