The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-20
THE KU-KLUX,
North Carolina Horrors, Butcheries, whip.
pings and Tortures-School md Church In.
ccndiarism.

North Carolina Horrors, Butcherfes, Whip
ccndinrism.
The Raleigh Standard OF a recent date says:-
The tale is terrible one, but it must be told.
The world should know what has obstructed
law-what has subverted government-what
has banished peace and filed North Carolina
with wailings, fear, and woe. The world
should know why resort to the military arm
was imperative. The world should know that
instead OF exaggeration not one half has been
told.
The following statement is furnished from
the record. We commend the catalogue of
outrages and crimes to the attentive considera-
tion OF our friends throughout the country. 1t
is the voice of the bleeding, dying poor.
(The Standard then proceeds to print a terri
bic list, occupying two columns of its paper,
of recent outrages enumerating over 60 fla
grant cases, and says that hundreds of other
cases of scourgng and mutilation are necessa-
rily omitted We take from the account few
of the most prominent outrages.)
The jail of Greene county broken open, and
five men taken OUT their throats cut and their
bodies thrown in Contentnea creek.
The Jail of Lenoir county broken open, five
men taken out, their throats cut, and their
bodies thrown in Neuse river.
The Jail of Orange county broken open, three
men shot at. Two escaped, but one was
wounded, and died thereof
The sheriff of Jones county and colonel of
militia shot and killed from behind a blind, in
the open day, on the public highway. His death
was decTeed by Ku-kluX camp in the adioin-
ing county of Lenoir He was hated because he
was Northern man and Republican.
The colonel of the militia of Jones county,
and justice of the peace, shot and killed in the
open day while at work in his saw-mill. A
colored man with him at the same time badly
shot.
The family of Daniel Blue colored, murdered
in Moore county. Blue was wounded and
escaped. His wife was killed: She was en-
Ciente. His five other children were mur-
dered, the house set on fire, and the bones of all
Two white men Of the name of Mcleod muir
dered in Cumberland. The men who murdered
them had painted faces. The Ku-klux charged
the murder on colored men, and one cOlored
man was killed by them on account of it.
A colored minister of the Gospel in Gulf
township, Chatham county, compelled to take
torch ard burn his own church, which he and
others had built on his own land. The next
morning, after the Ku-klux had departed, the
melancholy sight was presented Of the minister
and his congregation holding prayer over the
ashes of his church.
A colored woman drowned in mill-pond in
Orange county, because she had been 'mpu-
dent" to white lady This is the only charge.
A colored boy in Orange county taken at
midnight from his father while they were burn
ing charcoal and hanged. The charge was that
he had made some improper and foolish re-
marks about the white ladies. His body hung
ten days until the vultures partly consumed it,
and no one during that time dared to, take him
down.
Wyatt Outlaw, a colored man, was hanged
near the Court House in Graham, Alamance
county. He was a leading Republican, an in
dustrious mechanic, and man of unblemished
character. His otenSe was that Governor Hol-
den had appointed him justice of the peace,
and he had accepted the appointment, and was
President in that county of the Union League of
America. 1t was charged that he had melted
colored men to fire on the Ku-kluX on the public
highways, but this statement can be disproved
by respectable witnesses. He was dragged from
his house at midnight, his little son clinging to
him as long as he could, and his aged mother
pleading for him. He was hanged near the
Court House, that the Ku-klux might show their
contempt for the civil law.
The Rev. Mr.. Conliss, native of Vermont,
and teacher of colored school at Company
Shops, Alamance, was taken from his house at
night and badly whipped. His wife endea-
vored to protect him, and was struck on the
head with heavy pistol and badly wounded.
Mr.. Conlss was lame and went on crutches; but
the Ku-kluX had no mercy on the poor old
crippled man. He was whipped because he
taught colored school and was loyal man.
John w. Stephens, State Senator, from the
county of Carroll, was murdered in the open
day, in the courthouse in the town of Yancey-
Vile. He was killed in the courthouse, in
open day, to show Ku-kluX contempt for the
civil law.
y Gam. Allen was driven from his house near
Leesburg, Caswell county. few nights after
wards some colored men, friends of his were
watching at his house with his wife while he
was concealed in the woods. The Ku-kluX APP
peared, these colored men fled, and Robin
Jacobs, one of them, and an old man, not being
able to get away was shot through the head and
killed.
The Ku-klux of Rockingham county made a
raid and fired into house and shot a colored
woman through the brain and killed her, In
the same county, in another case, they thrust
chunks of wood on fire into the faces and