The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-22

state do under like circumstances !.
What would any brave people 90 VIZ
were thus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF theH
nolitical rights by strangers ana tne
most degraded class of their own cur
zens. and then %plundered Of their m
dividual property. and made pahhrupt
as n community: -,
These oppressive and Illuminating
measures. imposed by Congress upon Z
y~anouished and unhappy people foAo"-
oil hv the Spoliation described by INC
witnesses whose testimony we nave
riv.n have without doubt caused bitter
ness OF feeling and led 10 outbreaks ana
outropaS . 3 The evidence taken
before the committee shows that there
never has been a case OF t"rclilc re-
siStauce. or resistance Of any KIND, 70
any civil or criminal process issued ~
any court in the State.
Every judge ana every solicitor III
the State was ii radical. There were
localities in the State in which the radi-
calls prcdominatcd overwhelmingly. ana
if crime WAS committee where the III
Thence Of the Ku kluN prevented 4
conviction. it was only necessary for
the solicitor TO make a motion. ami the
nudge could order the removal Of tile
case from county To county uhtll i
satisfactory result was reached 4
1T is perfectly evident from the CYL
dencc that the process OF the court>
could he executed without military
force: that no resistance was offered 10
its executions. It i clear also that the
causes could have been removed from
any place TO some county III winch 4
fair trial might have been had. Why,
then. did the Governor prefer to resort
to the extreme measure Of nroclalmllG
the counties Of .Alamancc and CasWell
III instruction rather than use the
remedies ready to his hand of removing
the causes to counties in which conVlc-
tionS might have been obtained! why
did he call on the President for troops,
set on foot his negro militia. LED by ruf-
fans imported into the State on account
of their extraordinary brutality. and
proceed to seize. impriSon. insult and
torture his prisoners? There is but one
explanation. His object was to strike
terror to the people and drive them from
the polls, and thus carry the elections
and maintain himself and his fellow
miscreants in power. and thus be enabled
to continue to plumber and tyrannizc
over the unhappy people who had been
subjected to his sway by the direct ac-
ton Of the Congress Of the United
States.
=
North Carolina is one Of the largest
States. territorially. in the Union, and is
divided into eighty-seyen counties, and
contains nearly one and Il half million
Of people. No act Of laWlcssncrs IS ac-
tually proven to have been committed,
excepting in one or the other of SIN.
perhaps eight of these countless, and yet
it is proposed to employ violent and
stringent measures Of coercion or re
preston to the remaining ninc-tenthS Of
q State against which no breath OF cyi-
dence or proof of laWlessneSs has ever
been adduced: but which on the con-
trary. exhibits 4 condition Of quiet al
most suggesting the insensihility Of de-
Spair. What cause can be alleged. what
justification to the American people can
be urged for this renewed and Wanton
invasion of Il peaceful community: The
statement that anarchy there exists is
absolutely untrue, and the testimony
now laid before the Senat oyerwhelm-
ingly establishes It's untruth.
THOMAS NJ. PITTMAN.