The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19

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We learn that the Ku KIux are no.
ting outrages in Rockingham county n
case has been partially investigated. -. s
the afidavits of the persons who were aua
ragged state the following facts: O, :.
night OF the 7th instant. about II o,o,. "e
Ellis Walker, colored man, was sit,;
quietly in his own house, near Tbomn.s
Vile, when the door was broken dow
nine armed men. wearing masks NJ,
rushed upon Walker and commenced Ivy Ivy
ing him. He asked to know the cause s-'
they refused to tell him, except that ,ha NV
understood he had cursed Mrs soroh ", 'y
mock and called her liar; which be ~
MED, and asked them to 90 to see her .ho.
three hundred yards away. This ther
fused to do, but said they were sent tha.
just to leave breath in his body. They thsu
took him out, stripped him naked, tied bira
To tree, and beat him with sticks mt,
nearly dead. They charged him with bav
ing voted the Republican ticket, and pointaa
to one of their number and said IL u.s /.
brother lack Groom, one of the Republio.1
county commissioners; and that ano.,.
was Judge Tourgee; and he could SEQ n,n WV
the Republicans cared for the ID =:
gers.
Riley Totten says he was at the bo,.
of the said Walker when the paDn a
tered, and was awakened by the noise ~
first thing he saw was these men draoo;ns
Walker from, the house. He was also tan
and severely beaten, though not dappernna,
injured.
A gentleman who has seen Walker Co.,,
his back is beaten almost to Jelly, and ths,
he will never completely recover, and NAV
soon die from the effects of the blows
These facts are sworn to before f Wboo,o-
and L. V. Marsilliott, two Justices of fl.
Peace.
Joseph Waynock and Jesse Thomson
have been bound over to answer To tho
charge of assisting in this outrage.
Mrs. Sarah Waynock states to one of tbs
Justices that Walker never used such Ian.
guage toward her, she never heard him cuna
any one; also expresses regret, because Wal.
ker was faithfully working for her, and with.
out him she should lose her crop.
Outrages similar to this have been com.
mitted in several places in that county,
Wedo not know what is assigned ~ the
Ku Klux as reason for their 6endish deeds
No matter what it may be, no reason can
exist under heaven sufficient to justify thar
taking the law into their own hands, anil
assaultinga man in his own house. There an
laws in the State for the protection of the
innocent and the punishment of the guilty.
There are courts, there are sheriffs, there are
jails, and there are executioners; and these
poor men can be arrested, tried, and if found
guilty of any criminal offence, convicted and
punished. No man, or set of men, has the
right to arrogate to himself the execution of
what he may deem justice. The law is for his
restraint as well as for his protection; and
while it is strong enough to punish the
weak when found guilty, it must be strong
enough to protect them when innocent.
Gov. Holden is determined that the per-
petrators of these outrages shall be brought
to justice, and they will probably soon lean
from experience that the law can give them
that justice which they would deny their
poor fellow-citizens.