Year: 1870

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ATLANTA, Ga, July 3.-The particulars of a
most fiendish outrage eperpetrated upon family
of colored people near Highcastle, in Forsyth
county, in this State, have just reached this CITY,
the information being brought by a gentleman
direct from the scene of the outrage. The facts
of the affair are substantially as follows


THE OUTRAGE.


Some two weeks ago, abodt 1 o'clock in the
morning, party of nine or zen masked men
surrounded the cabin of colored man named
Walker, occupied by himself, wife and sister as
a residence, and breaking open the door, drag
ged the inmates from their beds and into the
open air, tied them, bound and gagged, to trees,
and with heavy hOrsewhips whipped them until
they we're insensible. The fends then left their
victims still bound to the trees remounted their
horses, and rode away. The next morning the
poor creatures were discovered by a party of
laborers going to their work, who Immediately
released them from their fastenings and gave
the alarm.


The sufferings of the three poor wretches,
after returning to consciousness throughout
that long, terrible night, may be imagined bat
not described.


The three sufferers were at once removed to
their cabin, and everything done to ease their
pain that was possible for the poor people, their
friends, to do. The man, however has since
died from the effect of his wounds while his
wife and sister still lie in very critical condi-
tion.


The bodies of the poor women are described





marks of the lashes being confined to no par
ticular part of the victims persons, the man
and the two women having been completely
stripped before the whipping.


THE PRovoCATIoN.


The causes that led to the preparation of this
outrage rest in the refusal of the deceased man
Walker to leave the county, he having been
frequently warned that it would be best for him
TO do so. 1t seems that Walker had been cul-
tivaliug on shares the farm of one of the resi-
dents of the county, and by much eXertion had
succeeded in getting in a large crop of corn.
The crop no longer requiring attention till har-
vest time, and it giving promise of heavy
yield, has excited the cupidity of the owner of
and therefore to save himself the share that
would rightfully belong to Walker. With this
purpose in view he had for some time past been
subjectDg Walker to insults and unjust treat
ment; but Walker not in that way to be
forced out of participation in the fruits of his
hard labor and so has borne every indignity and
wrong in humble silence.


JUSTICE IN FORSYTH COUNTY.


Two of the party engaged in the outrage were
recognized by the women, and two days after
the whipping warrants for the arrest of the men
were placed in the hands of one of the officers
of the county. But there the matter rests. One
of the leading and influential men of Highcastle
Wilkie by name, when appealed to by Mr.
Hollinshed the Notary Public who issued the
warrants, to exert his influence to bring the
perpetrators of the dastardly atrocity to Justice
violently opposed the idea of making any
arrests giving as his reason for such q course
that the presence of few Ku-klux in the county
was necessary to keep the freedmen in proper
discipline. 1t is intended to lay the whole
matter before General Terry.