The weekly standard., 1869-09-29
The Ku KIux Murderss


The Ku Klux of Orange county are again
at work. A colored man has been hung,
and several white men shotat and maltreated.
Many are afraid to remain in the county,
,belieying their lives to be in danger. Others
are determined to stay and fight it out.
It is time that these Ku Klux were put
down. A beginning has been made in Le-
noir county, and the clue is being followed
up. Many of these cowardly murderers who
think themselves unknown are marked, and
win soon find the rope around their necks.
But until then they will murder and out
rage as many men as they can. They wish to
murder or silence every prominent Republi-
can, and thus crush out Republicanism;
They may as well attempt to stop the winds
from rushing over the earth!
Nearly every week we are visited by men
who have sad stories to tell about the man
ner in which they and other loyal men are
treated by the Ku Klux, of the murders and
attempted murders which are constantly
taking place. These stories we have inves-
tigated, and we find the most OF them true.
We have always advised that no retalia-
ton should follow the outrages of the Ku
Klux, but that the protection of the law
should be invoked. We find that in many
cases it is impossible for the law to protect
those whom the Ku KIux assail. In some
cases the officers who should enforce the
laws are more than suspected of completely
with the assassins.
We have always counselled peaceful meas
ures, hoping that spirit of forbearance
would do much towards causing cessa-
tion of the outrages Of the Ku Klux. A
spirit of forbearance has prevailed, but to
no purpose. The cowal J Ku Klux but
grow the bolder, and their deeds of vio-
lence are committed the more frequently.
We now tell those who are assailed to
fight, to resist force with force, and murder
with death. A mans house is his castle,
and he who attempts to enter it to do
injury can be shot down.
We counsel forbearance no longer. We
tell the loyal men of the State to. protect
themselves and to demand life for life. Let
them keep watchers, who can notify them of
the coming of the masked villains, and let
there be signals for gathering, that the muir
derers may be caught in their own tolls.
Let the Ku Klux be found out and iden-
tilted that the law may be able to convict
him and the gallows receive its own.
The time for temporising has gone by
when MURDER stalks almost unrebukcd
through the land, and the assassin's Knife is
political weapon.
We tell the guilty men, that, as sure as
there is God in Heaven, they will be
ferrettcd out, and once convicted of murder
no power shall save them from the hang
mans rope. They have refused to be gov
erned by the laws of God or man, and have
wet the soil of North Carolina with the
blood of men murdered because they dared
to vote according to their dictates of right.
They have kept the land in terror and the
people impoverished. Peaceful measures
have failed. They have added murder to
murder, and outrage to outrage.
Other means will now be tried-a bitter,
never ceasing effort to crush them. They
will be watched Until there is sufficient evil
dence to ensure their conviction, when they
will be arrested and tried, and, if convicted
HUNG.
They will be followed by the officers of
justice, and will not know the hand that
strikes them until it is too late to ward off
the blow.
To loyal men we say, protect yourselves to
the best of your abilities, but do not commit
similar outrages in retaliation. Protect
yourselves and punished the assassins when
you meet them, but do not retaliate upon
men who may be innocent
But, between KU KLUx assassins and loyal
men; let there be no terms.