The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-09-07
Kuklux Confessions.


per N. Wood, one of the South Command
ers of the Kuklux. We have before us
many more confessions, which we shall pub
lish as soon as we can make room for them.
These confessions, with the evidence now
being brought out before Chief Justice Pear,
son, show the desperately wicked and dan
gerous character of this organization.
CONFESSION OF JASPER N. WOOD.
Jasper N. Wood, citizen of Alamance
County, residing in Albright's Township,
Voluntarily, and of his own accord, doth
confess and say:
That sometime during the year 1868, be-
fore the election, he was initiated into the
Order of the white Brotherhood" by one
ty, in Jacob Longs room, in the town of
Graham, having been carried there by per-
son from Person, who, at the time, was
buggy-maker in the shop of Henry 10y;
don't recollect his name That he found as.
sembled in Longs room, Michael. named
above, Jacob Long, Joe Freeland, Geo. Ell
lington, Seymore Coble, and one Moore,
from Gullford, and the buggy. maker. That
is all that he recollects as being present.
Freeland, Ellington. and Coble, and himself
were then initiated. The object of the or
ganization was explained, he thinks, by
Michael, to be the defeat of the Radical
party. An oath was administered to us by
Michael, the purport of which he cannot
now recollect. He recollects, however, that
they were sworn to obey their superior of
fcers. Michael, or McMichael, appointed
Jacob Long Chief, calling the association
Camp 1, or First Camp, and giving Long a
copy of the bylaws, which were then read.
One clause of the bylaws he recollects to
be that the members were to obey their SUI
perior officers, and do whatever the Camp
directed or ordered them tn do. Also that
all persons proposed as members were to be
voted for, and certain number of votes
would reject. Michael explained the signs,
grips and passwords, aid stated that the
Order originated in Tennessee during the
administration of Gov. Brownlow, and that
Andrew johnson, then President of the
United States, was Chief of the Order IN
the United States, and that the Order was
spread throughout this State and the United
States. At that meeting Jacob Long was
appointed Chief of the County. He ap-
pointed the time aud the place of the next
meeting, which was between Graham and
Alamance Creek, in the woods.
This meeting happened two or three days
after the first He was elected list Lieut.
aud he thinks Geo. Ellington, I'd. At the
4th meeting Camp No. 2 was established,
before which there had been invited, be-
sides those mentioned in the list meeting,
ahp n Hell
Jas. w. Foust, James Coble, Stanford
Murphy, John R. Stockard, = Trothin-
ger, John G. Albright. When Camp No. Q
was established, there were present himself,
Stockard, Long, Trothinger, Freeland the
buggy-maker, and he thinks John G. Al
bright. He was appointed Chief of the
Camp. The next meeting Seymore Coble
was appointed LIST Lieut.. Calvin Roberts
and VIM. Norwood were initiated. He and
Coble had DISCUSSES, and the other members
were ordered to procure them as soon as
practicable. The disguises were long,
loose, white gown, generally paper cap,
with a mask for the face. This disguise
was adopted to prevent candidates seeing
who were present when they were initiated.
There were several other meetings OF this
camp at different places in the woods at
night, at which Joe Stockard, VIM. Stock
ard, Thos Moore, - Griffin, Clai6ourne
Gutherie, Alfred Newlin, John Newlin,
John Wood, Will. P. Thompson, and sew
eral others whom he does not recollect
became members. About this time Camp
No. was organized, with VIM. Stockard
as Chief and John Newlin as First Lieu
tenant. Up to this time-some time in
the Fall or Winter of 1868, there had been
no violence committed. Some time after
Camp No. was established, Jacob Long
called county meeting of all the camps,
to be held at Graham. He was pres
ent, and some fifty or sixty others. Long
made q speech, in which he cautioned the
members against talking too freely, as their
safety depended upon their secrecy. After
his speech, David Mebane and Will. Eau
cett informed him, Long, that in their
neighborhood an old negro man had been
turned out of his house by a jury, and that
the negro had afterward burned the house
down, and asked what ought to be done
with him. Long replied that hanging was
none too good for him. Mebane then asked
that it be put to vote in that meeting,
stating that he was opposed to hanging, and
moved that fifty lashes be given him, the
old negro man. This he wood opposed,
stating as his reason that the members of
the county meeting were unacquainted with
the circumstances, and that he thought the
matter should be lett to the camp in the
neighborhood of which the circumstances
occurred. He was overruled, and Mebane's
motion for the whipping agreed to. This
whipping never took place as he knows of
Before the meeting adjourned, Long ap-
pointed a.parade in silence in the town OF
Graham, and appointed him Wood to
conduct it. Some week or two afterward
the parade took place, but he wood Was
not there, bis wife being sick. After this.