The state chronicle., 1888-10-05
dress, signed by George W. Stanton ana

dress. signed by George W. Stanton and
other members.
1869. 1.-The Governor has power to sus-
mend all civil law as it was suspended IN
1SGJ.n-W. W. Holden.
The spy Bill was passed in this year,
The Shoffner bill was introduced into
the Legislature. N advocating this bill
Radical Senator Cook from Johnston
county said it ought to pass, because If 1t
became a law men accused could be tried
by drum head court-martial and shot
The painting or disguise act was passed
this year.
1870. "If Congress would authorize the
suspension, by the President, of the writ
of habeas corpus in certain localities, anc
! if criminals could be arrested and tried
before military tribunals and shot, we
should soon have peace and order through
out all this country. w. ". Holden.
John Pool proposed to put into the ser
vice desperate named Mcl.indsey, who
would raise company that ''would give
Governor Holden no trouble, for that II
any Of the men arrested by him undertook
any resistance he would kill them or they
would be lost and never be heard Of again ;
and suggested that the Governor (Holden)
should follow the example OF Governor
CLAYTON. of Arkansas, who had taken
military possession of disatfected counties
and tried and executed large numbers OF
men by military court. R. G. Badger 5
sworn testimony before Congresslona
Committee.
eff he Governor Holden) is ever per
, sonally menaced his friends Will resent IL
and punish the man or men who may dc
, | it. If he is slain, or even wounded 1t Is
, already determined that leading Demo
9 Gratis and Conservatives, who might OF
named, will be Instantly put to death
The Governors mind is made up. -Ral
eigh Standard.
1872. Rally this last time and carr.
the election, and there will be no parlo
and no kitchen "-Neill Mckay: candidate
for Congress.
1873. The pretension that any persol
! or class may be prevented from resortin!
to public place whose doors are open t
! all but them, and denied to them only OF
\ account of color or race, Will not DE tol
! Grated by any court honestly and slncerel.
desirous Of upholding the Constitution
and the laws according to their true inten
:, and meaning Judge D. L. Russell II
!. the Wilmington Opera House case.
:, Now. in all candor, and IN all serious
ness, and in all honesty, too, We ask tn
Young white men and the young whit
women of North Carolina what sort of
place this home Of theirs would be to-da
had it not been for the bold, manly, de
termined fight the Democrats made agalnS
e the Radicals in the days of Reconstrue
. ton? We ask you to consider for me
mept only and answer the question sOberl
i, and truthfully. 1t is not a question to
: lodged or shirked. Do you not owe it t
the Democrats Of those days that you no.
% have white mans government ID Mort
- Carolina Do you not owe it to them ths
= negro equality, social and otherwise, We
# not forced upon you: Especially let tn
- Young women of to-day think of the il
h suits to their mothers twenty years ag
:. Let them think of the terror those mOthe
must have suffered under threats to bul
70 and murder, that they themselves We
70 happily too young to understand and appr
ciate. Let the young men remember Il
! | Kirk war and how the best citizens we
arrested and thrown into prison und
/ martial law and saved from being tried
drum head court martial and shot at Il
bs stake only by the interference of JUDI
10 Brooks. God bless him
d. Suppose, in a word. the Radical par
. had been able to carry out all Of its helli
10. purposes in those days, what would ha
,d been your condition to-day
- From all these evils the Democrat
party, at the personal peril of its member
saved the State. Does the State owe
lio no gratitude
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