Southern shield., 1870-07-30
THE TROUBLES IN NORTH CAR.
 OLINA.
Another View of the Situation.

Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.
 There is coming to be felt considerable interest here in North Carolina affairs, though it seems to be almost imp0sSi- ble to get a reasonable statement as to the questions at issue, about which the people of the State are so much eXcit- ed. Governor Holden claims that two or three counties have practically been in condition of Outlawry for some montus; that the Kh-Klux had organ lzed there, and were rowing up and down, and committing outrages and murders without numbers; that life and property were in constant jeopardy, and that he had in vain appealed to the better class of citizens to create a pub lie sentiment such as would compel bad characters to keep the peace. Some
 weeks ago he put these counties urferv- martial law, and proceeded to organ ize the State Militia on a large scale. Then he suddenly calledi ill one Colonel Kirk, somewhat noted as a bold and impetuOus man from Tennessee, gave him command of five or six hundred negro troops, sent him into Caswell and Allamonce counties, where he has arrested numerous citizens on a gener- al charge that they are directly or in directly responsible for the alleged outrages. The regular press reports, though strongly partisan against the Governor, show that the Chief Justic of the State is not disposed to uphold Kirk's proceedings. Holden is sus- tained in his work by both Senators and some of the Representatives of the State, and opposed by great many other persons. These deny that there was originally any serious disturbance in the counties named; say that the Governors whole course is for political effect; assert that there was no necessi ty whatever for declaring martal law, or calling out the militia charge that the object is to get negro soldiers into the principal towns. so as to carry the elections of next week i'll the interest of Holden, and declare that Kirk's conduct is in violation of the law and the constitution. That the existing state of affairs down there, in the coun- try west and nortwest of Raleigh, is very bad, statements from all sources clearly show. An army officer, who
 has just been through that section on business, says that the reports which have come North of the outrages con- nitted are by on means exaggerated. mans I1fo io sofa who gives the tfitst tiies otlttGa2wsss taltttGa2ss to those who couten powerless, and this officer thinks Hol- dens course the only one by which peaceably disposed citizens. could be afforded protection. There sAsgoYern. ment troops Q. foOIeIgn, Graham, the county seat of Allam0nce, and Yan- ceyville, the county seat of Caswell; but their presence has little effect, since they can only act in particular casses under the ditection of civil officers, and, in any special case of outlawry, the offenders are out of reach before the aid of troops can be procured. In this case, the sympathies of the officers of the troops are unmistakably with Governor Holden. In many instances it seems pretty certain that some of the prominent citizens have been arrested by Kirk, principally as hostages, ra- ther than uponsany deinate evidence that they have been directly concerned in the crimes committed. Kirk's idea, he says, appears to be that, if the best citizens chose, they could so discourage as tO PI57 Jnt tfic 07.t7sY,o sftes s.lse7, and so he judged them sufficiently guilty for his purposes. So far as ne cessity for interference of the militia is concerned, the officers stationed there seem to have no doubt, and so they side with the Governor. The manner in which Kirk has performed his work, however, is doubtless open to very severe criticism. He has brought about such condition of affairs as is feared will cause still more serious trouble, if the courts fail to endorse Holden,