8. What was done by the Governor in regard to the Ku-Klux?
9. What occurred in Alamance county?
10. What was the general effect produced by the Federal troops?
11. What was the next step taken by Governor Holden?
12. Who were the men arrested by order of the Governor?
CHAPTER LXVII.
THE RESULTS OF RECONSTRUCTION—Continued.
A. D. 1868 TO 1870.
On the 21st of May, John W. Stephens, then a Senator from Caswell county, was secretly murdered in an unused room in the courthouse at Yanceyville. A large concourse filled the house when the deed was committed, the occasion being a Democratic political gathering, and Stephens was seen and talked to at the meeting, being there as a spectator. Strange to say, however, it is a mystery to this day as to who committed the crime.
2. It was insisted by Governor Holden and his party that Stephens had been murdered by the Ku-Klux. This however, was as stoutly denied, and the assertion added that, as Stephens was an object of derision and contempt rather than of hatred, there was neither desire nor cause to put him to death.