The weekly standard., 1870-07-13

for the outrage Of single one of its citi.
zens! If the mighty power of England weIe
to outrage a single man or woman who
bore the name of an American citizen. the
whole power and wealth of America would
be pledged for redress. Yet you have no
word of denuAciation even for the greatest
outrages upon hundreds. You are so insen-
| sibe to it even, that a multitude seems but
occasional" There must be some reason
for this You are a man OF education and
| intelligence. You have occupied the high
| position of Governor of the State Outside
of your political animosities, you are not
| thought to be Il bad man. What is the Sc
cret of your weakness for these outrages. 1t
all appears in your address. In accounting
for the outrages, you say, "they have been
owing, in great degree, to the state of the
times and society in which we live, and
doubtless in no small degree to the misgoU-
erRment under 0hich our people hace suffered,
and still suffer" Did it occur to YOU that
this was an admission that your political
friends have committed the outrages p
Clearly it is. 1T is owing to the misgovern-
ment under which our people have suffered
and are suffering" Do the friends ofthe Gov
ernment complain that they are misgoverned.
No. Do your friends? Yes. Then, accor-
ding to your own showing, your friends are
the guilty parties. Yes, they arsthe guilty
parties Yog know it, everybody knows
1t. Hence your weakness for Them hence
you don't want the military to hurt them;
hence you palate their crimes OF course,
as general rule, they are the friends of the
government who are outraged. Hence you
cannot sympathize with them What if
there are occasionally" outrages? Let
them be- They deserve it! 1t will cost
too much to protect them ! You have been
Governor Of this good State. Did such
outrages prevail when you were Governor?
If they had, we ask you what would you
have done? If it had been certified to you
as Governor that in many counties organ
lied bands of disguised men were going
about at night outraging hundreds of your
citizens, and putting whole communities in
terror, without one single conviction in
court, what would you have done? We
beg you not to say that you would have
looked into the treasury, and made it d
roa+{ar of dollars op6 oanfc E,arr MAJ,
and women would have depised your calcu-
lations. And again, we beg you not to say
that you would have stopped to consider
whether your political friends were the
marauders. Don't say anything less than
that you would have thrown the whole
power of the State against it.
Your address dennunces the military as to
be composed of the worst material in the
State" What makes you think so2 When
volunteers are called for to defend men and
women, do you know so little of the people
of North Carolina as to suppose that only
the worst" will respond If you were
younger would not you rcspond-if it did
not cost too much or unless your friends
were in jeopardy? It'll becomes those who
stay at home and count dollars and cents to
say so. 1t is not true that the military are
the "worst material" When there is op-
preston, real or supposed, those who have
hearts bound forth to resist it without cal
culating the enormous expense or the
personal hazard 1t will he so HOW. Un-
less the people ofNorth Carolina and the peo-
pie OF the United States have lost the spirit
of men and patriots, and organized bands
of disguised marauders will be exterminated.
In appealing to your own party friends,
you let no prnHocation- If Is can posi-.
bly, be avoided, drive you into any violent
measures to redress your wrongs" Why,
what can that mean? The United States
and this State send out tro opsto protect all
the citizens alike, without regard to party
or race, or condition, and instead of regret
ing and denouncing the cause. you exhort
your friends to bear with it it be possible.
Not use violence against it, if it is possible
to avoid it. This is little improved since
the fire upon Fort Sumter. 1t was then.
-"If you want 10 find the Southern heart.
strike a blow" 1t is the same spirit now,
only little tamer-courage oozing out at
the ends of the fingers. Don't be violent if
you can help it. Don't resort TO violent
measures to Iedress your wrongs Your
wrongs! What wrongs? What wrong is
it to your Democratic party to break up the
Kuklux, and restore safety to the citizens
You will let all your secrets out if you put
forward such transparent addresses. If the
disguises which the Kuklux wear were as
thin as yours, they would be more easily
recognized. We know that the K. KS are
an organization in the interest of your party
You know that the only hope of your party
is intimidation. The last elections were
against you by 10000 and 10000. That
majority you hope 10 put under terror.
1t may be that the best of you would pre-
fer to do it by aome other means, but it
seems the best of you are determined to do
it by some-by any means.
Again, you are SO bent upon keeping up
the terror OF your Kuklux, that you are op
posed to the military being used even if is
confined to the aid of the civil authorities,