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any Radical Ticket whatever. On or about the first day of June 1868 the colored people had assembled near Connersville in Prayer Meeting, when they were attacked by the KuKlux, the Meeting broken up, and the Leaders of the Meeting taken out and severely whipped upon their bare backs.

On the 25" of June 1868 an order was found upon the floor of my Schoolroom warning me to not attempt to teach any longer at Connersville. On the 26th inst my School Term expired. I begged that I might be permitted to proceed with the Examination and Exhibition of the school as the session was so soon to close. In my efforts to gain the assurance of those in authority at Connersville I was told by them that my School was outside of the corporation. Finding ourselves at the mercies of such characters I thought it best to close the School before sunset, but to our surprise, in the day, and before 12 oclock PM. a gang of white men, all mounted