Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

that date. I'm the ISL OF M8rCn l6etJ
there we're 2,444 miles of railway in thel
state, and it is estimated that nearly 500
miles will be built this year.
CAUSES OF THE EXODUS.
Celored Refugsss In Kansas Relate a Few
incidents or Life In the Sunny south
Shot, Hung, Drawn and CHARTERED In
the Name OF tho Democratic Party.
Laura S. Haviland in the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. n
During three weeks in July, 1873, spent
in Kansas, I interviewed many of the S34
recent arrivals in that state from the far
south, and fnd one continued train Of sad
of wrongs and outrages equal to the
darkest. spots that ever stained the history
Of savage life. Previous to July arrivals,
1t waST stated by A. w. Armor. Of Kansas
had taken much interest In as
sistipg these refugees, that he belieyedlthere
,wers nearly or quite 5000 arrivals, Of these
people since March last.
The query naturally arises, Why is THAI
stampede? Why is this unlocked for emf
grafton? Go to those hundreds and thous.
Rpds, and listen to the increasing oppress-
Ion practiced upon them-the. m6st barbar-
Gus murders, committed SO frequently that
intelligent col0red men in mahY localities
know not "a they retire at night bot they
may be called out of their beds and hung
or shot ere the dawn Of another day. And
here the answer is found. Here you will
I will give a few of the many testimonies:
| Mary Clark had been two weeks from New
Orleans. She says: "Tax man make me
pay s. per month for my license for wash.
ing for people. Ny ole man had to hide
away for his life, till he got a boat, an we
lef' all we had benin, case two men shot
dead a few days afore we lef'. One mar
standin' in his own, yard, an'sde bullet shot
over some of de peoples heads standin' in
de church yard mex his house, and struck
lie wall of de church an fell on de groun'.
Some our people picked it up, all. battered"
An ex-soldier and q few other neighbors
of Dickie Smiths said he was. called out Of
his bed at 2 O'Clock, in the darkness of night;
a rope slipped over his head, and tied 10 a
horses tail, and run. across ridges to the
nearest woods, where the dead body was
hung to a tree, because he refused to report
the colored people in Gambia, parish.
One man, with his three sons, had been
soldiers and strong republicans. They
we're offered 50 each if they would vote the
democratic ticket, but they refused, and
told the man who offered the money that
they we're not ready to sell themselves. But
he said cit was not selling themselves ; it
was voting for their home government; the
republican ticket was northern politics,
and it's your duty to vote the southern
ticket.p "But," said lie, assuming q threat
ening attitude, Eve are going to clean out,
before the next election, all these republi-
cans" A few nights after all four were
called eut in the dead of night and
hung!
One man said, he cut down one man he
found in the woods, that must have hung
there a number of days.
There we're a number in this company
who witnessed n man hung, quartered,
unjointed, and the parts thrown off in diff:
ferent places in the woods, for Wild beasts
to destroy! In listening to these awful
barbarities, I could not refrain from ex-
claiming, "How long, o Lord shall these
diabolical wrongs exist? o Lord how
long ~
But a few more scenes we will give, and
close these painful lines. Three witnesses
report: Charlie Robinson [republicau],
q nice, quiet sort of q man, and his wife
knew OF no difficulty with any one. An
az de Regulators had swora they'd kill de
very las 'epublican afore mex lection, we
spose dat was all. he lived near Baton
Rogue. He was workin' on rented Ian,
an his wife went in de fieI dat dav, to help
i'm gwine In for supper, be put his ham on
her shoulder and said. Nov, babe [his
pet name for his wife],'I want you to wake
me ur right early in de mornin,' case I
want TO feed de mules and get in the feel
right soon" After entering the house,
said his wife: There, Charlie, l forgotmy
basket, I leff by the fence" Meyer min,
babe, I'll 60 an get 1t otter supper and team
fed Both went. and she said da talked q long
time, after chillen asleep. bout what they'd
EChrismass week. At 2 O'clock dat night
loud rap On the door wake EN-, an Charlie
soy: :What's want,n'y" .We want Char
lie Robinson" who's thar?" mo mat
ter whose here, We want Charlie" his wifi
clinging to Tim, and beggln' Don't "a
Charlie, its de Regulators. dali kill you,
the urgent call came. with bitter oaths AM
cursing, with the threat. "Come out her
or we'll kerosene your hous
and burn you alliup." The trembling ma
went to de door, an JUS open it a little, an
day. say, Damn you, don't STAN thar, o
: we'll throw kerosene over you and burr
!. you up in . minute" Amid the cries q
. his wife, Begin "Don't kill Charlie" an
: he ssyin', "Now, you won't hang me avs
from my poor wife an three little chillel
l will you ?" They cursed him, an said
"Who said We are goin' to hang yeu?" an
hauled i'm out and dragged i'm away, Will
beggin' for his life.s As soon asst was ligt
enough to see, she came to US to 60 wild he
10 hunt Charlie. As NJ went the.way sh
. last heard i'm we seed i'm hangin' onSa Ii
tie tree in de edge Of de woods; his BAG
waste rs till ~ got up 70 i'm, an it pea
t ed like he knew his poor wife dar wringil
hans an cryin' for i'm, for As soon % Y
got up to I'm, he Turned squar' round Vi
his face to 'er, an'oh, what a'sight! H
tongue hung out over is chin, an eye.bal
on lis cheeks. OIL how she screamed .,
vrung 'er han, cryin', "Oh, Charliel m
Chsrliel God. have mercy"
Dis was Wednesday night, near Batto