New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-31
NORTH CAROLINA.


of disturbances in the South have shown good
deal OF Indignation at what seem to US the
moderate and truthful accounts sent North by
the Associated Press agent at Newbern, n.
C. These accounts have twice, within two
DAYS, been confirmed officially. This morn
ing we print the report of Lieut.. y. W. Hahn,
who was sent through the north eastern por-
ton of the State Oh special duty. 1t Is not
one of the hattcrng tales which tie hopes
of all lovers of peace have told. Lieut.. Hahn
asserts that the people refuse to recognize the
freedom Of the blacks, who are whipped and
tortured in the mos, icndish manner for even
expressing desire to be free, and that shooting
and killing these creatures appears to be the
order Of the day." The quarter in which this
reign of terror exists is nearly hundred miles
from any military post, and there Is, OF course,
no military protection to Union men, whether
whites or negroes.
An authority higher in rank than Lieut..
Hahn testifes quite as explicitly. The full
text of the correspondence between Gen. Kruger
and Gov. Holden, referred to i'll dispatch pub
lshed on Tuesday, is before US. Gov. Holden
complained to Gen. Rugcr that three citizens OF
North Carolina had been arrested for trial Ivy a
military court, and asks that they be turned
over to the civil courts, that is the provisional
courts which he, as Provisional Governor,
had constituted. Gen. Ruger declined to
release his prisoners, alleging his belief
that military courts were competent to try
the offenders. and that no civil court had taken
cognizancc Of the matter. He reminds Gov.
Holden that though magistrates had been ap-
pointed and had been acting III various counties,
"yet in 10 instance have heard or known OF
official notice having been taken by any
of them OF acts Of unlawful violence
toward ireemen, although such acts have been
by no means unfrequent in the different Sec
tons of this State" Gen. Ruger goes on to say,
still more specifically, "Of late several eases oi
homicide Of freedmen by whites have been
brought TO my knowledge, but III no case,
so far as | have learned, was any arrest
made by the magistrates or civil officers, and 10
attempt made for investigation. From my own
observation and information obtained from the
Commissioner for Freedmen, | am Of opinion
that acts Of unlawful violence toward the freed.
men are becoming more frequent Gov.
Holden has 10 reply to make to thi,
statement except that 1t is impossible
without great expense to keep court always in
session in every locality where crime may be
probably ommitted"-which is tantamount ia
a confession that such civil machinery as Gov.
IIoder tries to keep running is not equal to the
emergency, and fully justifes the action of Gen.
Ruger. II it is a question between allowing the
freedmen to be murdered according TO civil law
and protecting them by military law, than We
are for the latter. As matters stand i'll North
Carolina, there is 10 regular administration OF
justice, and can be none till Convention has
been held, Constitution adopted, Il State
Government organized, and the State
recognized BY Congress. Meantime