The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

INT not SO then. Congress having pass
ed over President Joknson's veto the
Reconstruction acts, the State Govern
mpnt. which had zen established un-
der President Johnson's plan of re-
construction, was destroyed, and the
territory of North Carolina became a
district under command Of a general
in the United States Army, with head
quarters in South Carolina. Under
general orders issued by this COM
handing generaI-Canby, afterwards
killed by the MOdoc Indians-the right
of suffrage was given the lately eman-
eipated slaves. and they elected a on
yention which framed a State Consti
tuition. A Legislature was then elect
cd by the same constituency, many OF
the leading white citizens being dis
fraDChised by reason Of their partici-
patton in the late war. For months
no courts We're held; civil authority
seemed in a~bcyance; crimes went un-
punished. Then appeared the Ku-
klux Khan, and the unruIy element in
the State was converted into decency.
The leaders Of the party then in power
BY virtue Of the negro vote became
alarmed lest they should be turned out
Of office by an uprising of the people
in opposition to the in~tolerable con-
ditiOn Of things, and Governor Holden
had the Legislature to pass an act IN.
.poBering him to suspend the writ of
habcas corpus and TO all out thu
militia.
Under the claim that the civil au-
thorities Were unable to protect the
people in their rights, Governor Hol-
den issued his proclamation, suspend
ing the writ OF habeas corpus in GER
tain counties III the State, called into
service a regiment of militia, under
the command Of Col. CT. w. Kirk. and
" y nf Sln y,orf 1xf aS+iyn,c
We're arrested. How these matters
We're settled and peace again reigned
and the civil law became supreme is
told in the memorial address on the
late Gen. Matt. w. Ransom, delivered
at Raleigh, n. G., May 10, 1906.
10 close the account Of the Confed-
crate soldier with his surrender would
not complete the record of his great
services TO his country. For Years af-
ter Appomattox the Confederate sol
oier fought q harder fight and against
greater odds in civil life thai when
he confronted an armed enemy on the
il@id OF battle.
From 1868 to 1871 our homes, our
property, our civilization hung in the
balance. with a National Government
hostile, foreign nations unsyInpathetic,
our state Government in arms against
us. and our former slaves our legisla-
TORS, and in charge Of our county az
lalrs, any people but the white peO-
pie OF the South would have given up.
Not so the soldiers who had followed
Lee and Jackson and our own leaders,
I'M, Branch, Grimes, Scales, Petit
grew, Aoke, Ransom and Jarvis, and
NOSE IN civil life, Governors Graham
and Bragg II Vance. Judges Merri-
mon and Battle. d. 6. FoWle, b. r.
Moore and Josiah Turner, Jr.
tn July |, 1865, Hon. w. w. Holden
l"pK the oath OF office as Governor,
nnder What is known as the Candy
,ohSlltutlon.' On March Z, 1870,
governor Holden declared the county
Oh Alanance i'll Instruction. and on
'u]E 18th. following. he likewise de-
c'dIed the county Of Caswen in insur-
Iecllon. III June, July and August
Governor Holden organized some five
"Uhdfed soldiers. under the command
y George W. Kirk, of Tennessee. as
So!ohel: and, having suspended the
writ OF habeas corpus by his procla-
1natiohS. these soldiers. under Colonel
MIR ana his subordinates, arrested