The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-05


that Judge Merrimen declared that what
had come out in the Kuklux trials was be-
yond belief. No wonder that Judge Pearson
added that it would be beyond belief it
itswere not that the Witnesses we're borne
out by facts Of men being whipped, and
men being hanged, and men being drowned |!
If any Doctor of Divinity anywhere wants
proof of total depravity, let him read this
article from the Wilmington Journal.
But SO much is NOT enough to satisfy this
blood thirsty wretch. He is sateless, as the
sea -sateless as Cerberus. He has the death
hunger He ought to take up his abode in
sight of a guillotine! o that some over
worked sheriff stood in need of hannah |!
What an amateur executioner is lost in
Cyclops! Though we may mistake in that.
He ticks his jaws with such gusto that we
suspect he has officiated in more than one
" deed without a name" Again let him
speak for himself a
"They demand 3 that the
wretch Ashley be got rid Of" g
Having taken pains to define his terms
he does not need again to tell us the signif-
canoe of "got rid Of" Listen to his solilo-
guy: "Are all the ropes used ups Are
there no vacant ponds no empty rivers, no
quick poisons, no expeditions knives, no
chance shots Let him be got rid Of" 3
One would think that there could be no
blacker or more ubiquitous phase of iniquity
than this ! but, as if for the utter dishonor
of human nature, this shameless creature
opens its rotten bosom and exhibits its
motive, and that motive is tho lust for
money. 1t has its eye on the Public Treas
ury. t1ftal-at -'l.fi hra
, There were in the Kuklux party m ore
of6ce-seekers than there, are offices. To
remedy this inconvenience it proposes a
Convention. Then all the unlucky dogs
who failed to get into the Legislature, will
have an opportunity to get a bone Never
mind the expense-make the people pay it.
To be sure Cyclops makes parade Of
figures by which he ,cndeavors to make it
appear that two bodies to do our legislation
are cheaper than one. And his process is
very simple-simple, we should say, in more
than one sense. ar
He proposes to have the pay of all public
men reduced That's beautiful Board in
Raleigh is three dollars day. He proposes
to allow Legislators three dollars and fifty
cents-that is, fifty cents day and board
We should probably get very cheap kind
of work done at that price. However, we
would suggest whether 1t would not be
better to go the whole figure, and let them
work for nothing and board themselves.
This is the British plan, and would natu-
rally commend itself to these men who are
looking back to the leeks and onions OF
Egypt. 1t is found, however, to be atten-
ded with some difficulties. II excludes poor
men from office. 1t is a constant and unceas-
ing source of corruption. For the rich men,
who, by this plan, are the only ones who
can afford to take office, have no habits
of economy; they have no sympathy with
laboring men and the taxes which seem
light to them they will lay without con-
science or feeling upon the backs of the
grooming poor. No, the better. plan is to
pay fair wages for honest work; and this
is not only the better plan but it is the
American plan to boot, The other smells
of English rags. Bal go adyz+,..
hoTo caii Convention to get rid of those
noble men who by their irmness and pru-
dence have saved The commonwealth from
anarchy, to abolish the homestead law, to
revive the old county system by which a
few nabobs kept the administration Of az
fairs in their own families, to make it impcs-
sible for poor man to hold office, to make
property conditions for suffrage, to keep
out emigration, to keep down the colored
people, to blast popular education, to throw
over the State a blight, miasma, an at
mosphere of deaths such as no dismal swamp
ever exhaled, and no nightmare of a poets
dream ever suggested; these are some Of
the objects darkly limited at in this most
satanic article. y e,s I'D
We have not named them all; for that
we have not the space, and we respect oui
readers patience. OF one thing we are
certain: the plan set forth in this article is
given ca cat.edra. 1t Is the Pope of the
party who speaks, and all the sworn v$ssals
of the Invisible Empire will hasten tolobey
the ibehests of their great leader 5al.