, 1879-03-27
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES.
How Negroes Are Treated at The
South by "chiva1rous"
Whites,
American Citizens Donicd Their Po-
litscal Rights, Robbed, and
Killed,
lcd III Retauss Thsy fTill Not Desert ths Part,
that 0a5t Tlttm Their Freedom.
81. EoMf9 1fhtf. nfn,1frdE, KdecA n.

The question which at present agitates the
minds OF the cotored cltixena Ii, What shall be
done With the B0utllern lmtnfErants7 It Is yerY
dli1!cuIt TO sotve. Trro arn now over 1850 I'M.
migrants In tho city, and most Of them arc bcur
maintained BY church congregations. So far,
little assistance has boon rendered by whit
pcon1c, who must now hestir themselves In till
cause, OF remain idly by while hundreds q,
human beings suffer. Tin burden which thu
congrccatlons Of the Eleventh etreet, Eighth
Street, mud Lower Baptist Churches arc boRrIur
cnnnot hc lnugor borne u1laIiel. During tho
last three weeks somc sl.hD haye been er.
pended, which hare been collected from people
who arc nouo too well oil.
ADDITIONAL ABP1DAy11s,
Tie following additional all1day,ts touching
tho condition Of Affairs which has driven thcso
negroes from their homes IN tho South to thn
free State OF Kansss wcre obtained By U,oyr.
UtHocras reporter and companion Notary
yesterday:
EMILE AUsrlTz
testified as fol!ows: My age IL 81 ycars; for l,c
pasG lew years hnvo hcen livng in tic States
pcddlluE through tho country, 90 / hai ponti
opportunity Of seeing tie treatment received by
tl!e colorcd people down South; The conutttofi,
VI ti,e colotcd pcople u!cre IS vorY low; If they
81 t6 to- St9rs ssy get cheated Il they dea
uays thc Democrats are. at the polls with arms
nhd prevent tile colofcd peoplc from ynfinr:
.iurlug tile past ycar through the different M
,sRcs 19 9s n H. Louisiana co1ored people have bven
Killed by tho white people; have seen i. viii.
ny own cyce;; During the last Pres!dentIai
election, nt Columbus, Tex, one stock-iealer
k!!ica Two co1orcd men mud WIS never arrested:
Miileu mem Tor not voting the ticket he gave
.nen ,, lileY Wero IN ILLS employ; saw these men
kk1rt Hans
man ist fall In 6t.Jamcs Parish, Louisiana taw
white ncn standing at tho polls with cockol re
volYers, md they wouldn't let the njggcrs come
1hsIe nTfei iiase seen shooting there at st. Jamcs
suootr uupE 'ae Va1 sav men
plantation on shares aud raises say eight bales
M cottont the planter sells 1t, n!,1t not the mig
eer atid no will cheat him BY saying tic weight
u ,he als T. ess than + really Isl and when he
planter, he bnsa hts provisions md other arti-
clea, and Is cheated In tic weight, etc, My
oritllou IS, tlmt tho colored people arc doin;,
@ ItGht III leavl'g the South, md tlsat tie South
We esF Tsa M o ey roq % 5go hecause ts
Inc tield. Illcro ore thousands OF acres in
LOUISIANA lying idle, without any crops, heralisa
inc owners won't rent the land at reasonable
rates. Inc planters chargu too mnc rent to
cheaper, they will let the laNd lie Idle.
JAcon STEPHENS
testified: I reckon | nnl npout e wears old.
Last year | l!yed IN l1itids County, Miss. have
been working there, raising cotton a.tl corn, /
';a rented, torctlier With my oldest brotEyr and
sr n0oat ratnn doF5 Ssre; To uad ABOUT so an
along; could barely lire, alld slIat VIVA all. The
coEd1t!on OF the people III tlIc South ia ayful
had; they nre treated awful bad by the whitu
people. LEFT the South bccaute cauldn't
makc living md was treated 80 badly by tic
whites, aud the white people got 50 they would
KY the colored people up. ! think about two
years ngo ~ September, OH Sidney Whitchead's
G,asc, G,as g. IN granEe County, Miss, my brother
The white people had bccn over to Air.
Ho1er's house aud killed him on tle
safhe e,e place, l rcrkon about good daylight.
They killed him becauso he held In With tbs
n,aek peopls ne %as white n,a., alld aud
ilat day, mud US We casne home, guing across d
little. cotton patch, a!ll u We got near tohl,e
house, snilc OF thu women who wcre With uB
said, There comes tllc white folka," aud, as
me, aud followed % on atter hin pretty peri1y,
posed, When. they said, Halt, you ---
---," anti We didn't exactly halt, aud
steppcd l;w y, steps further, a.M the wltn folks
IN the neck a,ld burnt his sl!rt-colIar ko was 80
elose 10 tho gun; al..i utter they shot him he
iy!!. mud raised aud went a step further, autl
shey shot hm r'elt thsoagh the side and killed
the white folks came. up and turned 'lia, lin
over with their tcct after Ito was dcni:
my fatl.er was IN the. house, aud tilcy
made him open tic door anu coma
GMt; th thSy leg him , out to atont Tie middle q
them all lo knew Il reckon they meant tho
club. nntl he told thcp ila didn't know nothing
about i. anu the Cupta!n Or man who had him
sata, u don't l1cllcve he knows anything about
a1ff I'll In IT. Dad hf,,o1
- out here IN tflc road,n nt,d got him out
tjsro a.,A stood Him at ba,ik beside ti,e fcnrc,
md the Captain sa!d, " II he don't knuw auy-
thing nout 1t, 1lp Is The -
Tas crying mud begging them so they told her to
81 Rway, mid took my tathrr OH up the road
about 125 yurls, n,l1 took itm into tic woot,s,
on the right t4na sldc of the road, mud hcard
tho Euns, asnl the pcople vent up slcro an.l
fund him Lying, right side Thy stump; lle was
dcnd; Ee was shot MI through tau leud mud side
with bullets mud bucIssllut: he was shut to peCes
there were some sevents-ttyc white men In tllc
crowd; they Ind no disgutscb; think It was
falher because ls was q Radical; there was
nnthing ever demo about The sl,ootsng; kppw
Juhn HnA Post Whitehead, Win weso In tle
crowd. TN clectton-&lAys, II black man got
Republican ticket to vote, they would say ho
~ kill him. About year ago my hrotfcr-tn-
Jaw was shot, IL Orange County, slls@isslppi;
~ got talking With man who owed him four
bits, nnd he told tho man 10 owed him 10 cents,
alH he sai1 he didn't, n,,I went on, md abont
tlrce r,i!cs FROM l4utne my brother was shut by
him; he came right up alongside OF my brother
on horseback, aud didn't say anything al vii,
but shot him right In TIC aldo ui!d broke two
ribs, but didn't kill him; tllrra was nothing
eyer ea!l to Him for tho shooting; after tu men
l!ad killed NY brother, they wrnt to tle we'll
ana got q drink Of water, antl the water wag
muddy, and they said: ''lhEs water sma]s as il
I bad strychn!ne, al,l Il II has ynu viii smell
lcl for ~; tiny said that 10 my mother. The
poor Wlitte pc0pte III tho South arc in lust as
Tad condition as tho negroes except thu whites |
Won't kill them. Rcason lcayo thu South Ia,
because I rant make living there a,lu can't |
ret my rights; what mean By tllAt ia, II uwe
. tnan 81 ami to paf. 4nI II mau owes mo II |
le Is to pay ne; Il 1uwe n man IL lle t8 not 10
Lake everything tayu fur 1t, alld II he owes mo
VI ho isn't to kill mo Tor It. anl going to Kan
Las; ! undHrstand Ksneas Is country bart tim
PER and part prairie, aa tmt you wilt fave hard
Tine Tor thu first ycar, alll lat there 1re Guv-
ernReut md railroad lands there; IL dou't take
R1eh to keep Mc; can luanaget 10 work a,lu |
eatn something, and hare earned solnc-
Thing already Biuce LETT Mississippi; 1.
Think ! aEn too good a man tu stay
down there und be Killed, and don't ntcn1 |
To do It.. Couldn't carry n.o back South agalu, |
9neas they would chaiu tne all.i carry ue hack..
Asy people arc tArro nntl would like to sce
lhAn hut rnhtt pn }.ark | i,nit : tht.t ,rr |