The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-08

beds, beating some and hanging others. tina
you had notice If you did not join the hlans
would visit you. :,
You are bound to run the risk or seek
J means of protection, rather than do violence
to your neighbor. The law and your fellow
citizens look to you to make this threat o.
violence difficult of execution, by manly re-
sIstance or an enforcement Of the law. You
had no right, when you could escape, to make
the price of your security The violation OF your
neighbours.
You and your confederates must make uE
your minds either to resist the Ku-KIux con
spiracy or the laws of the United States. They
cannot both exist together; and 1t only needs
q little manliness and courage on the part o
you .gnorant dupes of designing men TO give
supremacy to the law. Be assured 1t will pol
be taken as an excuse In your case, or In any
other, to hear 1t said, II slew thls man oe'
cause the chief ordered it, and was atfaid
and brushed and raped these others because
dreaded to be whipped If did not"
The prisoners were then called up an0
sinply examined by the presiding Justice
| They were, almost without exception, an 1gno
rant, brutal set, with low, receoing foreheads
wan features, thick, sensual lips, unkempl
hair and beard, and combined expressions o.
slavIsh terror ard low cunning. 1t needed but
| q sight of these men and their conrad and
the knowledge that these were the only ones
i who had been proven 10 be Ku-klux, 10 con
vince any reasonable person that the gentle,
men of any section OF this Slate had not ano
could not have any connection or afhllatlon
with the Ku-Klux organization. Their stories,
as they were pumped out by the presiding JUS
| tice, were all wonderfully similar, and were
| related In q peculiar drawlins vernacular
somewhat as follows:
"WalI, jined the order, s'pose Forced
into it, like Hadn't no better sense, reckon.
Didn't know what 1t was. 1kep' Wlzzening
a,l IN
got no larnin. kin read prent little; Kaynt
write to do no good. Fayther's Ku Kluc.
didn't tell no one was o Ku Kluc. When
one was in 1t he wuz afeared to tell another,
heap o. times. Went on nlgger one night
kase he kept whlskey a sellin' it along side
meet'n house on meetn days. Go to meetn
Ne? No, never went ,i,.;, nary ,. meeG6; m MGb;
whoppin' like. Hit him o few llcks," &C., &C.,
&C..
After the examination of one cf these poor
fellows, "a boy with an anti-cllmax OF name
Monroe Scruggs,) Judge Bryan made the
following address to the prisoner
s'The'court, in passing sentence upon you,
looks upon your youth; you.have not the re-
sponsbilicv of settled manhood, and 1t Is but
natural that you should have taken direction
from those who were older than yourself, and
YOU may have been impressed oy tue puollc
sentiment around you. The court seeks TO
find palllation for the enormities, the unmanly
enormitles, that have been committed. Slrl-
king men where men could not strike oack TO
protect themselves, and where they had no
redress OF hope of redress; striking with
masks on, and, therefore, striking without
any responsibility. Whether these enormities
have been committed on men, still more on
women. they were wholly uumanly, and let
me say utterly un-South CaroliDan. Nothing
could be sv little characteristic OF the Statei
nothing so calculated to bring disgrace upon
the State; nothing so calculated 10 overturn
and besmear its ancient, high and bright es-
cutcheon. These stories affilct all men, out
they peculiarly afilct him who now adj
dresses you; E would be glad to regard Them
as exceptions; must esteem them as In great
measure exceptional, and say to'you, young
as you are, you have brought reproach upon
your State, and you have done wrong 20 ns
character. The greatest possible wrong that
any son of hers cYulG do would be to besnneaF
and tarnish her ancient renown and .reputa-
ton. In passing sentence upon you, we can
not out recollect your youth; we cannoC DuC
remember the dsordered condition OF the
times; we cannot but recollect that the moral
sense of our people, 80 recently engaged IN
war, and especially from the disoroeriy con- S,
dtlon of things may be 10 some extent blight
ed; we therefore feel justified In modifying the
sentence which has just been passed upon the
prisoner who has arrived at full manhood.
The sentence of the court In your case Is that
YOU be fined ten dollars and confined IN prison
for six months"
The examining and the passing Of sentences
proceeded rapidly after this, aud win tne 1ol-
lowing results:
Aaron Ezsll, one years Imprisonment and
Monroe scruggs, six months imprisonment
and $40 fine.
7 Alexander Bridges, one years Imprisonment
and $40 fine.
william D. Burnet, six months imprlson-
Stephen splawn, two years. imprisonment
and $50 f1ue..
ment.
Chesterfield scruggs, six months imprlson-
ment.
Henry Surratt, one months Imprisonment.
Andrew Cudd, three months Imprisonment.
Martin Hammett, six months lmprlson.
Levi Henderson, three months imprison.
ment.
william Self, three months imprisonment.
Charles Tate, eighteen months inprison.
ment.
Junins B. 1indal, one years imprisonment.
William C. Backwood, two months impris-
onment.
john L. Moore, eighteen months ihprison-
ment.
Jonas Massey, one years imprisonment aad
$40 fine.
James Wall. three months imprisonment.
John G. Wall, three months imprisonment.
Frederick Paris, six months Imprisonment.
Christenburg Tate, three months imprison-
ment
David c. Mcclure. three months ImprIson-
ment.
Calvin Cook, three months Imprisonment.
Albert P. Clement, three months imprison-
ment and $40 fine.
billiard N. Can,re, three months implison-
zbeon Cantrel, one years Imprisonment.
w. S. Blackwell, six months Imprisonment.
Alfred Blackwell, six months imprison-
ment.
william F. Ramsay, three months imprisou-
ment.
william Robbins, six months Imprisonment.
Thomas J. Price, six months imprison-
ment.
Taylor Massey, three months imprison-
ment.
King Edwards, six months Imprisonment.
Judgment In the case of Turner Phillips was
suspended, Judge Bond remarklng that he
would see how The pri-oaer behaved himself
In future. This prisoner had accused himself
of about as many crimes as any OF the rest,
and had been shown TO have been "mon-
arch!al chief" and leader of one or two raids,
| but he had been exceedingly willing IN his
| testimony against two or three gentlemen
whom he accused Of intmidating illnesses In
/ North Carolina. last summer PICKET.