Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken.

ALABAMA —SUB-COMMITTEE. 1789
Answer. Yes, sir; it was reported he was found in an old well up about Eutaw, but
I can't say.
Question. He has never been heard of since?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. What other cases do you know of?
Answer. There was another-Sam. Caldwell, I think, was his name.
Question. When was he killed?
Answer. I think it was the spring before this last. He was found hanging to a tree,
and shot, I think, with some ten or twelve bullet-holes in him. That's the report 1
heard of it. There are some others; but it has been some time, and I can't recollect
their names to state exactly who they were. There is an old fellow was up here at
my house Monday night-Henry Dew; he was shot.
Question. When?
Answer. Last spring. IHe was shot in the left shoulder.
Question. Have you talked with him?
Answer. Yes, sir; I am well acquainted with him.
Question. What did he tell you about the circumstances?
Answer. He said he was in his house and these meli came up and called him, and he
answered, and came to his door; and he saw some filty standing there.
By Mr. RICE:
Question. Disguised men?
Answer. Disguised men; and he said that he stepped on the door-step to see themwhat they were going to say to him. Nobody said anything more except to tell him to
come out. He came out, and he thought they would take him off and whip him, and
that they might whip him very hard; but he thought he would risk his chance, and
started to run; and as he started to run the contrary direction nobody come after him,
but they shot him down about ten steps off, and nobody went to him; but they turned
and went off; that's what he told' me. I have seen him many a time.
By the CHAIiAN-:
Question. Does he live in Greene County?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. State any other cases you know where colored people have been shot or
killed.
Ansuwer. There are a good many. I know another old fellow, a distant relative of
mine, was whipped last fall.
Question. What was his name?
A nswer. Littleton Hood.
Question. You say he was whipped last fall?
1Answeer. Yes, sir; and he has not got over it yet.
Question. Have you talked with him about it?
Answer. Yes, sir, many a time when I see him.
Question. What did he tell you of the particulars of his whipping?
Answer. He told me that they came to his house and broke his door down and ran to
his bed; he was lying down, and they just gave him a jab with their pistols against
him, and told him not to say a word; and they took him out about a mile, where they
whipped him with pistol-belts, with the buckle part of it. They whipped him some
time-a long time-and made him sit up on an old trough at an old well, and told him
to stay there till they came back. He is a crippled man. He staid a while and heard
them coming, and ran away from them and they didn't get hold of him any more.
Question. How many did he say were in the crowd?
Answer. He said about seven.
Question. Did he say they were disguised?
Ansiwer. Yes, sir; he said one of them, after whipping him a long time, uncovered his
face and called him to come, and asked him, " Don't you know me?" He tried to make
him recognize. He said he couldn't do it; he didn't know the man.
Question. What did they tell him they were whipping him for?
Answer. They didn't tell him what they were whipping him for, so he said. This is
what they said: they were going to make a democrat out of him before they got done
with him. He had been saying something about voting, and the Ku-Klux; he was a
crippled man, and had an old stick that he walked with, and he told another fellow
that he could whip four or five Ku-Klux with his old hickory stick, and he'lowed that
was something they were whipping him for.
Question. What did Littleton Hood say these men who whipped him said about the
cause of their whipping him?
lAnvser. They never told him; at least he never told me. They told him they were
going to make a democrat out of him before they got done with him.
Question. They told Littleton Hood that?