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The weekly standard., 1870-08-03
Judge Pearson's Opinion and the Mill.
tary Movement.

We have studied long and carefully Judge
Pearson's opinion In the habeas corpus case
of A. G. Moore, and the more we see of it
the more we like it. 1t is straight forward,
honest, learned and bold.
1t is as much as we could desire, for it sus-
talns the Executive in all he has done.
In reading it casually We are apt to pass
over many significant things which only
careful perusal can call directly to our atten.
ton. Every word in it means something,
and it abounds in sentences and thoughts
which are pregnant with meaning.
The Judge decides that the Governor
has lawful power to declare counties in
state OF insurrcction whenever, in his judy
ment. il shall he necessary; that he has the
lawful power to arrest and detain all sus-
pccted parties. Thus the judiciary disap-
points the howling Kuklux, who tlronged
its chambers, and instead of placing itself
in opposition to the Executive, sustained
him in every particular. Further, the Court
declares that all the physical power of the
State is at the command of the Governor,
and that in the intent of Constitution the
Judiciary and the Executive cannot be en-
broiled. This is sentence it would he
well for the Kuklux and dsaffected to read
carefully, and, reading, to ponder on and
digest.
Again, the Chief Justice declares that
the safety of the State is the sapreme 1ep."
This he not only declares but takes spe-
cial care to call attention to, by placing it
within quotation marks
Now, the Chief Justice is u man of learn
ing; experience and fcrre. He knows the
meaning of words, and when he uses them,
uses them for purpose 1t is idle to sup
pose that his Honor would have used that
sentence without having some principle to
inculcate, some axiom to point out.
"The sgtsty of the State is the supreme
law."
What can this mean2 1t means that war
and insurrection have laws, which peace and
quiet dream not of.
Do you understand it now2 1t means
something and that is the only thing it can
mean. This is plain; the execution of it,
perhaps, may be palmer.
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03
To the Pcople of North. Carolina.

The Kuklux leaders have met with an ex
treme reverse They were leading on the
people to another conflict with the Union.
They had decreed the overthrow of the
State government. They were destroying the
peace and good order of the community.
They were making fatal stab at the NOR
ality of our people, and had well nigh un-
settled the divine principles of humanity
taught by our Lord on the Mount, and
sealed with his blood ON Cavalry. Life,
liberty and property were in many sec
tions insecurc-a tendency TO barbaric
retaliation wide spread, and the whole State
evidently drifting away from the principles
of civil liberty and civil right, to mob law
and anarchy.
At this stage the Governor and the Presi-
dent interfered with the strong arm OF mil
itary power. They delayed almost too long,
for their conflict has been severe and difficult.
They haze triumphed, they have nipped in
the bud his new treason, they have broken
! up the insurrection and have captured the
insurgents.
This great work has been misinterpreted.
They could make no explanation during
the active operations of their movements.
But in few days, a full exposition of the
whole will satisfy the people of North Caro-
lima that their prompt action has alone saved
our State from another, and bloody con-
fict. Bad men, the same who once before
| filed our whole land with mourning and
lamentation, were again at work.
In 1860 their rebellion was open and
| fragrant; this new treason secret, and there
fore the more dangerous and difficult to
| meet.
People of North Carolina, you who love
peace and order; you who cannot afford to
be again dragged into conscript armies
YOU who love the Union, and look upon the
flag of our country as the only protection
to civil rights, and the only defender
of the rights of all men-the poor and the
rich alike-stand by your country in her
hour of peril-stand firmly to those great
defenders of the Union, the President and
the Governor of this State Hold up their
hands in their efforts to maintain your rights
and the peace of the country.
An election is at hand. March up to the
polls and give moral support to these, your
| friends, by sustaining the great Republican
party for which they act.
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Not Bad.

Gen. Leach, in canvassing the 5th district
for Congress, has, in imitation OF one of his
illustrious brethren of the bar, seen fit 10
drive lean, lank, long-eared and long
legged, candaverous mouse colored horse,
evidently for the purpose of creating SYM
pathy. 1t is well known that Leach is a
lover of fine stock, and in times past kept
the best of horses ond thirty 'niggers, u
which said "niggers," he says, will vote for
him in the ensuing election, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they live in Arkansas. and
it is furthermore known to be true that he
has but one colored man living ON his lot
in Lexington.
While driving from Lcasburg to Roxboro'
the other day, the General, as is his custom
electioneered all the boys and girls on the
road. One bright little fellow put the Dem
ocratic candidate through the following
jovial course of sprouts:
Leacb-"S "Sonny, God bless you; how dc
you do2 Your mother must be fine look
ing woman! Gad bless the ladies What
do you do nova days?"
Boy-"Well, principally playing marbles
fishing and swimming. What do you fol
low, old fellow 9''
Leach-"Well, I'm following Scott. thu
Republican candidate for Congress. ivan
to beat him. Don't you think can do it 2
boy with cunning glance at the phao
tom steed)-"Ha ha ! think it will be
long time before you reach up with hin
with that ere horse.n
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Another Kuklux Proclamation,

Ex-Gov. Bragg and his associate counsel,
having failed by intimidation to make a
Kuklux of the Chief Justice; and the judi
cial recourse" the last ditch"-having
gone-ln his new proclamation, signed by
himself as chief and by number of small
fry Kuklux as associates commands his
agents to preserve the peace.
His former proclamation, while it preten-
ded to order peace, justified and cncour
aged violence. Why this change? The
vigorous policy of the Governor has subdued
his followers. The recent developments of
their hellish work in Alamance and Cas-
well, and the daily and hourly confessions
of the deluded and ignorant lower Kuklux,
have struck terror into their camp. We do
not now hear from his lips grandiloquent
appeals for war" let the blood rest upon
him who shall resist your Honor's writ
justitia fiat, ruat, coeIum. He sings diff
ferent tune, now He is preparing to de-
sert his deluded followers and leave them to
their fate. He did it once and we may ex-
pect it of him again.
Poor men of North Carolina beware of
these old party hacks. To save their ne
groes they brought upon us the miseries of
the war, in which we had no interest. They
promised us peaceable Secession. and they
gave us bloody war, and the conscript act
You suffered, for your wives and little ones
depended upon your labors for their support.
These leaders revelled in plenty when your
families were pinched with hunger. You
are not OF them, your interests are diverse
from theirs, and they but use you as tools.
They arc about to provoke a new war
with the Union, and they are infaming you
against the only friend you have, the United
States.
Bragg and company were their leaders in
1S60-61; Bragg and company are their
leaders now They deceived you then, they
will deceive you now. They deserted you
then, they will and are preparing to desert
you now.
Shun them as you would viper, that had
stung you once and was preparing to sting
you again with renewed venom.
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The Emperor of the Kuklux.

He has fled! This chief of the highest
order-the invisible Empire -. The
man whose mere mandate could cause the
assassination of any man in North Carolina !;
who long since has decrsed the death of his
Exceiicncy the Governor; and whose horrid
design was only prevented by an active and
vigllant police; the prime agent in all the
terrible crimes which have disgraced our
State-has fled Let him go. 1t is we'll
that we are nd of such dangerous secret
enemy. Let him wander like Mazzini in
mountains and caves; for we tell him that
unless he flies beyond the limits of the Uni
ted States, and of those governments with
which we have extradition treaties he will
be dragged back and punished for his MUIR
ders, and other horrid crimes, of which he
was the prime instigator.
North Carolina's Governor loves her peo-
pie. He is determined to protect them from
this Emperor and all other tyrants. He has
many Of the subordinates in this new treason
now in custody, and we are satisfied that he
will have their chief.
Oh what horrid state of things when
in Republican Government, q secret des-
potism can be established and sworn to sub
vert liberty and to destroy peace and order.
And how unreasonable it is that the appa-
rent friends of liberty should attempt to
thwart the Chief Executive in his effort to
put down this horrid combination.
We are satisfied that the people of NorthJ
Carolina will sustain their Governor in this
extreme emergency, that they will rally to
his support in all the measures he has
adopted to save them from the horrors of
another war.
He has appealed to an unusual, but ne
cessary principle of government, the mill.
tary power, in this our greatest trial. His
justification is in the result. He has broken
up and crushed this terrible Organization
this new and dangerous treason. He owed
it to the people of North Carolina who had
honored him; and we are satisfied that
they will uphold him in what he has done.
He has restored law and order. He has
preserved the public peace He has saved
the poor and the humble from the persccu-
tions OF the rich ard powerful, and as eli
max, he has rid North Carolina OF her
greatest enemy, the Emperor of the Kuklux.
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Gov. Bragg & Co.'S Address to the People

Gov. Bragg d COS Address TO the PeOple.
Gov. Bragg and the rest of the Kuklux
are out in an address in Saturdays Sentinel
to the Kuklux of this State 1t is like most
of the documents that have lately emanatcd
from the Sentinel Office, full of misrepresen-
tations and falsehoods. 1t consists almost
entirely of re-hashed editorials of the Sen
tinel. There is no proof in them, there is
no point in them.
1t advises, or rather orders, the Kukux to
be quiet. This is piece of advice we
would most earnestly join them in. 1t is an
old maxim that there is no rest for the
wicked" 1t may be shortly, perhaps,
proved to bc new one as well.
There is one thing, however, to which we
call attention. 1t either proves that those
Kuklux depended upon our ignorance or
relied upon their imagination. Either is
equally as bad, for it shows want of sin.
cerity and truth In this address it is stated
that though the power of the Governor to
raise such force has all the while been as
serted by him, yet no law has been shown
By him to authorize it, and we are confident
that none such exists"
The Sentinel saves US the trouble for i:
gives it in the same issue itself. The Sen.
tinel says in our article upon Gov. Holden
that "on the 10th OF December last the no.
torious and infamous bill, known as the
Shoffner militia bill, under the authority oi
which good citizens of this State are now
being arrested, etc., ETC."
"The notorious and infamous bill" Il
then seems it was notorious. If it was "no
torious," the Sentinel and its backer, Gov
Bragg, must have known of it. This is un
fortunate for them. You ought to remem
ber, gentlemen, never to make two different
statements in tho same paper. Try and liz
within reason. if possible, and don't fore
us to see your mendacity.
In one column it is denied that there il
any authority for the military movement
and in another the authority itself is quoted
We can stand ordinary lies, but such an
extraordinary one cannot help attracting ou
| attention,
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False Rumors.
All sorts of false rumors have been put in
circulation through the State by the Kuklux

All sorts OF false rumors have been put in
circulation through the State by the Kuklux
Democracy.
One is that the election will continue two
days. There will be but one voting day.
Another is that the election has been sus-
pended in number of counties, and that it
will probably be suspended entirely. There
is no power to suspend the election.
Another is that the people Of the State at
large will be burdcned with heavy taxes
next year to pay for calling out the militia.
The law requires that the expense incurred
in calling out the militia shall be borne by
the counties declared in state Of insurrec-
ton. Thus the law.abidisg citizens of
Warren and Halifax will not be taxed one
cent to pay the expenses of the mill
tia. That expense must be borne by
the property holders of Alamance and
Caswell who have encouraged the Ku-
klux in their outrages. and who have
helped to screen them from justice. 1t is
further provided that when person or per-
sons is convicted of Kukluxing, the expen-
ses of the militia shall be taxed in the bill
Of costs against said person or persons and
paid into the County treasury.
This is Just. If influential citizens in AL
amance and Caswell disregard the laws and
whip, and mutilate and murder any human
being in those Counties, or if they encour-
age others so to do, they should he made to
foot the bill. If the Taxpayers of Wake
have set their faces against all violence and
lawlessness, and by the force of public opin-
ion, kept down the Kuklux and protected
inoffcnsive citizens, it would be unjust to
call on these w-abiding Taxpayers to pay
for the crimes committed in Caswell and
Alamance, and the law does not require it.
The property holders can exercise whole
some influence in behalf of law and order,
and prevent the outrages which have for the
past twelve months disgraced portions of
this State. If they choose to conspire with
outlaws against the peace of society, they
must pay for their folly, and all good men
will saw amen
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Letter from Lenoir.

Mr.. EDIToR.-I noticed in the Sentinel of
the 23rd, card from w. II. Malone, Carpet
bag member from Tennessce) explaining his
motive in not appearing in the halls of the
State Capital at the time of the next meet
ing of the General Assembly. The truth is
this, he was anxious to oblige US, but we
are not asses enough to be disgraced by him
q second time. His own party acknowl-
edged that there arc not five men in the
county who would, vote for Malone, and SO
far as his nomination is concerned, his name
was not so much as mentioned amongst them.
The Conservatives got sick of their member
when they read the Standard last winter.
Not long since there was public meet
ing in Lenoir, and Mr. Malone was
heard to say that if the people did not do
something for him he would do something
for himself. The Conservatives were GER
tain he was coming over to the Republican
party. He spoke of "a clique" beng
against him. There is one, it comprises the
voting population of this county. We have
only to refer to the Standard to find a mans
record in the City of Oaks.
Lcnoir, July 29th, 1870
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Caution.

The story goes that monkey once used
cats paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire.
The cat got the scorching while the monkey
got the chestnuts and the monkey though.
it very prudent and praiseworthy trans
action.
Gov. Graham uses the Kuklux to get Office
for himself and Ills son Johnny, but is pru-
dent enough to keep himself and all of his
kin out OF the scrape. He loves the chest
nuts but takes care of the fire.
Caution is sometimes rascally virtue.
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Mean.

JOSIAH TURNER in his Hillsborough reso-
lutions ccnsures Judge Pearson for bis delay
in the Kuklux case. The same charge has
been made in several editions of the Sentinel.
Judge Pearson for three days listened
with great patience and courtesy to the long
and infamitory speeches of the counsel for
the Kuklux, while the counsel for the State
spoke only one hour. The Judge in one
day examined the authorities cited and
wrote a calm. learned and able opinion upon
the important questions involved, and yet
he is censurcd for delay.
Why have nos the learned and distinguish
ed counsel who caused the delay been gen.
erous enough to correct the impudent and
injurious charges of the Kuklux organ
1t seems to US, however, that you Kuklux
should not growl about the delay. The
opinion come soon enough for you, we
should think.
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

INCIDENT AT THE nquisi-
tive Irishman to modest countryman: "Are
you tor the Prussians or the French in this
fght?"
Modest countryman, looking emphatic
I'm for Tim Lee for Sheriff of Wake
county"
Inquisitive Irishman BE jabbers, 1 be-
lave every mothers son of us is on that
same side"
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Hon. Yirtuous ]. Leach.

Poor virtuous Jeemes, we pity thee, in
deed we do. Nature hath played thee false.
She gave thee the ambition of a Napoleon,
the vanity of a peocock, and one third tile
sense of a dull mosquito, and this is why
we pity thee
Oh Nature, nature why did'st thou treat
our Jeemes thusly. Or did'st thou think
that by making him Leach he could suck
votes In this thou art mistaken for be is
too virtuous to do so.
Poor, poor Jeemes, he had better leave
and retire. Persistence can only bring NOR
tifcation. 1000 majority for Scott next
Thursday will ring thy political death knell
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We have Just received from mrs. A. j.
Moore, of this county, a cabbage weighing
81 pounds, and measuring 45 inches in cir
cumierence. 1t is decidedly the finest spe.
clmen we have ever seen in the Old North
State.
We venture to assert no one in the county
can equal it. Try it, will you? some OF you
citizens.
There has been one on exhibition at the
Sentinel office for sometime that lays way
over tit is of the drumhead species. We
believe it is now on exhibition in Alamance
county, drumming up subscribers for the
second edition of Pomeroy's Democrat.
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

Gov. Graham draws the line of color, and
upon this rock they build the White Broth
erhood Can it be that the founder of this
degree has been permitted to put Others on
the rock and cry out, so it boys, while he
fingered in the rear? Does he think that
the rascally virtue Prudence, which has been
his motto through life, will now shield him
from the scorn and contempt of his delu-
ded victims, the Kuklux, or from the just
penalties which the law attaches to one
who aids, comforts, counsels and advises
crime? Did prudence prevent him from
going to Washington with Col. Bedford
Brown, as promised, to pray for his victims
to an offended Executive? Judging from the
tenor Of Col. Browns talk IN Raleigh
while lie may think that Graham's conduct
was prudent, it must remind him of the
catspaw.
He forgot his usual prudence when he told
the boys that the whipping of poor color
ed woman was "a species of wild justice
perhaps necessary" and did not tell them
that wild justice" did not extend to put
ting negroes in mill ponds, and to hanging
them in the court grove and by the high
ways.
Vance has none of this rascally virtue He
rushcs into folly and crime like catamount
in full jump. Though thou bray fool in
u mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet
will not his foolishncss depart from him."
Poor white e-faced, white-eyed, white liver.
ed braggart Turner, nobody expected
anything better of him. His raising was
coarse, vulgar and brutal, and he has never
known or felt any of the impulses that ac-
tuate virtious and good man. To exhort
him to truth, virtue and honesty is to cast
pearls before swine. Graham is better and
in all probability, would have been better
man but for his association with Turner.
You cannot touch pitch and not be defilcd
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

E. ! M u K
THE HoT SEAsoN-ITs EFFECT UPON In
DIvIDUAL HEALTH.-The present hot season
has been one of unprecedented length, fol
this latitude. For two or three days to.
gether we have often felt it as warm-but
cannot now recollect of any period when
we had two and three weeks of such intense
heat, and at one time; and while it has not
to our knowledge, materially affected the
health of our city, or even the country i'm
mediately adjacent, we are panied to learn
that other localities are suffering sickness
and death.
From private letter just to hand from
the town of Wilson, we are informed that
that people have been, and continue to be,
greatly afflicted. Many deaths have taken
place among the children, and several adults
have fallen victims. Among the adults, DR..
Winstead, a few days since, died suddenly
from the effects of congestive chill. The
day before he was, apparently, in the full
vigor of health. That community has our
sympathy, and we trust, as the days grow
shorter, and the nights become cooler, the
health of the tnwn may improve, and the
faces that now look sad, may become bright
and cheerful under the return OF health.
While on this subject, we may be par
doned for the suggestion, that our city
fathers may not relax their vigilance in look
ing after the cleanliness of our own city.
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

THE Lexington Gazette tells this extraordi-
nary story: @Weh heard a wei, authenticated
story, day or two ago, that seems hardly
credible, but it is vouched for by respecta-
BILE lady, who knows the facts. A poor old
woman, living on Elkhorn, many years ago,
had no fowls of any kind, and was too poor
to buy any, but her little son founda ducks
nest with two eggs in it, and carried them to
his mother. She had no way of Matching them,
SO she put them in her hosom and carried
them there till the heat of her body did ac-
tually hatch out two ducks The old woman
would actually sit on the side of the creek
every day for hours, knitting industriously,
but waching her little charges most attentive
ly. This continued until the ducks were fully
grown and able to take tire of themselves" p"
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We LEARN from gentleman who has
recently travelled in the adjoining counties,
that the people are preparing to visit the
fair in Raleigh this Fall.
The city of Raleigh has taxed her citizens
to purchase handsome grounds and aid in
erecting buildings, and now we hope our
country friends will come forward and aid
in the good work by such contributions as
they are able to make. ..e.-." ,-.--'
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

BUNNY EDWARDS, (colored,) was arrested
On yesterday on a charge of confscating :"
certain amount of U. S. legal tender from
person who had no desire to part with the
same, and who therefore reported Bunny to
the Mayor, who committed him to Jail in
default of bail. Bunny, though a young
lad, is old in sin, and will, in all probability,
do the State some service as quarryman,
on the old love rock.n
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

KEEPING UP AccoUNTs.-Collectors of in
ternal revenue have been notified by special
circular from the acting commissioner that
all taxes assigned to them prior to January
1, 1870, either upon lists transferred to them
by other collectors or upon their own, must
be accounted for within ninety days after
the receipt of the circular; and that all the
taxes assigned to them for collection since
the 1st of January, 1870, and prior to the
receipt of the circular, must be accounted
for within six months from the date of re-
ceiving the circular.
The deputy commissioner of internal rev.
enue having charge of the division of ac-
counts has instituted new system of ac-
countability, and hereafter collectors will be
required to forward their monthly reports
within ten days AFTER the expiration of the
month for which thee is made.
The weekly standard., 1870-08-03

SURVEYORS OF DIsTILLERIEs. s.-Deputy
Commissioner Douglas has appointed about
one Thousand Surveyors of Distilleries, for
'he various Revenue Districts: the larger
number Of whom are for the Southern
states Their duties are to survey the
Whisky and other distillerics and draft a
plan OF them all, and forward the plans to
The department. These surveyors work in
Conjunction with the assessors of the dis
'nets to which they are appointed.