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

ernment-wh hat has banished peace and filled
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,
that not one-half has been told.
The following statement is furnished by
friend who is so thoroughly posted that
he speaks from the record. We commend
the catalogue of outrages and crime to the
attentive consideration of our friends
throughout the conntiy. is the voice of
the bleeding, dying poor :n--a 79Eoald tfi
.ouTRAeEs COMMITTED IN NORTH Carol. INA
a9a DURING THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS BY
q THE KUKLUx. ahd C35lgT 3. 2ls4o :
Y The jail OF Greene County sbroken open,
and five men taken out, their throats cut,
and their bodies thrown in Contentnea Greek.
The Jail of Lenoir County broken open,
and FIVE men taken out, their athroats cut,
and their bodies thrown in Neuse river. 10
The Jail of Orange County broken open,
and three men shot at. Two escaped, but
one was wounded, and died of his wound.
The Jail of Chatham County broken open,
and United States prisoner released. He
was in Jail for violating the revenue law.
He has not since been arrested. a.,qs
The Sheriff of Jones County and Colonel
of Militia, shot at and killed from behind
blind, in the open day, on the public high
way. His death was decreed by aiKuklux
camp in the adjoining county of Lenoir.
He was hated because he was a Northern
man and Republican. Fois q IN
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. aa O. 1a.isd
A man named Grant shot and killed in
Lenoir County, by order of camp, because
he threatened to divulge the secrets of the
Kuklux. HSi ''t oi ss-..'al rel
(. A man shot from the back OF a horse in
Lenoir County, and killed. a Bob .f
A colored man in Wayne shot in his own
door, and killed. 10 3. a- -. =.
The family of Daniel Blue, colored, mur-
dered in Moore County. Blue was wound.
ed and escaped. His wife was killed. She
was heavy with child. His five Other
chiliren were murdered, the house set on
fire, and the bones of all found next morning
A colored man murdered in Harnett
County. -'f II f.,
Two white men of the Lame of Mcleod
murdered in Cumberland. The men who
murdered them had painted faces. Tit
Kuklux charged the murder on colored men
and nna ealnred- man was killed by them Oh
account OF It. p p - ~ -
A colored man hanged in Chatham
County. A revenue officer riding along tn
road, saw his body hanging and reported
His wife and children were sitting unde
the body moaning. Nothing was don
about it. t'7Ga tot
A colored man in Chatham County badl,
whipped. As he returned to his house, tn
Kuklux followed. One of his daughter
came out of his house with an infant in he
arms, and fled. The Kuklux fired on he
| and wounded her and her infant ln al
A colored woman near Pittsborough
Chatham County, beaten with a club unit
her life was despaired of because she com
planned to a magistrate that a white mar
Kuklux, had stolen her chickens of
| "a colored minister of the gospel in Gul
Township, Chatham County: compelled t
take torch and turn his own church
which be and Others had built aon his ow
land. The next morning, after the Kuklu
had departed the melancholy sight was pre-
sented of the minister and his congregatio
holding prayer over the erashes ofihis cllurcl
A colored exhorter taken out of his hous'
in Orange County, made to double quic
for half an hour in the public raail, an
then required, on pain of death, 10 fall o
his knees and pray!io toousG sdI b.;
A colored woman drowned in asmill pom
in Orange County, because she had bee
"impudent" to white lady 4 This is tn
only charge. ,ool gaat II sr .y5Ieq ai-
4 Two colored men taken out of their nous,
in Orange County, and hanged, on n2suspieid
of having burnt barns. f97isssh g72T N
1 A colored man in Orange County hanged
because he was found in the house,ofa whit
man at night, and suspected of being int
mate with his daughters sbusd sd. 20
A colored boy in Orange County taken
midnight from his father, while they wei
burning charcoal, and hanged. The charg
was that he had made some improper an
foolish remark about the white ladies' H
body hung ten days until the vultures part
consumed it, and no one during that tin
dared to take him down. t2eia}>l ~
An expedition from the camp at Hill
borough, Orange county, to Gilbreath
Bridge, to aid in numbering Mr.. shoffne
one Of the Senators from Alamahce an
Guilford, because lie had introduced inl
| the Legislature bill to protect life an
| property and to punish the Kuklux.
leading Kuklux, fearing the consequence
of such an act, met this force of Kuklu
and turned them back. '
Wyatt OUTLAW, colored man, hange
near the Court House in Graham, Alaman'
County. He was leading Republican, a
industrious mechanic, and man of u
blemished character. His ctsnse was TIL
Gov. Holden had appointed him JUST
of the Peace, and he had accepted the a.
pointment and was President in tn
! county of the Union League Of America.
was charged that he had incited cOlor(