New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-27
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
THROUGH THE SOU}TH.
PEOPLE AND POLITICS IN NORTH Ct9OLINA
sNUFF-DIPPfNG-A HUNGRY YATTyE-NERTHERS
EMIGRANTs WANTED STATEMENT ABOUT
TIE KU-KLCX--A RECENT OUTRAGE.
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| another reached.
ionrths Of the land lie windows has never
peen cleared and more Than half OF the cleared land
not nnder cultivation, and Is covered with growth Of
'ne ned pine, which az nvades and possesses the
srouna tat the farmer ahandons The red, thin soil
seens IN us natural condition, TO be poor enough and
under the wasteful, sbtess Southern way Of farming
very lew years exhaust What little vitality IL ever had
Our train left Danvile with thirteen nassengersfo
negroes In the secondolas and nine whites In the
| class car. TIE negroes end white man left VA
at the first station, and as other passengers we're
picked up and lone left, eight passengers made the
| through journey. Among them was a young woman of
rather attractive appearance who, after starting
took from her pocket a small tin box containing snuff
and pine stick OF the size Of eadpenci chewed
and moistened the end Of The stick and with IL made a
paste Of the snuff To my great disgust, when she had
got the stick well daubed with the nasty mixture
turned 10 her mouth and rubbed 1t across her gums
upper liz, with air Of intense satisfaction,
and continued the operation for quarter OF hour OF
nobody surprised but myself, for this was
nothing but the practice of snufdpping which h prevs
lent among the women Of the middle and lower classes
all through the South.
The few farmhouses passed were rude los-csbiDs,
many without windows. The fields that bad been
plowed seemed by the etumps to have been recently
cleared, and the land that free from stumps az
peared 10 have been exhausted and abandoned The
train made long and frequent stops. but with no aT
parent purpose for the people who came out OF the log
ton Of taking the They were the poorest and ng
lie st white people lave ever AZ station
while walking up and down the platform, eating an
orange, observed dressed in ragged bifernut"
homespun with scany patches OF claycolored whskers
covering his sallOw cadavcrous cheeks. He eyed me-
from under his dirty slouched hat with look so remark
that stopped and faced him, dropping at the same
moment the peel OF tie orange upon the ground near
feet. In instant with cat-like quicknees OF mo
rion, he sprang forward, seized the peel and
walked hastily away dovourng It with wolfsh ayidity
understood the meaning OF the british eager
ness of his look which had struck He had
watched me, knowing that would drop the peel and
feared lest some OF his companions might 1t.
stopped q day at Greensboro and talked with a con
siderable number OF the townspeope aud the farmers
from tho neighboriDg country about business farming
politics. and the recent KuKlux disturbances The Re
publcans, among whom was Judge Of the State SUI
preme Court, native North Carolinian and man OF
intelligence and large property, said that The KuKlux
organization extended the whole State, and that
half OF the committed by it had never been
heard OF, for the reason that the victims who are
whipped always threatened with death II they do
keep silent On the other hand, they admitted that
many of tie ofenses charged TO the KuKlux
have no political bearing, and committed
from motives OF private revenge, or for
the punishment OF petty thieves against whom
is evidence enough to insure conviction in
the Courts. Negroes had often disguised themselves to
the quiet and peaceabe at present far as
he knew but he believed disorders would break out
again during the next political campaign They were
chiefly caused he thought, by the determination OF the
Democrats get control Of the State and local
ments, In order that they might enjoy the Offices. The
smallest offices sought with great eagerness The
general government Of the people leads thcm TO contend
for any position that gives salary, however tring
The Judge did not think the KuKlux bill just passed by
Congress would prove remedy for the trouble Nothing
would gained by bringing complaints before the United
States Courts instead OF the tribunals Of the State for
| the same difficulty would be found in getting
| testimony 10 convict accused persons. The State
| Court Judges all Republicans, but they have
been poweress to punish the KuKux, because the out
RACES committed by disguised persons who cannot
be identified, and who usually do not belong to the
county in which their crime is committed. If the Ku-
Klux any county determine to whip or kin man,
orders issued TO tie Khan in an adjoining county To
do the deed, that the suspected persons living near
the Of the occurrence can aferward prove an
ai5i. The Democrats with whom talked said that the
doings Of the KuKlux had been confined TO few conn
ties and had originated in realiaons upon negroes
who had burned the barns Of the whites They claimed
that the Order is extinct and will not be revived
the Legislature having last month, passed IA stringent
law making 1t crime to belong to any secret, oath
bound political miary organization They accused
the Republicans OF grossly exaggeratng the extent OF
the Ku Kux outrages political effect and In order 20
induce Congress pass laws to keep their party in
power in the South. Their talk this SUI ject sounded
like repetition of the Democratic speeches had heard
in Congress the week before -,
Twas glad 10 hear unanimous sentiment expressed
In favor of emigration from the Northern statcs' r
ora told me that plenty OF land could be bought Tor " or
"A an acre and that for from $40 10 SIS good lahd wen
fenced and with buildings. orchards ana other
nents could be purchased Every assured me thai
Northern men coming to buy land and settle woud 'S
cordially welcomed. The land around Greensboro s'
f.r4fla fN.n n Cd
wheat oats corn, and potatoes All Northern frnrs
flourish little tobacco is raised and the pasurage ~
excellent, There is abundance OF good timber oak
and hickory being the most common forest uees 1to
climate is healthy and pleasant the Summers Deis m
tie II any, warmer than those Of NewJersey ana reii
sylvania and the Winters mild that 1t Is rarely ess
sary TO feed stock. doubt II any part o, the south
offers greater inducements than Western North oron
N Northern men with little capital who wish TO bay
small farms OF cheap improved land, near anu
markets. In many parts Of inc ''',o '"'o
are large communities OF QuaSers' WIN "oio
always anti-slayery Union men, anu "p'ons
whom the emigrant from tne Nor,h "o""
Zoe, 40 mrch at home as at any place he might move 10
an the Western States The town OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
an honor Of the Rhode Island General Wa0 ioughe o"e
a, cpuford Court Uouse-sx miles away is charmhgy
omhowered by great spreading oaks ana elms' ahd'
saving the untidy look OF is business streets az
n art village as one could wish to see. Few New
N % r New York villages Of its size have as many
n Enknue dwellings and in none am sure, can Dc
nahasoo on in une such profuson OF beautiful roses
az those that in April In this Carolina sSwn IL
& ne gro who drove the omnibus took me 70
,be station an hour before the train was due While
s made the acquaintance OF pofty FARMER
rem county further west. who said that people W ms
actien were troubled get labor large number OF n
a having been taken OF 10 Mississippi and Alabama
bv AGENTS who offered the men $40 month and The
women higher wages than they eond d earn s, i s
In the last year All the farmers he knew had too much
hnninS ever since the war that emgrants would come