The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-10-06
CAPT. SHOTWELL AND THERADI-
CAL PRESS.

We have not hitheriopai the least At
tention To attacks upon us FROM 50 how i
source, but as it Is rnmored that Governor
Holden, Tourgee, aud others. assist will
their pens the carpet-bagger who edits
the Raleigh Constitution, We quote the
following
IF the E,litor-i -chiefof the Home had
his deserts he would have long since paid
traitors penaIlry by hanging, and his
Associate would now be Ia tie Albany
Penitentiasy for aiding in the murder o
innocent freedmen.
President Grant In tile kindness Of his
heart pardoned viper. Such mercy i
always unappreciated.' Our Seniorcon~
sidcrs himself complimen.eh Dougless
Holden would not have objected ifK!rk' y
villains had arrested and slostn him, as
McLindsey Is said 10 have advised. Dick
Badger says he was IN lIoldcr's council
When advice was given "the very mention
of (which would make the blood run cold
even at this day. (his own Words Did
Holden arrest and punish tile men who
suggested these scold blooded murders
Nota bit of il. They are still prominent
Radical leaders. For our part, we, the
Associate, have thit 10 say, that weneyer
asked, nor permitted our friends TO ask,
pardon Of Grant or any Of his infamous
crew We were Offered pardon. on base
condilions,. (to swear against innocent
men for the benefit Of tho Radical party,)
by two Radical editors before We
started 10 the Penitentiary. We were
Offered pardon on tile same condition by a
Radical Congrc- snIaIi, while hand~cuflsf
and on our way 70 the Penitentiary. We
were offered pardon within two weeks
after we were locked vi III the Peniten-
tiary. Twice, at intervals Of six months,
we were offered Tie same, by Gclfitt
Smith, just from Washington a prom-
inent colored man, formerly Radical re-
preventative Of North Carolina. offered,
through Capt. Gilmer, of GrpaIshoro, to
obtain our pardon, after we had been is
months IN prison. All these offers, We
declined. After two years incarceration
our release was ordered because II was
unpopular lGuger 10 punish an innocent
man-known 10 bc innocent by hisac>
cusers no less than his friends. But we
can wellundersi and the alarm Of the Radi.
cal leaders at this proposition for disfran-
ciii-ihs efiinniinais Knowing that ,ne
third of their supporters arc annually con-
victed, and that another Third ought 10 be,
they fo.,~ce tie ruin aud disruption ~
ll,rir entire party under the operation u
this ordinance. III was for this rca on We
advocated tile passage of such an act. We
think !; deserves lhr prompt and decided
aciinaoi the Convention. Lei Us have
ar end Of chickeni thieves III utlle I.egisia-
tntc, AID nf rs,rped jail hlr,lsas poll-llol-
dcrs. Let every uuc of Them he disfrln.
cliscd, even ifil be true, sis issaid, that
Judge Toufgce the leader of the Radi-
cal party, will have TO .stepdown aud out
ona cmnt of that little trouble out ln
OIiu.
The Washington Republican echoes
the Constitution in the snne foul strain:
'Nodoub, that Ku Klux Shotwel Will
Join wi:h tile cnlorcd people in apruttsl
against the adoption of thmspmptsilion.'
Not by amy means. weshallunitr with
the colored people Ia allmeasures fnr their
goud, and tile Wcifafc ~ Tie state, but We
demand that those ~ them who have for
feiled ilIcir claims % repectahiiity and
civil privileges, De denied them BY equal
legislation. As for The abuse ~ Us per
sonally by Holden, Tourgcc, Richardson,
ncgp Hunter, or roiliers o. the same gang.
We care little. The good leopIe Of North
Carolina will slow in time that we hive
their respect aud cpniidcnce--if We tcs-
cryesIcl nr,nifcsiatioi.--.lImn
Il. As.