He learned that his wife was dead, before his own lamp of life went out, and simply asking of the colored friends who gathered about his death-bed-side, that the humble pair might be laid in the same grave, poor Aleck Noye sank to his final rest, and yielded up his spirit to the God who gave it. The children were taken away by some of the poor neighbors who esteemed the quadroon family for their virtues, and universal kindness towards them, and thus closed another awful tragedy in North Carolina--of which over six hundred came under the knowledge of the United States District Attorney, in a single county, (not all of them fatal, to be sure), and which have been duly reported by him, officially, within a comparatively limited period, since the close of the war. Is there no "combination of purpose or design" in all these instances of wrong? Does there exist "no organization among these men" for evil? And have these terrible doings no "political significance" as is asserted in the minority Report of the Congressional Committee upon the Ku Klux Klan outrages? In the face of this accumulated, overwhelming, damning evidence--will _any_ one believe that the Honorable gentlemen (who have put forth this paper in opposition to the majority Report of that Committee), are not themselves convinced that all this is true; and that not one half of the shocking story of the infamy of this wretched Klan has been told? Will it be impressed upon the minds of the public of this enlighted nation, North or South, through any sophistry, argument or theorising, that all these living witnesses and victims are liars, and perjurors? Have not these events occurred? And if so, what is the _cause_ of the wrong doing? It happens, unfortunately, for the "Union Democracy," who flout at these accounts of the doings of the Klans, that none _but_ Radicals or negroes are assailed. And also that _never_ has a Radical been found associating with these Ku Klux midnight marauders and, butchers, in an attack upon one of their victims! Is there "no political significance" in this fact? It is simply idle to propose such a fallacious and utterly groundless doctrine. The fact is patent, and the matter is clear as that the sun shines over the earth at mid-day--to the mind of every intelligent being who can see or read--that the opponents of the Republican party, in the guise of Ku Klux Klans, supported unblushingly by the "Union Democracy" of the country, and their Democratic allies, are the combined movers, operators, sustainers and abettors of this crusade, and that their first and last and continuous aim and hope is to weaken or destroy the Radical sentiment in the land.