Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
WHERE Is CANTVHELL - IT 4
G.EHEE4, 60 FOR HIM BOND!

With the utmost trepidation we
transfer to our columns this morning,
the following article from the editorial
columns OF the Baltimore Gazette, u
paper printed and published in the
same city in which Judge Bond lives,
and by gentlemen we'll known to be
responsible pecuniali y and Other
VIII Judge Bond dare prosecute the
editors OF the Ga-ettc for libel? We
shall see. The Go:ettc says:
There are at this moment lingering
rusting, perhaps would be the proper
word-for the chains are corroding
their limbs, in Northern prisons hun
ireds of Southern men, whose offenses
are purely political. The busy world
forgets them-victims of Bond
The pleasure-seeking President, in
whom is the attribute of mercy,
has not time to think of them.
He hastens at the bidding of men
whose names he is ashamed to reveal,
to pardon Philadelphia "repeaters," :"
but Carolina "ku-Klux" must serve
out their peuitentiary terms, and their
families may starve. 1t was deemed
necessary, in political emergency, to
have these men convicted, and that
volume af.er volume of Congressional
testimony hould be given to the
world to prove the South "disloyal." ;"
Andelow we are beginning to have a
glimpse ot the means hy WHICH it was
effected. If the~e be one set of hu-
man beings on whom, by common
consent, the l4ark pt infannT is set, it
is the spy the "informer," the
"d,Iufo,." of antiquity tY-the curse of
every land-lreiaHd, for example,
whore, by any means, the desputism
cf race has to be maintained
1t now seems that one of the
many evil pXcrHScenccS OF our fra
ternai war was this system, not during
actual war, when all sorts of processes
seem justified. but since. When, in
nrGci. To- promote the reelection of
General Grant. it became necessary to
re-alarm the Northern mind by the
g raw head and bloody bones" of ku-
lEluzism, our Judge Bond was sent to
hold his asSiZes, and Scott, the then
Governor OF South Carolina, was bid
Gen 10 co-oDerate This be did bv is
shiEG Il proGlalnati0n offering rewards
for the apprehension and conviction
Of these reputed Offenders. This had
its Immediate effect on the negroes
and the ':loyal' Immigrant whites, and
the rewards were quickly earned: This
wiiS two or more years ago. III the
meanwhile time rolls un. Scott passes
| away into the limbo of despised and
forgotten things. AMI Moses reigns in
his place PAY day has ocme. Those
who did sscott and bonds dirty work
wanted their wages. Moses appointed
commission to ascertain who
were entitled to the rewards for
catching " kn-Kluy," and the report
uf tllat Commission has Just been
published. There were l02 claimants
r.tcoSnized how many disappointed
opes does not appear-and the amount
awarded out of South Cardinals i'm
povcr.shed treasury is no less than
Sd, 900 And even here, IL this fra
t-rnity OF rogues, where one would
! think there shonld be something like
equality Of plunder, there IS one big
steal" We are told that q single
"informer" received ST., 400, or pre-.
ciseiv (within few dollars) half the
shocking exhibition. 1t even wounds
SellSloilitieH hoI e1oIiy 1HIi'AeQ, AS, w
instance, one Of the leading organs O
the Federal Administering, at whose
bidding, and for whose sake, this in
fanny was done The New York 4Sna.s
after narrating the FACTS as We have
given them, with an awkward blush
says:
At the time the proclamation o
Governor Scott was issued the condi
ton of the State vas such that it wa
excusable, but, as a general rule, it i
difficult to justify rewards for qonvic
tions in cases which q portion ef IT,
people consider paliti9ai. Ii is 40
J entirely certain fhat South Caroln
, will, in the end, derive much benef
from convictions which afford groun
for the charge that the prosecutor
were melted Ly love of gain rathe
than of Justice,