she said nobody said that about her unless you
told them. He made some insulting remark, and she made something
in return to him, and he took a billet of wood and struck her on
the shoulder, and he pulled a pistol and beat her with it, and
she went for him to kill him. _They found the man not guilty and
they found her guilty_, but Judge Avery set the verdict aside and
ordered the case _nolle prossed_ against her.

Q. Do you think that is a fair sample of the justice they
get?--A. Yes, sir.

Q. Do you think they will convict a colored woman in order to get
a chance to turn loose a white man?--A. Yes, sir.

Mr. Badger was not our witness. He was called by the majority,
but he is a gentleman of high character, the son of an ex-member
of this body, and thoroughly acquainted with the condition of
things in his State. He puts the case just mentioned as a "fair
sample" of North Carolina justice toward the Negro. It is true
the judge set aside the verdict, but this does not change the
fact that before a North Carolina jury the Negro has but little
hope of justice.

Back of all these things lies the distrust of Democracy which was
inspired during the days when the "Kuklux," the "White
Brotherhood," the Universal Empire, and the "Stonewall Guard"
spread terror and desolation over the State in order to wrest it
from Republicanism to Democracy. The memory of those dark days
and bloody deeds, the prejudice which still forbids white ladies
to teach colored schools, and denies "even-handed" justice in the
courts, and the usurpations which place the returning boards all
in the hands of Democrats, have inspired a feeling of discontent
which has found expression in the efforts of a few to leave the
State. These facts, taken in connection with the bonus of one
dollar per head offered by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company (a Democratic corporation represented by a Democratic
agent) to leading colored men who would secure passengers for
their road, has led to the emigration of some seven or eight
hundred colored people from that State, and the only wonder is
that thousands instead of hundreds have not gone.

LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI

The States of Louisiana and Mississippi have furnished the larger
portion of the migration to Kansas, and a