Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-03-31
Question-Were any colored people ap-

Question-Were any colored people ap-
pointed to such positions.
AnsEer-Yes, sir. many. In very MANY
OF the townships you will find coiored men
an ! white men together acting as magis-
trates.
Question-Ths is under Governor Hol-
dens system of appointment
Answer-Yes, sir, they are elected too.
| The administration of justice before JUS
tees of the peace has become contempti-
BILE, and that is one great source of de-
moralization in the State. Nothing con-
duces more to order, decency, and pro-
| priety in society. than to have gentlemen
| for magistrates gentlemen, I mean, in
| the true sense of the term.
Question-Were his (Holden's) disabil-
tiles removed after the war
| Answer-I suppose they were. The act
of Congress will show. HIS paper, for
twenty years or more, acdS constantly ddrO-
eating the right Of the States TO Secede, and l
can say that his position as an editor, for
| he writes very well and strongly, did more
! to prepare the public mind in North Caro-
lima for secess than any other paper that
was ever published in the State.
QuestiCn-You say that bonds to the
amount of about $40 900 900 were issued
during the provisional government of Gov
ernor Holden and NJ to 1868 /?
Auswer-Yts, sir; about 225, 600, 900.
before and shortly after.
Question-Do you know what value
accrued to the State from that increase of
debt &?
Answer cannot say with precision but
l do not believe it has been benefited 10
the amount of 81, 100000. l saw q
statement the other day that not iuore than
$500 900 had been realized.
Qnestion-What effect upon the minds
of your citizens had the creation of this
vast debt and this squandering of the
public credit?
Answer-It produced very general in
diRnation against its authors.
Question-Did 1t produce very wide
spread dissatisfaction
Answer-Oh, yes.
Question-Was that confined to any po-
litical party
Answer-No, sir it is not now. Since
L came here q new article of Impeachment
has been added in regard to these bonds.
1t was voted for very generally by both
parties in the House of Representatives.
Question-Has it become an article by
the action Of both Houses?
Answer understand so.
Question-Is that an Impeachment of
Governor Holden for the criminal issue
of these bonds ?
Answer-Yes. sir; and for many other
"0ssS: <
Question-Do you think the effect has
been to bring financial ruin to the State ?
Answer-I do. do not sec how it is
possible TO avoid it. x
Question-How was it in regard to tho
outrages by disguised men Did they
form an issue between the parties? Did
they have the effect of placing one party
on one side and one on the other?
! Answcr-Oh, no, sir; no person has ever
advocated publicly, go far as 1 have heard,
the violations by the Ku-Klux organiza
tion. No man in North Carolina dares to
rise before the People and advocate
| thing of that sort.
/ Question-Then did the fret issue touch
| the question of force when Governor Hol-
den proclaimed tho counties in insurrec-
| ton
Answer think so. Indeed, in the
course of my reading this morning, saw
| it stated that q popular uprising was
threatened-that rebellion or insurrec-
tion would ensue, provided Governor Hol-
den undertook to enforce th3 Jaw by his
militia. 1 say the people of North Caro-
lima, though agitated, were quite subdued
l have never en- a people more entirely
submissive to what was both wrong and
| tyrannical?
Que4 4tion-In reference TO the fact
whether in some of the counties there ig
any obstruction to the enforcement of the
| laws, let me put this case to you: If
colored man should be whipped, with the
Information at the time he was whipped
that it was because he kept a oolored
Sunday school, and that such occupation
must be desisted from that the persons
in that neighborhood would not permit
it where such thing as that can be done
with impunity, and the perpetrators not
! be brought to jus ice, do you think the
civil law is sufficient for the protection of
! life and nrODertV there
! Answer-Such an act would not only be
regarded as an outrage, but the very act of
keeping the Sunday school would be re-
garded as charitable and laudable. One
of my daughters attends one of those
Sunday schools and teaches the children.