Wilmington journal., 1876-08-18

him I did not Fe then said Iii you
don't confess will break your id
neck" and he again took b I'D of th-
rope and then he drew me mp. How
long he held me there I don't know
but ] soon became unconscious. On
being let down, I was unable to
stand and conld not speak or do any
thing else. When I came too [ was
sitting against the tree with the mi
litia on each side Of me rubin me.
My arms we're united, and the rope
was taken off my neck. After got so
L could talk and stand up, the confess
sion was still demanded. I again told
him that had no confession to make,
that [ knew nothing to confess. He
then said to the sergeant. "HsnP hm
on to that limb until eight O'clock to
morrow morning, and then cut him
down and bury him under the tree on
which he is hung" He said "Mr.
Murray, II you have anything to say
L give you permission to speak" /
just remarked "All L have to say to
you is when you hang me dead you
have just three more days" A pistol
was then put to my breast again the
four pistols as we'll as recollect-and
he asked me an explanation of the
words / used-whst l meant i said
''You may live if you hang me until
Tomorrow, but / will not insure you
for more than three days" He then
stopped awhile and folded his arms
and said "Sergeant take him back to
| his quarters. Then he said to me,
II will give you till ten o'clock to-
| morrow to make your confession; if
you don't give it by that time / wilt
take you out and kill you dead" He
then told me Z should say nothing
about what had passel--he said If
you ever divulge what has passed here
! tonight l will kill you on sight. I
said "very WE'LL" and I walked back
to my camp. OF course / never said
anything about it until was released.
Q. Where were you released? A.
Salisbury. #
Q. BY whom9 A. By Judge
Brooks.
Q. How long were You kept in Gus
tody? A. / was kept from the 9th
of July until the 10Th of August.
Be it remembered that during a
this time Thomas Settle was a Judge
upon the Bench of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina and could at any
moment have put an end to the out
RACES then being perpetrated. The
majesty of the law was as omnipoteut
in his hands as it was in those of
Judge Brooks. But instead of sus~
tanning the people as Judge Brooks
did, Judge Settle sustained Holden
and the government. Nor was he diff
ferent in this respect from his party.
Here is what that party said about the
the matter at its next Convention.
Resolued, That w. W. Holden de-
serves from the Republican party of
North Carolina the kindest affection
and deepest gratitude for his manful
and hard defense of them in 1862 70
from the assaults of the Ka Klux
Democracy; for his universal and con-
sistent defense of the poor and hum
BILE when he was Governor, and his
faithful and ceaseless advocacy of the
Republican principles when he was
with us and now that he is a martyr
in exile at Washington.
ResolUed, That we endorse him in
the past and shall ever cherish our
love for him in the future and We have
confident hope and trust that the time
is not far distant when he shall return
to his native State again to battle for
the Union, for equality before the law
and for progressive principles of re-
publicanism.
And sure enough Holden did come
back and was made Postmaster at
Raleigh one of the most lucrative Of
fees in the State. He is now also
member of the Radical State Execu.
tive Committee and doing all he can
to elect Settle. John Pool also has
returned from exile and is no longer a
martyr. He too is at Raleigh trying to
elect Settle.
II after all this warning of the pur-
poses and practices of the Radical
party, the people of North Carolina
are willing for it to remain in power
they will have no one to blame but
themselves. Settle and his party
make no concealment of the way in
which they propose to govern the
State if they shall be successful.