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Alleged South era Outrages-
KErORT OF THE MIXORITT OP THE
OUTRAGE COMMITTEE.
J From the Wahinton Patriot.
In the Senate yesterday the
Committee on Alleged Southern
Outrages made a voluminous re
port, which was laid on the table,
to be called up hereafter. Messrs
Bayard and Blair, the minority of
the Committee submitted their
views also.
After citing the resolution under
which the Committee was mi-
pointed, and referring to the report J her people, and now looks to the
transmitted by the President, in j strong arm of the Federal Govern
answer to the Senate resolution of! ment as the only means of rescu
inquiry in relation to the alleged ' hig him and his followers from the
organization of disloyal persons in ; just punishment due their crimes.
North Corolina, the minoritv say: i hi furtherance of this scheme, the
"Thus, it will appear that the
resolution under which the special
committee was appointed w::s
founded on the reports transmitted
as aforesaid by the President.
"Instantly upon their appoint
ment, the Committee organized,
and proceeded without delay to
examine the witnesses, who were
apparently
ALU fiEADY IN AVAILING,
in the city of Washington, to wit.
the sen of Governor Holden, Col.
Geo. W. Kirk, and Bergen, his
lieutenant-colonel.
lu (ijmh Lunu y lii.il
offered by its single reading in the
Senate) has been given the under
signed to inspect the report of the
majority, or obtain a proper knowl
edge 'of. its contents'. The report
was read once and instantly trans
mitted to the printer, by whom it
has not yet been returned.
" We desire to attract the atten
tion of the Senate to the scope of
the resolution under which the
Committee have acted: " To in
quire into the truth or falsehood of
crimes and outrages of a 'ficI
character in the Southern States.
Here is
AN UNLIMITED FIELD
of general allegation, qualified by
the word 'political,' and conveying
nothing definite to the. communi
ties whose domestic affairs were,
without notice or specified charges,
to have a Congressional drag-net
thrown over them and bo hauled
before the Committee ; and the
closing paragraph of the resolu
tion onlv aggravated the dangers
and dillicultics of such an inquisi
tion by inquiring whether there be
in those states security tor person
and property.''
After saying that no State had.
passed any law in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment, and that
no question has been made relative
to the exeicise of power in the
emergencies set forth in the 4th
section of article 3 of the Constitu
tion the minoritv continue: " The
undersi
jmed are, therefore,
AT A LOSS TO
DISCOVER
whence such power is derived as
is set forth in the resolution and
acted upon bv the committee, and
therefore they protest, in the name
and under the linvtations of the
Constitution of the United States,
against any and all action of an
inquisitorial character into the in
ternal and domestic affairs of any
of the States, or any attempt by
Congress or the Executive to inter
fere with the State governments 6r
citizens individually as to matters
not cognizable by the Federal
Government under the Constitu
tion." In view of the fact that North
Carolina is in all respects under
the Constitution and laws upon an
equal footing with all the other
States of the Union, the minority
assert that any claim of power to
investigate the internal and do
mestic affairs of that State, to in
vade her police powers of control
over all matters within her jurisdic
tion, must be equally valid and
have equal force when applied to
any other St.ate, and the reserved
rights under the tenth article ot
the Constitution , of Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Ohio, or New York,
are m no degree more secure than
those of Not tli Carolina. The ex
ercise or admission of any such
power is, in the opinion of the mi
nority, unwarranted by the Con
stitution, ami utterly subevrsive of
our Federal system of State gov
ernments. They say further: "There can
no longer be urged the plea of
military necessity. The Hag ot
the nation floats
IN PL ACT P SECCRTTY
m every part ot the L nion, and
there is no pretence of opposition
in any quarter to the peaceable
operation of the civil authority.71
After setting forth that the kind ot
investigation pursued was simply
given as an opportunity for anv
one to come forward and assail
the State ami people of North
Carolina, by any character of tes
timony and in any manner that
prejudice or animosity can sug
gest, the minority continue:
" But all this is manifestly the
result of a plan 'cut and dried' by
. i j f . i , ",-
a conspiracy
formed of a lot of
disappointed politicians, who have
lost the confidence of their people,
ami have been cast out of office
by the almost unanimous voice of
A BETRAYED AND INJURED CON
STITUENCY. At the head of this conspiracy
nlainlv stands Wm W. Holden.
the Governor of North Carolina,
ami now nndero-oino- trial bv pro-
cess ot impeachment tor high ;
misdemeanors and gross abuses of!
his official power. lie lias beggar-
ed the treasury of his State, and
1 plundered, outraged and bet raved
present measure was instituted,
and this committee raised. The
two Senators from North- Carolina
Abbott and Pool have efliciently
aided it, suggesting witnesses and
supplying interrogatories for their
examination, and sometimes escort
ing them in person to the door of
the committee-room. And what
is the character of these witnesses,
found ready and in attendance for
examination ?
" JOSEPH AV. HOLDER
the son and accomplice of Wm.
Holden, heads the list. lie has
been an otlice-holder, fattening on
the corruptions of his father's ad
ministration th'3 editor of his
party organ and even his testi
mony is almost entirely Jtearsay in
its nature, and inadmissable in
courts of justice.
" GEO RUE AV. KIRK
and George I. Eergen, come upon
the scene; and, to the undersigned,
there seems a strange insensibility
to the opinions of mankind,
in the production of two such
atrocious characters in the role of
witnesses In this case. Neither of
them were citizens of North Caro
lina, but were called from abroad
by Holden as fighting instruments
for his dark and bloody intent.
In violation of the Constitution of
his State, he made these two
strangers to his people olliccrs of
militia, and having declared two
counties (Alamance and Caswell)
in a state of insurrection, he gave
the unhappy residents over to the
tender mercies of these two ruffians.,
"The testimony discloses their
absolute denial of having insulted
or maltreated their prisoners in any
way : and
their r Eii.ru nv
in these statements is fully proved
by the testimony of Lucina Mur
ray, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Turner, and
others, who were their prisoners."
(The testimony is quoted at length,
showing various kinds of maltreat
ment and torture to extort con
fessions, etc.,) ami the minority
proceed in the same manner to re
view the testimony of Wm. P".
Albright, they term a " violent, un
scrupulous man, and Jas. E. Boyd,
noon whose sole testimony they
ay the majority largely rely to
justiry tnem m men remarkable
conclusions respecting the condi
tion ot society in North Carolina.
Fills witness, the minority say, is ft
very young man, and, by his own
statement, lias little or no personal
knowledge of the matters whereof
ie speaks. They review his evi
dence minutely, and characterize it
is weak, corrupt, and shambling.
In the same manner they im
peach the reliability of the testi
mony ot the remainder ot the wit-
nesses, not one or wnom tne mi
noritv assert, testifies to facts
within his own knowledge tending
to prove JSorth Carolina to be
ess safe as a place of residence
than any portion of the union
lying north of her boundaries.
THE MINORITY
then enter upon an extensive argu
ment to show that the disorders
which have existed in North Caro
lina are attributable to the misrule
of the so-called carpet-bag State
officers, the unwise legislation of
Congress and the macmation or me
Eoval Leagues, inciting and insti
gating the negroes to idleness, dis
affection, and lawlessness. In sup
port of these propositions the mi
nority quote very largely from the
testimony of Hon. John Kerr, ex
member of Congress from North
Carolina, 31. A. Pamsey, and a
number of other witnesses, who
were examined and cross-examined
before the committee. ,
The minority Fay it will be seen
from the above statements that
there has been no insistence to the
execution of the process of the
courts, no obstructions to pfficers
in the exercise of their functions.
The report of the majority seeks
to evade the force of this fact, thus
admitting the fact by asserting
that the Ku-KIux organization is
so banded together as to defeat
the ends of justice by intimidating
witnesses, packing juries, and pro
curing witnesses to swear falsely
in favor of the accused, if he be
longs to that order.
The reply to this
IS EASY AND COMPLETE.
The statute law of the State gives
to the solicitor and the judge the
power to remove causes from any
locality in the State to any other
j locality, at the opinon of the prose-
! cation. Every juuge and every
'solicitor m the State was a Radical.
I There were localities in the State
, in which the Radicals predomina-
overwhelmingly, ana, n tne
mG wa committed where the in-
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for the solicitor to make a motion.
i and the judge would order the re
, moval of the cause from county to
I county until a satisfactory- venue
j was reached. It is perfectly evi
j dent from the evidence that the
i process of the courts could be exe
j cnted without military force; that
no resistance was offered to its ex
j edition, and it is clear, also that
j the cause could have been removed
! from any place to some county
in which a fair trial might have
been had. Why, then, did the
Governor prefer to resort, to the
extreme measure of proclaiming
the counties of Alamance and Cas
well in in sum ction, rather than
use the remedies ready to his hand,
of removing the causes to the
counties in which convictions might
have been obtained ? Why did
he call on the President for troops,
set on foot his negro militia, led
by ruliians imported into the State
on account of their extraordinary
brutality, and, proceed to seize,
imprison, insult, and torture his
prisoners
THERE IS RUT ONE EXPLAXATfOX.
His object was to strike terror to
the people and drive them from
the polls, and thus carry the dis
trict and maintain himself and his
fellow-miscreants in power and thus
be enabled to continue to plunder
and tyrannize over the unhappy
people who had been subjected to
his sway by the direct action of
the Congress of the United States.
This is the onlv explanation which
can be given for conduct so utterly
unnecessary. Who tcr heard be
fore of the proelamat on of martial
law in a country where the process
of the civil courts could be execu
ted wit hout resist ance ? If he had
caused the law to be executed in
the ordinary way, through the
courts, the clamor which had risen
againt him and his allies for pil
laging t he State and giving away
millions of dollars to the desperate
adventurers who infested the State
like vermin, would have continued
and carried the election against
him. He therefore meditated his
cotfp V (tat his grand military
stroke ot policy which was to
strike terror to the hearts of the
people. lie called the President
to his assistance; and he, to whom
he already looked as his future, em
peror, did not fail hun in his hour
of need, but despatched the troops
of the Umiled States to sust ain this
worthless miscreant and conspira
tor in power.
Having failed in his nefarious
purpose, and apprehensive that he
might be
DEALT WTTII FOR II IS CRIMES,
his first effort is to propitiate those
whom he has wronged by confess
ing, what all knew to be true, that
peace, good order and quiet are su
preme in the State. (The minority
here quote his confession, saying
that the confession is confirmed by
Judge Battle, whose testimony is
quoted.)
It will be observed that the tes
timony contained in the reports of
the United Stated oflicers sent into
North Carolina by the President,
upon the application of Governor
Holden, is unanimously in contra
diction of the existence of any "or
ganized bodies of disloyal and evil
disposed persons in the State of
North Carolina, which have in view
or threaten resistance to. the action
of the laws of the United States, or
denial to the citizens of the United
States of equal protection of the
laws." tfce.
The minority say the concurrent
testimony from the United States
officers
OUGHT ALONE,
and of its own fore?, to satisfy the
Senate and the country how little
foundation there is for the charge
of organized resistance to the Gov
ernment or its laws in the State of
North Carolina, and how the Pres
ident of the United States could
have considered it as tending to
prove the existence of "disloyalty"
in North Carolina, the undersigetl
are unable to conceive. ,
An examination of the deposi
tions taken before the committee,
and their comparison with the
documents appended to the mes
s.tth of the President on these
subiects, will exhibit a mere repe
titidn of the same facts by the same
witness, thus making each case ot
1
outrage do frequent service in the
way of exciting new horrors and
arousing additional animosities.
A-aiii Tt is observed that different
witnesses recount the same cases
of outrage, with such variations as
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
their imaginations may create.
An examination of this mass o
testimony will disclose the fact
that
SO OUTRAGES ARE PROATED
to have occurred in more than six
or eight counties, all of which are
named, and of these counties Ala
mance and Caswell were chiefly al
leged to be the scenes of lawless
ness. These were the counties se
lected by Holden as the peculiar
objects of his vengeance, and which
were committed to the mercies of
Kirk and Bergen. And yet the
chief sullerer, whose case has been
recited by almost every witness
called from that section one Cas
well Holt, a colored man, who was
most cruelly beaten by a band of
disguised men, and subsequently
wounded, severely was brought
before the committee to recount
his suffering. His personal knowl
edge of all the cases in that county
was limited to six, and four of
these outrages had been commit
ted by a band of diguised colored
men, whose leader confessed it to
Casswell.
THE NUMBER OF THESE OUTRAGES,
detestable and wicked as they are,
is nevertheless grossly and wildly
exaggerated; and this no one can
doubt who will examine the testi
mony, and l as had any knowledge
of the credulity and inaccuracy of
statement characteristic of our well
meaning colored people.
North Carolina is one of the
largest States, territorially, in the
Union, and is divided into eighty
seven counties, and contains one
and a half millions of people.
No act of lawlessness is proven
to have been committed excepting
in one or the o'herof six perhaps
eight of these counties, and yet it
is proposed to employ violent and
stringent measures of coercion and
repression to the remaining nine
tenths of a State against which no
breath of evidence or proof of la w
lessness has ever been adduced,
but which, on the contrary, exhi
bits a condition of quiet almost
suggesting the insensibility of de
spair. AV II AT CAUSE CAX REALLEGED?
What justitication to the Ameri-,
can people can be needed for this re
newed and wanton invasion of a
peaceful community "i
The statement that anarchy there
exists is absolutely untrue, and the
testimony now lai.d before the Sen
ate overwhelmingly establishes its
untruth.
If aggressive laws are to be en
acted let all disguise be cast otf and
the true reason avowed. It will
not be less violent or wrong, but
it will be less hypocratical and
more manly. To any fair-minded
man we cotidently commit proofs
contained in the testimony now
presented by the committee, and
aver that, in the face of such i
wrongs as have been intlicted upon
our unfortunate and crushed peo
pie by the rulers placed over them,
not by their own consent, but by
the exercise of despotic power by
the Congress of the United States,
no example of equal submissiveness j
and patient, endurance can be found
in history, as is now presented by
the people of the State ot North
Carolina.
THIS IS THE TRUTH IX A X UTS II ELL:
That Holden and his official sup
porters have failed to maintain
themselves by any means, foul as
well as fair, in their State; they
have appealed to. popular elections, ;
and been rejected with something
near unanimity by every tax payer
in the State, and now Congress is
asked to step in and force North
Carolina down again under the feet
if her Pad ical masters, and we
fear that Congress will attemept to
lo this unwise and wicked thing.
Will the people of the North
(free as yet) see this thing done
and sustain its promoters? W e
hope not, we pray not. When will
the men now in power learn the
truth of what the great statesmen
of our century said so wisely and
well when similar attempts were
made to govern British India?
"IT IS THE XATURE OF TYRAXXY
and rapacity never to learn moder
ation from the ill success of first
oppressions on the contrary, all
men, thinking highly of the meth
ods dictated by their nature, attrib
ute the frustration of . their desires
to the want of sufficient . vigor.
Then they redouble the efforts ot
their impatient cruel t which pro
ducing, as they must produce,
new disappointments, they grow
irritated against the objects of tlu-ii
rapacity, and then Vague fury a !
mal e 4 (implacable, because unpro
voked,) recruiting and reinforcing
their avarice, their vices are no Ion
ger human. From cruel men they
are transformed into savage beasts
with no other Testiges of reason
left but what serves to furnish
the incentives and refinements o
ferocious subtlety fornurposcs o
which beasts are incapable, and at
which fiends would blush."
Frank P. Blair,
T. F. Bayaed,
The Platform which. Won-
We all know that New Hamp
shire at the recent election went
Democratic, but we remember not
to liave seen published in this State
the declaration ot principles upon
which the fight was made. When
you lind a Xew Hampshire Dem
ocrat, it is almost certain you find
"a true blue." The Democracy of
the Granite State have ever been
distinguished for their strict ad
herence to the great principles of
the union taught by the leathers.
Wood bur v and Pierce may be
cited as embodiments of that gen
uine article which in all the ups
ami downs ot parties has known
no variableness or shadow of turn
ing there. It has been by keeping
in view the teachings and examples
of such men that New Hampshire
now, after being overwhelmed for
years bv the tide of fanaticism,
which rushed the country into the
late civil war, is enabled to rise
, , ... i
again from the mire of humiliation
and proclaim herself once more the
champion of Democratic principles.
v e produce ir, nere lor reierence :
llesejU'cd, That the Democratic
party of New Hampshire, in con
vention assembled, declare their
adhesion to certain principles by
them hitherto maintained, and
which, in victory or defeat, they
will never surrender :
I. The permanent arid binding
authority of the Constitution over
til departments of government find
ill States of the Union, to the ex
tent of the power therein granted;
2, I he exemption of every
State tiom any interference or con
trol not clearly warranted by the
Constitution ";
3. That the interference by the
President of the United States
with the military power of the
Union in elections to overawe the
people and control the nght of
suffrage, is treason to the Constitu
tion; 4. The right of every State to
an equal participation in the gov
ernment, as guaranteed by the
Constitution ;
5. The separation and proper
independence of the Executive,
Legislative and Judicial depart
ment, as provided by the Consti
tution ;
C. No privileged classes and
no privileged capital ;
7. An honest an economical
administration of the Government
for the good of the people, and
not in the interests of monopolists,
thieves and plunderers of the pub
lie treasury and the national do
main ;
8. That we are in favor of a
revenue tariff that raises money
for the support ; of the Federal
Government, arid are opposed to a
protective tariff which taxes the
people for the benefit of monopo
lists; -
9. That we are opposed to the
present system of taxation which
is based upon an inequality bur
densome to the working classes,
while the best interests of the coun
try demand that all classes of prop
erty should bear eqm.lly the bur
dens of the Government; .-
10. That the importation of
Chinese coolies', to be held m bond-
ie by monopolizing capitalists at
ow rates ot wages, connot tail to
legrade the dignity of American
abor by competition, and mtro-
luce into our social system an ele
ment which will endanger the peace
ind well-being of our country
11. That
we
pledge ourselves
to the vigorous prosecution of re-
brms in our own State, the reduc
tion of its expenditi r s ot'ie low
est practical limit, the elevation of
the courts ot justice above the m-
luence of any personal or partisan
considerations, and the enactment
of wholesome laws, which public
sentiment will sustain, and public
oflicers be required to enforce;
12. That we are compelled
by profound convictions of their
injustice and impolicy, to record
6 ir solemn protest against, the
leading measures of the National
Administration, and we pledge all
the power with which we may be
intrusted to earnest efforts to lessen
the expenditures of the Govern
ment to reduce and equalize tax
ation, to hasten the extinction of
the public debt, and by honest leg
islation to protect the public do
main against the rapacity of specu
lators and robbers, and . restore
early and cordial union and frater
nity to the States and the people
of the Republic.
13. That by thorough organi
zation and concerted action, vic
tory is within the reach of the
Democratic party, of this State,
and this Convention pledges itself
to effect such organization and ac
tion, and to secure, by all honer
able means, the election of the can
didates this day nominated.
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Anxious. A Chicago man has
recovered three hundred dollars for
having a tootli knocked out, and is
anxious to dispose of the balance
at the same rate
That "Democratic Grab"
From the Democratic Era.
The OrerfonianoX the 26th copies
from the Walla Walla Union &
scurrilous attack upon Senator
Kelly, of this State, and Mr. Sam
uel D. Smith, of Walla Walla, and
prefixes the Union's article with
the chaste remark 'that "the first
attempt of our Democratic Senator
to earn his salary was the intro
duction by him of a, piece of spe
cial legislation with a little job iri
it,-' etc. . . t 0
The purport of the Union's ar
ticle is to induce the belief that
Col. Kellj', in conjunction with Mr."
Smith, is endeavoring improperly
to obtain possession of the TJ. S.
Military reserve and public build
ings at Fort Walla Walla, and at
tempts to make the case parallel
with one that occurred some two
years ago, when some parties at
tempted to "Jump" the hay reserve
near Walla Walla, when Mr. Smith,
who was the agent of the United
States had charge of the re
serves and other property of the
vto eminent at ana ana, ioici-
bly ejected them from the premises,
A brief and simple statement of
the facts is all that is neccessaryto
show from what meagre material
the Union lias spun its elaborate
A.
yarn. . , . , :
Mr. Smith, an old and faithful
soldier, who devofed his youth and
early manhood to the service oP
his country in the war with Mexi-Q
co, ami is now a cripple, having0
had both legs amputated learns
that the War Depaitment is about
to abandon the mi itary reserves
at and in vicinity of Walla Walla,
md ti;rn them over to the Depart
ment ot the Interior. He meniori-
vlizes Congress to grant him tl.'e
privilege ot purchasing at the ap
praised value a quarter section of
one of the reserves, and requests
Senator Kelly to present his memo
rial. And this is the "head and front
of his offending." Mr. Smith sim
ply and honestly asks the United
States to allow him to purchase,
one hundred and sixty acres of
public land, and for this he is made
the subject of a virulent attack,
which, though it does not mention,
his name, leaves no room for con-Q
jecture.as to who is meant. Col.
Kelly, too, is arraigned before the
tribunal of the doughty "knight of
the quill" in the Walla Walla
Union, and is also charged with
originating this "Democratic Grab"
at Uncle Sam's laud, and made the
subject of much moral indignation
because he presented Mr. Smith's
request to Congress, thereby per
forming a simple act of friendship',
and his duty at the same time, for
an old acquaintance and a most es
timable gentleman'. M. Smith0
lives in Washington Terrtory, it is
true, but the people of that Terri
tory have no representative iri
Congress, and are therefore com
pelled to ask such -favors of. their
neighboring State Represent at" ves".
This accounts for the introduction
of this memorial by Senator Kelly
and leaves no room for a suspicion
that the Senator had a personal
interest in the matter whatever.
We are willing to believe the
Oreejortian did not understand the
true history of the case when it
copied, the article from the Unio?i,
but for the Union., there is no ex
cuse. It has attempeted to defame
the character of a private gentle
man who has always commanded
the respect of all parties where he
lives, and whose kindness of heart
and probity of character is not ex
celled by any man in that Territory.
.
''Let Us ILyve Peace." Xeveg
was a noble sentiment more villain
ously abused than the above.
When Grant. gave utterance to it,
it was asserted that he meant
what he said, and that if he were
elected the olive branch would beG
extended to all classes at the South,
and the country would at once re
joice in the benign influences of.
peace. Two years and mo e of
Grant's Administration have passed
and we have not peace yet. He
ami his friends have been doing
all in their power to prevent the
restoration of good feeling between
the alii hated sections. The recent
Act of Congress to suppress Kn
KIux Klaus is virtually a declara
tion of war against the Southern
people. As a fitting conclusion to
this outrage the- telegraph an
nounces this morning that the Sen
atorial Radical caucus tabled?by fi
vote of 20 to 10, the proposition to
amend the order of business so as
to admit action on the House Am:
nesty bill this session. "Let us
have peace. " Exa rn in er.
"Miss, will you take my arm?"
asked an old bachelor. "La! ye?;
and you to," said the young lad;.
"Can you spare the arm, Miss,"
hastily replied the bachelor;
"Then," said Miss, "I can't take it;
as my motto is to .go the wole
hog or none at all."
The man who sat down on i
saucer of tacks said it remiiid
him of the iaeome tar.
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