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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What Congress is Doing.
WASHINGTON, March

WASHINGTON, March IA.
The House proceedings yesterday in
licated ma jority of thirty revenue
Ulcers.
> y Speaker Blaine was read in Repub
lean caucus last night, in which the
President does not venture to recon-
mend any course for the Republicans tt
pursue, but suggests that some kind o.
measure be adopted for the protection
If Southern loyalists, without going in
20 further legislation.
Morton's Ku kluX bill proposes tt
transfer the jurisdiction of cases of mur
Ter and other violence to the Unitel
States Courts, and to try them before
juries on which no person who canne1
AXE the test oath should be allowed tt
it; and to provide . sufficient number
If troops to sustain all officers in tht
execution of the law. -.
Beck introduced the amnesty bill to-
day in the House, and Farnsworth sup
ported it in earnest speech.
The Senate confirmed the recently
nominated commissioners upon loya
claims.
The outrage committee reported in
summing up that Ku KuX does exist
md is composed of the members OF the
Democratic, or Conservative party. That
It has political purpose, and sought to
carry its purposes by murders, whip.
pings, intimidation and violence against
It's opponents. That it binds its mem
bers to carry out the DEGREES of crime,
md protects them against convichon.
The minority report is also quite long,
and concludes as follows: . =. o..
The number Of these outrages, detcsta-
,le and wicked as they are, is never
:heless grossly and wildly exagge Grated,
md this 10 one can doubt who will
,xamine the testimony, and who has
mad any knowledge of the credulity and
inaccuracy of the statements character
istic. of our well-me meaning colored people.
North Carolina isTone -of the largest
States, territorially,. in the Union! and
IS divided into 81 counties, and contains
learly 100000 people. No acts of law
iessness have been committed, except
.ng in one or the other of six or perhaps
eight of these counties, and yet it Is
proposed to employ violent and strln-
rent, measures of coercion and repres-
sion in the remaining nine-tenths of q
State against which no breath of evil
ience or proof of lawlessness has ever
neen adduced, but which, OIL the con-
rary. exhibits a condition of quiet al
most suggesting the insensibility Of
.e,pair. What cause can be alleged
what qualification to the American peo-
pie can be urged for this renewed and.
wanton. inYasionl Of o peacefnl lzcommu-.
atty? The statement that anarchy there
exists, is absurdly untrue, and the tes-
iimony now laid before the Senate oVer-
whelmingly establishes it's untruth. IL
aggressive laws are to be enacted, let
ilf the disguise be cast off. and the true
reason be ayowed. 1t will not he less
violent or wrong, but it will be less
,ypocritical. and more manly to any
air minded mind. We confidently
commit the proofs contained in the
estimony now presented by the COM
mittee, and aver thats in the face of
such wrongs'as have been inflicted upon
our unfortunate and crushed people by
the rulers placed over them, not by their
own consent, but by the exercise of
Iespotic powers by the Congress. Of the
United, States no example of equal
,ubmissiveness and patient endurance
can be found in history as is now pre-
-ented by the people of the State of
North Carolina. This is the truth in
a nutshell. Holden and his official
supporters have failed to maintain them
selves by any means, foul as well as
fair, in their own State. They have ap-
pealed to popular elections and have
been rejected with something near to
unanimity by every taxpayer in the
State. 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 attempt
20 do this unwise and wicked thing.
Will the people Of the North, free as
vet, see this thing done, and sustain its
promoters? We hope Motive pray not.
When will the men in power learn the
ruth of what the great statesman of
,ur century 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
On the contrary, all men,
thinking simply Of the methods dicta-
ed by their nature, attribute the frus-
ration of their desires to the want of
sufficient vigor. Then they redouble
The efforts of. their impatient cruelty
which, producing, as they must produce,
new disappointments, they become irri-
:ated against the objects of their rapac-
ity. From cruel men they are trans
.ormcd into savage beasts, with no
other vestiges of reason left but what
serve to furnish the incentives and
.efincments of ferocious subtlety for
purposes of which beasts are incapable,
and at which tiends would blush. y.
(Signed) =. .-..,
-, FRANK P. BLAIR,
II. II. BAYARD. .. ..