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. 2005
By the CHAIRMAN:
Question. You owned and operated a plantation in Pickens County?
Answer. Yes, sir; I own it yet. My wife is out there now on the plantation. I have
white men working on it, but I can't keep a darkey there-not one.
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, November 11, 1871.
SAMUEL LOW (colored) sworn and examined.
By the CHAIRMAN:
Question. Where did you live before coming to Lowndes County, Mississippi?
Answer. I lived in Alabama.
Question. In Pickens County?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Are you a brother of Henry Low?
Answer. No, sir; we used to live together.
Question. You are not a relation of his, then?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. You are acquainted, are you, with Mr. Simeon Brunson, that just left the
room?
Answer. Yes, sir; I have known him for some time.
Question. Did you live near him in Pickens County?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did you vote last fall in Pickens County?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did you vote the radical ticket?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Were you visited by the Ku-Klux after the election?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. How many came to your house?
Answer. I don't know how many there was; they frightened me so when they came
that I couldn't tell anything about it.
Question. Did they have disguises on?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Were they on horseback?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did you notice whether they were armed?
Answer. No, sir; I didn't notice.
Question. Did you notice whether they had pistols or guns?
Answer. No, sir; I didn't notice.
Question. What time in the night did they come to your house?
Answer. They came there about good bed-time. I had laid down when they came.
Question. Were you asleep?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. Are you a man of family?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. State to the committee the particulars, what they said and did after they
came.
Answer. They rode up there and asked me who lived there; I told them Sam Low;
they asked me did I vote the radical ticket; I told them I did; they told me to get
over the fence and go with them.
Question. Did you have your clothes on at the time?
Answer. I put on my breeches when I went out to them in the yard, and they
dragged them off.
Question. What did they do then?
Answer. They whipped me.
Question. In your yard?
Answer. No, sir; they took me up the road about two hundred yards, I reckon.
Question. How many whipped you?
Answer. I don't know, sir. They had my head covered up, and.y some.were holding
me down; I couldn't tell how many there were.
Question. Do you know how many blows they laid on you?
Answer. I reckon some eight or nine lashes.
Question. Was that all?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did they hurt you much?
Answer. Yes, sir; they laid them on pretty severe.