Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-28
The North Carolina Troubles.
OUTLAW ny IN AIAMASCE CouNTy--GovERNoR III
DEN Justified.

OUTLAW ny IN AI.AMANCE cuuNTY--GoyERNoK Hu1l-
DEN JUSTIFIED
A great cutlery has been attempted to be made
against Governor Holden by the Democratic
press, on account of his sending regiment of
militia to take possession of AlamaIlce county,
and kilograms from the South have been filled
with accounts of tyranny" outrages," etc.
Why the Governor was compelled to take this
course is told as follows by tho Raleigh Standard:
The Democratic Conservative presses of tho
State are loud in their denunciations Of Cover
nor Holden, because he has resorted to military
power to suppress the ontrages of the kukluk.
They know that he has done 30 as n last resort.
In vain he tried milder MEANS He issued his
proclamations, calling on the people of the
State to place the seal of their condemnation on
all lawlessness and violence, and these same
presses derided him. He appointed Captain
Pride Jones, of Orange, and Captain N. A. Ram
say, of Chatham, (both heightened gentlemen
and Democrats), TO appeal,to the people to sub
init to the law, and these presses denounced
both the Governor and his appointees. Never
before in the State were appeals to the people
to abide by the law disregarded; and what else
could the Governor dos He had appealed to
the people by proclamation; he had appointed
men of character, who had no sympathy with
| him politically, to exert their influence in the
cause of law and order, without avail. To show
their utter contempt for all law, the Kuklux took
Wyatt OUTLAW, a civil magistrate by violence,
| and executed him without trial, in the Court
I
assassinated John W. Stephens State Senator,
| in the very temple of justice, in Caswell county.
Eighty nnofendng persons in Alamance county
| have been taken from their homes and scourged,
and six have been murdered, including All i'll
| FAINT in the cradle. Thus every department of
| the State government has been set at defiance.
| The Executive appealed in vain for law and Or
der. A Judicial officer is hung without form of
law, and legislator assassinated in the temple
| of Justice And were the men who thus set the
law at defiance arraigned for their crimes by
civil authority, Not at all. The murderers OF
Outlaw are still at large, ready and willing to
murder other unoffendng citizens A Coroner'e
inquest failed to find any clue to the assassins
of Stephens, though he was murdered in open
day, in building containing hundreds of per
SONS, and situated in the centre of town. and
his murder was thought Of 30 little consequence
that to this day the civil officers of Caswell have
not officially notified the Governor that State
Senator has been murdered in their midst. Onl,
Republican State Senator had been assassina.
ted and it was not thought necessary to motif,
the Governor of the State, that a reward nigh
be offered for the detection of his assassilis
These are facts which none can deny. and W,
ask the law abiding people Of North Carolina t.
watch the men who denonnce the Governo
when lie attempts to bring murderers and assas
sins to justice. lie did not wish to resort t.
| military power. but lie has been forced to do 80
or sit quietly by, and have these MURDERS assas
snations, and outrages continue.
Governor Holden, in his recent letter to Chic
Justice person, of that State, substantially set
forth tile same facts, and among other thing
says -
"For months past there has been maturing il
these localities under the guidance of bad an,
disloyal men, dangerous secret instruction.
have invoked public opinion to aid me in sup
pressing this treason. have issued proclaina
,, ton after proclamation TO the people of tn
State to break up these unlawful combinations
have brought to bear every civil power t
restore peace and order, but all in vain. Tn
/ Constitution and laws of the United States am
of this State are set at nanght the civil court
] are no longer protection to life, liberty an,
property; assassination and outrage go unpun
ished and the civil magistrates are intimidato
, and are afraid to perform their functions. Il
! the majority of the people of these sections til
j approach OF night is like the entrance into tn
valley of the shadow of death: the men dare no
sleep beneath their roofs at night, hut abandon
} ing their wives and little ones, wander in til
woods until day.
This civil government was crrimbling aroun
me. determined to nip this new treason in til
bud BY virtue of the power vested in me
the Constitution and the laws, and by that in
, herent right of self-preservation which belong
to all Governments, | have proclaimed til
| county of Alamance in state of instruction"