Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-11
WASHINGTON.
SAN DOMINGO ANNEXATION.
Report Of the Committee on Southern
49, fsff Outrages.

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WASHINGTON, March 1O.-The Hous
proceedings yesterday indicated majorit.
of thirty revenue reformers.
In the caucus of last night there was ap
pointed a committee of five and MIR. But
| Ter, as chairman of the committee, report.
| tonight. H I#H 51f
A private letter from the President tt
| Speaker Blaine was read, during the eau
Gus, in which the President does not ven.
! ture to recommend any course for the Re
publicans to pursue, but suggests that some
kind of measures be adopted for the pro-
lection of Southern loyalists without going
into further legislation. Pc
Letters from San Domingo think that
the annexation will prevail. but say the
Island is turbulent and that the opponents
to annexation threaten incendiaryism.
The Virginia Conservatives have re-
nominated johnson to the United States
Senate.
Napoleon protests against the action OF
the Assembly declaring against his dy-
nasty. He says the Assembly was only
created to make peace, that the foundation
of public rights is plebiscite, and he will
bow to thai alone.
William d. Wheeler. editor of the Ban
gor (hIaine) Daily Why and Courier, is
dead-aged "a years.
The Supreme Court has adjourned to the
Goth instant.
The following nominations were made
Back, Appraiser of Merchandise for Mo-
bile; Ferguson, Inspector of Steamboats,
for the Second District; Yorain, Collector,
and Mcpherson Assessor for the First Dis
trict of Texas Gray, Judge for the Eastern
District of Texas; VIM. G. Gallagher,
Pension Agent for Louisville, KY; Asa
Oaddes, James b. Howell, Orange Ferries,
as Commissioners on Loyal Southern
Claims Hamilton, Marshal for the North
ern District of Florida; Rayford, Assessor
for the Second Georgia District; Jennings,
Assessor for the Third Alabama District !:
Fabius Mckee Danar, Assistant Apprais-
er of Merchandise for New Orleans B. P.
Blanchard, Postmaster for New Orleans
Morton's Ku-Klux Bill proposes to trans
fer the jurisdiction of cases of murder and
other violence to the United States Courts,
and to try them before juries, on which no
person who cannot take the test oath
should be allowed to sit, and to provide a
sufficient number of troops to sustain all
officers in the execution of the law.
Beck introduced the Amnesty Bill to-
day in the House. Farnsworth supported
it in an earnest speech.
The Senate confirmed the Commission
ers upon Loyal Claims.
The Outrage Committee reported, sum-
lining up that Ku-KluX does exist, is COM
posed of members of the Democratic or
Conservative party, has political purpose,
and has sought to carry its purposes by
murders, whippings, intimidation and vio-
lence against its opponents; 1t binds its
members to carry out the DEGREES of crime
and protects them against conviction.
The minority report is also quite long,
and concludes The number of these out
ron cfoI nd Qd &C
is, nevertheless, grossly and wildly exag-
gerated, and this no one can doubt who
will examine the testimony and has had
any knowledge of the credulity and mac
curacy of statement characteristic of our
we'll meaning colored people. North Car
olina is one of the largest States terrific
rally in the Union, and is divided into
counties, and contains nearly
l 500, 900 people. No act of lawlessness is
proven to have been committed,
excepting in one or the other of six, per-
haps eight, of these counties; and yet it is
to employ violent and stringent
of coercion and repression to the
remaining nine-tenths of a State against
which no breath of evidence or proof of
lawlessless has ever been adduced, but
which, on the contrary, exhibits condi-
ton of quiet almost suggesting the in
of despair. What cause can be
qualification to the Ameri-
can people can be urged for this renewed
and wanton invasion of a peaceful COM
munity? The statement that anarchy ex-
lists there is absurdly untrue, and the tes-
timony now laid before the Senate over
establishes its untruth. If
laws are to be enacted, let all
disguise be cast off and the true reason
avowed. It will not be less violent or
wrong, but it will be less hypocritical and
more manly. To any fair-minded man we
commit the proofs contained
in the testimony now presented by the
Committee, and aver that in the face of
such wrongs as have been inflicted upon
our unfortunate and crushed people by the
but by the exercise of despotic
powers by the Congress of the u nitedStates,
no example Of equal submissiveness and
patient endurance can be found in history
as is now presented by the people of the
State of North Carolina. This is the truth
ia nutshell-that Holden and his official
have failed to maintain them
selves by any means, foul as well as fair,
in their State; they have appealed to pop
ular elections, and have been rejected with
near to unanimity by every tax
payer in the State, and now Congress is
asked to step in and force North Carolina
down again under the feet of her Radical
masters, and we fear that Congress will at
tempt to do this unwise and wicked thing. |
Will the people of the North, who are free
as yet, see this thing done and sustain its
promoters? We hope not; we pray not |
When will the men now in power learn |
the truth of what the great statesman of
our country said so wisely and we'll when |
similar attempts were made to govern |
British India? 1t is the nature of tyranny |
and rapacity never to learn moderation |
from the i'll success Of first expressions |
on the contrary, all men, thinking highly |
Of the methods dictated by their nature, inn
pute the Illustration of their desires to the |
want of sufficient vigor. Then they re-
double the effsrts of their impatience and |
cruelty, which, producing, as they must
produce, new disappointments, they now |
become irritated against the objects of their |
capacity, and then vague fury and malice |
because unprovoked, recruit |
ng and reinforcing their avarice, their
ices are no longer human. From cruel |