Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-06-10

the Governors organ published sensation
al articles and the testimony of q man OF
notorious bad character duplicating clti-
zens of standing in other outrageous
crimes.
All this, we are to understand, was done
under sense of official duty and the obi
cations of the official oath. To doubt
that nothing was done not warranted by
the demands of justice, or that any exag-
geration or haste was caused by desire to
further the ends of party is, to doubt the
honesty and impartiality of the Governor,
under the most solemn obligations attach
ed to his ofice If we believe he has done
his fellow-citizens, knowingly or willingly,
any injustice, or the State any detriment,
he has forfeited his official claim to the
respect of our people, and deserves their
utter and universal detestation.
Has Governor Holden always acted thus
when murders and other heinous crimes
have been committed in North Carolina !?
Let US examine.
On the oath of May, in Cumberland
county, one of the most outrageous muir
ders which ever occurred in North Caro-
lima was perpetrated. We published the
fact on the 31st of May and gave the par
ticulars on the 1st of June. They were
also published in Raleigh on the same af-
ternoon in the Sentinel We have seen
brief but truthful particulars of this
outrage in Northern papers, but the
| Raleigh Standard, as late as the I'd
instant, has not even mentioned the
circumstance as an item of news. We
have seen no kilograms from the Governor
to Washington ; no proclamation for the
arrest of the criminals and it is reported
to us that the officials of Cumberland are
making little efforts to ferret out and CIR
rest the perpetrators of this fendish ont
rage. To be sure the McLeods were not
Radical politicians, but they were very
worthy and peaceable citizens. It cannot
| be possible that this fact causes the differ
ence in the Governors action. Do the
horrid oaths which bind him to the fellows
of the Loyal League override those which
bind him to the people of North Carolina
Let us see.
In Jones County the Foscue family and
| Colonel Nethercutt were brutally murdered.
No extraordinary action was taken by the
Governor. They were respectable people,
but not members OF the League. Suisse
quently Sheriff Colgrove was murdered in
| the same county, and the whole country
was excited over the false and exaggerated
accounts of it, and drunken, riotous and
murderous militia were ordered to the
county, at great expense to the people
Colgrove was Loyal Lacquer and con
victed fOrger.
In Alamance women had been outraged
barns burned, and citizens shot down, and
nothing was done for the public protection
subsequently Wyatt Outlaw, the leader Of
these bands Of rascals, was hung, and i'm
mediatcly the land resounded with the
deed Martial law was proclaimed, and
the General Government called upon fol
troops, which were dispatched TO Ala
nance.
In Robson, Harnett. Granville and
| other counties, good neil have boon mnr-
dered, houses and barns burnt, and other
crimes committed with alarming frequen-
cy, but the victims have been Conserva-
tives and the criminals Republicans. These
occurrences do not seem to have disturbed
the Governor. We have no kilograms to
! Senators and Representatives, no procla-
nations offering rewards-not even the
expression of sympathy for the sufferers.
We ask the people of North Carolina to
say ut the ballot box in August next if the
Governor has not forgotten his official OBJ
legations in his fealty to his party.