New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-03

OF the Court House on Saturday or Saturday night last
The circumstances attending his murder have not yet
fully come TO light here so far as learn, judge
these to have been the circumstances He of the
Justices of the Peace in that township and accus-
toned to hold court in that room on Saturdays IL Is
evident that he set upon by while holding
this court, Immediately after It's close and disabled
by sudden attack, otherwise there would have been
very sharp resistance, he was man. ana alWSs
went armed to the teeth. lie stabbed five or six
! times, and then hanged hook in the Grand jury
room, whore he was found on sunday morning Another
| brave, honest Republican citizen has met his rave
Siv cn1ni2ant "f tic terrible nix which surrounded
him. he still nanfnlly Tcfu ed To quit the Held Against
family he constantly refused to leave those who bad
stood by him in the day OF his disgrace ana peril ne
Repnbcan voters in that county had stood by him and
elected him, at the risk Of persecution ana StatYaon'
and that idea of abandoning them u lhc MI
Klux He determined To stay win heli anu tl.ntr
put end TO these outra ees or de Win the oer HcI
KHgIst pc1f tbc XII Iux would have killed
In the state than there would he members 10 he sceu
Ward The fuidImcnt Of this prophecy. The following
counties have already filed. nearly so, their re-
spective quotas {" Jones County, quota ful excess -
Guota fun excess 2 Alamance County quota full eX-
cess, Chatham County quota nearly iu or 10 sate
the matter differently, there have been Twelve naors
i'm five counties of the district during the past eighieen
months, by bands of disguised ylllans IN aaa'9h ho
this, from the Decentralization can deIlNe an do
opinion that in this district alone there nave tn luz
ourages of less serious nature perpeuatcd Dy Ic lii
masked 6ends this estimate n not mace rom
any absolute record nor It possible TO cerin WIN
accuracy the entire number OF oeatlhg1 ana oIeI
RACES which have been pepeiratea me me " htv IN
the utter futiy of complaint rom the laCh oi az
making snch complaint is also well understood. 1t is
therefore not unirequenty by accident taI te %
mtely concealed Inus, - ieS gp"Ttin% for a
| neirhbor when accidentally his shirt was
torn, and disclosed his back Scared and beaten The
poor fellow begged for the sake of his VIE anq Gneh
that nothing might I've said about it, as the kukluX had
threatened to kin him If he disclosed how ne had pen
outraged. Hundreds OF cases have come 10 my ot sr
aud that Of my solicitor in which we nave hary a MI
and women come Scared. mangled, and bruised, aud
sv Tbe KuKInx came to my house last night and beat
me almost TO DEATH and my old woman Ilsh SIM anu
shot into the house, bust the door down, and told me
| they would kill me If 1 made complaint ana
| the bloody mangled forms attest tie truth OF tner
DECLARATIONS The On ggs R'h'G will be
that there recognition, or only the mos
doubtful one. In such cases as tnese morning can D
done by the court We have not been accustomed TO en-
ter them on record A. man OF co e Teso 800 ,pd inward
in that county In Alamancc County, Gitzen III con
which had occurred within his own knowledge, and IN
section Of the county. He gave IL as ms opinion t4
hat he exceeded the proper estimate That was six
months ago, and am satisfied That another huhurcd
TIese crimes have been OF every character imaginable
Perhaps the most usual has been the dragging OF men
bodies with hickory switches or as witnesses in an eX-
animation the other day said, Sticks between a
syitc" and "cub." From 20 10 100 blows Is the usual
allowance sometimes 600 and 300 blows administered
Occasionally instrument Of torture Is owned mus
in two women, one u years ODD were taken ont
strippcdnaked ami beaten with paddle Win several
holes bored through IT, The paddle was ABOUT 80 lncne'
long OF inches wide, and of an inch thick, Of oak
Their bodies bruised and beaten that they were
! good character until the younger seduced. and
her child 70 its father Previous 10 tat ana so af
as oi hers were concerned her character was good.
| Again. there is sometimes hendsh malSnlty and
cunning displayed In hc 9T ana man @ ndc S ' asTe
log, and an iron staple driven through MS pesoh INTO
yioated Voung negro gr she was forced into bed with
a coored man. their bodies bound together face To
X X rode oil aud LEFT them with shouts Of laughter
OF course the bed IN ilaues ana somehow they
Tie house was burned.
I could give other incidents cruelty. such hanging
up OF nine years old until ne nearly dead, To
make him tell where his father hidden, and heating
an old negroes of 100 years old with garden paiug be
cause sine would not that she afraid OF tlo kl
Klux But il is unnecessary to 60 into further dctal.
In this district estimate their o1cnses follows. In tine
past ten months: Twelve murders, rape, - are1h9
mutilaonS. asccra'ued and most 81 them ON record IN
some no identification could be made.
-Four thousand 5000 houses have been broken OPEN
taken and destroyed seven hundred OF 90 pcrsons
have been beaten or otherwise ma.treated. These OF
course are partly persons living IN the houses winch were
And yet the Government sleeps. The poor disarmed
nurses Of the Republican party-thOse men by whose
! ballots the Republican party holds poWer-Who took
their lives their hands when they cast their ballots or
he beyond the pale Of the Governmental gnrd-must
be sacrificed murdered, scourged, m3ngied. because
doing Justice. could stand il very well 70 fight for
Uncle sam, and was never known 20 refuse az INVITATION
such occasion; but this ying down, tied hand and
foot with the saCkles OF ne law, 10 lie killed ~ thc
very regs of the rebellion the scum OF tho EARTH aud
not allowed either the consolation OF fighting or the sat
isfacdOn that our fan will be noted BY the Govern
Inen and protection given to others thereby is some
what hard am ashamed Of the nation that Will let
its citizens be slain by and scouged by thou
ashamed of a State which has not sufficient
strength to protect its own officers in the discharge
of their duties nor guarantee the safety OF any man
domcie throughout its length and breadth lam ashamed
Of party which, with the rcins OF power il its hands,
has not nerve or decision enough 20 arm s own ahe
ents TO protect them from assassination at the hands
permit 1900 5000 OF his To be bushwhacked and
destroyed by private treachery IN enemys coun
try without any one being punished for II, would be
worthy of universal execratiOn and would get it, too
How much more worthy OF detestaton IL q
smnle cnweTice neTfness and wholesale demoraliza.
ton. The wholesale slaughter OF the has duled our
Nations of horror az the shedding o blood ana
the habit of regarding the South simply laboratory
where every demagOgue may carry his recOnstrucOn
airy experiments will and not an integral part Of the
Nation itself has led our Government TO shut its eyes 10
the atrocities of these times Unless these evils
speedily remedied, tel YOU General the Republican
party has signed its death warrant IL Is party OF
towards idots-I don't care which alternative 1;
chosen The remedy is in our hands, ana are afraid
or too duh TO Jcstir ourselves and use il.
But you Wal tell me that Congress IS ready and willing
TO act if it only knew what TO do. Like the Old Irish
woman n wrngs us hands ana CRIES laNK' - l'aWh
If only knew which way" Andyet this same Congress
has the control OF the militia and can organize lis own
force in every county In the United States and arm more
or less of II. This same Congress has the undOubted
| llght 10 plONlit ltlluDlCiu bONtlL
ment and protect every citizen in life liberty, and
the pursuit Of happiness well as the conferred
by the XVIII Amendment. And yet suffer and die in
peace and murderers walk abroad with the blood yet
fresh upon their garments, unframed, gnquestioned
and unchecked Fifty thousand dollars given To good
detectives would secure il well used complete knowl
edge Of all this gigantic organization Of murderers. In
connection with organized and armed militia, II would
result In the apprehension Of any number Of these Thugs
en- dSque and with blood their hands What then Is
| the renedyi First: Let Congress give to tine U. s.
Courts, TO Courts Of the States under Its own laws
cOgnZance Of this class OF crimes crimes against tho
nation and let 10 provide that this legislation be enforced