Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-08-13

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On Sunday a reliable gentleman
went from this city to Alamance
inquire into the matter; he saw Mr..
Patten and he saw Burgen. Bur
gen told him lie (P.) had been
hanged three times as stated; that
he made no confessions, he knew
nothing to confess. Burgen adj
mitted that he hanged Patten; said
he had hanged others in like man
ncr to make them confess; some
BY the neck and some by the
thumbs, and others he had threat
ened to shoot and put cooked pis-
tolls to their heads; he said this
was nccessay and he would do it
again; that the mere arrest did not
answer the purpose.
MORE ARRESTS IN ALAMANCE,
A telegram announces the ar
rest by Kirk's men, yesterday, in
Alamance, Of L. NJ. Holt, Esq,
Doctor Frank Mebanc, a Mr.. Cook,
and Anderson Thompson, Esq,
and some others.
The process seems to be, that
Burgen, Kinks Lieut.. Colonel,
hangs up man by the neck until
he is nearly strangled, or ties him
up by the big toes or the thumbs,
and thus continues to torture him
until he conlesses something either
that he is q Ku, Klux himself, or
that such and such q man is, and
straight way the persons thus
pointed out are arrested, and, per-
haps, subjected to some tortures
to make them confess their COM
plicity.
And this is liberty! This is law
! in North CarOlina--the law Of the
despot, Holden, who boasts OF
being backed by the President
Let the world know that these are
expressions, and the last hope,
the courts, are denied us. But the
day of reckoning will come!
RALEIGH, n. C., Aug. 3.-Ala.
nance and Caswell counties arc
now quiet. The Ku KluX are un.
demonstrative. | have seen Pat
ten, concerning whose hanging by
Col, Burgen, the correspondent oI
the Herald has written sensation
al reports, PatieH sail that Bur
gen piaccd Il rope W'00nd his mech
TO ScHIc him, but that he was nci
thcr strung up by the neck nor by
the thumbs; nor was he hurt il
any way.
When "Kirk's Lambs" thus
rope and scare" a Patten, NJ
wonder, We have the following:
Further confessions of thos,
who have been connected with tn,
Ku Klux, and now embrace tn,
opportunity Of leaving it, are con
tinuaily coming in, 1t looks nov
as if the K!an were breaking up
Gov Holden's policy in calling
out the military is entirely yindi
Gated.
The Tribune OF August jth says
1T turns out that the monstrou
story Of a few days ago, that pri.
oners taken by the North Carolin
militia were tortured to eXtol
, from them confessions of compile
ity with the Ku.Klux, is pur
invention and ha, been retracte
by its author.
Now come some Of the anticipa
ted results of this planning an
schcming, but thank fortune the
have all proved abortive:
Raleigh is tolcrably quiet now
There are six companies of troop
- here, and four stationed in adioiu
ing counties. Col. Kirk, at Yau
cyville, has his prisoners secure
and on the Slh trials will begin
it is to be hopea that some salu
tary punishments will follow,
These troops are to settle til
: Election" 50 called.
The prospects of the Rcpubl
cans for the election about TO TAX
place are good. The estimates c
maioritics are, on the State ticke
z for Attorney General, from 1000
) to 10000. Seven out of nine Cor
. gressmen are considered certai
} for the Republicans by majoritiC
. ranging from 800 to 5000. Docl
cry anu Sprague, for the Thir
} and Sixth Districts, are the doubt
ful ones on the list From til
same Cor.
The Ku Klux,' the same co
i respondent tells US, is the reaso
| why these troops have been o
= dercd out by Grant and Holde
!, on the eve ofa Congressional ele
! tion-"the terrible Ku Klux" "-bl
the Tribune, editorially, on Il
I'D Of May last, foretold the X
Y klux coming.
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