Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-26
RADICAL NFAMY FOREToLD.

be no change in the time for holding the
Convention. ~, II 800,
RADICAL INFANIY FORETOLD.
The Radical defeat in North Carolina,
as complete and overwhelming as it is, is
moi, it appears, to be accepted by the van
dulshed party, and 80 they have concocted
an infamous scheme to thwsrt the ex-
pressed will of the people. They ap-
pealed to the people through the ballot
box, and the deliberately expressed judg-
ment of that people was against them.
Nothing appeared in the Radical papers
at the time charging that the election was
unfair, or that any improper means were
resorted to by the Democrats in their eff
forts to carry the State. q No such charges
could be made, because all the election
machinery was in the hands of the Radi-
Gals. Yet with all the precautions the
Radicals took-going 80 far as to declare
martial law and quarter militia upon the
citizens of two or three counties, and the
arrest by the militia of large number of
prominent gentlemen of these counties,
that the people of the State might thereby
be inundated and deferred from going
| to the polls-with ell this and more too,
they were overwhelmed by majority
for the Democratic ticket which run up
to about fifteen thousand Kicked out of
power by an overwhelming vote of the
people, the Holdens, the Kinks, and the
Abbotts are to appeal to Congress to
have the election set aside, and the State
turned over again to the tender mercies of
Holden and Kinks military mob. Their
programme is developed by the Washing
| ton correspondent of the New York
Tribune as follows:
l. WAsHNaToE, Aug. ia delegation
of Republicans have arrived here from
| North Carolina, and intend to proceed
North to lay before members of Congress
and others the condition of affairs in that
/ State and the attitude of the colored men.
The members of the delegation are
vouched for by trustworthy authority as
being wholly responsible, and that their
statements are entitled to full credit.
They have also mass of evidence, going
/ to show in what manner the election in
that State was carried by the Ku- Klux
| organization. Col, George M. Arnold,
| who comes direct from Wilmington and
Raleigh, says that Gov. Holden is accu-
mulating authenticated testimony In re-
gard to the outrages in the State, and that
he win arrive here with Senator Abbott
next week to lay the facts before
the President and Secretary of War.
They viii urge the continuance of
the military in the State to aid
| In the arrest and punishment of criminals,
the number of whom enable them to defy
the civil processes. An effort will also
be made In Congress TO set the election
aside, as it is clearly shown that %, 900
colored men in the State, owing to bodily
| injury, threats and intimidation, were
kept from the polls. The most appalling
crimes were committed, crimes which In
atrocity have never been equaled IL the
annals of history except by savages on
the plains; and there is the most con-
vincing evidence of the cruelties of the
outlaws, not only to men but to women,
white and black, already in the hands of
the Governor. On election day, in the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, it is rep.
resented that there was no pretense of
holding a fair election in some of the dis
| tricIs that colOred men were openly
mobbed, their lives threatened, and 9
reign of terror overspread the whole
colored population. Gov. Holden be-
lieves that the Federal troops are still
necessary to preserve the public peact
and protect loyal men, and with the Re
publican Congressman from that State,
will urge the President to continue all the
troops now in the State, at least until
Congress assemblies in December.
For coel, brazen-fsced impudence ant
accomplished knsvery, this scheme of re
gaining lost power caps the climax
Holden's course was part of pro
gramme mapped out and agreed upon a
Washington early in the spring. Fearing
the loss of the State, and of United
States Senator, it was agreed that ht
should en-, er upon career of usurpstion,
call out mixed military force, place 8
noted outlaw from another State at the
head of 1t, and thus prevent, If possible,
free expression of the people at the bal
lot box. And this corrupt and crimina
scheme, Matched in the foul Radical mes
at Washington, had tho sanction of Gen
Grant, and was actually upheld by thu
army of the United States. This infa
nous plot was exposed by the Washing
ton correspondent of the New Yori
| Tribune: 144 -.C-. sE--- &C.
| WASHINGTON, May %, 1S7o.-It is be
lieved that the ensuing elections In the
South will result in some instances, moi
perhaps in the Gefest of the Republican
party, but in the defeat of certain indi
| viduals who are and have been using that
party as means only to their own selfish
advancement. Foreseeing this, the effort
Is to get up an excuse to declare martha
law, and local newspapers in the interest
| of the men alluded to are teeming with
accounts of outrsges. This is particu
larry the case in North Carolina, and nc
surprise need be felt at daily dish OF
horrors from that State, served up in the
| Chronicle; for said one of the North
Carolina Senators, we intend to use the
military, and in justification, we must gel
these statements disseminated through the
North ," o.. ..
Here we have the scheme by which
Holden attempted to carry North Carroll,
ma, exposed more than two months before
the election came off, and that too by s
Radical correspondent and IN Radica]
paper. They attempted TO carry the in.