The Nations Peril Twelve Years Experience in the South Then And Now the Ku
The Nations Peril Twelve Years Experience in the South Then And Now the Ku
James Willis Nesmith
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She sank under the treatment at last, and lie ui)on the floor, her life apparently extinct. Cold water was dashed over the faces and bodies of these unfortunate women, who, by this means, were rallied sufficiently to render them conscious enough to listen to the final edict of the Klan, which was, "To cease indulging in and X^romulgating their heresies, from that hour forward, and abandon the country, on jmin of certain death ! " With this admonition the defenders of the white man's government ...left the house. Of a truth, "all cruelty sx>rings from wickedness. " But the weakness which could x)i'omx)t the brutality — exhibited in such cases as those above recorded — is ut- terly inexcusable in any being wearing the shax>e of man. The brutal whix^x^ing of these inoffensive women, and the murder of the negro McLane, add one more to the many evidences of the degradation to which the mem- bers of the Ku Klux Klan had reduced themselves, in NORTn CAROLINA. 83 their endeavors to criisli out freedom of thought and expression, and comxjel adherence to their own i)eeuliar tenets.
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