Wilmington journal., 1871-01-13
The Barnburners of WAX.

Next week we are to have a special Court
here. to try the barnb0rning leaguers, re-
Gently arrested and now in Jail. The Rev
James Howell colored. is the ringleader
of this diabollcal gang it was at his house
the resolution was Lassed to burn the barn
of MIR. r. G. Branch
The folloWlng 8 are the Republican colored
gentlemen OF the league now in Jail await
| ing trial James Howell, president; Mark
| Watson, Henry Hinton, 8. Stephens, Ned
Hunter, Henry Howell and Rufus Howell.
sons of the president; SamI Clements. Ben
ton Clements, Jim Baker, Briton Smith,
Ned Prince. Dick Judd, Dick Hinton. Jim
Howell, Blufe Bright, Norman Raines and
Dick Utley These are in Jail in Wake.
In Chatham jail are Wilson Duer, Hardy
Stewart, Isham Boyian. Henderson Nash.
William Battle and Alfred Jones.
Near all the negroes in certain portions
of Wake, Chatham and Harnett are impli-
Gated in the barn Eurnines for the last
eight or ten months.
Samuel COpp vas captain in the gang,
commissioned to do the burning: be fed
when their organization was found out,
and has not teen taken. Wilson Duer
and Norman. Rains were also commission
| ed as captains. Sam Clements was one of
| the orderles.
Captain Duer, Alfred Jones, Green
| OC9WafG aCu D OEIC OluGIS, turned state 6
evidence like James +. Boyd did on one
occasion, though We don't think either OF
them will be- SO literally rewarded as tu
get $3.50 out of tue treasury, as Boyd did
| on the occasion alluded to.
Luke Oliver, who awore he would not be
taken alive was taken as stated a few days
ago, half dead, having been shot some
half dozen times, and continuing to run
until he was completely disabled. Luke,
like Boyd, now makes "clean breast" ol
it, He says he shot at MIR. Branch when
his barn was burned. and at young Minis
when his fathers barn was burned, and
also at Mr.. Beasley when Mr.. Burt's house
was burned,
Luke and al the others WHO have con
feseed declare they acted nnder orders
from Raleigh. Cam Wicker, s colore
witness in these cases, is reported as stat
ing tbet the burning of Mr.. Lashley's barn
was in consequence Of speech made by
our Postmaster Calvin J. Rogers, at Lash
ley's Crossroads. I'VE wonder If that
sreech was made the day Mr.. Phillips ap
peared at Lashley's riding upon mule ?,
If Mr.. Phillips was there we are sure III
would not make nut-tbroat or barn-burn
ing speech to neg .oes, as many white seal
awags have been doing in this Safe fol
four years, but Mr.. Phillips ought not even
occasions, where his very presence is sor
of endorsement Of the proceedings. Eu'
if he will go into such company, he ought
at least to demonstrate with his friend Cal
vim when he hears him making such indis
Greet speeches,
Billy Smith, the man Of the horn, has
said very hard things of our postmaster
in classification of his turning him out o1
his railroad agency. If we remember cor
rectly Billy represented Calvin as having
"rolled up his sleeves and run his arm
into the treasury of the road up to his ell
bow. besides this. the Grand Jury ot
Wake has Indicted Calvin for some little
mistake i'll swearing to his mileage a.
County Commissioner, or something oi
that sort aud solicitor Cox vas so nnclvl
as to call 1t perjury IN the bill of 1nGlct
ment which he drew up. For the credit
Of Grants administration, which every
body k4ows we shave greatly at heart. We
very much hope Calvin i446y escape toe
penalty of the ugly act the Grand Jury
charged him with, aud also give plausi-
Bile explanation of the money transaction
50 delcately alluded to by Blow-your horn
Billy. If he can succeed in these things
We m"y somewhat modify in his favor oul
opinion of what Wicker says Of his speech
being the moving cause of the burning 81
Lashley's barn.
More than hundred members of the
leagues, in good standing, have recently
lied the State, or have been put in jail,
and several more must do the one or sub
NIT to the otEer. Radical officers of the
l4w, backed by sufficient moral and
physlcel force, are still pursuing the mid
night incendlaries. The leaguers have
disclosed the names of npgroes in Harnett
who, year ago, did so much mischief by
burning barns and other property in that
county. Let the just punishment be Wis
tied tpo1 the guilty. not upon the iguo-
rant blacks alone, kat upon the ignoble,
dark-hearted white man w4o EIts them
forward to do his work of destruction
| IPQ!. Sentinel