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THE KU-KLUX KLAN (Continued from page 10.) They armed themselves and went below where Mr. Long's father resided, got up a pretty good crowd, well armed and hid in a piece of pines, waiting for the negro militia to make their appearance. They failed to come and the mef\ disbanded and went to their homes. The next morning the men got the Information that they had started in their direction, but upon reaching Duck Pond church, f>0 in number, under the command of a large black negro by the name of Alex Walker, and had gotten as far as Upper Fair Forest church, they met G. Matt Stevens and Ben Robinson in a two-horse wagon, with two barrels of whiskey. Walker ordered Mat Stevens and Robinson to halt and demanded the whisfkey. Mr. Stevens told them the whiskey did not belong to him, he was only hauling it for Mr. Steen, the hotel keeper, but that he had a quart in his pocket he would give him, which he did, and drove immediatelv off and rmt 30 or 40 yards away when the militia opened fire and killed Mr. Stevens. Mr. Robinson jumped out of the wagon arid ran to Mr. John Scott's' house for protection and while there the family of Mr. Scott and Mr. Robinson could hear the militia knocking the heads of the barrels out with the butt ends of their guns. They got drunk and lay scattered all over the fields that night. They took Matt Stevens' body, battered out his brains and, realizing what they had done, dragged his body some distance west and tried to bury it and covere it up with leaves. Stevens and Robinson were old Confederate soldiers, Stevens having lost an arm on the battlefield. The next morning Mr. Long, Brew flK l||r Jj f mm : % -f :''' . MAT EISON, | One of Capt. Townsend's 16-YearOld Boys. |( ton and Dr. Sims learned why they had not been visited by them. Mr. Long and Mr. Brewton got up a crowd of young men and proceeded to the negroes' homes and demanded all their guns, ammunition and accoutrements, and they had all they could labor under?they and their horses. They brought the guns and ammunitions, etc.. to Union and turned them over to Sheriff Rice Rogers and requested him to notify Gov. Scott that they had tak en up the puns from the negroes and they were subject to his orders. Shortly after this they learned the names of the parties who had started out in this raid to kill them, amongst them a negro blacksmith by the name of James Hardy, who was in the crowd and begged the militia for mercy and not to kill Mr. (?. Matt Stevens and Robinson. They now commenced making arrests as to those who did the killing. Several of the negro barricaded themselves in a house known as the Yellow House. Dan Smitih, deputy sheriff for Rice Rogers, went to this house to arrest them. Instead of surrendering they shot through the door and killed him with some of the militia guns and made their escape for the time being. They arrested several of them and put them in the county jail. Among them was James Hardy, who had interceded so piteously with the negro militia for Matt Stevens and Robinson. Chief Justice Willard, who was a carpetbagger from the State of Massachusetts, and a very brainy man, isenor) a ufnlt /\T Unl.?<? 4 - 1 ??wv> u .?..v ui imucan iui|)us iu nave ( the negroes brought before him in Columbia to appear for baH, but the Klan knew it meant to turn them loose. , Dr. Chas. Sims, the Knight Hawk or courier of Den 500, was sent to the , ^.LEVI W. SMITH, ; One of the 16-year-old Boys. an ca ro an I WM. A. NICHOLSON, Of the Hospital Corps, Who Walked Hi From Columbia to Union After ho Sherman Had Burned the City to w< Get Food for the Sick and ho Wounded Soldiers. tr; ch Grand Cyclops of the K. K. K.'s of In- tr; visible Empire of America to know co what to do. The Grand Cyclops ordered the K. K. K.'s of Spartanburg, to Union and Jonesville to meet the let chief of the Klan on Sunday night at w? the Hanging Grounds, which they did. go The Klan proceeded to the jail and demanded the keys, but Sheriff Rogers Sr had thrown them away, drew his pis- (ti tol and said, "I will kill the first man J. that advances. The chief called out Jas four selected men, viz., R. E. Brew- ou ton, Dr. Charles Sims, Wm. Webster and a younger brother of his. Calhoun w< Long, at the same time making this th statement, "We do not want to hurt lo< you, but ordered my four selected men Ix four paces to the front and told them pn not to shoot unless the sheriff did first ot and when they shot to shoot to kill, as as we intended to have the prisoners wj as we had come for them." Sheriff m< Ropers left and Dr. A. W. Thomoson came runninp down the hill and the tic pickets halted him as they had them an stationed all around the jail. Dr. pr Thompson said. "I want to see the w< man in charpe." Mr. I.onp told his ho pickets to send him down. Thov passed him alonp, and he made this lej statement to J. G. I/onp, as near as jSv he can remember, "I have come to la, hep for one Jim Hardy, one of the di? men eharped with the killinp of Matt ed Stevens. Jim Hardy had made a state- ws ment to him that he had bepped the at militia not to kill Stevens, and he had Jo learned from several other parties that M such was the case; so they left Jim ha Hardy in the jail. They removed s</ven ja, out of the jail at this time?had them all tied and carried them to the first th mile rock. One escaped before they n0 reached the mile rock and Mr. iJonp M ordered them not to shoot, as it was co dark and mipht accidentally kill a pi, member of the Klan, or disable the ha horses; but to be sure and hold on re to those they had. The prisoners were fn carried to the first mile reck and shot. jf. One of the neproes feipned dead 11 is ho name was Slyvanus Menpp and upon this incident one of the Klan com- so posed a few verves, which thov sanir I to the tune of Richmond Road. One jn stanza was like this: . av W "Andy on a Hickory, Sylvanus by his . side. !n The bullets would not kill them For we've already tried. re Chorus? Oh, send them on home; th Send them on home, home, home, home dii T< During this time the sheriffs were th changed and Sheriff Dunn took charge and a Yankee officer by the name of te Swan was stationed at the jsTil. Eight sp more negroes were charged with the Sp same offense, the killing of Stevens, a. were placed in jail and another wit ai, of habeas corpus was sent up by Chief y, Just'ce Willard to send them to Columbia immediately. Owing to there y, being but one train a day the sheriff could not tret thorn ready. The Klan sent out couriers over North Paeolet and all over the county. Sheriff Dunn j0] was not at the jail when the second fa raid was made, hut Thomas Hughes at. and I.onnv Hill were the deputies. The a|j K. K. K.'s demands the keys hut the sa deputies had hid them. They hroke into the jail. If there hanpened to he wj any other prisoners in the jail they mJ did not want, they always fastened cr them un before they would leave. The wj K. K. K.'s carried the eitfht men uo to ,jt, the Crooked Hickory tree, where they jlw hantr the criminals on. The weather was hitter cold and the Klan intended fei to he as quiet as they could, hut as daylight was fast approaching they pr shot some and hunt? some. The Klan so returned to the'r homes before dav. Sylvanus, who had feigned dead the wt (irst time, did not pret away this time. an 1'urine 1^71 President (irant de- ,ou [dared martial law over Spartanhurpr. j0 York. Union. Chester, T.aurens and hii Monrham'r oaimdoa n.wl im.a.J.J c.J. 'V II.'- ha ivrit of habeas corpus so no one could ;i [rive bond in any of these counties. ,?n xnd sent several military and infantry se| 'omnanies here. Cant. French, of the jei White llorse company, and ('apt. Fhomsort, of the Black Horse Co. Tom Cluster was the first lieutenant of co Clapt. Conch's company. Mr. I.onjr p() made it a point to become acquainted en with these men; he cultivated their fQ acquaintance for a purpose; he was Qf learning something and they were jjs learning something, too. Tom Custer was a brother of General Custer of the Biff Horn Massacre. The cavalry finally made a raid ^ for Brewton and J. G. Long and the la: coldest nifrht these men claimed they un ever saw they spent at a widow lady's (20 home, a Mrs. Mitchell. The next mornr ov g they passed within 40 yards of e soldiers and did not know it, as ey were hid in a thick piece of pines, a gully on the place of General Wal:e. W. H. Long was postmaster, depot ent, etc., at Jonesville and that >rning had asked J. G. Long to atrid to the depot for him and Brewn and Long fixed up everything. J. Ijong, his wife and Newton hoarded at W. H. Long's and this morning G. Long had a presentiment not to to the house to wash before parking of their breakfast and he said Brewton, "Let us wash at the >re," which they did. Upon looking ck at the house they saw it was rrounded by the Yankee soldiers. ie ground was frozen and they broke d ran awnv Rwuitnii ....:.?i us WII Of/1 amuu 1113 kle and fell and Ideut. Custer ught him. Long ran across the railad into a four-acre piece of pines d thence into an original forest of veral hundred acres, the property f.em I lames, the father of I J. J. ames. lie staid all day, came back one that night and the next day ?nt to the train below his father's me. Sergeant Williams was on the ain and Mr. Long patted his Winester just to tantalize him as the ain passed, as he knew Williams had me back just as a spy. They carried Brewton to Charlesn, kept him in prison sometime and : him out on bond. He escaped and ?nt West and they (United States ivernment) never pushed the bond. | A short while after this .1. (I. Long. .. Calhoun Long. .1. M. Bunch, I). C. st, W. E. Thomson, .1. II. Rodgers, Bank Lyles and .lames Moore, the st two from Limestone, and numers others went West. Several men from Union count> ?re sent to Albany prison, standing eir trial in Charleston, viz., Whit:k, five years, Hosea Mathis, Alfred tmaster, who died in prison with leumonia, Marion Fowler and several hers. A Rev. Mr. Ezell confessed to who the K. K. K.'s were and is released, after serving a few Dnths in Albany penitentiary. President Grant issued a proclamam that those who were in flvison d away from home and who would omise to make good citizens he mid pardon and they could return me. After returning home Mr. Long lined how President Grant came to jue such a proclamation. A. S. Wal e, a member of congress from this ?*r!ct and a Republican, as h<> passLong's home at Jonesville on his jy to attend a Renuhlican meeting Gist's station, four miles above nesville, asked for a drink of water, r. Long recognized him and thev d been friends before the war. Wal:e invited Mr. Long to attend the 'publican meeting, but Mr. Long anked him and told him he could it go. Unon leaving Wallace told " r. Long if there was anything life uld do for him he'd do it with easure. Mr. I-tong said, "Wallace. T .ve two boys gone away and cannot turn and several friends and I'd like r you to see President Gant and get so mv boys and friends can come me. If you will see President Grant get these K. K. and those in prison they can return T will vote for you November. T will vote for the devil hell if you will do it and do it right vay and get my two boys home." allace returned home, went to Washgton and got President Grant ?o ?ue the proclamation and in six 2eks the garrison was recalled and moved from the State. Most of the K. K.'s returned, but e Grand Cyclops never returned and ed about two years ago at Paris, ivas. Thov hnmo in limn tn ,1,.., I e red shirts and vote for Hampton. | When John Whitlock was freed af-1 r two years in Albany prison he opped in Washington to pay his reacts to the Republican congressman, S. Wallace, and after soundly using him made him pay his way l<> nion. Out of 1<> dens of the K. K. K.'s in nion county there are only two livg chiefs, J. (i, Long, Sr., and lb tarles Sims of Cowpens. There were numerous trials in I'u n county court house and John Long, ther of J. (i. Long, Sr., was very tive in securing evidences to prove ibis or establishing: alibis; and it id, for each and every defendant at on one occasion after drilling his tness to prove that he was with a itn charged with a crime; that if the ime was committed in Jonesville this tness would testify that he and the fendant were in Ooshen Hill at the ur the crime was committed, and if e crime was in ISORansville the dendant and witness would be on oad river at the stated hour. The osecuting attorney at last having me doubts as to the truth of these Uements, finally asked him, "Where :re you when Cain slew Abel?" In instant the witness replied, "I wasjB t 'possum hunting." This enraged | hn Long so, and he whispered to | m, in rather audible tones, "You ?1 ve played hell; that man asked you * C question about Revolutionary time | u iiui rvu-rviUA illfiu JUKI you nilVC U nt the last one of them to the peni- | itiary hy such fool swearing as at." Papers are preserved where in this unty was assessed $-,000 as its prortional part in raising $ If),000 to iploy council for the men arrested r Ku-Kluxing and quite a number familiar names are attached to the ts and the amount subscribed. Of 16,700 cows tested through isconsin cow-testing associations it year, 3,375 were disposed of as profitable. This is something over per cent that did not pay for their m board. \ ^1^? AT Sale In C TEN large, beaut: WALLACE-HILL the Graded Schoo at Public Auction ON MONDAY At Elevei These are the mo; other city for fine 100 yards from tl Main street busin TER ONE-FOURTH CAS payable in one. two a sale and after maturi purchaser and mortge for payment of taxes have the option of pa purchase money in cs all papers without ch Not to be Sold [ J. CL01 AGrea Determination and a r< necessities in the success handicapped in the battle There is a great oppor practical young farmer ( just such a great opening Here is the men! in thr? the Farmers of the count and for a period of from I It does not require an; tical and reasonable plan that the way to build a ( Look up some of the of for further information. BAILE1 & LI FOR 20 YEARS UNION 9 I \ / TRACTIV > of L ity of Uni iful and most desirab j land on Mountain St 1 building) will be of on the Grounds f, NOVEMBER 1 O'clock A. M ? 3t desirable lots in t 5 homes; near the scl he depot and 200 ess, and have cement :ms of sal H?balance in three equ nd three years, with inter ty at 8% per annum, seci ige of the premises; whi< and attorneys fee on sui ying as much more thai Lsh as may be desired, S> arge. Lots staked out. C I to, Owned or Occupied by UGH WAL1 i AnnAvtl II uppun iasonahle amount of common s> of any man. Without those gil of life. tunity looking right into the eye )f today. At no time in the pasl cocoanut: The government has rv to get money at not exeeedin ) to 40 vea?'s. v world of red tape to .eel this 1 thought out by wise men \vh( lounty was the building of Far ficers of the Union County Far r FURNI1 JMBER G f'S LEADING HOME BUILD FURNISHERS. 15 E ots on ile lots of the ;reet (opposite iered for sale 27. 19111 Sharp | Jnion or any | 100I building; trds from all ; sidewalk. ,E al installments, est from day of ired by bond of zh will provide t. 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