The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-03

tvrs have displayed in their last moments,
| The sacrifice of children to their God is the
essence Of their religion, and they partake
! of the flesh and blood with all the feryor that
| the Christian sacrament Of the Lords Sup
| per Is partaken.
There is Il pricStess of the order in Puerto
Prince. and it is believed that the sac
rice is now performed in secret. Since
| the execution of the eight martyrs the sect
: is said to have increased to such an eX-
tent. especially in the mountains, that it is
not now regarded as safe or polite Tor the
! Government to prosecute them any more.
Some Spicy Extracts from the Speech
| of MIR. Beck. of Kentucky. against
| the KUklux Bill.
| That * the same old story that has been
runr in the ears of the Reconstruction Com
| mitlcc for four years, and the best answer
TO il is, that while volume after volume of
the affidavits and the lies told by these men
against the people of all the southern States
have beer published and scattered broad
cast over the country, and these men have
continued TO live among the southern pe0-
ole, whom they have maligned, slandcred,
and traduced, there is not an instance OF q
single human being, white or black, having
been injured or interfcrcd with because OF
any statement he has made, or any teStl-
mOnv he has given. no matter how mali
ciouSly fal-e it may have been. 1t has been
said that Il man who never was in the trop-
les does not know what Il thunderstorm is,
that Il man who has never visited Niagara
has but Il faint IDEA OF cataract, and feel
sure that man who has not been men,
hri of the Reconstruction Committee has
no a,eu ate conception Of 4 liar.
h,,ll ~, my hand Il volume Df pNiIpntp
taken before lis relative to kukluN and
other outraces in Georgia. Men, white and
black, appeared before the committee.
claiming to be prosecuted because of their
LOYALTY, and told tales of horrid outrage>
committed by ltukluX and rebels on loyal
men that made the blood run cold. Some
Of them sworc that they had been beaten
with clubs, whipped with cowhideS, and
forced TO leave the cnuutly; that the
courts and iurie> refused them justice
in short, told tales precisely like those
manufactured and retailcd now, so like
that | sometimes suppose the cur.
rent series are copied from the old set.
The committee was mortified. Authority
WAS given TO take the afdavitS of the Judges
and other leading men Of Georgia. One
hundred and eight gentlemen responded,
embracing all the judges Of their supreme
aud other courts. The Sneak-thicvcs who
he'd sworn to such INDUSTRIOUS outragcS were
convicted Of HE bolcSt and most infamous
Pc: Jury. and they SUNK away from the COM
lnittee-:oom like detected robbers or sheep
killing Cog.
The committee ceased to consider the
ca>c and threw the evidence aside, and it
WAS only published on my motion, as will
be seen by the order on the 6rSt page, as
witS determined the world should know
what infamous >cotlndrclS the Freedmen
Bureau agents. loyal leagues, and other
vampires were, who had overrun the South
t, rob aud plumber that people and shell!
| themselves under prctcncc OF loyalty. 1t
is Miscellaneous Document No. b, third
session at the Furtieth Congress. The proof
there made saved Georgia 1T the time from
the ATTEMPTED reconstruction, though the
; President usurped the power at'terward to
reconstruct her again under Gen. Terry, rs
! ] shall show hereafter.
| The same thing occurred in Mississippi,
ard here i the document miscellaneous
Document No. 53), OF toe same session.
The same character Of proof was made by
the same cls>s of men, the same charges
| were made. ANA the same sort OF an lnves-
! ti-ation took place. The gentleman from
New York Mr.. Brooks and myself were
the only TWO Democrats out Of the nine on
that committee. But. feeble as we were.
the committee. having Mr.. Stevens, Of
! PENNSYLVANIA, ut its head, and having upon
! it the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Bingham),
! the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Farms
WORTH. and Gov. Boutwell,, men who re-
garded truth and decency, we crushed out
| and dismissed with the scurn and contempt
they deserved all the SANDERS that were
told The reports of Gen. Glilem ana his
officers, and the best citizens OF Mississippi,
made the lulsehoods apparent, and the op-
| pIessiye and unjust Constitution sought TO
be imposed on mississippi was rejected, as
| it ought to have been. But Gen. Gillem
was supplanted by Gen. Ames, because he
dared to tell the truth !; military law was
! not re&stabIshcd, an amended Constitution
was adopted, and that people got ut least a
start in the right direction, because OF this
proof thus taken.
Here is Il remarkable case, the case Of
| Tennessee. ! call to it the attention of
| Congress, and especially OF the members
from that State now upon the floor and [
! call particularly the attention OF the gen.
| tlcman from Tennessee Mr.. Maynard to
it, The then delegation from Tennessee,
with the honorable exception of Mr.. Haw-
klns, who opposed them all he could, filed
their charges against the State. Here they
are signed by Samuel NJ. Arnell, W. b.
Stokes. W. i. ProSSer, Lewis Tillman, w.
| =. ~lultu, ullu 11VluSO "
that the State of Tennessee was in u state
of revolution, and that it ought 10 be re-
constructed. | will read precisely what
they say on that point. do not propose
| to read the whole libel:
The State government of Tennessee, as
now constituted and revolutlonlZed, has
| never had any recognition by the Govern
| mcnt of the United States, and we ask that
! Congress take immediate steps to provide
for US a government, republican i'll form,
that will conducc to the happiness and well
fare of all its people,
Mr.. ELDRIDGE: When was that:
Mr.. BECK February, 1870; more than
| one wear ago. There was volume OF tes-
timouy taken. | hold il up, that gentlemen
NAV see the pile. Men came before the
committee and sWore to such things as
YOU never heard of. hope the House VIII
allow that to be published for the edlbcatlon
of the people, to show what unprlnclpled
men will swear to.
Mr.. ELDRlDGE Why was it not pub
lished! .,,
Ilr. BErK: Because those of us VINO
knew that the charges were false got tue
Governor of Tennessee, the Speaker OF tue
House and the President OF the Senate OF
Tennessee, to come here and contradict
them. We brought Federal officers ana
Federal soldiers, and Confederate o1ncers
aud Confederate soldiers, and the best cltl-
zens of the State, and they united In brand