The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-26
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Scheme to Exterminate the Colored Race


from the Southern Christian Intelligencer, August
If one-tenth part of the reports are
true in regard to the ill-treatment of the
blacks, which are coming from all parts
of the South, thicker and faster, most
shocking state of things exist. From
localities where there are no National
troops comes reports that these unfortu-
nate creatures are being hunted down
like dogs and dispatched without cere-
mony. The newspapers in the South
are filed with accounts OF the brutal
murders which foot up to an aggregate
of several hundred deaths per day,
which is doubtless only a small fraction
of the number noticed. An Alabama
paper says that this business has become
so extensive and common that some
planters even boast that they could ma
nure their lands with the dead carcasses
of negroes. Seriously speaking it is a
matter which demands the prompt at
tention of the authorities at Washing
ton.
If negroes can be shot down daily in
garrisOned towns, where the authorities
are unable to stop this state OF things, it
is very reasonable to suppose that THIS
brutaFwork is carried on more ,eXten-
sively where the blacks have no prOtec-
ton. This wholesale numbering OF hui
man beings is, we fear, the practical
working of the conspiracy to extermi'
nate the colored race, which is revolving
to the Christian age. A just God Will
hold the Government OF the United
States, which is responsible for the well
fare of these people, to a strict accounta-
bility for every life thus sacrificed. De-
4. T., and hn1nIncc no.
ings, and denying them proper assist
ance and protection in the hour OF need,
and thus leaving them to their fate, is
an inhumanity as cruel as the grave-a
crime for which the nation will be pun
ished by financial bankruptcy, chaotic
discord and disunion, or a pestilence
which will not leave enough of the liv-
ing to bury the dead.
Our neighbor of the National Demo
crdt, an ex-member of the Golden
Circle" and reformed rebel, in refer.
ring to this subject in his recent issue,
says: "This alarming increase of death
among the blacks is, we fear, but the
developing of the extensive conspiracy
alluded to by us in our last, which has
for its object the reinstatement of ne
groes, or their entire eTtern,in0-
ton more likely the latter, which
was not expected would be apparent
to the public until after the with
drawal of the national troops, and
our readmission into the Union had been
secured. Good behavior and discretion
having accomplished this, then they
the knights of the Golden Circle--count
on the protection and assistance of the
State and local authorities, even if the
Southern States are obliged to ratify the
constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery, which is claimed to be dead
letter in any event. The armies dis
banded, all fears of renewed hostilities
removed, and the ascension of the Dem.
Ocratic party to power, is, according to
their figuring, also to be realized as q
matter Of course. Those whom thegOds
seek to destroy they first make mad
Therefore, we again say that, unless this
barbarOus work ceases, we fear that Gen.
Butler will succeed in his project of or
ganizing a black battalion in every
county in the South, to be maintained
by the proceeds realized from the cOntis-
Gated lands of the dislOyal, which he
claims is the remedy, together with ne
gra suffrage, which will secure tranquil
ity to the government, protection to the
cOlOred people and justice to all concern
ed. All this will be realized, unless the
Southern people withhold their sympa-
thy ana encouragement from these mall
contents. In thus exposing their fend-
ish designs, we hope to destroy their
evil influence, and secure our prompt re-
turn to the Union, which will not be ac-
complished for years to come, if these
confirmed and irrecOncilable Secession
lists are left to prosecute their suicidal
work.