The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-03-23
co,ss,,.r ~ Ask for Troops.


of leading Tennesseeans is to the effect that |
as the Legislature of that State adjourned
without taking any notice of Governor SEN
ter's message in relation to mob violence, ~ |
is expected he will call upon the PrcsIdcut
for military assistance in supprcsslng dlsor-
dcrs, and there seems no doubt that such
request would be granted to the iuli limits
of the resources at the command OF inc
War Department. Wash. Chronicle, l2M
instant.
1t is matter of sincere regret with every
North. Carolinion that il is deemed necessary
to employ Federal troops to assist the civil
authorities in this State to suppress mob
violence. But it seems tina, we arc not singu-
lar in this respect, for the Governor Of Ten
ncssec, who was elected US a liberal Repub'
lican like Gov Walker, feels the necessity
of saying that he too must call upon the
PresidentIor military assistance. We pre-
sumo that il is not the intention al Gov
crnor sentcr, any more than II is of Gov,
Holden, to interfere with the civil law oi
the land, but rather to give the civil officers
additional aid and encouragement in their
endcavors to suppress mob violence by these,
who do interfere with peaceable exc
cutiou of the laws of the land. And we
unhesitatingly say that it is the duty OF
every Governor to do the same thing, when
he finds that there are persons disposed to
| defy all law, by taking the punishment oil
accused individuals into their own hands.
We know that the recent proclamation OF
| instruction issued by the Governor against
| Alamanee County, has not deposed single
| civil officer or hindercd the execution of u
single law. 1t is intended to strengthen
the hands of such officers, by directing the
attention of tho whole people OF the State
to them and to the outrnges committed
within their county, and TO invoke the
voice of public opinion against the iurthei
l-fr--.~--ruu Of such cnormitics Ae ''eil
tt M nc sS5l5slrs Tor The faF'as given
in Mondays Sentinel for the murder of Out
law, or the card of their representative,
until they see that the outrages are stop
ped and order restored, that they will
be held responsible by public opinion for
the acts of band of desperate men, who
are permitted to roam in their midst unmo-
Tested and in violation of law and for the
avowed purpose of violating the law. There
arc enough good men in Alamance to sup
press mob violence, if they will do so,- and
the presence OF troops is not suffi-
cicnt pretext to justify their non'inter-
ference with gang OF dcsperadoes, who
stain the name of their County by the
continued commission of the most enormous
crimes .r ...
The Federal troops in Alamance were sent
for the purposes of peace and order Who
can deny this! If this be so, why do the
people permit themselves to be placed in
hostile position to the guardians of the
pcace--to force sent there by the national
government to assist them in keeping the
peace And We must express our regret that
their representative also allows himself TO
apologize and uphold them in this position,
while the kukux remain organized and
ready to pcrpetrate other outrages. .r
Neither will it do for the Sentinel to say
at this late day, that Wyatt OUTLAW was
hung because he fired on the kukluS in the
streets Of Graham at night. 1t is too late
to retail such story now. Besides there is
no proof of its truth, and the man is dead and
cannot answer for himself Whit were tue
kuklux doing in tho streets of Graham at
night Were they not there in violation ofa
law, which pronounced men in disguise to be
be guilty OF misdemeunor, punishable with
fine and imprisonment, and If they entered
a mans house, as thcy did enter Outlaws
house, guilty Of n felony, punishable
with confinement in the penitentary at
hard work. These kuklux ut Graham arc
not only iclons but murdercrs, and 1t is
mere shadow of an apology for the friends
of the criminals to say that, at some time in
the past, the dead man shot Mt the kuklux
in the streets of Graham at night
Besides we can answer the Sentinel when
it charges Gov. Holden with being President
of the Leagues, or that he has Justified any
man, (his political friend or not his pc.
litical iriendD in shooting at any set Of
men, save in defence of his own life. The
charges are untrue, aud we brand them as
false. There is now, and has been for near
ly two years, another Grand President to
tue bcaguc, DuJ " Is u suIVliuOuN u'uol
as the leagues have fallen into dsusc
Still it not natural for a kukux to justify
his murderous organization by continual
reference to the leagues 1t is the wolf as
suming the Sleeps clothing the thief cry
ing out stop thief
The Sentinel further asks when they Uhc
leaguers) shoot at and wound them Uhc
kuklux) think you they will not retaliate r.
We reply that there was a man in Ruthor.
ford, whose wife was matreatcd by the
kukluN, who shot at aud killed one OF
them and drove the Others to South Carolina.
Think you that he too would not rstaliatc
And he was the aggricvcd party. lie, ms
many ,ifnot all the other Republicans, was the
first to receive an injury, and yet he is the
only one whom We have known to retalatc-
for the retaliation, rs the Sentinel calls it,
has, thus far, all been upon the other side
We pronounce it here, that there IS no justi-
fcation for lynch law in North Carolina. II
there he II justification for it, let it he done
as it was done before the war, in broad day
light and in the face of the community, and
there may he some apology, but still there can
he found no justification for il in all the codes
of Christcndom. But when men arc lynch
cd, at the dead of night by a band Of armed
men in disguise, there is no apology even to
he found for such proceedings and the
man who justifics such things, however well
he may stand in his community, connivcs
at deliberate and secret murder, which