The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-12

while standing. inquired the next day who
turned down the counter, and Walter White,
one OF the inspectors OF the election. Demo
crat, very frankly told me he did IL. White
was elected sheriff OF Barbour county in 1877,
and is now the sheriff OF the county When
the counter was turned down, my son Was
seized by the foot by one OF the mob dragged
on the floor, and kicked and cursed IN the most
brutal manner, aud this after he had been
fatally shot in the abdomen. He scrambled to
! the door where some colored men took him
and carried him TO the dwelling OF physician
near by. AT this point one Bragg Conner, one
OF the mob, ordered the shooting to cease, ana
he came into the room and called me by name.
a-ked who he was. lie SAID: 1t Is Bragg
Conner, ard l am going to protect you. lie
came up to me- then others came to me-. Those
men never had thought that was still living.
After finding, however, that was alive, the
lamp being lighted and the crowd around the
house being large composed OF colored I'M
armed Republicans, who were attracted there
by the firing of the guns and pistols, this
democratic mob thought it would not do to
assassinate me, as several OF them openly pro-
posed to do, because they were AFRAID some
witnesses would testify against them. Some
balf dozen white Democrats then went with
me to where my son had been carried re-
NAMED with HIM, sent at once Tor his mother
(my wife) and We were both by his side TIL he
His sister was also present when he breathed
his last.
Ths Eufaula Times, Democratic newspaper,
and the leading one OF the county, in It's next
issue after this shameful outrage, said this:
- The accidental shooting OF lad OF fourteen
years, and son OF 4. M. Kells, judge OF the
city court 10 q subject Of regret among all
classes Of people, and he and his family have
the sympathy or all who have spoken TO rs
about it, both male and female. We would not,
ID tSIt Qfon
under which the little boy Was shot, but would
say, what all must know, that the shot that
struck him was intended for his father, and
that no one intended to harm little Willie"
Judge Keils at once took steps to indict the
assassins. At the next meeting OF the grand
jury he was on hand with bis witnesses. The
first witness sworn was . respectable colored
man who identified several OF the murderers.
Yszoo, 1.-The best citizens" OF the county. As
soon as this witness left the room, before an
other was called, one Merritt, himself one OF
the assasslne, who was member OF the grand
jury, moved the arrest and Indictment OF the
witness for perjury and the poor fellow was
convicted on the oaths OF Merritt and Corners
OF the assassins, and sent TO the penltentiary
more witnesses against the murderers dare
come forward.
Judge keils says that the whole OF the
Democratic leaders in Barbour, Henry Bullock,
and adjoining counties are OF the oath bound
white league style. They exercise complete
control over the whole white race
White Republicans are not allowed, since 1874,
to even express their political OPINIONS.
The courts OF that section are used as engines
OF oppression, and no Republican can have
fair trial il opposed by any ID emocrat' Judge
Keis SAYS:
On the same day OF the Spring ELL outrage,
to-wit: at the congressional election, the Sd OF
September, 1874, there was an organized White
League Democratic mob ut Eufaals, my home.
1t commenced at the firing OF signal gun,
Just at IA o'clock N, when there were some
1900 or 1900 colored Republican voters in
front Of the three polling places, anxiously
waiting for an opportunity to vote, the Demo
Gratis having generally voted. At the firing Of
the signal gun or pistol, nearly every Demo-
crat immediately appeared, armed with double
barrtlec shot-guns and repeaters, aud opened
| fire upon the mass OF colored Republican
voters or the Republicans who were pre-
vented from voting there must have been at
least 1000 There were killed on the streets
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some fifteen Republicans. This proceeding. as
! we'll as that at Spring HILL was premeditated
the mob organized and IN all respect ready to
respond to the signal-gun fired, as stated
above The leaders OF the Democratic or
White League party were foremost in this
massacre. One OF them, q lawyer, who was at
once put into an important Office. mounted on
a large dry goods boX in front OF store and
m ade rallyiDg speech to the Democratic mob,
calling on them to still stand firm, and com
hat had
The pastor OF the Episcopal church at Eufauia
took an active part With and in aid OF the mob |
The principal banker and the leading mer-
chants OF the Democratic party. and others
equally prominent IN the community, were the |
aiders and abettors of this mob at Eufaula and
IN Barbour county.
The pastor Of the Baptist church OF Eufaula
pretended to be sick, net able to preach for
his congregation on Sunday, LIST day OF Novem-
Der, 1874, but went TO his plantation near
Spring Hill; was at Sprng Hill precinct on |
the day Of the election (3d) encouraging the
mob and seeking to intimdate his hired hands
(colored Repubhcans) and prevent them vot |
ing as they wished. THIS mans name Is Reeves,
rabid Democrat, and he stands high as
minister in his circle.
AS in the Spring Hill outrage, no indictment
has been found against any one OF the mob
who maesacred the fifteen Republicans at
Eufaua on November 3, 1874. There were
seventy to eighty colored Republicans wounded,
more or less severely, in this Eufaula outrage.
Judge Keils relates outrages Of similar
kind. In 1874, Mr.. Billings, talented lawyer.
made q Republican speech In Sumter county.
On his way home from the meeting he was
assassnated and his body left IN tho road,
pierced with seven bullets. In the same county,
the United States mail agent was assassinated
while on duty, on his tram, for having made
Republican speeches.