The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-08-31
The North Carolina Election.

Nobody who has been at all cognizant of
the state of affairs in North Carolina, for
several months or year past, is surprised
that the. Democratic ticket has been success
iul in that State. The mode of carrying the
election has been similar TO that adopted by
the same party in Tennessee, year ago.
There the election was preceded by reign
of terror, inaugurated and carried on by a
kuklux organization, till the colered voters
and large number of the more timid white
union man had become intimidated and glad
to purchase their personal safety at the price
of staying away from the polls, and then
fraud at the polls did the rest. The only
difference in the two cases was, that Senter,
the Governor CT Tennessee, betrayed the
union men and played into the hands of the
rebel democracy, while Gov. Holden has
steadily upheld the union cause. and thus
has prevented SO sweeping rebel victory
as there would otherwise have been.
For q long time past the old leading
slavery aristocracy of North Carolina have
been the bitter and implacable foes OF Gov.
Holden and his State administration. Both
he and all the other union men as the State
have been not only politically but socially
ostracised by this class of Venomous ex-rebels.
They were resolved to get the control OF the
State at all hazards, and they contriVe with
the rufianly white trash to accomplish
that end by incitin' them to Inauguration OF
terror, while they stood by to defend them,
charging their acts of murder and violence
upon vagabond negroes, and shieldln' them
from arrest or punishment.
Gov. Holden, finding it impossible to ar
rest and punish them by the civil power OF
the State, by the advice of the President or
ganized several companies of militia, and
bv this means succeeded in arresting few
of the ku kluy assassins At this the whole
force of leading aidels and abettors cried
out with one voice against him, charging
him with inaugurating reign OF terror In
the State for the purpose of intimidating the
democrats and keeping them away from the
polls Having charge of the telegraph, they
have sent the most Infamous lying des-
patches they could invent az over the coun
try, accusing Gov Holden and the union
men of doing Just what they themselves
were doing. Their plot has been quite sue
cessfuI. They have elected a majority OF th'
congressman. and also majority OF tht
legislature, thus securing U. 5. Senator, and
it Is said, they will attempt to lmpeach Gov
Holden when the Legislature assemblies II
order to get rid of him his term extending
two years longer.
There are rumors that the same means ART
to be adopted to carry the election in Soutl
Carolina. Secret societies are already belns
organized under various names, but they al
mean ku klux. Gov Scott of the Safe, 1t i
stated, is making preparations to defend tn
union people from the midnight raids OF k'
klux, and has commenced to organized som
companies of militia And it is becoming
very apparen. that the union party of tn
South is to be overborne by fraud, intimida
tion and violence. Judge Pearson OF Mort
Carolina states that the kuklux organization
extends all through the South, and the fact j
indeed notorious. As the political situation
now looks, in less than two years, the unio
party of the South will be crushed out an
as eifectually under the political ban, as sue
party would have been before the war
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