The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-23
NORTH CAROLINA.
Reign of the White E.eaSuerS.
Correspondence Of the Washington Rerubii

Reign of the White E.eaEuerS.
| Correspondence of the Washington RepuIli
RALEIGH, N. c., October ,, 1874.
Since my last communication to
the Republican, detailing the cir
cumstances of the Coswell County
tragedy, deeds of ASSASSINATION and
| murder perpetrated by the white
| Conservatives upon colored 3epub-
| iicans have been of common occur
renee throughout the State. On the
4th of September last, David
Schenck, the newly elected Demo-
cratic judge of the Ninth Judicial
District, signaliZed his eminent fit
ness for the brethren OF the White
League by deliberately shooting
down negro with whom he be-
came involved in slight difficulty
concerning a team, and by pro-
ccediug within few days thereaf-
ter TO preside over the District
Court with the beginning OF the
regular term. SchencK was impIi-
Gated as one of the leading spirits
in the Ku-Klux outrages of 1870.
In Columbus County, prior to :he
above occurrence, a quarrel origi-
mated between a white man named
Lawson and q colored man named
Floyd. The latter, finding himself
surrounded by a crowd of whites
bent upon doing him violence. en-
6eavored to effect his escape by
breaking for a neighboring swamp,
but in so doing was pierced by
volley of bullets fired from the
crowd, and MORALLY wounded.
On the 10Th of September one
Dixon, 4 white man, living in
Edgecomb County, shot and killed
colored man. The murder was
wholly without provocation, as was
evidenced by the testimony of those
witnessing the deed.
The last victim sacrificed to the
hellish malignity of the Democracy
was Geo. w. Daniel, colOred Rep
resentative elect from Halifax
County.
subjoin the following paragraph
from the statement dispatched by
the County Coroner to Governor
Brogden: "On Saturday night
(September 2G) Daniel and his wife,
with three other persons, were
walking along the public road near
Daniels house, when Joseph Ii.
Branch galloped up the road on
horseback, and just in the rear of
the party cried out, Clear the way!
twice. The party turned around to
see what was up, when Branch
fired upon Daniel with n gun load
ed with buckshOt, and rode on.
Daniel lived only an hour"
The above facts as narrated bear
their own comment. The defeated,
but not yet conquered enemies of
the government, Notwithstanding
the severe visitation of Federal au-
thority for their bloody crimes of
Ku kiux memory, are unalterably
determined TO continue in their pol
icy of REFRESHING and humilitating
the blacks, not only by every spe-
cies of the most intolerable oppres-
sion possible for them to infict, but
by the bullet, the torch and the
the State, fearing TO ply their muir
derOus and diabolical work through
banded organizations, seem to act
upon the tacit agreement that each
one is to seize upon every favorable
opportunity to "kill his man." and
then rely upon the influence and
money of friends who stand ready
to exert their most powerful efforts
iii his behalf to secure his eXemp-
ton from punishment. If it is true,
as claimed by the Democratic
journals here, that North Carolina
is more peaceable and prosperous,
than any other Southern State, our
friends at the North may form
some adequate conception of the
terrible advcrsit;es with which the
loyal peoble of the South are forced
to contend. ITHURIEI..