The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-09-30
CCincinnati Commercial.1
The GEORGIA Olive Brancn,

[Cincinnati Commercially
The Georgia Olive Brancn.
"We found after reconstruction was
put upon us that the colored people
were allowed to vote. We did not op-
pose them, but held out to them the
olive branch Of peace
That was what Hon. R. E. Kennon,
in his speech at the corner of Fourth
and Elm streets, the other night, said
the people Of Georgia did, after the
war. Nothing could be lovelier. But
in the latter part of July a party of
reconstructed white Georgians, with
out the slightest provocation, broke
down the door of a humble negro
cabin in the night, and shot woman
dead, in cold blood, as she lay in her
bed. Then they dragged an inofen-
sive old black man, Joe Thompson,
out doors, and beat him nearly to
death. A few days ago Georgia
jury acquitted the man who had con-
fessed to numbering the woman. This
looks as if the Georgia olive branch
was queer sprout.
How is this sworn testimony of
Abram Colby, Georgian:
AFTER they had whipped me a long
time they asked: DO you think you
will ever vote another damned Radi-
cal ticket?' | said. I will not tell a
lie They said, No. don't tell any
lie Then I said, IF there was an
election Tomorrow | would vote the
Radical ticket | thought they would
kill me anyhow. Then they set in to
whipping me again.
Or this, a notice sent to Alfred
Richardson, prosperous colored man
of Clarke County, Georgia:
They say you are making too
much money, and they do not allow
any niger to rise that way; that you
control all the colored votes, and they
intend to break you up and run you
off, so that they can control the bal
ance"
There are on record accounts of
seventy-four men who were murdered
in Georgia by Ku-Klux. One negro
was burned alive That was a pretty
tough olive branch. G. B. Burnet, Of
Georgia, makes oath:
Negroes and whites, but principal
ly negroes, have been killed, whipped.
and imposed on in various ways. It
has been very common for two years,
so common that it would take a right
sharp case now to attract attention
J. r. Holiday, Georgia:
Il noticed that just about the time
the negroes got done laying by their
crops, the Ku-Klux would be brought
in, and the negroes would be run off
so the owners Of the land could take
their crops.
II have three plantations. My
hands came and told me they were
afraid to stay on the plantations. |
asked them why, and they said they
had seen some disguised men about. [
told them they should not be afraid;
that | would protect them. Soon af-
ter that | found that my hands had
made little hiding-places, they had dug
themselves caves in which to stay at
night
Speaking of how handsomely Geor-
gia educates the negro, Hon. Mr..
Kennon remarks further:
1--WE have educated him, and made
respectable citizen out Of him.
We commenced our free
schools in 1871. In 1870 the Demo-
Gratis got Georgia, and we began by
putting in free schools, and this year
we send about 100000 Of colored child
ren to the free schools" j."
As to that, in recent report the
School Commissioner of Georgia says
the dogs of Georgia annually cost the
State more than all her public schools,
black and white. It is matter of
record that in no State Of the Union
has there been more bitter hostility to
colored free schools than in Georgia.
Charles Wallace Howard, Vice Presi-
dent Of the State Agricultural Society,
Presbyterian minister, supposed to
be a Christian, says:
Il know nothing of the Northern
females who came to teach colored
schools; never spoke to one. They
were vigorously excluded from good
society"
Rev. E. I. Fuller, editor of the
Methodist Advocate, Atlanta, testi-
fies:
"The burning of school-houses was
a method frequently, a few years ago.
to retard or prevent the progress OF
education among the colored people.
A good building at Oxford, Ga, was
burned in 1869, under circumstances
which clearly pointed to the students
of Emory College as complicated with
the affair"
So late as 1871 the Assessor Of In
ternal Revenue for the Fourth Dis
trict of Georgia said that there were a
great many nelghborhoods where col
ored schools would not be tolerated.
Not less than twenty negro school
houses and churches belonging to the
Methodist Episcopal Church alone
have been burned in Georgia In
stances occurred so often that the rep
, etition Of them becomes titesome, in
which colored school-houses were
burned, the teachers whipped and
driven away, and the schools broken
up.
"Schools!' says Caroline Smith, OF
. Walton County, Georgia. "They
would not let us have schools. They
went to colored man, whose son hat
been teaching school, and took every
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