Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-07-22
ECHOES o. BAD GOVERNMENT.
rHE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES RAID PIOUs
CARROW-DIA LICAL OUTRAGE
UPON CHRISTIAN YOUTHS

FhH NoLbhN-BoSHEIS RAID pEOUs
CARROW-DIABOLI CAL OUTRAGE
| UPON CHRISTIAN YOUTHS.
! The following article and correspon.
dence of the Raleigh Sentinel will furnish
our readers the latest news from, the
Holden-Kirk- Bosher raid .gainst the
people of Middle and Western North Car
DINA. Let everybody read:
| RALEIGH, July 11th. 1870.
| Mr.. EDITOR Il deem it proper to give,
through you, to the public, some account
of the outrage committed in three coun-
ties by Gov. Holden's notorious detective,
Bosher, aided by q. s. troops.
live twenty fOnr miles from this city,
IN peaceable, quiet religious neighbor-
hood. Since The surrender L have not
known of any disturbance or even fist
fight in my neighborhood.
| For thirty-thrce years I have been a
member of the Baptist Church, having
joined whom fifteen years of age. For eight
years have been deacon in the Church.
l have endeavored to raise my children as
| [ have lived.
My son William, a lad of eighteen, has
been member OF the same Church for
three years.
On Saturday evening last he was taken
from his sick bed, where he had been all
day without eating n mouthfuli, and car
red fourteen miles to IL soldiers camp,
where he lay on the ground upon wet
saddle blanket
Sunday he was brought to this city and
lodged III the jail built for feions. and
why because he was charged by n negro
with an attempt to lntimldate him rs n
voter.
was plOughIng half milo off when the
soldiers entered my yard, surrounded nv
house. aud greatly terrified my wife and
three sick children in the house. A sick
child, eleven Years old, came to give me
the news OF the armed men who had dis
tnr3ed my suffering family ana outraged
my rights as free man.
l followed the detective and soldiers for
two and half miles and came on towards
the jail. On Sunday [ reached the city
about IL O'Clock, and knowing all of the
young men arrested except two, perhaps
three, as members OF the Church and one
OF them preparing for the ministry, pro-
posed to procure bail for them ali. | am
sure every good man III the neighborhood
would have joined with iue, and I think
nlne-tenths OF the cOlUred people would
have Joined them also
MY son and eight of my ueighbors'
children were marched to the Barracks,
where Lieutenant Cobb, us [ am informed,
as willing to keep them rs prisoners
But this did not suit the malignants.-I
About two clock Sunday evening they
were marched through the streets by SOL
dlers, amid hundreds Of rejoicing negroes.
and lodged III jail.
L spoke to big fat man, the marshal,
and told him OF my sons condition and
sickness. and offered bail The pious mar.
Shal said he Guild not t.lke bail; this was
tie S,bbath, and it WAS not customary to
90 SO on the Sabbath. / told HIM his CON
FcIf ne" would be clear if he never commit
teal greater sin.
saw my sick son shut zap in n filthy
i'Ion's cell, already partly filed with fclons.
VITA & full, sick heart went to the house
of my friend, Len Adnms, whore + met
friends who cOmforted me in this scvarest
trial OF my life. If l am to love my Gov
ernment, it must not have such men as
Carrow, Bosher and Shaifer to execute its
laws. On Monday, when my son was
brought before the carpet-bagger Shaffer
not IL witness testified against him One
witness said she knew him well; he WAS
cot there; ii lac had been uno would have
known him.
Now, MIR. Editor, I charge all this upon
Governor Holdou. He il at tho bottom
and top OF it all. l thank God that the
matter has ended without bloodshod. L
think 1T was owing entirely to tho Christian
spirit IL the young meu arrested. l be
lieve III many other States Bosher and his
little squad would have met with resistance
fer such an outage npon the Christian
children OF Christian meu. II nv son is
able to travel l shall start for home to-day,
after paying $<5;333 ~ my costs and charges
for this outrage.
W4I II. NORRIS.