Suit

Title

Suit

Source Type

newspaper

Publisher

The Marion Commonwealth

Publication Place

Marion, AL

Publication Date

8/31/1871

Transcript

"A negro woman has brought suit against Perry county for the $5,000 promised under Radical laws to widows of persons murdered by disguised men. A party of masked men visited her house about a year ago, took out her husband, Harvey McEachin, beat him unmercifully and then shot him several times and left him for dead. He managed, however, to crawl back to his house with his brains oozing out of his head, told his wife that his murderers were negroes, and that they had killed him on account of a difficulty he had had with them about a child. The particulars of the difficulty we have not as yet learned. They will, doubtless, be developed, in the investigation, and, we hope, may lead to the discovery and arrest of the perpetrators of this; most foul murder. Several white men, we hear, saw the masked men, and by their hands, feet, and other features, recognized them to be negroes. Thus the first suit under this infamous Radical law, designed to reward "loil league" outrages at the expense of the peaceful and honest white Democrats and to make political capital for the party of strife and villainy, involves and implicates those who belong to the "trooly loil." Let us turn their own batteries against them, and, if possible, drive them from the face of the earth. Why did not Mr. Speed mention this outrage when he was detailing, in woful numbers before the Congressional Ku Klux Committee, the horrid bruising, mangling and beating of one Clark, negro school teacher, whom no one in Perry besides Mr. Speed on ever heard of before, or since?-Marion Commonwealth."

Sources for

AMP105-18700718-001