Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1874 — How the White Leaguers Work. [ARTICLE]

How the White Leaguers Work.

The Alabama State Journal copies from the Greensboro Beacon , a Democratic sheet published in this State, the following card, of which it gives a suggestive history: A CARD. I have heretofore belonged to the National Republican party. I never belonged to a secret league of any kind. I never intend to have any more to do with politics. I feel and know that I am a “ white man,” and for the future I intend to live and die a “white man.” I try to stay at home and attend to my own business. P. W. K. Stringfellow. Hale County, Sept. 36,1874. Mr. Stringfellow lives about nine miles from Greensborough, has been a Republican leader, bold in the expression of his views, and while the Ku-Klux were so busy a year ago suffered numerous outrages at their hands, being obliged to hide continually. He taught a school of negroes, and for this offense his schoolhouse was burned. Recently the White Leaguers began to give him a repetition of his experience with the Ku-Klux. On the night of the 17th ult. he was visited by about fifteen of the outlaws. They reached his house about midnight. While the rest of the party concealed themselves in the vicinity one of them went to the door and, calling Stringfellow from his bed, got him, under the pretext that his aid was needed by a distressed traveler, out of the house and into the ambuscade. Stringfellow went out, accompanied by his colored boy. On going about 100 yards from the house Stringfellow found himself surrounded by armed men, who, after abusing and threatening him to the top of their bent, compelled him to pledge himself to publish and to post by the roadside his renunciation of the Republican party, and to do various other things. Promising that if he violated his pledge they would return in three days and kill him, the party rode off. Such, the State Journal says, is the history of the above card, for the withholding of which it {jives the Beacon a deserved rebuke. This is but one specimen of the manner in which the “white man’s party” of the South seeks to suppress the honest expression of opinion, and by a reign of terror to compel victory for the Bourbons.

We don’t want to kick up a great rumpus and be the means of bringing about a dozen libel suits; but right here and right now it may be well to remark that tobacco is not injurious to the human system. Now then, come on. —Detroit Press.