Year: 1868

for the glorious cause. When be went there
he took possession Of the house Of q widow
whose son bad been a rebel. He got
guard to put the widow and her children
out Of the house, and he used her furniture
and other things for six months. 1t was bis
dooty, as a trooly lol man, to do TO; but
bis neigbbors we're too deeply dyed in trea.
son to understand this. They waylayed him
one night, and after thrashing him until bis
bones ached, made him promise 10 move out
Of the house, which he did next day. The
perpetrators of this 6endish outrage bad
never been punished; but he meant they
should be as soon a. Ben Wade Was made
President, and trooly loi men took the
government of South Carolina 10 their own
hands. Hs hoped that time would soon
come, and the untamed rebels Of South
Carolina would then be made to realize that
they have no rights which trooy loi men
are bound to respect.


The next speaker had been living in Ala
bama. in the residence Of planter who was
killed at Shiloh, but whose mother and
widow remained 10 the house until be had
them put out. They had not been able to
find any other place to live in, so they
wandered about for some weeks, and the
old lady was found dead one day in the
woods. The other woman died soon after Of
hunger, and her relatives bad the impudence
to say that be was The cause Of her death
and the death Of her mother.in.law. They
came 10 the house in body, and called him
murderer. He fired at them as it was the
dooty Of . loil man to do, wounding one
| chOr far do
the place SO uncomfortable that he had to
leave it, thus losing the best residence he
ever had in bis life. Until trooy loil man
should be perfectly safe 10 any house he saw
fit to take 10 Alabama, whether the owner
was willing or not, be would not consider
that State properly reconstructed.


When the man from Alabama sat down,
another long. haired person arose from his
carpet bag, and said the Ku-Kux KIan had
committed several outrages on him. They
killed his chickens, which he had con6scated
when be went South to get a revenue Office,
and they drove of bis hogs which had pre-.
viously belonged to an old man whose sons
were all killed 10 The war. He knew these
outrages were committed by the Ku-Kux,
thong his neighbors said the col.red peo-
pie were the culprts. Blu. he would not be-
leve this. lie was a good friend Of the
colored people, taking care Of their money
for them, and sending it to Lowell, where it
would be safe, and he knew they would not
steal bis hogs and chickens. He thought
there ought to be an amendment to the Con-
stitution, providing that every ku-KIux
found in the Act should bs impsached for
high crimes and misdemeanors, and trans
ported to Massachusetts, where the trooly
Ioil people would make short work Of him
He said this as trooy oil man, and be
stands by it.


Another man then got up and took out
the peg that fastened bis carpet.bag, and
distracted piece Of paper from which he
read these resolutions:


Resolved, That Congress be requested 10
pass law providing for the Immediate trial
and conviction Of every person found oppos.
ing the trooly loiI men DOW regenerating the
South, and prescribing death and perpetual
forfeiture Of property for any opposition to
the regenerating process that the said trooly
loil men are carrying into effect.


Resolved. That tits the dooty Of The Senate
of the United States to convict Andrew
Johnson Of high crimes and misdsmeanors.
and order him to be hung by the neck in
front Of the capitol, as a warning to all future
Presidents and other persons, and that he be
denied burial 10 any cemetery 10 which the
dust Of trooly loil man now lies.


Resolved, That il the Senate Of the United
States tail to perform this high and sacred
dooty, each member thereof be Immediately
impeached before the high court of the
,rooly Ioil men of the country, and convicted
and disqualified for holding any public Office
hereafter.


Resolved, That every man who does not
accept the the immortal principles embodied
10 the last speech Of that grand old com.
moner, Thaddeus Stevens, is traitor and
outcast, and that he be impsached at the
bar OF Massachusetts and Michigan, and sem
fenced for life at the Dry Tortugas or any
other place in which be can be made utter
ly miserable.


The man that was reading the resolutions
was here interrupted by another who wanted
to know if any Internal fool supposed it
would be possible to fiod prisons for every
man who did not believe just what Mr.
Stevens believed.


The first mau said be would not be put
down by any scalIawag from Iowa. even if
that scsllawag bad been elected by the
colored people Of North Carolina to repre-.
sent them in Washington. He knew the
person who bad interrupted him, and be
knew that the coat on that persons back st
that moment was borrowed from coIored
brother when be was leaving North Carolins.


The second man said be scorned personal.
tiles. He never boarded with Q colored
family and ran away a. uigh: without pay
ing bis board.


The frs. man would like to know what
was meant by that iusinuation.


The second thought it was not necessary
to explain, and he would not.


The first said be was liar and slandersr,
and offered to Agbt it out on the spot.


The second picked up bis carpet bag and
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