The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-04-07
THE KU KLUx HUMBUa.

my of tho usual modes of party
slipping from thoir
grasp, they deem it necessary, in
their desperation, to resort to means
of more than ordinary trickery and
villainy to enable them little longer
to keep in power. The Ku Klux
humbug is the last dodge and one
which they deem will be IN eminent
success so far as holding power in
the Southern States is concerned. The
widest stories of outrages upon the
ssloyal people" ofthe South have been
conjured up by hired carpet.baggers
and suborned witnesses, and Con-
gress has been importuned by these
villainous manufacturers OF South
ern outrages" to enact tho most
stringent laws for the government of
those people. Even Grant has lent
himself as tool in this bogus "out-
rage" business and has urged upon
Congress the necessity of immediate
action. The Radicals hope by this
means to procure an excuse for keep
ing Southern Democrats and Conserv-
tives out of their seats in Congress
and supplying their places with the
plant tools of their own infamous
selection, and for carrying out still
more villainous schemes in this sa-
tanic work of reconstruction"
We have before us the minority
report cf the Senatorial Committee
ION the Condition of Affairs in the
Southern States, sui mitted to the
Senate by Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware,
on the 10th ultimo. The Committee
had Investigated the alleged outrages
in North Carolina, and majority,
in conformity with go cooked and
dried" plan, had reported most de-
2lorable state of affairs in the Old
Norsh State. Senators Frank p.
Blair aad T. f. Bayard were the
dissenting, or minority members of
the Committee, and we make the
following extracts from their very
able report:
Considering the cass as proposed,
we find the State of Norl.h Carolina
uncovered to these general, indefi-
| mite attacks upon her fidelity to the
Union and its laws, and her ability
and disposition to protect life and
property in her society. These
charges take no shape, and are sent
broadcast against her people. There
is no process of law, no information
presented, but an opportunity SIM
ply given for any one to come for
ward and assail the State and her
people in any mode, by any charac-
ter of testimony, and upon any point,
without notification, that prejudice
or animosity can suggest.
| But all this Is manifestly the re-
suit of plan ''cut and cried" by a
conspiracy formed of disappointed
politicians who have lost the conf
dence of their people, and been cast
out of Office, by the almost unani-
nous voice of a betrayed and injured
consistency. At the head of this
conspiracy plainly stands William
W. Holden, the governor of North
Carolina, aud now undergoing trial
by process of impeachment for gross
abuses of his official power, and high
misdemeanors by him committed in
color of his Office He has beggared
the treasury of his State, and plum
dered, outraged, and betrayed her
people; and looks now to the strong
arm of the Federal Government as
the only means of rescuing him and
his followers from the Just punish
ment due to their crimes. The voice
of the people of North Carolina at
the last elections declared their op-
position to him and his party, and
his last and desperate resort Is to in
fame the party passions of Congress,
and induce an exercise of unlawful
power in his behalf. In furtherance
of this scheme, the present measure
was instituted, and this committe
raised. The two Senators from
North Carolina (Abott and Pool
have efficiently aided it, suggesting
Witnesses and supplying interroga
tories for their examination, and
sometimes escorting them in person
to the door of the committee room
And what is the character of these
witnesses, found ready and in at
, tendance for examination? JOSEPH
". Holden, the son and accomplic,
of Governor w. W. Holden, heads
the list. He has been an Office
holder, fattening on the corruption
J |! of his fathers administration, th.
, sditor of his party organ; and ever
his tes..ir,eny is almost entirely hear
san in its maze, and inadmissible il
courts of justice. George W. Kirl
, and George B. Bergen cone upol
, the scene; and to the undei~igSed
there seems strange insensibility :.
the opinions of mankind In the pI o.
duction of two such atroeious charac-
ters in the role of witnesses in this
|. case. Neither of them were citizens
of North Carolina, but were called
from abroad by Holden as fitting in
strun ents for his dark and bloody
intent. In violation OF the consti.
tuition of his State, he made these
two strangers to his people officers
of militia, and having declared two
counties (Alamance and Caswell) in o
state of insurrection, he gave the un.
happy residents over to the tender