Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-14

The brilliant exploit Of the King Of
France, who, with streaming pen
mons, amid the beating Of kettle-drums
and the "squeaking Of the wry-necked
fife" marched up the hill, then down
again, in perfect order, has been
eclipsed. The Congressional Com
mittee on Southern Outrages has made
a report. For six weeks they have
been marching up the hill, blowing
their horns and beating their gongs,
and on Friday last they marched into
the Capitol with a report which proves
nothing and amounts to nothing. The
testimony is as vOluminOus as it is
villainous. The field for perjury was
most inviting, and the carpet
baggers fully occupied it. The report
is confined exclusively to North
Carolina. But few Of the native per
simmon-eaters were examined; but
the carpet-baggers, who have been
driven from Office, swore to anything
and everything that would contribute
toward placing the State under mill
tsry rule, and thus enable them TO
rob and plumber the people again.
Every man who condemned the atrOc-
tiles Of Holden, or complained Of the
despOtism Of the administration, was
put down as a Ku-Klux. Even the
Radical members who made the
majority report, are forced to con-
denim Governor Holden. The COM
mittee are conscious that the
testimony Of the perurers en-
plOyed to make out a case for
the Radicals do not justify
Interference on the part Of Congress
as they recommend nothing, and close
their report as follows: ''They have
discharged their duty in reporting the
facts, so far as their Investigations
have enabled them to do so, and in
the light Of these facts whether any
and what remedy an be applied,
must be left to the deliberations OF
Congress to determine" It was
manHesHy the object Of the Radicals,
who constituted a majority Of the
committee, TO protect the base instru-
ment5 by which Radicalism has
maintained a footing in North Caro-
from the penalties OF their
and to fabricate a pretended
case for more unconstitutionaI legtsla-
ton. The country viii not only recOl
from a new agitation, such as those
desperate demagogues propose, but it
will hold the Radicals to a strict &C
count for the frauds which they have
attempted to impose upon the people
fact, by swift witnesses to whom
perjury has become a profession.
The minority report maze by Frank
P. Blair and 7. f. Bayard, defends
the people Of North Carolina and ex-
poses the object Of the Committee on
southern Outrages. They declare
hat the moment the committee was
organized, they found such witnesses
the son Of Governor Holden, the
Kirk, and the military
ready and waiting: that
Everything went to show that mani
the result Of a plan cut and
Tried by a conspiracy Of disappointed
politicians who have lost the conf
ience Of their people, and have been
asst out Of Office by the almost unanf-
nous voice Of tle.r betrayed and in
ured constituency. They report that
Governor Holden has beggared the
reasury Of the State, and plundered.
outraged, and betrayed her people.
nd now looks TO the strong arm Of
he Federal Government as the only
means Of rescuing him and his follow
rs from the just punishment due
heir crimes. They show that two
-~illains, George W. Kirk and GEORGE
v. Berger, in violation Of the Con-
titution, were Imported into the
tate, and that their crimes were most
Messrs. Blair and Bayard
most conelusively that the dis
riders which have existed in North
'arolina are attributable to the mis-
ule Of the so-called carpet-bag State
Ulcers; the unwise legislation al
congress, and the machinatiops ofFbal
.Oyal League, in meeting and insH.
thenegToes 70 idleness. dissFac.
ron and laWlessness. The msnorit,,
sPort sneers at the proposition to
lace the State under military rule.
ecause the flag Of the nation floats in :
lacid security, and there is no pre-
'nse Of opposition to the peaceful
Deraton Of the civil law. After de- !
airing that no example OF equal sub ,