The Nonsense They Publish

Title

Source Type

Newspapers

Author

Robert Tyler; W.W. Screws

Publisher

The Montgomery Advertiser

Publication Place

Montgomery, Alabama

Publication Date

October 8, 1870

Transcript

The following dispatch is taken from the Western journals. It purports to have been sent from Washington city, upon the faith of a private letter, written for sensational purposes by some Alabama carpet-bagger. All of this class still have an idea that they are living in the days of reconstruction, and that Grant can send an army to keep them in office at his pleasure. We should think that the experience of the North Carolina disaster ought to satisfy the Radical politicians in Alabama that the period of military despostism is nearly or quite expired. The authors of these bug-a-boo stories of Ku-Klux outrages had just as well submit to destiny without adding these unavailing falsehoods to their already onerous accounts, and to the approaching triumphs of the Democratic and Conservative Party. They need fear nothing in that event, for in simply depriving them of the offices they have been so long disgracing, we shall force them to turn their attention to vocations to which they are much better suited, and perhaps some of them might yet become useful members of society. We present the dispatch to our readers without further remark: Information received to-day by private letter, from a responsible source, gives a fearful account of affairs in the Fourth Alabama District. The Ku-Klux ride day and night in Sumter, Pickens, and Greene counties, whipping and murdering Union people. Affairs are growing worse daily. Guilford Coleman, a colored man of irreproachable character, was beaten to death and his body thrown into a well for no other cause than attending a Republican convention. Kimbro Jeffries, another prominent colored man, was nominated for the Legislature from Greene county, but declined running, being fearful of assassination. The Repubicans dare not cavass the district, lest they lose their lives.

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