National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-14

mittee to Western North Carolina we hope
the friends Of the Government will insist
on showing how the laws are INSTRUCTED
and the part that such men as Robbins
take In il. 5"
While Robbins and his friends gioat over
the fact that niggers are being sent to the
penitentiary by Kerr and Scheuck without
warrant of law, the cry of oppression Is
raised because the Government tries 70
collect the lakes.
In this letter an attempt is made to
charge judicial corruption and oppression
in the enforcement Of the revenue laws
in the Western district of North Carolina.
Robbins says he has been promised an
investigating committee. Now, this may
seem trivial here; but to the men in Yad-
kin, Wilkes, Sury and other interior
counties, it looks like "big thing" 1t
looks as though Xxx was running this
Congress in fact.
We say this of the Xxx M. @. from
North Carolina: He knows that his real
purpose in obtaining this committee IS to
secure his denomination for Congress,
which is being now earnestly opposed.
He knows that he has not had the msnli-
ness to make an open attack upon the
United States judge of the district, an up
right man and able judge, but seeks to
affect his reputation by innuendo. he
knows that when he was arraigned before
the Senate of North Carolina upon a
charge of having been bribed, he
appealed to Judge Dick to prevent his
expulsion; and he knows that Judge
Dicks influence saved him from expulsion.
And now, like the migrate he is, he charges
the Judge with being corrupt and tyrant.
An act performed in the spirit of Christian
-ingratitude! He knows that the speeches
which he refers to in his letter had ten
dency to make people violate the revenue
laws and with violence resist their enforce
ment. He knows he tried 70 intimidate
Judge Dick by threatening Congressional
committee of investigation, when the leader
of the Indian ring was convicted at States
vile. He was not counsel of record, but
gave services as a voluntary and secret
counsel GA that trial, although he was
member of Congress; and violated United
States statute in so doing. He aided in the
selection of the jury, and his side-bar
remarks within hearing of the jury were so
offensive aud Prejudicisl to the Govern
ment that the prosecuting counsel were
compelled to ask the Intervention of the
Court. General Scales will be furnished
with names Of witnesses, if he asks for
them. He knows that the revenue laws in
the Western judicial district of North
Carolina are enforced with a leniency ur-
paralleled in any other district in the Uni
ted States, and that at every term of the
court Judge Dick, in his charge to the
grand jury. calls upon them to present
every act Of official corruption or oppres-
sion. and publicly announces that
he will hear the complaint of any
citizen and furnish speedy remedy.
He knows that Judge Dick recommended
the suspension Of the numerous prosecu-
tons against the Ku Klux, as he wished
to free the courts from cases of q political
nature. And yet he denounces the Judge
dS tIIdul, duu lufllcS Tue uupuulSutu
Ku Klux and whisky ring men, at the ex-
pense of the Government, to become wit
nesses against his judicial administration.
If any just charge can be made against his
judicial conduct it is that he has not ad-
ministered the law with sufficient rigor.
He also knows that the affairs of that dis
trict were investigated by q committee of
the last Congress, and highly favorable
report made by Democratic member of
the committee.
He is wonderfully economical in cutting
down the salaries of poor clerks and in
other ways crippling the Government, but
he is willing to put the Government to a
heavy expenditure to effect his private
purposes.
We ask Congress to give Robbins an in.
telligent committee that will open the |
doors TO evidence from both sides, and |
they need not ''grope in the dark" as
abundant light will be furnished, enough
to show, too, that Gov. Armfeld, or Thos.
J. Wilson, or Dobson, will come to the
next Congress in place of the Bride Taker |
We are prepared to bet about two thou
sand canfe nn that