The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-03-02
A Negro Hung BY Kn KIux or Loyal
Lengueites I'm Grnham.

Its represented 10 us that about o'clock last
Saturday night disguised body Of sevent-fye or
n hundred men appeared at the house Of Henry
Holt, colored, and entered his house, where they
found not Holt but an aged negro man named
49, White, officiating as husband to Mrs" II.
The intention seems to have been to hang both
Holt and White, coach-makers working in copart-
nership, but they seem to have swaped beds If
not families that night, and not knowing the
whereabouts Of Holt they did not search for him
outside Of his premises. They however took White
and the cord out Of the bed, mounted him on a
mule and hung him with the BEDFORD to an oak
limb In front Of the Courthouse door, where Ehe
was found the next morning with card pinned
to his coat containing this warning
4 ssBeware! you guilty paItles--both white and
black
Its further represented TO us that the disguised
party after hanging White, rode round to the re-
sdence Of Mr.. Albright, Clerk OF the Sup. Court,
and tried to decoy or draw him out, but he very
wisely declined to 90 out. In passing the Mayors
house he went TO the door TO look, hut rock was
thrown against the house and he was gently adj
monished to withdraw as no one wished TO modest
him. which admonition he or course took.
1t Is also represented to us that Whites wife
at the inquest swore positively that the first man
that took hold on White was negro, and that
she believes majority II not all Of them were col
ored. White was the generalisamo or President
Of the League. in command Of the funds which he
was 10 the habit Of stealing or appropriating to his
own use.
We likewise learn that White and Holt both shot
at ku klux that visited Graham about year ago,
and that the ku klux promised To see them again
for this interruption.
Now, whether this diabolical outrage was com
mitted BY lu klux or by thelLoyal League (expec-
ting kt klux to bear the blame in consequence Of
the promise to see these negroes again. for en-
bezIlng the funds Of the League, il was high
handed outrage against the Law, the Peace and
Dignity ofthe State, and the perpetrators should
be ferreted out and dealt with according TO law
Such deeds as this win not only prevent Northern
men coming here and settling, but 1t viii drive OF
desirable population, disgrace society and tarnish
the escutchson Of the State. We feel proud that i
did not occur in Orange. Proud OF the law-abid.
ing appearance and disposition Of the people Of
Orange. Let hercontinue torcspect and yenerate
Law and good order, without Which we shall re.
lapse into state Of barbarianisni.
P.s. Two negroes have been arrested ON sus
picion and committed 10 Alanlance Jail.
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Warming 10 Boys and Unprinelpied Men
Some Of you have just sense enough tc.know how
to deface freshly painted Doors and 70 tear down
Advertisements or Hand-BIIls posted up for ths
Pnblic to read. You probably think Il "smart, '
but are you aware that there Is law 70 make you
smariafor such low-down meanness. Hitisnot I
penitenfiary crime Il ought 70 be made 50; howe
yer, fne and imprisonment viii do very well a !
reward for tearing down aand-bills, &C., and You
better keep sharp lookout, or. ere you know Il
the sheriff viii grab you. As to the principle Q
the thing our notion Is that the man or boy who
formacious or base purposes, mutilates or DESTROY
| hand-bills that In no-wise concern him, would mo-
hesitate 10 collar one-eyed sheep on Old Christ
mas night, while that quadruped polses on IL
knees.