Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-10-18

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or any place they might happen I,
| be. THE cause Of this riot was an at
tempt by two negro's to roba housel
| The dead bodies were left to be fount
by the Coroner as best he could, ii
many cases so mutilated as to be be
! yond recognition.
| Sept. 10. s. p. Coker enticed from
his home by five Democrats and sho
to death.
| Sept. 2I., two colored refugees were
| picking cotton in field near Elko
when q body of Democrats rode into
the field and fired on them killing
one and wounding the other. The
same night colored refugee wa;
taken from his quarters by the Dem
ocrats and hasn't been heard from
since.
There are many other cases on sfna.
liar crimes being perpetrated onths
defenseless citizens; but these are
fair examples. A few quotation:
from the leading journals to show
the feeling that prompted these acts
of violence and bloodshed may not
be out of place:
The Lancaster Ledger, Aug. 81,
gives au account OF the unanimous
adoption fthe following resolutions:
IFheyeos, several white citizens OF
Lancaster village and county have
associated themselves with tho negro
radical party, and thereby turned
against their own race, rendered
themselves unworthy of social recog-
milton by the Anglo Saxon race, be
il
ResotUed, that we, the Democratic
citizens of Lancaster village, pledge
ourselves not to countanance them,
except, only i'm business transactions,
and that we also request our young
men and boys In the village and
county, TO carry out this resolve.
The Charleston Ners and Coarier,
the leading Democratic paper. in the
South, says:
"The mechanics and workingmen
of Charleston are true as steel,
and will follow the standard of
Hampton wherever it shall lead
them. They have an organization
OF their own, known as the Work
ingmen's Democratic Association,
and are with the ward clubs doing
good service In the canvass. At q
meeting Of the association held on
Tuesday night the following resoIu-
tions were unanimously adopted"
Resotred, that we, members of the
Workingmen's Democratic Ass0cia-
ton, do hereby endorse the resolu-
tions adopted at the last meeting of
! the sixth ward, and further that we
Insist that Democrats should no lon
ger patronize Republicans in their
trade or retain them in their employ
ment. And several more resolutions
to the same effect, that would only
occupy space for nothing, were adop-
ted. Similar resolutions hayo been
adopted all over the State by the
Democratic clubs, and not ouly adOp-
ted but acted upon.
This state of affairs having gone so
far as to place every right and priv
ilege, even the lives of great num-
Der ofcitizens, both white and colored
In danger, tho Governor has issued
a proclamation commanding oil rifle
clubs and all other unlawful organi-
zations or combinations of men TO
disband within three days; to which
the Ne,rs and Courier replies with
long editorial, closing with this
submissive language:
"The talk about disarming the
Rifle Clubs is an empty threat. The
arms are their own private property,
paid for with their own money, and
they will not surrender them. That,
at all events, will be our advice. If
Gov. Chamberlain means revolution,
In Heavens name lot IL go on"
We have become used to that cry
50 familiar to every Union soldier
the "Rebel Yell" they seem to have
IL always with them, ready for oil
occasions. Some are 80 bold as to
assert that they can "clean outn all
the yankees here and all that can
be sent. They talk Of pay for their
freed negros, and other losses sus.
tained by the war. / believe they
are the most vicious, hot-headed and
impulsive people on the face OF the
earth; and II South Carolina could
get three or four other States 10 20
with her, there isn't doubt that she
would open the rebellion again to-
morrow.
These few horrid facts are submit.
ted to the men who are governed by
their judgmentand not impulse, and
to them every Northern man In the
South would come, asking protec-
ton on the seventh day of November
next. Yours truly.
X. A. YOUNG.
Columbia, South Carolina,
Oct. o, 1876.