The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-05

sn"e .ho AuhiuA -miSHt IhereUy SHOW tHelr
contempt for the civil law.
William Puryear, a half-witted colored
man, who witnessed the murder of Wyatt
Outlaw, followed two of the disguised
murderers to their homes. On his return
to Graham he told who these murderers
were. In short time he was taken out of
his house and drowned in asmil pond near
Graham. - 30
Caswell Holt, a coInied man, t5ken from
his house in Alamance and badly whipped.
He presumed to complain and appealed to
Magistrate for justice. The case wastTied
and the parties swho Nd whipped him
proved that they were fos present when he
was whipped One of the Camps then de-s
creed his death becaue he had thus asked
: for justice. He was saa IN attaclesi in i hia
own house. shot through fhe body, and was
carried to Graham by order Of the County
Commissioners, nursed, and at last reeoy-
ered -39nT ri l7l-i Eaa
/ The house of colored man HarveD in
Alamance,i was visited by the Kuklux.
Their appearance and conduct so frightened
his wife that she dropped her infant child
which she had in her lap, and the infant
died from the fall. They then cruelty
whipped Harvey. They whipped the father
without cause, and were the cause of the
death of the child
A school house and church at Company
Shops, Alamance county, for the use of the
colored people, was burnt 10y order of
Camp. The guilty party was arrested by
order of Gov. Holden, and will be tried for
the crime.
The Rev. Mr.. Conliss, native of Yer
mont, and teacher of colored school at
Company Shops, Alamance, was taken from
his house at night and badly whipped. His
wife endeavored to protect him, and was
struck on the head with heavy pistol and
badly wounded. Mr. Conliss was lame, and
went on crutches; but the Kuklux had no
mercy on the poor old crippled man. He was
whipped because he taught colored school
and was loyal man. .4--..
! John W. Stephens, State Senator from the
County of Caswell, was murdered in the
open day in the Court House, in the town
of Yanceyville. Four persons charged with
having murdered him, or being accessory
thereto, have been bound to appear and an
swer, as the result of the military movement
of Gov. Holden. He was killed in the
Court House, in the open day, to show Kn-
klux contempt for the civil law.
Sam. Allen was driven from his house
near Leasburg, Caswell county. A few
nights afterward some colored men, friends
of his, were watching at his house with his
wife while he was concealed in the woods.
The Kuklux appeared, these colored men
nes., tss..sa-. si. e .hn,,a and an
old man, not being able to get out of the
way, was shot through the head and killed.
The Kuklux of Rockingham county made
raid and fired into house and shot a col
ored 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 mouths of their victims
In Forsyth county colored man was
taken from his house, bis hands and feet
were tied, and gag, described thus, placed
in his mouth "a ball of hard wood, filled
with hard, sharp wooden pegs. This was
forced into his mouth, and by leather strings
attached to it, it was tied behind his head.
He was then, laid on his face, and one hun
a dred lashes given him on his bare back.
In Alamance county colored man named
Noah Trollinger was whipped, and COMPEL
ed to take a, knipe and hack and mutilate
, his private parts m 5,l trfl3 s.l
! In Lincoln county the Kuklux were on
the public highway, looking for a &c ertain
4 colored man to whip or kill him. They met
another colored man, fred on him and
d wounded him. Seeing their mistake, they
laid him on pile of rails, and told him tc
Il call for help. A gentleman who recently
visited the cabin of this man says, he found
r his little children crying for bread, the
h. mother absent working to get a little bread
y for the family, and the father hobbling about
on cru1ches unable to work and cripple fol
life --eIai 3iai- = ac-7. - t-.-HfA ...
These are some of the worst Kuklux case.
Il in North Carolina Hundreds of other case!
. of seourging, and the cases of mutilation arr
? necessarily omitted. 'H! '75-1 SD
There have been no cases thus far iI
in which the parties have been convicted b!
the civil courts As the result of the actor
); of Gov Holden about sixty have been bound
!, over for trial in the Counties of Lenoir
!. Jones, Alamance and Caswell. We shall se'
whether a6y of these sixty persons. thu
j charged with crime, will be convicted by
= jury. ~ 'o@
Mr.. James E. Boyd, a respectable younI
lawyer, and formerly Kuklux. solemn
swore, before the Justices of the Suprem
} Court, that Mr.. Josiah Turner, Jr., the Ed
, tor of the Raleigh Sentinel, the organ Of tn
Democratic party of North Carolina, toll
him, last July, in HilIsborough, that it ha'
been arranged for the Kuklux to ride il
! every County in the State on the night be
) fore the election in August. How did MI
, Turner know this if he was not himself
Kuklux9
Gov Holden wanted the civil law restored
Hence he called out the militia. He wante'
! these terrible crimes checked and the Grim
inals punished. Hence he called out tn
{ militia. He wanted free and fair election
6 Hence he called out the militia. No ma
: will say that the Democrats weIe afraid t
t vote. But many Republicans were afraid t
vote, and the Governor thought the Repul
! licans had as good right to vote withou