The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-06
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Of what saw and heard. without any attempt %
magnify my own peril, or TO show my feelings,
which, in truth, were at times rather shaKy.
went at your bidding, 10 Interview, II possible,
Henry Berry L0wery, anu spread In your columns
the facts Tor and against ms lawess band. Henry
Berry Lowery and Boss Strong are beyond the
reach Of earths reporters, and incapacltated from
doing harm to the community.
The three remaining outlaws have seen IN their
hiding places, their caoins swamps ana 'blinds."
Your correspondent has eaten with them anu heard
their account OF the murderous wrongs done tnem
and the blooi.curdline stores Of their terripie
revenge.
Fear, loathing pity and kindler feelings. would
minge as heard the cruelty that drove thein 70
the swamps and the wicked deeds that Drew tnem
from their hiding places.
In Scunletown are condensed and intensined TWO
extremes that more or less pervade Southern So
ciety. ana 1t Is shown here how they mutually de-
velop each other; how .LOweryism" Is the result
ant evil OF Ku Kluxlsm, ana how Ku Kluxism ia
the fungus OF lawess radicaiism. No matter which
n first, The otner IS the wicked sequence.
WHY THE OUTLAWS ARE NOT TAKEN.
The blacks and mulattoes are very numerous In
that country, and, besides the blood sympathy,
they know the murderous deeds that drove them TO
outiawry, and they pity them. There may be no
organization among them, but merely some SYM
was at Moss Neck station with Steve L0wery and
Andrew Strong, as the train came up they
Drew back, saying they must cover themselves, for
there was some one on the tram looking for them,
and D0nahOe was IN the cars, ana they mad heard
from Wilmington that was coming TO see them
before Ireached their neighborhood.
Among the colored people OF Robson county
there ID a great deal or
IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION,
medium. Pretended friends and bitter enemies
empoison their minds SO, TO the question often
asked. why, az there are but three OF them, and
they come out to the depots travel around to the
stores and 90 where they please are they not shoti
the answer is, the man who would attempt
II does 1t at the peril OF his life. The
fate Of Saunders is warning to
those who would 60 among these people
Is q spy. And even to "interview' them your cor
respondent knows there peril; for the represen-
tative OF the press may be proclaimed an outlaw by
y board or magistrates acting under the solemn re-
spOnsibillty Of an oath to guard their country's
peace and where there Is no law there no trans
gression. Wise justices, who would preserve the
law intact by withdrawing 1t from all menl or II
correspondent would escape the death permit OF
these Robson jurists his life might be worthless;
for some hot blood.
INsTIGATED BY THE vALORoUs EDITORIALS
OF an exmnSter OF charity, might feel IL TO be Ills
duty shoot your interviewer ana free the country
Of pest worse than the Lowerys.
This implacabe hate towards everything that
even by forced construction anliates with the op
pOste party testers the and makes the work OF
justice or Kindness well nigh impossible.
These three men
ARE NOT SUCH DEMONS.
Tom L0wery is OF q sullen turn, but Steve Lowery
and Andrew Strong are shrewd men. not beyond
reason. They are desperate men-n0t natural de-
mOniacs, but gOaded to q desperate struggle for
life. They show the fell spirit of revenge, and know
ing that CAPTURE would be death they VIII fight to
the last. Theft OF necessity their LIVELIHOOD for
they cannot work in the field with price OF $4,000
on their heads. They do not 60 to the well without
their pistols and guns
The leaders and the cruel ones OF this band are
gone, ana II they knew how TO accomplish 1t the
rest would be gladAo leave tn cir haunts and their
habits.
AS q Northern man, but always with Southern
sympathies, ana half DISPOSED to md some apology
for Ku Kluxism in the lawless and mercenary acts
OF political bummers. must say, without word
Of justification apology for the state OF things
found, that L0weryism Is the revengefu wicked,
but certain outgrowth OF Ku Kluxism. The law.
less shooting down or negroes, and the brutal treat
uent OF them have made them CRY for revenge, and
have made them outlaws My visit to the land OF the
Lowerys has taught me not to excuse but to pity
these men.