Year: 1872

damning Caldwell for setting up to be
honest and "spoiling the programme }"
by which he was to have been count
ed in as Governor by majority of
10000. Caldwell, it seems, had either
/ a conscience or fear of consequences,
and he has insisted against any large
and risky operations. The whales
maybe said to be sizeahle.n


But it will be asked how it is that
these managers, who have probably
cheated enough to elect a Governor,
have let the Legislature and five Con-
gressmen slip out of their clutches,
and thus, by losing the Legislature,
have lost the great prize of United
States Senator, who is to be chosen
in John POOLS place. The answer is
uery easy. The judges of the election
in the counties are chosen by the
counties themselves, and these officers
in three fifths or two-thirds of the
counties are Conservatives. Fraud
could not be praeticed in those coun-
ties, and it is they which have re-
turned large Conservative majority
OF the Legislature, and secured also
the election of five Conservative Con-
gressmen out of the eight to which the
State is entitled. John Pool could
not control absolutely the question of
his own reelection, and he is there
fore left out in the cold. But in the
heavy negro and Radical counties it
was quite easy for the Judges there,
composed as they are of the yilest ma
terial, to make just such returns as
they We're told from Raleigh. and
Washington were essential to serve n
fallen dynasty.


1t is notorious that thousands of ne
grOes were brought into the State
from Virginia and South Carolina and
dumped down into precincts which
were inhabited exclusively by negroes.
The registration officers are negroes
and Radicals. As the voters offer to
register the Conservative challenger
demands: Where do You live? The
rascal responds, Gum Hollow, or
Drake Branch, some negro quarter,
where no white man ever goes. He
swears straight through to the legal
term of residence, and though the
white people may have a moral GER
tainty that the fellow is periuring
himself, they can not prove it, and
the negroes who stand around and
who live in this very locality will not
testify against the fraud. On the con-
trary, they glory and eXplt in it. TO
them it is all right. ANY thing to
beat the white man and put the negro
at the top of the pot.


And here let me say that NV inves-
LEGATIONS i'll North Carolina convinced
me that the negroes there are govern
ed i'll their politics and will vote like
sheep just as the carpct-baggers tell
them. Politically, they are to-day us
much slaves as ever they were in ser
vice to their old masters. The differ
ence is that whereas they were once
owned by gentlemen they are now
owned by as vile set of thieves and
scoundrels as ever disgraced the hui
man form. This hold over them is
maintained by the machinery of the
Union Leagues. They no longer have
orders to apply the torch and they
are not now encouraged to the viola
tion of women and the murder of
white men, but there can be no doubt,
from their late operations in North
Carolina, that the more respectable
negroes who may dare to act with the
Conservatives are to be intimidated
by violence and murder. The blacks
are to be kept banded as a unit against
the whites by coercion and violence.
If the whites were to organize for their
protection they would be denounced
as Ku-klux and have fair chance of
being sent by Judge Bond to the AL
bany penitentiary.


The power of the Federal Govern
ment in North Carolina is immense.
Go every where and you encounter
their office holders. They are like the
Egyptian plague of lice which dark
ened and cursed that rich and fertile
land. Their power is great and it is
all Il political machine. Take the In
ternal Revenue Bureau for instance.
1t comes home to nearly every man in
North Carolina. There are thousands
of men in that State ignorant of the
minute and complex provisions eff the
laws, upon whom these Federal Off
GERS can bring the screws to bear so as
to extort money or votes, and these
people all know that if they are ac-
cidentally tripped up, that however
ignorant and innocent they may be,
it will go hard with them if they are
active against the Administration, and
easy enough if they go against the
Conservatives. The Ku-Klux and en-
forcement acts are used in the same
way. You have Federal judge who
is the most shameless partisan that
ever disgraced the ermine-a creature
as pitiless as Jetfries, but lacking his
candor and open avowal of malignity !;
Federal marshal who has the power
to pack a inry, and other officers and
hirelings ready to make up the court
organized to convict Considering
what | know of Judge Bond and of
his minions and the law for selecting
juries, | do not hesitate to say that a
| trial in this court is the Inerest farce,
opd that M man i'm Nnrth Carolina is