Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-27
were killed for this and no other pur.

were killed for this and no other pur.
pose.
KILLING "RADICAL NIGGER."
Among the witnesses examined
was Julia Turner young black wo-
man, whose husband was killed.
She swore that on the 10th day of
September, in the evening, she saw
from so to 100 armed and mounted
white men approaching her cabin,
which is situated near Robbins
Some of them broke down the cot
ton-field fence, and then the whole
party rode up to the cabin door and
seized George Turner, the witness
husband. A number of them held
him, while the rest went through the
cabin with pistols in their hands,
saying, eve are looking for Radical
niggers to kill" Not finding any
other colored man, they turned to
Mrs. Turner and said:
''That man of yours won't come
back any more; we'll take care Of
him."
Then they rode off, taking the wo-
mans husband with them. Mrs.
Turner cried out if they were going,
81 will follow you wherever you CO."
She tried to do so, hoping to save
her husbands life; but the men
laughed at her wild efforts to over
take them, and, riding rapidly, were
soon out of sight. The terrified wo
man ran on to Robbins; but, finding
that the party had not been there,
she was returning, weeping, to her
cabin, when she noticed number of
horse-tracks leading to the bed of a
dry creek about mile and a half
from her cabin. She found her hus-
band lying in the creek-bed. He
was dead. One rifle-shot had passed
through his head. There were three
bullet-holes in his body. Mrs. Tur-
ner was hardly able to tell her sad
story, and to use her own words, she
was so confused and bewildered that
she could not recognize any of the
men who had killed her husband
She only knew that he was dead
Lucy Hosea, however, woman who
lived near the Turner cabin, identifi-
ed three of the party, and warrants are
now out for their arrest.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE STORY,
similar to the above is sworn to by
Hatty Kelsey, a colored woman who
lives near Ellenton, in Aiken County.
She says that, on Monday, Sept. is,
at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a
party Of armed white men rode up to
her house, and one of them, who ap.
peared to be their leader, said: III
there are any men In there they had
better come out; we want to kill
them" Two of the men then came
to the house with cooked pistols in
their hands. AS they did so, War.
rem Kelsey, Mrs. Kelsey's brother-in-
law, Sam, Brown, Oscar Brown and
David Bush, negroes, who were in
the back room, ran out of the back
door and fled toward the woods.
The party of white men, upon COM
mand of their leader, Immediately
started in pursuit, firing as they ran.
All the negroes but Oscar Brown
were shot down and killed before
they had gone 200 yards. Warren
Kelsey was murdered in the back
yard. On the following day, Mrs.
Kelsey heard that her husband, John
Kelsey, had been killed in Attention.
She went to the village, end on her
way found his dead body lying in
the road. None Of these men had
committed any crime; they had no
arms; they were engaged In no riot;
they were killed because, in the
words of the Democratic orators
here, "Majorty or no majority, and
by the Eternal God, South Carolina
must be carried for Tildcn and
Hampton"
These incidents of the campaign,
which I have related as nearly as
possible in the simple language of
the unfortunate men and women
whose friends and relatives were kill
ed, are only samples of
SIMILAR CRIMES ALMOST WITHOUT
NUMBER.
An entire page of the Times would
not contain an account of all the
murders and outrages upon colored
voters that have occurred IN Barn
we'll and Aiken within the past
month. The sworn evidence of the
truth of these statements is at hand,
These affidavits will be printed in
due time; they are only withheld
now because their publication might
defeat the ends of justice. Among
them will be found many stories of
crime and outrage even more horri-
BILE than those given above. 1t will
be proved beyond all question that
scores of black men have been killed
for their political opinions; that 9TH
ers have been whipped almost to
death; and that, in two instances at
least, the ears of murdered negroes
have been cut off and carried away
as evidences of the chivilary and
prowess of Southern Democrats.
There is only one way to end these
outrages Gov. Chamberlain is pow
erless to enforce the law. The Nat
ional Government must send a regi-
ment of troops into Barnwell and Al
ken Counties.
THE FLAG OF OUT COUNTRY INSULTED
INA RICHMOND THEATRE.
Richmond (va.) Republican, Oct 6,
The occurrence of which we write
took place Friday, Oct. 6, 1876, and
we have purposely taken three days
to deliberate upon what we should
say in regard to it, that We may not
have to rcproach ourselves with Ian
guage born of the spur of the mo-
ment, not accursed of undue heat
and political spleen.
Friday night last the Richmond
Theatre was density filled with a
crowd to witness the opening per-
Torrance of Madame Brent's Female
The introduction was of
an order following the usual custom
of minstrel performances, the whole
troupe occupying the stage, giving