Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-13

away, and sat down on bench and |
talked with the white men. After a |
few minutes they all gotup and walk
ed about thirty or forty yards into a |
field, under large oak tree, all talk
Ing together. The white men then
left Cocker about thirty yards off and |
then shot him. Two men shot him
after he fell. | saw all this while sit |
ting in tie cars. I saw two other
men
DEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE RAILROAD, |
one with his head blown almost en-
entirely off. A colorcd man named
Morrison, was on the train. I think
he was once q member of the General |
Assembly from Beaufort. A.P. But
Ter, | think is his name, brother of
M. G. Butler, while on the train was
elected to command the company of
white men on the train. He went
up to Morrison, and, drawing his pis-
toll, was gong to shoot him at once,
and would have done so if the CON
ductor had not told him that Morri-
son was in his charge, and should |
not be hurt. He (the conductor) |
finally put Morrison in the baggage
car, and told him to lock himself in
and stay there until he told him to
come out. Morrison went to Angus
ia from there Butler was very
drunk. Most of the men I saw there
were from Columbia county, Ca
They said they had
KILLED EVERY Niger THAT THEY !
HAD SEEN.
and think they had. / saw two
lying by the side of the railroad, one
with his head shot most entirely off,
and the other shot in several places"
This gentlemen is, l believe,
thoroughly reliable, and tells only
what he saw.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 2I, 1876
The rumors which have prevailed
here for several days of bloody en-
counter between the whites and the
blacks are found to be only too true,
at least so far as shedding blood is
concerned. The Democratic papers
agree in their statements that at least
FORTY PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED
and, as is usual in all such encoun.
tiers, the colored men are the greatest
sufferers. Up to this time there is
no definite information of the death
of a single white person, although
the Sheriff Of Aiken reports three
killed, or rather says three 'sarc re-
ported killed" There has been no
encounter at all so far as we have
been able to learn, but rather Il
WHOLESALE MURDER OF CoLoRED
wherever they could be found. In
the cotton fields at work, or travel
ing along the highway, they were de-
liberately shot down in cold blood, bru
tally mangled after they were dead
and left to lie in The hot sun with no
one to remove or inter them. There
has been no hostile gathering of the
blacks, unless you call meeting
from six to ten of them a "ho>tile
gathering" Nor have they fired up
on any one except, perhaps in self
defense. / believe at least
100 NEGROES HAVE REEN KlLLED
since Sunday morning last, iii the
two counties mentioned, and | do
not believe a single white man has
been harmed. If you will carefully
read the account published i'll the
Augusta (Ga.) Constitutional, and .
copied into our papers yesterday, you
will at once see the absurdity as well
as the falsity of the whole story. /
The writer says the negroes in am
bush fired q voiiey upon the whites,
bat without doing any damage; but
when the whites returned the fire
several negroes were killed or woun-
ded. The Sheriff of Aiken, in his
official report to the Governor, or
rather in his official telegram, says
he saw no armed band Of negroes
anywhere, but did see the whites in
armed bands. Others confirmed
his report. In my Judgment it is a
SIMPLIFY slaughter of the negroes
without justification or defense
Both Coker, of Barnwell, and iiol-
land, of Aiken, members of the last
General Assembly, are reported kill
ed. Cocker was shot in open day at
Ellenton, and IN presence of dozens
of men. He had just returned from
the Convention here, where he was a
member, but the Democratic papers
say he had several papers on his per
son duplicating him in a conspiracy
against the whites. All bosh. You,
of course, know that this is only
story trumped up
FOR EFFECT AT THE NORTH.
There never was time when the ne
groes of this State were more quiet
or desirious of peace than now. Re
ports also reach us of trouble about
eight miles from Marion. What
there is in it do not know, as the
news has but just reached here
Great excitement prevails.
THE following spicy extracts from
Jones county papers may afford little
amusement for our readers:
The Eureka has made great puff and
blow about Johnny Monger Withdrawing
from the secretaryship of the Tilden and
Hendricks club in Dubuque, For the
of that tlcamy sheet we