The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-13

Radical Grimes i'm Texas Detailed
The True Cause of the Troubles i'm
that State--A Document for the COUn-
try to Ponder. dc.
Governor Throck publishes. in
the Texas State Gazette, a document
which in the firstpart is a defence from
the charge of General Sheridan, that he
was an impediment in the way of re-
construction, and in the second he re-
ports on the General, and proves that
the General was an impediment. We
make the following striking extracts:
1t cannot be forgotten that eXtraOr
dinary impediments to the proper exc
cutiOn of the acts OfCOngrcss have been
thrown in the way, 1st. By circular
order 13, which filled the whole coun-
try with CONSERVATION, and forced the
impression upon the minds of the peO-
pie that it made no difference what
they did, they were not to have the
benefit of the laws, but were to be OPP
pressed and humiliated by the exercise
of unlawful power. I'd. By refusing to
appoint persons to fill vacancies in
State Offices except such as could take
the "test OATH" Sd. By delay in APP
pointing boards ofregistration in many
counties, where, ifappointed, the work
had not commenced as late as a month
since. 4th. By selecting none as reg
istrars but those of one political party,
and they, as a general rule, of the most
violent and prejudiced of their party.
5th. By appointing negroes on the
Board of Registrars, who are nOtori-
ously incompetent, when respectable
and intelligent white men could have
been obtained without trouble, who
had been through the war and are yet
loyal to the government. 9th. BY the
exclusion of sections of cemeteries, of
auctioneers, police jurors, managers
and clerks of elections, members of po-
lice, under wardens of warehouses,
school directors, &C., from registration,
not to mention ferrymen, Overseers of
the roads, foreigners by birth who at
tanned their majority in America, but
had no naturalization papers, and many
other classes not excluded by law, but
excluded by the registrars. 18th. By
the manifest disinclinatiOn Ofthe militia
ry authorities to believe in the sinceri
ty Of the declarations of the State Off
cials, the newspaper press and the peO-
pie, of their desire to comply with the
acts of Congress.
The property of citizens has been
used without compensation-nOt in a
few isolated cases, but in many not
alone the property of those who en-
gagged in the war against, but of those
who were through the struggle and are
yet faithful to, the general govern
ment.
The Freedmen's Bureau has exercised
power not conferred upon it, its agents
have made arrests, and imposed penal
ties not justified by the law nor Sus-
tanned by reason. Under pretence that
| the civil rights act had been violated,
citizens have been arrested and re-
strained of their liberty, without the
process or forms required by that law,
and for offences alleged to have been
committed long anterior to its passage.
The town of Brenham was set on fire
by United States soldiers, and large
amount of pi operty destroyed. If the
deed was not instigated by the officer
in command, it was perpetmted almost
in his immediate presence, and no eff
fort was made to prevent it, nor to pun
| ish the offenders.
The judgments and DEGREES of the
courts have been prevented from being
executed, and have been ordered to be
set aside, and indictments and papers
in criminal and civil causes have been
forcibly taken and destroyed, and the
Judges required to dismiss suits in a
number of cases.
A decree of the District Court of the
United States, for the Western District
of Texas, was interfered with, and for
time, its execution was prevented.
Freedmen charged by indictment
with high crimes have been protected
from arrest and trial. One charged
with an attempt at rape upon a girl IA
years of age was taken from Jail by or
der of an agent of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, and when the facts were made
known the agent was not punished, nor
the criminal returned to the officers OF
the law.
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