Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Mr. Rice ins
troduced bill TO incorporate the Red
River Raft Company. Referred to the
Committee on Commerce. Also bill to
fix the time for holding the terms of the
United States District Courts in Arkansas.
| Mr.. Pool introduced a bill to create g
Western Judicial District in North Caro-
! lima.
| Public Lands Closed 10 COIOnistS.
MIR. Stewart offered a resolution direct
! ing the Secretary of the Interior to inform
! the Senate under what laws individuals
and corporations are allowed to held
large bodies of the public lard, closing
them to settlement. Mr.. Stewart stated
that with the exception of mere frac-
ton, almost the entire public domains
which had been given away had gone for
the aggrandisement of wealthy private
individuals and corporations.
Able ExpOse-Of Southern Radical
ism by Frank Blair.
Mr.. Sherman's resolution, instructing
the Judiciary Committee to bring in
Ku Klux bill, was taken up.
Mir. Blair argued that the measure it
was now proposed to pass was an as
sumption of the power of Congress to
punish violators of State law. This dan
gerous power may, and doubtless will be,
exercised at some future day, by some
other party, upon the wealthy communi-
ties In the North. The system of gov
ernment under which the South is ruled
is disgrace to our age. This carpet
bag system is perfectly infamous, by
which strangers, adventurers, men of no |
character, are ruling over people whose |
ancestors made their States what they |
are. 1t is to the interest of the people of !
those States TO repress disorders, because |
they own the property and pay the taxes.
But it is to the interest of these carpet |
baggers to manufacture and magnify |
them, because upon that they fatten. i
These stories of ouirages in North Caro-
lima, which had been detailed before a
with closed doors, with no Op.
portunity for refutation, were the utter
ances of men who wouldn't be believed
by any one. In his message to the Le-
gislature Gov. Holden said expressly,
that no disorders existed in North Caro-
lima
Abiding to the reconstruction ac's.
Dir. Blair said that whenever the Supreme
Court had any opportunity to pass upon
any question connected with them it had
invariably pronounced them unconstitu-
.ional, and Congress, knowing they were
passed an act to prevent
he Supreme Court from deciding directly
lpon its reconstruction measures.
ReiteIating his Broadhead letter, he
,QiH ha hn1inraI hn DrnrsI,,,R |
AIKEN an oath to support the constitution
hould stand to that oath, whether against
congress or Individuals. Congress vio-
ating the constitution was no m0Ie than |
mob. If the army was Withdrawn, the
csrpet-bag governments would
all of themselves.
He referred TO the address issued du-
ing the political canvass of 1868 to the
legroes of North Carolina, advising
hem TO burn the barns of people who !
discharged them on account of politics,
nd which had been written by United
tates Senator Pool and Judge Read.
he testimony Of negro before the
ommittee showed that negroes had con-
essed that they were instigated to barr |
urning by Gov. Holden and paTdoned l
7hen convicted. 1t has been indispu a. 1
ly proven that the origin of the Loyal 9
,esgues in tae South was for the purpose [
f compelling negroes to vote the Radi-
al ticket. Corruption, fraud and vii 4
Iiny reigned supreme in the North and
outh Carolnas. The people were
lundered of their substance by an army 7
( carpet-baggers. The debts of the h
tates had been enormously increased, Y
,C. He quoted from Republican papers q
f South Carolina severely commenting 4
n the Yepality of the Legislature, and \
lso from the remarks of Gov. Scott q
me of the greatest curses affecting U
outh Carolina was the horde of un- |,
2rupulous adventures from the North | h
Oming down there for purposes of II
lunder. OF the South Carolina Legis- ii
ture but thirteen were white and the p
,mainder all blacks; but nineteen could
2ad and write dramatically. fl
The debts of other Southern States n
aVe been enormously increased under f
adical rule. He knew Gov. Yarmouth, II
Louisiana, well. Yarmouth went | n
ON Missouri ragged and naked, without h
oney to pay for his breakfast. Now h
lives III d paIaCe anu rClIs IN wealth., | b
Id he (Blair) was informed never h
gned bill without price. a.
The Radicals had kept Yerger's case a
1t of the Supreme Court because the T
acts, under which he was f.
would be declared unconstitu- o.
Jnal. They thus confessed these acts g
Yet without them they 81
ould be in a minority of minority. n
Without concluding, Blair gave way, !
i'd the Senate adjourned.
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