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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The justice and Mercy of Butler's rule in Eastern North Carolina. (search)
listment will cause everything to go up still higher. Butler claims to have restored justice to the citizens of North Carolina and Virginia, who have come under his rule. Here is an instance of their blasted justice: About ten days ago Miss Emma Blunt, a young lady of Washington county, was found dead near the picket stand. A post mortem examination showed that she had been foully used and then knocked in the head with an axe. Suspicion pointed to one Moore, a free negro, living near theamined he prevaricated exceedingly, and told several different tales. The one, however, that seemed most probable to Butler's Judge (?) was, that he saw several rebel soldiers armed with axes; that one of them offered him $20 to tell him where Emma Blunt was, for he was going to kill her. You may naturally ask what was done with the negro? He was told that if he would volunteer he should be molested no further. He volunteered, and was invested with the blue badge of tyranny and oppression, an