The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1871-03-11
TELEGRAPHIC.
Especial to the Daily Telegraph
WASHINGTON.

Ku Klux bill proposes to transfer 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 provides
for sufficient number Of troops to sus-
tain all officers in the execution of law.
Beck introduced an amnesty bill to-
day in. the House. Farnsworth sup
ported it in an earnest speech.
The Senate has confirmed the COM
missioners upon loyal claims.
The Outrage Committee has reported.
The following is the summing up:
"Ku Klux does exist. It is composed
of members of the Democratic or Con-
sentative party. It has q political pur-
pose, and is sure to carry its purpose by
murders, whipping, intimidation and
violence against its opponents. 1t
binds its members to carry out DEGREES
of crime, and protects them against con-
viction."
The minority report is also quite
lengthy. 1t concludes:
"The number of these outrages, de-
testable and wicked as they are, is,
nevertheless, grossly and wildly exag-
gerated, and this no one can doubt who
will examine the testimony and has
any knowledge of the credulity and in
accuracy of statements characteristic
of our well-meaning colored people.
"North Carolina is one Of the largest
States, territorially, in the Union, and
is divided into eighty-seven counties
and contains nearly one and half mil
lions of people. No act Of lawlessness
is actually proven to have been COM
Misunderstanding in one or the other
of six, perhaps eight, of these counties
and it is proposed to employ violent
and stringent measures Of coercion and
repression to the remaining nine-tenths
of State, against which no breath
of evidence or proof of lawlessness has
ever been adduced, but which, on the
contrary, exhibit a condition of quiet
almost suggesting the insensibility of
despair. What cause can be alleged,
and what satisfaction can be urged for
this renewed and wanton invasion of q
peaceful community? The statement
that anarchy exists there, is absurdly
untrue; and the testimony now laid
before the Senate overwhelmingly es-
tablishes its untruthfulness. If aggres-
sive laws are to be enacted, let all dis
guise be cast off and 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
confidently 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 peo-
pie by the rulers placed over them, not
by their own consent but by the exer-
else of despotic powers by the Congress
of the United States, no example of
equal submissiveness and patient endu-
rance can be found in history as now
presented by the people of the State of
North Carolina.
"This is the truth in nutshell: That
Holden and his official supporters have
essayed to maintain themselves by any
means, foul or fair, in their State. They
have appealed to popular elections, and
have been rejected with something
near to unanimity by every taxpayer
in the State, and now Congress is asked
to step in and force North Carolina
down again under the feet Of her Radi-
cal masters, and we fear that Congress
will attempt to do this unwise and
wicked thing. Will the people of the
North, free as yet, see this thing done
and sustain its promoters? We hope
Motive pray not. When will the men
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