The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-16
Haywood County-Gutrages upon Union
Men.

The following extracts are taken from a
letter received in this City on yesterday 1t
gives startling account of the condition
of affairs in Haywood County. Rebel in
science is becoming unbearable in that Sec
ton. The letter says:
"The friends of Sam Massey and the Union
men, wish me to write to you Immediately
for advice The friends of the Union through
fire and blood desire to know if there is any
protection for them-if Il government is
going to allow them to be murdered, or
driven from the County by rebels.
Now I will tell you what occurred in
Waynesville last Saturday. Sam Massey
went there to settle his account with Wilbar,
and while they were settling up, the Sheriff,
Frank Davis, gathered a gang of rebels and
went to take Massey. He saw them coming,
and ran through Wilbar's dining room to
get away. At short distance from the
house the gang fired on him, but missed
him. After two shots had been fired, he
turned and fred one, which missed the
crowd, but passing through Wilbar's dining
room struck AElve Underwood in the hip at
the front door. The doctors say he will re-
cover. Forty shots were fired at Massey
without effect.
will give you the names of the men -
Sheriff, Frank DAVIS. Manson Tate, John
Turpin, Bill Norwood, John Henry, Frank
Hartgrove and Hiram Rogers. The Sheriff,
l understand, says that he will call out the
County to take Massey. Ifhe attempts such
n thing there will be more drea full time
here than has ever been seen.
Massey offered to pay the costs on some
suits in Court that went against him during
his absence, and gave good security for his
appearance at Spring Court. What more
can he do? But they don't want to take
him olire, and they never will.
This man must have relief. 1t is shame
and scandal that such work should be car
ried on. Men who have suffered twenty
deaths already, it seems are not to be allow
ed to stay at home. [ tell you he has friends
in this County-plenty of them who will
stay with him until death. They are deter
mined that he shall be free man."
a second letter containing a similar ac-
count of affairs in Haywood County, has
also been received in this City.
We learn that the Mr.. Massey referred to
was a true and loyal man during the war, and
a United States recruiting officer. His family
was driven out of the country into Tennes-
see, and he himself hunted like wild
beast. Being in command of small force,
he accomplished his full share towards sup
pressing the rebellion-yet he never killed
man himself, or ever desired to do so. He
disarmed the rebels in his County and pass
ed recruits through the lines, but he never
took any thing more than arms and ammu-
milton from any one-eXcept once, when he
confiscated a blue yankee overcoat from a reb-
el, for which crime (O he now stands indicted
For these things he was lately shot at and
chased from tine village of Waynesville-
Under the circumstances his friends have
appealed for his protection to the q. s. au-
thorities-and, in the meanwhile, are prepar-
ed to defend him themselves.
This is the kind of mercy which rebels show
to Southern loyalists. This is the fruits of
leniency towards treason. Away with such
policy hence forth and forever more Let
Congress pass stringent laws and enforce them
at once. Itcan be done none too soon for the
people of Western Carolina-a portion of
whom are now on the verye Of ciu1 aoor! Let
the presentrebelious and rotten concerns, I'M
der whose shadows such poisonous things
spring up and flourish in these Southern
States, be plucked out by the roots and shiv-
cred to pieces bough and body.
We look to Congress for immediate and
positive relief. Let that body act We
have waited long enough! No new plans
or compromises for the protection of MUIR
derers and traitors, will do in times like these.
Let the old plan, treason must be made
odious," be carried Quit