"Negro Ku Klux in Hale County"

Title

"Negro Ku Klux in Hale County"

Source Type

newspaper

Author

A. M. Marnchalk

Publisher

The Exponent

Publication Place

Demopolis, AL

Publication Date

7/28/1870

Transcript

"Last week a negro difficulty occurred near Greensboro', which resulted fatally, and brought out ye Radical Ku-Klux. The cause of the difficulty, we learn from the Beacon, is as follows: Two boys, sons of two negroes, named McCan and Hill got into a fight, when a negro by the name of Hill interfered, and struck the McCan boy several severe blows, whereupon McCan got a gun, and shot Hill's brains out. McCan, on examination before a Justice of the Peace, was bound over in a bond of $300. On last Monday night a party of diguised negroes went to McCan's house, seized him, and taking him some distance, shot him several times, beat him with clubs, and left him for dead. His condition is considered hopeless. Here is your chance, Mr. Republican, for one of your loudest howls, and if you would do justice to the occasion, you must make it a stunner. We suppose, though, that policy and the loss of two voters will reduce it to a melancholy whine. "

Sources for

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