The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-03-16
Congressional.
Interesting Proceedings.


a Reform. The caucus of the night
previous, appointed II committee of five,
with Butler rs chairman.
Aprivate letter from the President to
Speaker Blaine was read, in which the
President did not venture to recommend
any course for the Republicans to pursue
but suggests that some kind ola meas
ure be adopted for the protection of
Southern loyalists, without going into
further Legislation.
Letters received from San Domingo
think annexation will prevail f; but the
Island is turbulent. The opponents of
annexation threaten incchdiurism.
The Conservatives Of Virginia have
rcnominatod johnson to the United
States Senate.
Morton's Kuklux bill proposes to
transfer the jurisdiction of cases of MUIR
der and other violence to the United
States Courts, and to try them before
juries, on which no person who can not
take the test oath should DO allowed to
set, and to provide a sufficient number
of troops to sustain all officers in the
execution of the law.
Beck introduced M amnesty bill in
the House. Furnsworth supported it in
an earnest speech.
The Senate confirmed the Commits
sioners upon loyal claims.
Tho nTLFGWn r,p,r,,FI,, ,,,1o
port, of which the following is Il summa-
ny. The Kuklux does exist is compo-
sed Of members of the Democratic OF
Conservative party; it has a political
purpose, and has sought to carry it's
purposes by murders, whippings, intim-
idat;on and malice against its opponents.
1t binds its members to carry out its de-
crees Of crime and protects them against
conviction.
The minority report is also quite long
and concludes us follows The number
Of these outra9cs, detcstablc and wicked
us they are, is nevertheless grossly and
wildly exaggerated, and this no one can
doubt who will examine tho testimony
and has had any knowledge of the Gre
dulity and inaccuracy OF statement char
acteristic Of our well meaning colored
people. North Carolina is one of the
largest States torritorially in the Union,
and is divided into cighty-sevcn corln-
ties and contains nearly one and u half
millions people. No act of the lawlcss-
ness is actually proven to have been
committed, excepting in one OF the other
Of six, perhaps eight, of these counties,
anb yet it is proposed to employ violent
and stringent measures of coercion and
repression to the remaining nine-tcnths
Of II State, against which no breath of
evidence OF proof Of lawlessness has ever
been adduced, but which ON the confirm
ny exhibits a condition of quiet almost
suggesting the insonsibility of despair.
What can be alleged, what gratifi-
cation to the American people can be
urged, for this renewed and wantOn in
Wasion Of u peaceful community? The
statement that anarchy there exists, is
gbsmdly untrue, and the testimony, now
laid before the Senate, overwhelmingly
establishes its untruth. If aggressive
laws aro to be enacted, let all disguise
be cast off and the true reason avowod !;
it will not be less violent OR wrong, but
it will be less hypocritical and more
manly to any fur minded man. We
confidently commit the proofs contained
i'll the testimony, now presented by the
Committee, and aver that in the face of
such wrongs us have been inflicted upon
orT unfortunate and crushed people by
the rulers placed over them, not by their
own consent but by the exercise of des-
potic powers by the Congress of the
United States, ut example of equal sub
missiyoness and patient endurance can
be found i'll history, as is now presented
by the people Of the State of North Car
Dina. This is the truth in II nut shell :
Holden and his official supporters have
failed to maintain themselves by any
means, foul us well us fair, i'll their State Z;
they have appealed to popular elections
and have been rejected with something
near to unanamity by every tax payer
i'll the State and now Congress is asked
to step i'll and force North Carolina down
again under the feet of her Radical mas
ters-and we fear that Congress will at
tempt to do this unwise and wicked
thing. VIII the people of the North,
free us yet, see this thing done and sus-
tain its promoters? We hope motive
pray not.
When will the men now in power
learn the truth of what the great states
man of our country said so wisely and
well when similar attempts were made
to govern British India? It is the ma
turo Of tyranny and rapacity never to
learn moderation from the i'll success of
first expressions !; on the contrary all
men thinking highly of the methods die
tated by their nature, all refute the frus-
tration of their desires to the want of
sufficient vigor-thcn they rcdouble the
efforts of their impHtienco and cruelty
which producing as they must produce
new disappointments, they now iIritated
against the object of their rapacity and
vaguefury and malice implacable because
%unprovoked, recruiting and reinforcing
their a%varico, their vices are no longer
human. From cruel men they are trans
formed into savage beasts with no other
vestige of reason left but what serves to
furnish the incentives and reiinements
of ferocious subtlety, for purposes of
which beasts are incapable and at which
fiends would blush.
(Signcd) FRANK P. BLAIR,
r. +. BAYARD.
In the Senate, Anthony was chosen
Speaker, pro tenn.
Sumner declined to serve ON the Com
mitteo on Elections and Privileges.
A chonUa of the choirmonShin of tho