Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-24

TO point out some pdlpdU1o AdlScuOOuS III
what purports to be " the historical state
ment - in this remarkable "case."
IT only takes $40 to secure 10 copies of
the DAILY JOURNAL during the State
Governor Caldwell and Military Rule. |
1t is said that history repeats itself. 1t
is to be hoped that the history of North |
Carolina for the year 1872 will not record
events like those that transpired in 1870,
but whether we have just grounds so to
hope seems matter of great doubt. Rich
mond Pearson is still Chief Justice of the
State and Tod r. Caldwell is Governor.
This same Tod r. Caldwell was Lieuten-
ant Governor during the whole of the
Holden-Kirk war, in its inception, during
It's conduct and at it's close, and from the
first day to the present time utterly and
persistently has failed to raise his voice in
condemnation of the overthrow OF that
Constitution he had solemnly sworn to
support.
In 1870 Governor Holden, from week to
week, sought, by the most urgent appeals
to the President and to Congress, to pro-
cure the suspension of the writ of H06eas
Corpus. To-day Governor Caldwell is
asking that Congress will do the same
thing. The official organ of Governor
Caldwell's party at Raleigh is also advo-
eating openly the same thing.
The State Convention of this same
Radical party, whose candidate Governor
Caldwell is, also committed the party, with
out dissenting voice, to the rule OF the
bayonet by endorsing Governor Holden's
conduct, in 1S69-7O, in the most unquali-
fed and emphatic terms.
Step by step preparations are being
made, it would seem, in the very language
of Governor Holden to Colonel Dockery,
in Washington City, to "carry the election
anyhow"
Governor Caldwell's course prior to the
Impeachment and conviction of Governor
| Holden, gave plain promise of his subse-
! quent career. That career, marked by re-
peated usurpations of power, by constant
disregard of the Constitution and the laws,
| by unremitting efforts to override the
wishes of the people as expressed by the
voice of their Representatives in the Cen
eral Assembly, by bold attempt to ad-
vance a partisan friend by depriving the
lawfully authorized emplOye of the State OF
the meagre pay for doing the Public Print
ing of the State, by long-continued effort
to promote partisan purposes by attempt
ing to force the incumbent Directors of the
Asylums and of the Penitentiary, the va
lidity of whose authority he had time and
again recognized, to give place to creatures
of his own appointment, until the in
mates of at least one of these institu-
tions were on short rations, and one
of the unfortunate creatures had lost
his life in open mutiny, is fresh in the
minds of us all. We have not space to
go more into detail this morning than to
give the very words of the Radical Conven.
ton that endorsed Governor Holden,
and to lay before our readers the testimony
of Mr.. Lucien 81. Murray, highly respec-
table gentleman of Alamance county, on
the Impeachment trial, giving the details
of the treatment he received during the
Holden-kirk war. We shall from time to
time present the testimony of other wit
nesses. Governor Caldwell, as he addresses
the people to-day, will stand before them
fully committed to the deliberate endorse
ment given by his party to Governor Hol-
\ 4l.oY 70 tO-T Il
for the further suspension of the writ OF
Hdbeds Corpus, whereby outrages like the
hanging Of Mr.. Murray may again become
every day occurrences. These are the re-
solutions of the Radical State Convention
| &" Resolved, That W. W. Holden deserves from
! the Republican party of North Carolina the
| kindest affection and deepest gratitude for his
manful and hard defence of them in 1S6s-TO,
from the assaults of the Ku Klux Democracy
! for his universal and consistent defence Of the
poor and humble when he was Governor, and
| his faithful and ceaseless advocacy of Republi-
can principles when he was with us, and now
! that he is a martyr in exile at Washington.
Resolved, That endorse him in the past,
| and shall ever cherish our love for him in the
| future, and we have confident hope and trust
| that the time Is not far distant when he shall
| return to his native State again to battle tor
| the Union, for equality before the law and for
! progressive principles of republicanism.''
! And this is the testimony of Mr.. Muir
| ray:
Lucien H. Murray being duly sworn,
| testified as follows:
| Q. State whether at any time during
the year 1870, you were arrested by armed
men, and if SO, under what circumstances,
and what was done with you.
A. On the 9th July, returned home.
had left home on the 26th, and on the
27th when [ got back, was informed by
my employer was then a salesman
that Col. Burger had been there on the
Goth to arrest me, and he had left orders
for me to report at the Shops at their camp
the next morning. AS soon as got home
went up to the Shops and into the camp
then ordered me under arrest. I was then
arrested ar h''ft there until that evening
r'".1.i ! o''l So, before he said anything to
m. lie then called me to his tent and
said that he had nothing against me, only
as witness, and he asked me in regard to
the Ku Klux being in town on the night
Wyatt Outlaw was hung, and told him
all l knew about it. .. .as
Q. State ali you said. A. I told him all
knew ahODt If th at that Yoioht-Snma tima in