The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-03-18
TELEGRAPHIC.
Special t" the Ouachita Telegraph.
WASHINGTON.

WAs!IlNGTON, March 10.-Morton' S
| I<u kluX bill proposes to transfer the
jurisdiction of eases 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 y sufficient number of troops to sus-
tain all officers in the execution of law.
Beck introduced an amnesty bill to-
day III the House. Farnsworth sup
| ported it in an earnest speech.
The Senate has confirmed the COM
missioners upon loyal claims.
! Tho Outrage Committee has reported.
! The following is the summing up:
"Ku NluN does exist. 1t is composed
of members OF the Democratic or Con-
scrvative party. 1t has 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 decrees
of crime, and protects them against con-
VictiOH."
The minority report is also quite
lengthy. 1t concludes:
"The number Of these outrnges, 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 credu(fty and in
accuracy Of statements characteristic
of our well-mcaning colored people.
"North Carolina is one of the largest
States, tcrritorially, in the Union, and
is divided into eighty-scvcn counties
and contains nearly one and half mill
lions of people. No act of lawlessness
IL 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-tcnths
OF state, against which no breath
OF evidence or proof of lawlcSSncsS has
ever been ndducad, 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 a
peaceful community? The statement
that anarchy exists there, is absurdly
untrue and the testimony now laid
. before the Senate overwhelmingly es-
| tabiishcs its untruthfulncss. If aEgrc5-
Sivc laws are TO be enacted, let all dis
guiSc be r:lSt Olfand true reason avOwed.
| II will not be less violent or wrong, but
it will he less hypo"ritical and more
manly. To any fair minded man we
| confidently amt the proofs contained
| in the testimony now presented by the
committee, and aver that, in the face Of
| suCh wrongs a. have been inflicted
upon our unfortunatc and crushed pco-
| pie by the rulers placed over them, not
by their own consent but by the rxcr-
cisc of d"spotic powers by Che Congress
of tho United States, no example of
equal -ub,nissivcncss and patient cndu
| rance can be found in history as now
presented by the people of the State of
North Carolina.
This il; the truth in Al nutshell: That
Holden and his official supporters have
| cssaycd 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 unnniulity by every taxpayer
in the State, and now Congress is asked
to step III and force North Carolina
down agai, under tEo feet of her R;,,li-
! cal nlnstor.4, and We fear that Congress
, will attempt to do This unwisa and
wicked thing. VIII the people of the
! North, free ns yet, sec this thing done
| and 5tist:tin its; promoters" " We hope
not t-Iyo !,rny not. When VIII the men
| now i'll mower learn truth OF what the
| great Statesmen of country said, so
| wisely ana VOL, when similar attempts
| wcr" mad" 10 govern British India:
! Ut j. the nature of tyranny and rapaci-
] ~ never TO learn moderation from the
| ill-suc"rSa of first expressions; on the
contrary, all men, thinking highly Of
| the methods dictated by their nature,
| impute the Illustration of their desires
to the want of sufficient rigor. They
| rGdOublr the efforts of their impatient
cruelty, which producing, as they must
| produce, new disnppontmcnta, they
! become irritatcd against the objects of
their rapacity and thcn rage with fury
and malice imptacable, because unpro-
vokcd Recruiting and reinforcing their
! vices, they are no longer human.
| From cruel men they are transformed
! into savage beasts. with no other 'yGS-
| tilcts Of reason left but what serves to
| furnish the incentives and rcfincmentS
OF fcrocious subtlcty for purposes of
! Whirt beasts are incai'attc ana at watch
! iirn,j~ would biush.'"
! Signed FRANK L. BLAIR.
| II. j.. BAYAED.
.bl,r,{".-Anthnny has boon chosen
president EyD tenn.
! summer dr"ljnVdtO serve on the com
! mite" on elections and privileges, and
| this changes the Chairmanship of the
committee on foreign affairs.
| Howe, in answer to n question, said
I 1t was because Summer refused to have
social Intercourse with the President or
Secretary Of state.
! The debate il entirely COntineti to Re-
puhiicanS, and was bitter and personal.
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