The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-09-07

l0HA letters fom eRoeky IMdant to the
New York isaTs ives someoAa ofthe
kind Of odtfsgHves' daily pefpetfatedd in
North Carolina. The writer says: 1919
To show DIP the Ku-Kldx2 bin in it's
true colors!as a. powerful political en-.
CINE to7be welded by the o President for
private purposes, let us see Whist class
Of citizens are tcoerced 10 exercising
their rights of citizenship. That sword
is said to be adangerous one which cuts
both ways. A large majority Of the
negroes OF North Carolina are congre.
gated in the eastern counties, where the
soil is more fertile, cotton il grown, and
wages are higher. The whites prepon-
derate in the western counties, yet
United States troops are always sent
to Alamance and other western coun
ties, to keep straight men who have
always been accustomed, to the ballot,
while in the east the negro neophytes
need no protection. -... ...'..-.
Does it not occur 10 the most super
fetal thinker that ignorant, poor, thrift
less blacks, recently eniranchised, 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 ofticeholiers, who in
turn, bend the pregnant hinges of the
knee" to General Grant, that "thrift
may follow fawning." If intimidation
at the ballot-box prevails anywhere in
North Carolina, and the protecting
presence of soldiers is required, then
eastern or negro Carolina is the place;
for il a negro should dare vote the Con-
sentative ticket in the negro country,
he would do SO at the peril Of his life.
Many instances Of the scourging are
kaown. Two only will be mentioned,
as they found publicity through the
courts, and the trials were held in the
presence OF the whites.
One occurred near Stantonsburg, in
Wilson county. A negro with a large
family, whom his individual exertions
were inadequate to support, and who
was generously assisted by his employ
er, had the temerity, notwithstanding
the threats made against him by his
colored brethren, iusligated by the white
otfice-seekers, TO vote with his employer,
Mr.. Barnes, The next night he was
visited by twenty-five stalwart 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 I'M
mercitul casligarion on his bare back.
The duty of hogging was too onerous
for one man, 80 one would whip until
he was tired. and then a fresh man
would take the place OF the exhausted
one, and so on until all had played
proporlionate part. More dead than
alive, this almost inauimate mass ofhu.
man gore finally gasped promise that
he would henceforth vote with them,
and then these renominating agents de-
sisted
Near Battleboro in Edgecomb county,
a colored man was surrounded in his
corn field by select committee Of
Union Leaguers. Without stating the
why's and wherefores, he was rudely
torn from his work and carried under
arrest to Battleboro'. He besought his
captors to allow him to see his family,
and tell them where he was going, so as
to save them all anxiety. He was told
to shut up his id mouth, or he'd get
it busted" He was hauled up before
the political inqusition until he was at
length inundated into a promise to
support the Grant ticket and released.
These instances are matters of record
and can be seen in the Clerks office Of
Nash and Wilson counties, and also in
Edgecombe county, where the parties
were tried.
An Exciting Fight with Wild Cats.