National Republican., 1876-04-12
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
UkcurNrro< N ~ March o. IR-a

W A6HlNGTON, ID. u, Marcn 70, 1870. \
EDITOR SENTINEL: You remember that In
speeches at the fall courts l promised the
people to ask this House to send a committee
into my district this year to investigate the IL
legal, oppressive and corrupt conduct of rev.
enue officials. That promise have not for
gotten, and l think the House will give me
the committee. Messrs. Ashe and Vance,
stituents are interested In this matter, are
ready to cooperate in securing success to this
investigation.
My object in writing this is to invite all
persons in my district, as we'll as the Sixth
and Eighth districts, who know of any illegal,
oppressive or corrupt conduct on the part of
any revenue official, or any judicial officer in
aid of such, to forward to me without delay
the names and places of residence of RESPONSE
BILE witnesses who can testify to the facts, and
also as full statement as possible of what
each witness will prove. l do not wish the
committee to have to go cropping after infor-
nation; but want to be able to tell them
where to look and whom to call.
This is of the utmost importance to the eff
cheney of the inquiry.
Let everybody take notice of this request
and act upon it at once.
Fellow citizens, it is full time that the op-
pressions, intimidations and fraudulent and
outrageous practices Of the big and little
tyrants who have lorded it over the honest
people for years should be exposed and pun
ished.
VIII the newspapers of Western North
Carolina especially, and all others friendly to
the inquiry, please publish this and call the
attention of the people to the object!
Very respectfully, WM. NJ. ROBBINS.
If there have been any Irregularities,
corruptions and illegalities in North Caro-
lima which the United States courts are in
competent to take cognizance of, or which
they have neglected to notice, by all means
let them be reported, and if they are suffi-
cient to authorize the raising of select
committee of the House to inquire into
their extent and authenticity, then let the
committee be raised. But we shall insist
that XN Robbins shall not be member of
the committee, and that it shall be in
structed, also, to inquire into the numer.
GUS murderous attacks upon revenue Off.
GERS while IN the performance of their
duties. 1t will be our pleasant duty to
draw upon our pigeon holes for circum-
stantial statements of outrages recently
committed upon revenue officers in Ran
dolph county and contiguous mountainous
NlSbllSlc, oAu iOI WdAo tnCn W luC COmLlll-
tee which Mr.. Robbins desires to have
raised. He will find, If he gets an honest
committee, that its efforts will prove more
disastrous to.certain of XX Robbins illicit
distilling and tobacco. manufacturing con-
stituents than to any of the revenue
officials.
How anxious XX is to have everything
prepared beforehand, have just the right
parties summoned, and just the right
stories told. This XX Robbins is a mic.
Christian tar-heel statesman, or we have
no doubt he would now be using illicit
tobacco and whisky. But, being what he
is, of course he could not do it. They
would choke him. But his constituents
use no other.