The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-08-12
lScKY AND NORTH CAROLINA.

m3in inert in the local contest now pend
EI,fffg>a glance at the doings of any Radical
State government in the South will soon
cure~kim Of that feeling. In Kentucky,
under the mild dominion of Democratic
principles, our taxes are far lighter than
in any other State except Maryland;
peculation is unknown; not dollar of
public money is devoted to any but pub
lie uses, and we have SO long enjoyed
immunity from arbitrary arrests, and
other outrages committed in the name
of government, that we are but too prone
to forget that such things still continue
to disgrace the land of Washington
But in our sister States, which have
been manacled and handed over to the
tender mercies of the Radical party, We
have a vision of the fate to which Radi-
calism has doomed every Southern State
upon whose throat it can lay its clutch.
We have elsewhere spoken of the OPP
pressed and plundered States of Georgia
and Louisiana, and we now direct our
readers to North Carolina for picture
of that style Of government which our
Radical candidates are asking our peo-
pie to accept,
The robbery and outrages that have
characterized Radical sway in that State
have aroused such public feeling that.
in spite of all acknowledgements and par
tisan election laws, an election free from
military interference would sweep the
Radical party from power. But Gov.
Holden, having determined to control
the August election for State Legislators
and members of Congress, has first plot
ted outrages in the name of the Kuklux,
and then, proclaiming certain counties
in state of instruction, has Inaugural
ted series Of military operations of the
most exasperating kind, with a view of
provoking popular outbreaks, declaring
martial law, and carrying the election
for the Radical candidates at the point
of the bayonct, His militia swarm in
the highways, search private houses at
midnight, surround court-houses, break
up political meetings, arrest candidates
and speakers, capture farmers at the
pillow, drive them under the lash before
drumhead courts martial, defy writs of
habeaS corpus, and declare that they will
carry out Gov. Holden's orders to shoot
down on the spot every man who can be
convicted in this way of having any
thing to do with the Kuklux. The war
cry raised by this delectable programme
after five years of peace and mute sub
mission is, "Kill the id rebels !" and
under it every citizen opposed to Hol-
den and his gang is exposed to daily in
suit and danger.
In these cruel expedients for main
tanning Radical ascondancy, Holden is
assisted by creature the like of whom
has not shown his face in any free com.
try since the reign of James III. of Eng
land. The bloody Colonel Kirk of that
day and the brutal dragons whom he
facetously called "Kirk's lambs" are
outdone by the Radical militia of North
Carolina, commanded by Colonel George
w. Kirk, whose notorious brutalities in
connection with the Brownlow militia
have pointed him out as the fitting in
strumcnt of Holdcn's conspiracy against
the people he has undertaken to gov
ern.
Now, as this is the sor! of government
produced by the unholy union of the
Radical and the negro all over the South,
we ask our voters if they want it intro
duced among US? Do they want State
government which will not let the peo-
pie pronounce upon its acts without a
civil war? Do they want another taste
Of arbitrary arrests, martial law, DRUM
head courts martial, military assessments
and hog-orders?
The Radicals have no idea of govern
ing in any other way any State that ever
held a slave. Their chief complaint of
the Democratic administration of Ken
lucky is that it refuses to proclaim mar
tial law in certain counties, and make
suffer for the crimes of a few,
Shall we never have peaceg
Democrats Of Kentucky, listen not to
the Radical song of peace! They do
not mean it. When they, or their
friends, tho independent candidates,
come purring around you with dcluslve
speeches about politics having nothing to
do with our local contests, think of North |
Carolina, think of any Southern State |
they have throttled, and remember that
YOU will rue the inaction and the mis-
taken confidence which may permit
them to get foothold in Kentucky
Strike while you can for your only hope,
the pcace-loying and law abiding Dem
ocracy.-LouiSudic CoWler-J0mnaL