Randolph County AlArchives News.....Old Citizen talks about the Ku Klux Outrage, in Randolph County. May 27, 1871
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The Selma Press May 27, 1871
We have had a conversation with an old citizen of Randolph County, a member of 
the Democratic party, who is at present attending the United States district 
court, in this city, upon the condition of affairs in Randolph County. It the 
state of facts, which, this old citizen represented to us, really exists in that 
county, we are again driven to the necessity of calling the attention of the 
good people of the state to it, and to urge immediate action on their part 
towards the suppression of outrages within our borders. The statement made to us 
is substantially as follows: 
A few weeks ago, a band of disguised men visited the house of an old colored 
man, who with his family was quietly living in the neighborhood, working for 
himself, and took him from his house into the swamp some three miles distant, 
scourged him, hung him to a tree, and left him, supposing him dead. Fortunately, 
the pour man succeeded in releasing himself, and was unable, from exhaustion and 
abuse, to make his way home for nearly twenty-four hours. This affair took place 
about midnight after returning home the poor man went to the house of the 
gentleman who gave us the facts, and reported to him the outrage, and why the 
fiends said they had thus abused him. They said no'd  ni--er should vote in that 
county for a set of d--d Radicals to rule them, and, as the colored man had been 
a prominent Republican and a sort of leader amongst the Republicans, they 
charged him with having counselled the colored people to vote the Republican 
ticket in the last election. The parties that committed this outrage were so 
completely disguised that it was impossible to detect them, though the colored 
man says that he is of the opinion that one of them was a deserter during the 
war, and is now a dissipated wretch, despised by all decent citizens of the 
county. Another outrage was perpetrated by a disguised party, thought to be the 
same, upon two colored men, a short time after the above took place, both of the 
latter having been shot at night, and one of them seriously wounded the other 
killed. Our informant states that the good citizens of Randolph denounced the 
outrages and were about to call a meeting to organize and put the perpetrators 
down, but they received threatening letters themselves, and failed to take any 
action whatever, being deterred by fear of having the same outrages perpetrated 
upon them and their families. 
State Journal.

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