The Cairo daily bulletin., 1871-09-09
NORTH CAROLINA.
FORCING THE NEGROES TO VOTE
THE RADICAL TICKET,
AND FLOGGING THOSE WHO
DARE DO OTHERWISE.
THE UNION LEAGUERs KU-KLUX.
INCA COLORED CON-
SENTATIVE.

Wieided by the president for private
purposes, let us see what class of citi.
zens are coerced in exercising their
rights of citizenship. That sword is
said to be dangerous one which cuts
both ways. A large majority of the
negroes in North Carolina are congre-
gated in the eastern counties, where the
soil is more fertile, cotton is grown, and
wages are higher. The whites propon-
dcrate in the western counties, yet Uni
ted States troops are always sent to Ala
nance and other western counties, to
keep straight men who have always
been accustomed to the ballot, while in
the east the negro neophytes need no
protection.
Does not it occur to the most super
flcial thinker that ignorant, poor, thrift
less blacks, recently enfranchised, would
need more protection at the ballot-box
than the whites Then why are the
troops disposed as they are !? The con-
clusion is inevitable. The negroes are
swayed by the office-holders, who, in
turn, "bend the pregnant hinges Of
the knee" TO General Grant, that
"thrift may follow fawning." If in
timidation at the ballot-box prevails
anywhere in North Carolina, and the
protecting presence Of soldiers is re-
quired, then eastern or negro Carolina
is the place for if q negro should dare
to vote the conservative ticket in the
negro counties, he would do SO at the
peril Of his life. Many instances OF
scourging are known. Two only
will be mentioned, as they fonnd pub.
licity through the courts, and the trials
we're held in the presence Of the writer.
One occurred near Stantonsburg, in
Williamson county. A negro, with q
large family, whom his individual ex-
ertions were inadequate to support, and
who, generously assisted by his EN-.
ployer, had the temerity, notwithstand-
ing the threats made against him by his
colored brethren, instigated by the
white ofice.seekers. to vote with his
employer, q Mr.. Barnes. The next
night he was visited by twenty five stal.
wart blacks, grotesquely painted and
bearing each bundle Of rods,
After terrifying the victims family,
cursing, abusing, and threatening to
kill them, they stripped him Of his
shirt and drawers, and then dragged
him to the woods. Here they tied him,
and then proceeded to administer the
most unmerciful castigation on his bare
back.
The dnty Of fogging was too oner-
GUS for one man, so one would whip
until he was tired, and then a fresh
mau would take the place of the ex.
hausted one, and so on until all had
played proportionate part. More
dead than alive, this almost inanimatt
. mass of human gore finally gasped 4
promise that he would henceforth vote
with them, and then these renominatine
agents desisted.
Near Battleboro, in Edgecomb coun.
ty, q colored man was surrounded in hi.
corn field by a select committee Of
union leaguers. Without stating tht
why's and wherefores. he was rudely tori
from his work, and carried under ar.
rest to Battleboro. He besought hil
captors to allow him to see his family
and tell them where he was going, SO a
to save them all anxiety He was tolt
| to "shut up his d mouth or he,
| get 1t busted" He was hauled up be
fore the political inquisition until h
was at length intimidated into prom
. iso to support the Grant ticket, and re
leased. J" '. nr
These instances are now matters {
record, and can be seen in the clerk
Offices Of Nash and Wilson countie
: and also in Edgecomb county, wher
. the parties were tried
Y Just before the late election, color
= ed man, Harry d., approached exder
: uty Shirif Bryan, OF Nash county, an
the following celloquy ensued
, Harry. Times is gettin' very squall,
Mars Henry.
Sheriff Is. Why, how, Harry
Harry. Dey talks mighty curious t
a fellow bout dis election.
Sheriff Is. What do you mean b
. talking curious? Suppose you al
@ going with US, as you have been doing
IS Harry? eYLgrqy Vvr
C Harry From the way dose colore
e folks talk, it would be dangerous
: vote for de convention. L always hay
IS voted with you, an I've had a heap
't hard things threatened agin me- Or
d Sunday dey mobbed me at dc Fal
d Church. an 'spected to be beat
e. death every minute. l got away fro
dem dat time. But now dey says if
insists on voting agin my color, l d
serve to be hung. Dey says nights
A dark and paths is crooked. os,r
- Sheriff b. They are just trying
scare you into voting as they want "
IA to.
ut Harry. Dey says II ] go for
at convention times will go hard with IL
r. Sheriff b. Who says so?
II Harry. All Of dem tells me
he Dey say orders come from Raleigh
he dat effect, an if l goes for dc conve
)" ton III be hurt, dat's all. ,uI
rs Mr.. Simon Gay, member of t
..d sd Baptist Church in good standing, had