The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-15
Worse than the Nathan murder.

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The Mobile Regttsster takes the Nathan
murder for text, and upon it preache.
the following pertinent and searching
sermon. 1t comes home to the con
sciences of thoughtful, rejecting mer
with terrible power: -'.'.'
The murder Of the rich banker, Mr.
Nathan, in his own house, in the city
of New York, was horrible and dar
ing crime, and has alarmed and startled
the people and the press of that city
The press cries out loudly. for the pro
lection of the law and against the in
adequaey.of the police force, and the
authorities are called upon TO increase
the body Of the police to four thousand
men. This crime was a personal affair
and there are, doubts whether it was
committed by professional thieves and
burglars, or 10y what ittermed a sneak
thief that is a novice and amateur
in crime 1t is a deplorable event in a
large andiltell,governed CITY, and no
wonder that it has alarmed the citi-
zens for their safety, when an EN-
inent person like Mr. Nathan is
not safe from the violence of the assas-
sin in his own bed chamber and man
sion, situated in the most aristocratic
4aarter Of the city Further down
South, 10 Wit In North Carolina, iio-
lent outrages of equal enormity, and
upon larger scale, are being perpc;
trated, no! by professional thieves and
outlaws, but by men wearing the uni
form Of the United States government,
and backed 10y authority derived from
the same government In the counties
where the WltrageS are committed, no
citizen, however eminent in social stand
ing, however innocent of offences
against the laws and the peace and good
order OF society. issafeE Theg Arrears
rested ,by q lrutal militia, under the
command of a seohndrel They ere
beaten if they ask for'the warrant of
their arrest They are hung up 10y their
necks TO force Il confession OF ku-k lux
ism to criminate either themselves or
their ncighbors. Carried of to prison,
their families are left unprotected
and prey to deadly terror Of violence
from the licentious wretches who com
pose the black and white militia. I'm
short, in two counties Of this State, We
have the fullest example of hell or
gained after the prediction Of Sena-
tor Doolittlc, and a reign Of terror,
the horrors of which could not be sur
passed in time of war Terrible as was
the murder of Mr. Nathan, there are
features in the wholesale crimes being
prrpctratcd i'm North Carolina that
throw it in the shade 1t is not one
man that tails 10y the hands OF felon,
but q whole community of men. women
and children, a prey to the violence, re-
vcuge and lusts OF a band OF armed
fclons 1t i not a robbery of money
and Jewels, followed bv murder, when
discovered, of one criminal But it is a
whole community given mp to lawless
arrest, imprisonment, beatings, hang
ingS, rapine .amd rape, under the au-
thority Of the great government of the
United States as Holden boasts he is
backed 10y Gen Grant Now, if New
York city needs four. thousand police
men to protect the lives Of her most
c,timahle citizens while sleeping in
their beds, what do the outraged citi-
zcus and the terrified women in North
Carolina need? VIII the people OF
New \ ork in their misfortune think of
the calamitics which Radical ambition
ha, 20 cruelty visited on the best and
purcst members of society in North
Carolina? viii they take it home TO
themselves and imagine their feelings,
if instead of the single felon in Twenty
third street, a Holden and Kirk, and
their licentous brigands were turned
loose upon that community, and given
full license TO plumber, Imprison and
hang, with General Grant to back
them, and United States troops stand
ing Ly to see the cnormities success
fully executed.