Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-20
KUKKUx In NORTH CAROLINA.
How They do Their Work.

we occasionally ind men who do mol
believe there is such an organization as
Kuklux i'll the South. We received yes.
terday from Hon. Horace Maynard, copies
of the Congressional Globe, one of which
contains the speech of Senator Pool OF
North Carolina, and Senator Nye of Ne
vada. In the remarks of the latter we
find the following unimpeachable evei-
dence ola late date giving the operations
of the Khan in North Carolina, to which
we invite the attention of our readers:
RUTHERFoRDToN, N. CARO-, April 8, 1871.
DEAR SIR: 1t becomes my painful duty to
inform you that various outrages, as / have
been informed and believe, have been commit
ted in this county and the county of Cleveland
by persons masked and disguised, and num-
Der of which have been of very recent date,
and the last one of which have heard was
committed last night, by about forty persons
masked and disguised on one of our most re-
spectacle citizens, Mr.. Aaron Biggerstaff who
lives about nine miles from this place. and who
your Excelency no doubt knows. His char
acter for honesty, morality, and fair dealing is
unimpeachable, but he is bold, determined
and fearless Republican.
There are great many other cases, but the
persons on whom violence has been committed
refuse to disclose whatever they may know
cbout those who commit these evil deeds, be-
aause, they say, they have no protection The
persons who made the raid on Biggerstaff re-
peatedly threatened my life, as we'll as other
Republicans, and said that 1 should not hold
court at Cleveland, which should commence to-
morrow. shall not go to Cleveland at pres
ent, nor unil l am satisfied the people can have
protection.
/ am perfectly satisfied beyond any reasonable
doubt that the civil authority cannot be main
tanned here. We must have help or we must
flee the country and give it up to the kuklux,
or perhaps meet the fate that others have done
/ write this to ask of you military aid, and that
you communicate with the President imme-
diately, and, if possible, have one or more COM
panes sent to me at the earliest practicable day.
Mr.. Carpenter who is the bearer of this letter,
can give you more in detail our real situation.
Very truly, &C., G. w. LOGAN,
Judge Superior Court, Ninth District
His Excelleney TOP r. CALDWELL,
Governor of North Carolina.
js7Hfi EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, April II, 1871.
hereby certify that the above is a true copy
of letter this day received from his honor
Judge Logan judge of the superior courts for
the ninth North Carolina judicial district.
j. B. NEATHERY,
Private Secretary.
Attest, the seal of the Executive Department
Il. S.
tiS OdAl4C OpCOCtl VIC lihu
catalogue of fiendish crimes, furnished by
an official of the same State:
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1871.
1, j. b. Carpenter, hereby certify that / am
a citizen of Rutherford county, North Carolina,
and clerk of the superior court for said county,
and that am well acquainted with the condi-
ton ofthe county; and l hereby certify that I
am informed, and honestly believe, that within
the last thirty days not less than fifty persons
have been whipped and scourged by masked
and disguised men, generally known as kuklux.
On last Saturday night Mr.. Aaron Bigger
staff and his daughter were most numerically
whipped, and the wife of Biggerstaff abused.
NJ. L. Taylor, wife and daughter were whipped
on Thursday night April 23d, and also on the
same night Leightner Hall and John Nodrice,
a crippled man seventy-fve or eighty years of
age, were whipped.
The following persons, with large number
of other persons whose names and the dates |
have not at hand, have been whipped and mall
treated. namely: York Martin and family,
w Lovelace and wife, (white:) Bob Toms,
(colered;) Martin Hawkins and wife, (white;)
. Whisnaut, (white;) Mrs. jackson, white; I
= Harrill family, (colored;) Nose Hamilton,
(colored) 4
Mrs. jackson, above reported, vas whipped
and tarred and feathered. She is cousin of
George M. Whiteside the Senator in the North
Carolina Legislature from Rutherford, Polk and
Cleveland counties. ~ pl f
The house of Mart Pearson, above reported,
was burned.
A colored church was burned the night of the
Of Nose Hamilton
Number Padgett, a colored man, was drawn
and summoned as juror for the spring term of
the superior court for Rutherfor county failed
to attend said court because his life was threat
ened by the kuklux
All these outrages, with others which l can
not enumerate, have been committed in the
county of Rutherford, and in the edges..of Polk
and Cleveland, adjoining Rutherford county,
within the last thirty days.
j. B. .CARPENTBR,s
Chief Clerk Superior Court for Rutherford
county, North Carolina. nF 5NH.