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MORE RlrVUIIl'—'S IT NOT * SRAMK JWe were visited to day by a number of old and substantial farmers, who bad been obliged, witbin tbe paat week, to leave their bomea in Hickman county and fly to tbia oity in orue. to avoid assassination. They are native citizens of Tennessee, men of unblemished character, members of tbe Christian Church, farmera who have about them all the comforts of life, and yet they are refugees from their homes to day he-oause they are known to belong to the Republican party. These refugees tell us the ^'nion men of Hickman oounty are in more terror to-day, from tbe Ku Klux Kl*n, than they were from tbe guerrillas at any time during tbe war. The disguised scoundrels ride about the country in gangs from twenty to thirty, just as the guerrillas did. They notify Union men that they must leave their homes within so many days or suffer the consequences. They whip and murder the oolored citisens. They plunder the people of their property. It is enough to move g a heart of stone to hoar the refugees tell their sad story. We blush to think that so soon after the overthrow of the accursed rebellion, the friends of the (Jovernment should be turned over to the tender mercies ol lawless rebels.too-* \ derful slam m nounc to sold generi old iss we she aboutTHETbeoughtlioan i*****scribe:bavinj bands Kepul addrei of ev««KA
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Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 02, 1868
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