The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-14
sound Doctrine.

Cor. Brown of Missouri, iD one of
the closing paragraphs of his message
to the legislature of that State gives
uttefance to the following sound doc
trines :-.Fsss4
I "The attempt b establish by force
of martial. law o civil society that
! would accord with the Superior gov
ernment, never has been and never
will be success. At present it is not
a success at the south, in the past it
was not a success at the north and the
teachings of ''Seventy-six" illuminate
| the failure of century later
There is latent in reconstructed States
as elsewhere throughout the Union,
much of that sentiment which finds
expression in devotion to local free
dom; sentiment exaggerated into
wrongful secession under the plant
| passion of the slavery controversy,
but one which, in the absence of sla-
very, may be channeied back into the
surest safeguard for the equal free
| dom of all. 1t is in maintaining the
germinal points from which growths
of free opinion start in preserving the
forms through which it passes into
political life, and respecting the dis
| tribution ofsdutY it imposes, the con-
stitutionalism it has created, that secu-
rity will be found for all who are COM
mingled in. such society as ours. 1t
is partly because this is assailed and
sought TO be supplanted by outward
| force salone that so little advance has
been made by the government in its
lostensible reconciliation. The same
\ result would follow in other States on
any other question thus engineered,
| and it is worthy of note by Republic
cans as well as Democrats that every
party which has passed from power
since the foundation of the Govern
ment has lost the confidence of the
people because of the attempt to un-
duly exalt the National above local
| freedoms, and to strain the national
power to ends for which it was never
designed, and by methods repulsive
to the common thought, and the pres
,ent will only add another to the list,
for it is q mistake to suppose that
Northern men do not recognize this
fatal blunder, or that they demand a
continuance of the methed of mad
ness. In this behalf trade has been
wiser than politics, and it is ever true
j that love is s&pnger than hate.
s-a rf RADICAL VILLAINY.
Scheme of a United States Assessor to get
| mp n Ku-Kiux Case in North Carolina
A damaging exposure.
| Correspondence n. Y. Hvrald.
.;,...., RALEIGH, Nov. %, 1871.
4 q An examination of alleged Ku Klux
has just been concluded here before
United States Commissioner West, in
which it transpired4that We. Hen
derson, United States Assessor for the
sixth district, compromised case of
violation of revenue law with the de-
PENDANTS, on the consideration that
they should duplicate General Leach.
! representative in Congress, as MEM
/ Der of the Ku Klux Khan. The e, l.
dence,' which was all given by the
government witnesses, showed that
! the defendants, John Hambrick and
| Williams. Moore, were members OF
the Ku Klux, having Joined the or
ganization in 1863. They had taken
the obligation, and Hambrick. who
was chief of a camp, invited General
Leach to meeting of the den in May,
! 1870, at which the oath of the order
was tender ed to him. which he Indig-
1 nantly refused to take. He told the
body, some of whom had on disguises
that the Legislature had passed law
against secret political societies, that
! this was one of that class, and he adj
yised them at once to disband.
/. Upon this advice the camp subse-
quently acted and never held another
meeting. A number of Republicans
and Union Leaguers belonged to this
den. Hamrick and Moore were re-
Gently arrested for violating the reye-
nue. laws, when Henderson, the assess
! or, made the infamous proposition as
above. After hearing the evidence iii
the case, the Commissioner simply dis
charged the defendants instead oil
holding them and committed Hender-
son for a conspiracy against General
Leach. 500