The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-14

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band of Ku Klux that went through Graham
the other day, if they had known they would
be fred on would not have surrendered when
told to do so.
Mr.. RoBB1Ns said no. Ifthey had known
they would have been fired on they would
have fred first.
Mr.. BARROW Withdrew his first motion
and moved to strike out the two first sections
of the original House bill and insert the sub
stitute Whenever force was used it should
be met by force 1t would not be denied
that force was being used every night fol
the purpose of executing vengeance or fol
purposes Of robbery The law had been
powerless to prevent it. If the law was
powerless to prevent it, it was incumbent
upon the General Assembly to pass a law
that would prevent it. The Senators from
Rowan and Mecklenburg thought it would
create more bloodshed. He. did not think
so. He thought it would have the effect of
putting stop to all this lawlessness.
g Mr.. OSBORNE rejolned.
Mr.. ROBBINS predicted that if this bill
passed there would not dead man be found
in North Carolina whose corpse would not
be found disguised. This would be the
plan adopted by every assassin, and the as
sassin would escape under this law.
Mr. MOORE, of Carteret, moved the previ-
Gus question. Lost--16 to Is. afis
Mr. JONES, of Wake. said the fruits of all
this trouble could he traced right along to
rotten democracy and secession. @
Mr.. LOVE asked did not the gentlemen
aid in getting up the late unpleasantness.5
Mr.. JONES, of Wake, said, no sir, never.
! He had stood for the Union as long as any
man could do so. rfsigs m
Mr.. ROBBINS would like to ask the gen.
tie if lie had not fought in the Confederate
army. 1s.5I ~ siaf 70 gfaetc. r
Mr.. JONES, of Wake, had been in the
Southern army for twelve months. He had
stood by the Union as long as any man could
do so. He was glad that the Union had tri-
umphed. Was the Senator from Rowan
glade 5'od iU
Mr.. ROBBINS accepted heresult. f
Mr.. 10 MES said that was not an answer to
his question. Was the Senator from Rowan
glad that we had Union instead of mis-
erable little "Confederacy f
Mr.. ROBBINS said no man liked to be
whipped.
Mr. JONES wished an answer to his ques-
tion. lA. I'D. rva,f tiy.rq rr5e,
Mr.. ROBBINS declined to answer.
Mr.. JONES proceeded to give instances of
the proceedings of lawless persons. He ad-
vocated the passage of the bill at some
length. sisr.t ,z .,,s.s
Mr. BARROW regretted very much that a
bill of this kind was made a party matter
The same thing was done when the militia
bill was under discussion. We were met
with threats that somebody else would or
ganize. Now. we were told that if we pass
ed this law, those who would otherwise frown
upon such violence would encourage it. Very
well, let them encourage 1T if they please. He
was mortified at any such speech being
made upon the floor of the Senate. Any
North Carolina, would frown upon such
things and endeayor to prevent such pro-
ceedings HHe e HiF %
Mr. BAKRow's motion prevailed. ..
Mr.. ROBBINS moved to strike out section
3. Lost-19 to 16. .a iis5
The bill passed second reading by the
following vote: iesis5!cd 5Bll,,5,f .
YEAs-Messrs Barrow, Rellamy, Brogden,
COlgroye, Cook, Davis, Eppes, Galloway, Har-
rington, Hyman, Jones of Columbus, Jones of
Wake, Lassiter, Legg, Martindale, Moore of Car
teret, Respass, shoffner, Smith, Stephens, Wei
ker-21. 'i
NAYs.-Messrs. Barnes, Beall, Eaves, Forkner,
Graham Lindsay, Love, Mecher, Moore of Yam
cy. Mclaughlin, Murphy Osborne, Robbins,
Scott and White-14.
Mr.. ROBBINS moved to strike out the third
section. He desired to vote for the bill, but
wanted to be emphatic in his opposition to
this section. Ei fa-si, !, "a
Mr.. SHoFFNER moved to add the follow
ing proviso to the third section: Provided
that the demand for surrender shall be
proven by two disinterested witnesses"
Mr.. BARROW opposed the amendment as
impracticable. h4-
Mr. LOVE hoped the amendment
wonld he adopted. Without it it was bill
legalzng murder. With it he saw no harm
in it, ese 0l {.4
Mr.. JONES, of Wake, opposed the amend
ment. .9ic
Mr.. OSBORNE favored the amendment.
The amendment was rejected.
- Mr.. ROBBINS motion prevailed-yeas "a,
nays 13. lpl5t
Mr.. GALLOWAY moved that whenever the
word ''her" occurred it be stricken out.
Adopted s sRss Q9i M
81 The hiIl passed third reading by the fol-
lowing vote: b9gaQ sos
YEAs-Messrs. Barnes, Barrow, Brogden,
Blythe, Davis, Eaves, Forkner, Galloway, Gra-
ham, Hyman, Jones of Wake, Lassiter, Lindsay,
Long. Love, Murphy, Osborne, Respass, Rob.
bins, Shoffner Smith, Welkcr and White-A
NAYs-Messrs. Beall, Bellamy, Colgrove, Cook,
Eppes, Hayes, Harrington, Jones of Columbus,
Legg, Martindale, Mclchor Moore of Carteret,
Moore of Yaneey, Mclaughlin, Scott, and Ste
phens-16. 40. tT i5 h, ,l.ts
Adjourned. a..gf.5 5tlG8 +.