Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-12-13

MURDERED Two brothers Abraham and
Noah Zook, of Lancaster Pa, have been muir
dered by the reconstructed rebels near Vioks-
burg, where they had been for some time en-
gagged In the raising ofootton.-Like all similar
murders, the authorities make no attempt to
bring the murdersrs to justice, considering it,
no doubt, no crime to murder Yankee. These
murders of the Cooks, are but instances of slm-
liar cases which are occurring daily through
the South There is no safety there for North
| ern nen-either for their life or property,
The Lancaster Ezpress of Saturday says of
these murders;
week or two ago, two men of Lancaster
county were found dead, slain by the hand Of
cowardly violence, In their cotton field near
vicksburg on the Mississippi. They were plain
estimable, hardworkiug men, of quiet manners
| and irreproachsble morals. They were men of
| a peaceful nature. Of German extraction, and
| of one OF the largest and most substantial fam
| lilies of this section OF the county-just such
| men as we may see any day In this county,
quietly toiling on their well ordered farms, or
ia their OVERLOOKING mills. 1t is no uncommon
thing in the vicinity of Vicksburg or Memphis,
late OF unblessed memory, for men to meet death
ia this manner. manglsd corpse behind
| canebrake, or tbe underground of a gulch or
bayou, hardly stsrtles southern nerves, but it
would shock this community, and we know this
evening that on hundred hearths in this quiet
county, the story OF the Zook murder is being re-
lated to shuddering auditors, that can hardly
comprehend the condition ofturbulence and law
lessness, out of which arises this tragedy which,
however much it may arouse our feelings 10
this lard OF courts and freedom, we must re
member Ia but daily occurrence, the wonder
of an hour In unreconstruoted States.
Abraham q. Zook and Noah II. Zook, two
we'll of farmers of this county-respectively
thirty and forty years OF age, impelled by the
stories of the rich lands and large crops to be
had In the Southern States, last year sold of
their stock and lands, raised some money and
went down South purely to raise cotton. They
were not brawling politicians. They did not
Extensively talk politics at home, and it 10 not
likely they talked 1t amoung the bowie knives
and revolvers of vicksburg. They were allow.
ed to work-to toll and till until the cotton
was ready to pick and sell. Then they are
found dead.
This Is the sad reception which Northern
capital is meeting In the reconstructed States
This Is the reception which Northern mon are
finding in the Southern States of this our ii;
not the name mockery y common country
"weleomed with hospitable hands 10 BLOODY
graves, " This thing has at last been brough,
home to Lancaster county, as day by day It IL
being brought home to every section of this
great Republic. Union soldiers, who settled
, around the scenes of their devotion and sacri-
fees to the country, have been, when all wal
over, shot down again aud again, but we die
lot feel 1t.
Northern men who went down South to con
tribute Of their capital and labor to the prosper
, ity of the country, have again and again water
ed with their blood the fields they hoped to till
inst as the brothers zook, but We did not feel II
And it is q suggestive faot-suggestive of the
malignant and fendish spirit prompts thes,
murders and of the men who do it--that the
. In so many cases take place just when th
crops are ready for the market, or the proceed
ola years labor and energy are In the pocket
OF the victims. We cannot shut our eyes.
4 Is the sequence of that oft repeated threat b,
1 Southern desperaioes, that Northern mel
A might come down and work, but they shout
o never reap.