TAKEN BY

THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE

TO INQUIRE INTO

THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS

IN

THE LATE INSURRECTIONARY STATES.

ALABAMA

VOLUME I.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1872.

THE KU-KLUX CONSPIRACY.

This report consists of thirteen volumes.

Volume I contains the report of the committee and the views of the minority.

Volume II contains the testimony taken by the committee in relation to North Carolina, and the report of the trials in the United States circuit court held at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Volumes III, IV, and V contain testimony taken by the committee in relation to South Carolina, and the report of the trials in the United States circuit court held at Columbia, South Carolina. Index to the three volumes is contained in volume III.

Volumes VI and VII contain testimony taken by the committee in relation to Georgia. Index is contained in volume VI.

Volumes VIII, IX, and X contain testimony taken by the committee in relation to Alabama. Index is contained in volume VIII.

Volumes XI and XII contain testimony taken by the committee in relation to Mississippi. Index is contained in volume XI.

Volume XIII contains miscellaneous testimony taken by the committee, testimony in relation to Florida, and miscellaneous documents.

INDEX.

A.

ABERCROMBIE, ROBERT H., testimony of.

resident of Tuskegee, Macon County; native of the State; a lawyer.

1111

a democrat; was in the confederate army.
particulars of the attack on James H. Alston, and the riot growing out of it, 1104, 1105,

character of Alston and Bill Dougherty.
inflammatory speeches made by Alston.

1108, 1109, 1110, 1113

perfect quiet, peace, and harmony now prevail between the whites and blacks
in Macon County; reduction in the number of votes since the attack on
Alston...

a large number of democratic negroes in Macon County
reason for this change of politics; relative party vote.

1111
1111, 1112
1112

Abrahams, Judge, efforts to get him out of office..

Abrahams, Judge, how he obtained his office..

ABRAHAMS, WILLIAM THOMAS, testimony of.

1777, 1778, 1779
.1779, 1780
.1378-1387

1378

1382

1382, 1383
1384

resident of McKinley, Marengo County; a physician; was justice of the
peace

was president of the Loyal League of McKinley; was not a republican.
his object in joining..

his vote for Mr. Hay his only republican one.

the county has always been peaceable and quiet, with the usual exceptions of
lawlessness

1378, 1379

serious disturbance of the peace of McKinley threatened on the 14th of Octo-
ber, 1871, in connection with political meeting to be addressed by William
B. Jones..

. 1379, 1380, 1384

steps taken to preserve the peace at meeting to be held October 28, 1871, to be
addressed by W. B. Jones..

character and objects of Mr. Jones..

.1380,1381
1381, 1385, 1386, 1387

Union League existed in Marengo in 1867, and continued but a short time; its
nature, object, &c...

purposes of the negroes in assembling at McKinley.
several democratic negroes in McKinley; had a club in 1868 numbering sixty
or seventy..

agreed to employ Mr. Neibling as book-keeper, but released him from the en-
gagement at his own request; was told that if he employed him it would
injure his business..

Affidavits

1557

146-153, 576, 1185-1242

Alexander, Jasper, taken from jail, hanged, and shot, 1578, 1596, 1604, 1605, 1624, 1627–1629,
1631,1671, 1798, 1799, 1808, 1809, 1904, 1905, 1956, 1964

resident of Blount County for thirty years; member of the legislature.

a democrat; sent to the legislature for twenty-two sessions.

character of William Shepard and Samuel Horton..

respecting the deformed child of Young Horton..

no difficulty in executing the law in the county; peace and good order prevail ;
not true that Horton was driven out of the county, but that he engaged in an
anti-Ku-Klux raid, was indicted, and ran away.