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the late habeas corpus cases before
him. he was acting secretly in com.
plicity with Holden. and that they UNI
derstood each other perfectly.
His addressing a letter to Governor
Holden when Kirk refused to make
any return and thus getting him tC
intervene in the caSe-hiS suggestion
Though deciding that the privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus was not
suspended)-thatt the Governor might
take upon himself the responsibility OF
acting on extreme principle, 1.-The
safety of the States is the supreme
law'-his declaring in advance in his
third written proposition for discus
sion by counsel, that it was in MS
opinion certain that an order to the
sheriff of a county to call out the
power of the county, and with force
take the petitioners out of the hands
of the military authorities will plunge
the whole State into civil war. his
fling at the counsel of the prisoners
his saying, the motion to attack Kirk
was made "at the inSiStance OF one
who is under arrest for the horrld
crime of murder and midnight assassi-
nation" when no such charge had
been made before him or ever has
been made in any tangible shape by
provisions of the habeas corpus act,
but contenting himself with merely
making known to the Governor,
through the marshal of the supreme
Court that he had re-issued the Writs,
when he knew we'll that the Governor
would not obey them-his final absurd
decision that every man, woman ana
child in Alamance county were legally
in a state of insurrection and that
Of a
county to call out and no way there
fore to execute the writs,-his allow
ing Holden from day to day, by his
organ the Standard, and in every 9TH
er possible manner, to hold out ana
declare to the public. that he and the
Judge were in perfect accord-that he
was sustained by the Judge in refus-
ing obedience to the writs-and when
that matter was pointedly brought 10
his attention by counsel and he was
asked to put it right, he in his short
opinion, abdicating all his power as a
Judge, failed to take any notice what
ever of the fact that he was so held
up as sustaining the Governor, and
thus allowed to go out to the public
as true-all these things and many
others that could be mentioned, had
tended far to cause the general be-
lief that the Judge, from partisan
feelings, or for some other cause,
begs to be excused, had not only failed
to do his duty. but was actually in
completely with Holden in his tryan-
meal conduct from the first to the
last.
IL any further evidence were want
ing to establish that such was the
fact witness the following extract
from a letter of Beecher. the CORE
spOndent of the New York Tribune.
who, it seems, interviewed Judges
Pearson, Dick and Settle. at their
boarding house in Raleigh, and who
d5tes his letter from Raleigh July
31kt. This letter may be seen in the
Weekly Tribune of the 3rd August
After saying a good deal, from
which it would seem that the judicial
wtsrthies treated the credulous CORE
sppndent to a full dish of Klu-Klux
horrors, he writes as follows of Judge
Pearson:
II was gratified to find that the
Juage was in entire accord with Gov
erlsor Holden in his course. He
laughed good humoredly at the appar-
ent dispute on the matter of the writ
of habeas corpus, and regarded his
aceion as a matter of form. and the
Governors in refusing to allow the
WRIT served, a matter of necessity In
spite of the mild controversy between
tho course which is necessary to be
pursued, and are upon terms of the
most intimate friendship"
Comment upon the above is unne-
cessary. Henceforth Judge Pearson's
maine goes down to posterity with
these of the venal and corrupt Judges,
whose names have become a by-word
ana a reproach. He is the first of a
long line of native North Carolina
I,n Tod hi al
Let us hope that he will be the last
What a melancholy contrast does his
conduct present to that of Judge
Brooks, under like circumstances!
MONDAY, August Is, 1900
The YanceyviIle Prisoners.
We received the following dispatch
from Mr.. Turner, dated at Company
Shops, last night:
"All the prisoners are here from
Yanceyville. 1 am lying under tree.
wet and fatigued from travel"
We venture upon no comment on
this telegram, but will only say that
this indignation is simply the result
of personal malignity without any
foundations whatever; for whoever
says that Josiah Turner, Jr., ever be-
longed to the Ku-KluX, White Broth
erhood, Invisible Empire, or any 9TH
er secret political organization, is q
liar and the truth is not in him.
The people have given a pretty
strong intimation OF their views in
regard to these diabolical outrages on
innocent citizens, but the end is not
vet: the perpetrators will be held to a
still further and more strict accounta-
bility, all according to law.
(Tuesday. August 8. 1900
IawieSs Outrage.
Mr. Turner. the editor of this pa