Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-03-17
Thirty SEVENTH DAY.
SENATE CHAMBER, March IA, 1871


The counsel for the respondent intro.
1uced two other Witnesses, Carter Ooraey.
and Wilson Cary, (archIves of gravity both
colOred.
Corey testified to having been very So
verely beaten by disguised men, knew
none of them. Had heard that he had
been accused of stealing a sheep, but it
was not so. Cary stated the feeling be
tween parties III Caswell county, very bit
ter, but it was political altogether, not
personal.
Tho case OF the respondent closed here.
Messrs, Gideon L. Greason, Jesse Cant,
and VIM. Wilkins, were each examined as
to the general character of j ohm w. Long,
(hog thief.) He testified to his being
generally regarded as liar, thief, and bad
in every way,
MIR. Greason testified to having been
aroused the night Corlis was whipped, by
Mrs. Corlis; that after she called him some
half hour, went to his home, he gave him
brandy, sent for Mrs. O., who carried him
home. His head was shaved on one half,
and BACKED, and one entire half Of his
body was BACKED.
John B. Neathery was called to the
stand by the managers. and testified that
there was no record of any meeting of the
council Cf state, relative to the military
movements of last summer.
John r. Ireland, of Alamnnce, was put
on the stand by the managers, and testi-
fed that he had never belonged to a Sc
cret political society in his life, and that
lie had no connection whatever with the
whipping Of Sam Garrison, colored. (Gar-
rison sw ore during this trial that he recOg
nized Mr.. Ireland and MIR. Isley as two of
the parties who whipped him.
MIR. Jacob Isley sworn, and stated that
ha had no connection with the whipping
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secret political society.
Jacob A. Long, called and sworn by the
Managers.
was subpmned by the respondent
Have been here since the 18th of January.
[ belonged to the White Brotherhood in
Alamance. Was chief of camp No. l, and
by virtue Of that was chief of the county.
I understood the object to be the general
protection of members. When one camp
should make decree another camp should
make a raid through the camp making the
complaint, for the purpose of frigGten-
ing the negroes and keep them
from proving about stealing, &C.
(The oath, bylaws &C., Of the order were
produced and read.) No part of oath, or
explanation required or suggested viola
ton of any law, or of All effort to overthrow
the existing State and Nstional Govern
ments nor to protect members by getting
ing false evidence. In Initiating Mr.. Boyd
| told him nothing about overthrOwing the
republican party by force. Oath admins
tered was such as just read. The explana
tons given him were as to the manner Of
holding meetings, of DISCUSSES, and such
incidental questions as might have sug
gested themselves. Nothing whatever was
said about Swing false verdicts or anything
of that kind. In May, 1869, 1 called a
county meeting, told them that I had heard
that charges were being made against the
order of criminal violations of the law, and
that it must stop. The order must stop
everything ofthe kind. At that meeting I
appointed q meeting Of the chiefs Of the
camps in the county, to be held two
weeks thereafter. 1t was held out that we
all agree to dissolve the order
entirely in the county, and then all my
knowledge and connection with it ceased.
heard Of the death of Mr.. John w. Stev
ems. l think Mr.. Boyd told me of it Mon
day or Tuesday after it occurred. We
were talking about it, and he expressed
surprise at such thing. I remarked to
him that was not SO much surprised as
he was, that few days before that Mr. |
Dickey was with me and stated that it was |
generally talked in 1anceyville that Ste
Vens had been counselling and advising
the negroes to burn barns, &c, if the Ku |
Klux were guilty Of any outrages, and in
consequence of this advice number of
barns had been burned; and that if any
Ku Klux were in that country he thought
perhaps they would attend to his case. l
presume there were between one hundred
and fifty and two hundred members of the
White brotherhood in the county not
more I know the general character of
John w: Long. It is bad for stealing and
lying Joe Harvey is generally reported
to be thief. I never gave an order for
the committal of any crime. I gave an
order countermanding determination of
camp to drown Caswell Holt. John W.
Long, think, told me- ot it, and told
him to have it stopped. Twenty days
after this We agreed to dissolve the order.