Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-18
FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
This Afternoons PROCEEDINGS.
SATURDAY, March Is.

SENAnE,-Mr. Sumner presented a memo
rial setting forth the claim OF Elizabeth Hosey,
colored, Of Maryland, to q pension on account
OF the services o. her late husband. Referred
to Committee on Pensions. Also, memorial OF
coioIed citizens of Georgia, Sc. ny forth the
outTages which they allege are inflicted upon
them, and asking relief. Referred to Select
Committee on the South.
Mr.. Bayard moved to reconsider the passage
o. the bill 10 define a ross OF matches. He said
he had received dispatches from large IN itch
manufacturers, TO the effect that the bill woald
work most injuT1ously TO their interests.
The motion to reconsider was agreed TO.
Mr.. Chandler, from Committee on Commerce,
reported bill 10 re-establish Office OF Surveyor
at Eastport, Maine. Passed.
Bills were introduced and referred to appro-
pirate COMMITTEES, as indie lted.
By Mr.. Osborn Bill for public buildings at
jacksonville, Florida. Public Buildings.
BY Mr.. Scott: Relating to vritS OF execution
and other final process in courts or the United
BY Mr.. Cragin: To define relative rank of
Professor OF Mathematics in the navy. Naval
A fairs.
THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTH.
The Senate then took mp, as business OF the
morning hour, Mr.. Sherman's resolution alles-
ing the subyersion by armed, disguised, and
Iawless men, mainly soldiers OF the late rebel
armies, OF all civil authority in large parts OF
late insurrecton8ry States; that person. and
property are unsafe; the rights of citizens de-
MED, and the courts poweTless, by organized
perjury, TO punish crime, and instructing the
Judiciary Committee to report remedial fesis,
lati0n.
the resolution was strictly true, and that in
eleven southern States the public condition was
one OF unparalleled horror and anarchy.
Messrs Davis, Stevenson. Johnston, and
Lewis ton the democratic side) addressed the
chair.
Mr.. Lewis said the condition of his State
CElrginlal was as peaceful aud orderly as that
OF any State in the Union. He denied that any
ku klux organizations existed there.
Mr.. Johnston, the associate of Mr.. Lewis
made . similar statement.
Mr.. Sherman replied he would substantiate
the assertions OF the resolution from the testi-
mony taken before the Select Committee Of In
vestigation.
Mr.. Davis replied that there were disorders
per authority he admitted, but il would be done
sooner and much more fully IL Congress did not
interfere with the State authorizes.
Mr.. Sherman resumed, quoting from the re-
port Of the committee to show that a. a result Of
the operation OF kuklux in terrorizing and in
tmidating colored men was disgraceful to civil
mainly soldiers Of the late rebel armies, had
virtually taken up arms i'm violation of the very
liberal terms accorded them by General Grant
upon their surrender. After reading from
THE KU-KLUX OATH,
to show that the objects of the organization
were political, to prevent colored men aud
and that by il the members were bound to
murder, rob, and plumber, under the dis
eiplne prescribed by their former rebel
leaders, Mr.. Sherman said he did not
know Of any organization in history which
Tor atrocity could compare with this. The
Thugs OF India, were a secret organization
sworn to rob and plumber, but they did not CON
ceai themselves. These men committed their
crimes at night, and carried terror wherever
they went. Every member of the Senate would
admit that an organization go revolving to
number in North Carolina, hsd been stated
at 10000, but was certainly 10000 though arv
reader or the testimony would suppose it much
larger. In Rockingham county, in that State
slxty-twO OF these outrages had been committed
In one case, magistrate of a town in that
county had testified to the hanging OF
colored preacher at a late hour of the night
by IS armed. disguised men on horseback.
The dangling body of the victim was found sus-
pended from q tree in front OF the court house
with paper pinned upon it, on which were the
words: beware, We guilty, both black and
white-K. X. X" A poor, half idiot negro,
who had seen some Of these men, was drowned
several days afterwards to prevent their detec-
ton by him. Thirty eight similar cases ad been
shown to have occurred in the same VICINITY