The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-02-01
THE ENTERPRISE
S%weetwater, Thursday, Feb. l, 1872,
Minority Report OF Hon. James Beck,
of Kentucky.

N'H'a Va w VI
Of Kentucky.
The Daily Knoxville Chronicle of the
2jth inst, contains an editorial with u
short extract from the minority report
OF the Hon. james Beck, of Kentucky,
headed: "The Campaign of Slander
Continued" The editor charges that
Mr.. Beck by his minority report MS II
member of the committee on Southern
outrases, has attempted to Justify the
conduct Of the Ku-klux by the abuse o
Southern Republicans"
We have not Ms yet seen said rspor
in full, but from the extracts which We
have seen, Mr.. Beck drove the nail on
tho head. 1t has been the controlling
idea with the Radical party all over the
government, and when necessary to be
carried out at the point of the bayonet
for the past eight years, to disfranchise
intelligence and cnfrnnchise Ignorance.
This proposition is too we'll known to
require even n comment.
That is not all. Tho Radical party
bPaded by the President, has had in ne
cessful operation the most gigantic
scheme of public plumber in the South
ern States known in modern times. This
system of plumber has not been confined
to the Southern States exclusively. Other
portions Of the country have suffered,
but owing to tho Southern States being
connected with tho unfortunate rebellion,
they have been the scene Of s~callawags
aud carpet-bagGers whose sole object was
to serve and promote the idea Of plum
der.
Mr.. Beck went South rs one of sail
committee, for the purpose Of honestly
inquiring whether the charges of out
RACES that had been made by the Radi-
cal party were true, and not for the pur-
pose Of returning to Washington to re-
port what he knew to be fake for politi-
cal capital. That committee was gotten
up for the purpose OF manufacturing
capital for tho administration. The
Chronicle knows it.
Furthermore, what has been the les
SOM taught us by those officials who
were placed over the Southern States by
the arm Of the military? There isno one
who is or has beon so ignorant of the
condition of the country for the past
eight years but what knows tie people
have beer plundcred by them to their
very hearts content.
Old Holden of North Carolina, who
III 1861 ns II member of the secession
convention of that State declared him
self in favor of voting the last dollar and
man to the cause Of the South, has had
his fccttakcn out oftho miry clay and Is Il
it instrument placed on the rock Of
Radicalism; and made Governor of that
State. When the people OF That State
assume for themselves the right of self
government he suspends the great
charter Of American liberty and casts
into prison her best subjects.
For this conduct lie has to leave the
State to escape being prosecuted aud
sent to the pcnitentiary, where he ought
now to be.
Scott of South Carolina, Of the same
tribe, has robbed the people of that State
Of enormous sums. He stands 'check
by jolo" with the President.
Charges have been preferred against
Clayton Of Arkansas, and if be gets JUS
tice in the end he will be penitentiared
for life. He isa vagabond and n wretch.
We now come home. The Chronicle
says Brownlow is honest in his convic-
tions of public policy. In 1SG4-5 he set
on foot in Tennessee n system Of muir
der and robbery, the ike of which is UNI
known in the annals Of history. Men
were shot down in cold blood by his
minions selected for that purpose. His
robbery was i'll the shape of 4 system of
judiciary III the State. His name will
be a Kissing and q bye-word for future
generations.
Governor Bullock, another pet of
Grants, has robbed the State OF Gcor-
gia of thousands Of dollars.
So soon as the people by tho force OF
circumstances and o returning sense of
justice has assumed its throne, and
such imps as Brownlow, Bullock, Clay
ton, and Holden, take refuge in other
quarters, the Chronicle bellows out rebel
and Ku-klux.
Bullock has gono to parts unknown,
to keep from being sent to the peuiten-
tinry for stealing. Holden, a refugee
from his State, and Clayton under
charges of an Infamous character. Thus
the scum of politics fees before the peo-
pie, when called to account for their
official conduct.