Carl Schurz's Southern State Report lived. " (Hill). When they found him, they grabbed him by the arm and put him on the ground in the yard. The first thing they did was ask incriminating questions that Hill didn't know existed. He denied it and they started using violence against him: “Then they hit me with their fists and said I was the one who did it, I ordered it. They kept asking me if I hadn't told black men to rape all white women. No, I told them. They hit me again with their fists on the chest […]” (Hill). On a second visit to his home, the Ku Klux Klan tortured him again but this time they demanded that he renounce all Republicanism and never vote, Hill responded: "If I had the money to pay the expense, I could” (Hill). In the end, they told him to stop preaching and put a card in the paper renouncing Republicanism, and they wouldn't kill him; otherwise they would come back next week to kill

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