The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-14
NO. l6.
Black Ku-KluK.

The majority report Of the Ku.KIuI
Committee, synopsis which appeared il
our paper of Monday, contains no mention
Of the best organized, best disciplined
boldest aud most blood-thirsty ku.kluz
gang in the South-the Lovrys in North
Carolina. Those banditti have, for their
numbers, committed more murders, burn.
ed more houses, outraged more women,
and stolen more property than any other
ku.klux horde in all the Southern States.
The other ku-kluxes have suspended
operations. We read no more Of noctur.
nal raids in Georgia, South Carolina and
Alabama by those spooks on horseback
The committee have had to rake up event.
that took place months ago in order to
find material for that labored campaign
document which they call report, But
the Lowry crowd were on the war-path as
late as Fsiday night last, when they per.
petrated one of the most audacious crimes
that has distinguished their black career.
They Swooped down on Lumberton, the
county seat of Robson county, North
Carolina, at night, broke into carriage
factories and stables and helped them.
selves, and then into the sherif's Office and
one of the principal stores of the place,
whence they took two large iron safes,one
of which held $22 900 in money and other
Iluables. With this loot, and any guam
tity of smaller game, they started out of
the town, and bore off everything in safe.
ty except the sherjF's strong box, which
tumbled of the dray apparently un.
noticed.
All Lumberton, and qll North Carolina
are wild with excitement over this out.
rage, but they have been wild ON the same
subject for two or three years, and neither
their frenzy nor the reward, now reaching
$4,000, seems to be of any avail against
the Lowrys. Now, here is we'll known
unquestioncd, preSent.existing ku.kluS
klon--not ghosts, not myths, but william,
Of flesh and blood, as much a matter oI
TACT and history as the State of North
Carolina herself. We can't understand
why so powerful and desperate an organi
cation is difficult to suppress. But why
--ah, why do the Ku-Klux Committee
omit all references to it in their report
We leave the committee to explain that
the best way they can. But with most
knowing readers it may suffice US to oh.
serve that these are black Ku- K!nrss
The Lowrys and their followers are ne,
proes and 'uulattoes. They are persecu
ting the whites ON account Of their color
and committing with horrible exaggera
tons, every variety Of strocity which AM
white khan in any part Of the South hui
inflicted ON tho blacks. In all respcct
they are of the ku-klux order, only tina
the color is reversed, and it is tho white
who are robbed, tortured and killed. y,
have pretended to investigate ku.klu,
affairs, and to have excluded all allusion
to this most notorious of gaugs-the onI,
one now really dourishing--has put tn
committee in the akward position Of seem
ing to extouuate the Lowry murders rapcs
burnings and depredatons. Not that tn
committee mean to do this, but such i
the actual effect Of the omission or over
sight. About election time, as We a.
know, is the season for tricks and device
to make political capital, and, therefore
the appearance Of the Ku-Klux majorit
report is the most natural thing in til
world, and the non mention Of the I4owr
negroes precisely what might have bee
expected. N. Y. journal of Commerce
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