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colored people of the State, and to hold up the conduct of their rep resentative men; for the inspection of the public1 generally, feeling:, that, in some 'respects, this people had not received full justice and consideration, frteither at the hands It was shown the other day that the Era has already sacrificed more than seven thousand dollars In the service of the party; and not until the present, and with a "Weekly at that, has the paper been at any time on a raviner basis. A Daily was set up last Fall to aid and ac- of their parly friends nor political complish certain enus, ana auring iuw. ; K: r: There wa la the City one Soeie. lnfamon f.rhl lnoliee aad villainy, who thought the perfection of Liberty Speech PixTAEtn. tra licrntionfnePB iof I I THUltSOAY, MAKCIl 27, '73. i Publish a pood newspaper and satisfy the public thatt is on a solid foundation of cash to make it per manent, and the people will sub scribe for it. From the manner n I which the circulation of the Aeicspl this City is increasing, it is apparent r that it does not hurt that paper for its enemies in its own party to charge that it is on the six hun dred and odd millions cash basis of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. FosTEit, the car-hook murderer, was hung in New York on Friday last. Foster was well connected, and his friends made desperate ef forts to have the sentence commuted, tolmprisonment for life, but Gov ernor Dix strenuously refused- Fos ter murdered a merchant, named Putnam, in Juno 1S71, on a street car in New York City. Foster was drunk and insulteel some ladies un der Putnam's protection, and when the latter resented it, Foster seized a car-hook and struck Putnam over the head with it. ! the sitting of the Legislature euch edition was really demanded. But in the midst of a session of the Leg islature, when the demand for a Republican Daily was far greater than It can possibly be at any time duriner the next half year, the Daily was run at the expense of the Weekly. The total receipts of Dai ly subscriptions, from members and all, amounted to les3 than fifty vearlv subscribers at seven dollars a piece less in fact than the single item of telecranhic despatches, to - say nothing of the cost of paper and the double increase of force neces sary. Nor is it expected that a Daily will, of itself, pay next Winter; but property of the other. As a race, tfie colored people of the South have conducted them selves admirably, and every white man, whose fortune it was to have been reared among and withr them, ought to feci j A pride and pleasure in encouragingand elevating-them to the fullest ! hc?ght of American citizenship. I; In their nature and instincts the colored people of the South are pre eminently a Southern people, and destiny has made us one and insep arable as a community of people constituting-.the same body politic. The good fortune of the white man is the glory off the black man ; and the glory of the one is the common So long as theSoim7 of this City confined itself to the business ,of tearing down the Democratic-Conservative party, the Republicans of North Carolina welcomed it as an ally in a good and glorious cause; bul, now that its Editor has beta ken himself deliberately to the work of building up and strength ening an able and dangerous Demo cratic organ in the Actr, Republi cans must withdraw the encourage ment of their welcome, smiles and support. If the Editor of the Sen tinel Is permitted to complete his Spring campaign he will Hood the State with the Raleigh JYeics. f Tjik Editors cf the Era thank General D. II. Hill, of the Southern - Home at Charlotte for this reference ; to the Era: "The Daily Era has been suspended. It was full of news i and newspaper men will miss it." During the Spring and Summer ! months the Meekly Era will be iih- proved in its matter and size, and j its 'circulation greatly extended.j '.With the revival of business in the j Fall, the Daily edition will be re l stored, and it is not simply indulg ing in pronscs to say that, for news, jtoint, interest, and usefulness, !it will be made to surpass any paper yet given to the people of North Carolina. j The Kulargeiiiriit of the Kra. The paper mills and type foun dries with which the Era deals, were not able, on the notice given them, to fill the orders for paper and material for the enlargement of the Era, this week. It is confi dently expected, and promised, that the taper and material will be to hand in time for the issue of April 3, when, if so, the paper will appear enlarged from tMx.TS to 2$xt3 inches in size. in the- meantime the Manager ex pects to so increase the circulation and revenue of the Weekly as to justify the publication of a Daily at the expense of the Weekly edition ; for the Republican parly must of a necessity have a Daily at the Capital during the sitting of the next Legislature, and in the State campaign of 1874. Therefore, the Weekly Era appeals to the Repub licans for an increased support now, that it may bear the extra burden of theii service next Winter and next year. Another view of the situation in fluenced the Manager of the Era in his course. The matter prepared for a Dailv naneris not. for the -f ' most part, appropriate for a Weekly, and so to make up a first class Weekly from the matter of a Daily, the variety musts of necessity be greater than he was at the present timfe able to give. Cut his Daily next Winter will contain a variety not before presented to the reading public of North Carolina,- so that the Weekly then shall be, in every mrticular. what he proposes to make it now the best family read ing, industrial and political paper of the State. . With this explanation, the Man ager of the Era hopes all his party friends are satisfied; and he would suggest as the best and quickest way to have supplied the. want of a Re publican Daily at the State Capital that, all those who share in that want bestir themselves now in behalf of the Weekly Era, and not complain of a management which can only serve a public in proportion as that public encourages and sup ports such management. , We must divest ourselves of all prejudice of rpce and learn to culti vate this black man, since Provi dence, in planting the tree of Lib erty.in theonrje'unbroken American forest, seems tphave appointed that the free peopl riurtured here should be the guardians, protectors and teachers of this peculiar race of His beings. We must cease to despise the man who J for more than two hundred years : has served us well and faithfully. A thousand hills smilinsr with the rich harvests of plenty are the monuments of his toil ; and from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf almost every clearing in the woods proclaims that Africa's r hardy son ha.s passed by that way. When thd f eminent Southern Statesman, iij reference to slavery and the colored! man, asserted that the chief corner-stone of this Gov ernment was a black one. he uttered one of the grandest truths of histo ry : and although his remark and Speech of Senator Wake. Harris, of To Republicans and Friends. Now is the time for Republicans, and the friends of the Era, in every county in the State .ind it circulates in them all to bestir themselves in D?half of the paper. Send In single subscribers, and clubs. Remember that the paper is to be greatly en larged ; and that all persons getting up subscribers ore entitled to one- jourth of the money. The price of a yearly subscription is Two Dol lars, and whoever obtains a sub scription for a year makes Fifty c?nts; for six months, Twenty-five, and so on. Almost any one can make from five to twenty-five dol lars In this way, in a short time, and with no trouble or expense. Tl.e able speech of Senator Harris, of Wake, on lv,u Klux Amnesty, a pilars in the Era t o-day . 1 1 is a truthful utteranco throughout, and the high merit he claims for his race, he and his race have estab lished for themselves ; and what he claims for the colored people will not and cannot be denied. In this Ku Klux business the Democratic party has mane for itself an everlastingly damning record. First it raised this murderous and hellish' organization; and after vainly attempting to conceal and cover it up by persistent denial and falseswcaring adding the black crime of perjury to the red-handed crime of murder this party of high- morals, superior intelligence and boundless wealth, comes out and admits more than was ever charged; and assuming to itself to pardon its own offences throws itself on the mercy of court composed of itself constitutes its members a Jury to try themselves for crimes they committed and comes out convicted and goes to sentence by a Jury packed and court organized to acquit! The people of North Carolina need very much to be kept in mind of this last attempt which the Ku Klux made on them at the late sitting of the Legislature, and docu ments like this speech of Senator Harris will do much to awaken the masses to the hypocrisy of those earnest pleaders for mercy in behalf of "forty thousand misguided young men," and destroy the soph istry of those warm advocates of amnesty who would " saveito the his efforts fajle'd toi perpetuate the institution erf- slavery, in which cause he f-poke,1 he nevertheless un wittingly paid; a just and lasting tribute to the aiecro. who has had his part in establishing and perpet uatinj? our frecanstitutions. and has written his first history in the pages of American civilization, American prosperity and American dory. For, without the negro the mias- matic fccetionsof the South would have never been opened to cultiva tion and habitation ; and without these broad -V dotton fields of the South, their vast productions of a staple necessary to the commerce, comfort and njlu.-try of the world a commodity, without which America never could have grown into wealth and power Liberty must have continued symbolic of a wild, boundlessj unknown country ; millions of happy a.r.d great Ameri cans woukl liave remaineel unborn, and the American ; name been un known, un honored and unsung. Let us therefore preserve this chief corner-stone to our first rude temple of Liix-rty, black though it be, Hiid havjng begun, to rebuild, let us fou ud' therein a grander and nobler institution, worthy of the new era upon which we have enter ed, .anil the higher civilization we have, through he presence of the colored manj aejiieved. the possession of the road that is if there is no higher law or authori ty to the contrary; but here the United States Court with its broad mantle of jurisdiction asserts its au thority through a lieceiver, uoione Samuel McDowell Tate, former President, who i3 now in possession This i3 the result of the appeal from the much talked-of decree of sale in that Court. Pending this appeal which may be two years the road remains in the hands of a Receiver. The Howerton Board, then, are powerless with not even authority to issue a pass or the right to free ride over the road and this can only be overcome by influencing the Court to appoint a iteceiver in "full accord" with them which will doubtless be attempted; but must fail because the main object of the appointment isin the interest of creditors. Boiled down a little more and we find other parties in terested in the concern. In addition to the two Boards of Directors one appointed by the Governor the other by the Legis lature a Receiver appointed by the United States Circuit Court we have Commissioners of Sale inves tigative and arbitrative, charged with multifarious duties, appointed by the Legislature will appoint in spite of the Supreme Court. And we would like to know whence the Legislature derives its authority to abolish the Stockholders and their Directors, and direct the sale of their property. Vould not the title made by these Commissioners be worthless? And in the name of decency, how much more investiga tion is needed ? Already thousands of dollars have been expended by "Fraud Commissions" and Inves tigating Committees, and what is the result ? " The veriest fizzle." But our troubles are soon to end Mr. Thomas D." Carter, whose dis interested zeal in behalf of an op pressed and victimized people en titles him to a proud eminence in their affections, says in the last Expositor : "lie is happy to be able to isay that he has reliable written assurances that large capitalists will, if they can get possession of the YV. N. C. II. K., not only comply with all the requirements of the bills passed at the late session of the Legislature, but that they will in addition take the assets of the Company (both Divisions) and assume the liabili ties of the same; and that they will not only give unexceptionable guarantees of its completion to Paint Rock in three years, and to Waynes ville an four years, but thev will also guarantee the com pletion of the Ducktown Branch to the most practicable point on the Tennessee or Georgia line in the county ofChero kce, and that they will prosecute the entire work vigorously and unceasingly to its completion. These parties do not propose to await the adjudication of the Company's in debtedness before commencing the work, but will take the road now, let the decision of the courts be what it may, and assume all its liabilities, and win rue, wi.n tne e ommissioners ap pointed under the lato bill, "any amount of security that they can reasonably re quire, of their ability to "complete the road : and further, that they will com mence the work in ninety -days after they get possession." Tne I'rcss aueis to tne above an nouncement : all the rights, privileges and powers usually exercised by corporations, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts, may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may make from time to time, and alter the same, all such by-laws, and regulations for the management of their business and property, as they may deem proper, hot inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State and the United States. Sec. 7. Said corporation shall have the power and the ) right to pur chase, lease, own, manage and use a Railway from Salisbury, in the county of Rowan, North Carolina, to Asheville, in Buncombe county, thence to Waynes viller in Haywood county, and from Asheville to Paint Rock, in the county of Madison, North Carolina, and thence toMor ristown.in the State of Tennesse, and thence, in their discretion, to Cum berland Gap and Cincinnati, Ohio. And from Asheville, North Caro lina, to Spartanburg and Columbia, South Carolina; and it may consol idate on such terms as may be agreed upon, with any Railroad corporation or Railroad property within the State, or within the States of South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, or Ohio, and may pur chase or lease any Railroad prop erty, with its rights and franchises, and may finish any Railroad so pur chased, leased or consolidated with. Sec. 8. That the capitai stock of the said corporation shall be for such an amount, and may from time to time be increased, under such rules and regulations as may be determined on by a majority of the stockholders, and the corpora tion shall have the power to classify such capital stock, and regulate the manner of the payment of the same. Provided, Said capital stock shall not exceed ten million dollars, and said corporation may provide by its by-Jaws, in what way and manner the said capital stock may be represented, and may in the by laws prescribe what and how many officers the corporation may have, and the duties and compensation of the hiime, and their manner of ap pointment. Sec. 9. That said corporation may from time to time, issue its bonds, bearing such rate of interest, -and under such rules anil regulations, and running to .maturity at such times as may be prescribed by a majority of the stockholders of said corporation in any general or called meeting of tlie same ; and to secure the payment of such bonds and in-, terest on the same, the corporation shall have the power to mortgage all of its property, or any part thereof, together with its 1 ranch ises. rights and privileges. Sec. 10. That in addition to the powers herein specially granted, the said corporation may have and privileges and immunities hereto fore granted to any railroad corpor ation within this State. times, and ratified this Gd day of March, A. D. 1873. -J. L. ROBINSON, Speaker of the House. C. H. BROGDEN, President of the Senate. Raleigh, March 3d, 1873. Speech of Senator Harris, OF WAKE, Delivered in the Senate, Jan. 28th 1873, on the Ku Klux Amnesty Bill. Coming from Mr. Carter, of course this is reliable; but wo are con strained to say the fools are not all eiead, yet. Railroad Bill. Act in lielation to the Sale and Corn- plelion of the W. X. C. li. R. Western North Carolina Railroad. Elsewhere Jn the Era to-day will )e fouuel an act 1 passed by the Leg islature in reference to the sale of "Democratic party of North Caro- fMi O Iwr Ku Klux Amnesty Act. lino fnrtv thAticini irws the passage of a Democratic the Western road. The Governor,' Hon. North Carolina Rail- M. E. Man- r ly, of Craven, Hon. George Davis, of Wilmington,. Col. Walter L. Steele, of Richmond county, J. II. Wilson. Il-.ei.. of, Charlotte, are. bv this act appointed a Commission to determine what to do with the Road. Governor Caldwell has in vited these Commissioners to meet himself, and Hon B. S. Gaither and Col. Marcus! Erwi'n on the part of the District Court, at the Execu tive office April 2, 1S73, to deter mine what to do in the premises. Granting the. n ppejal of the Stale to the Supreme Couri of the United States, the District Judge appointed CoJ.S. McD. Tate, Receiver, and Section 1. The General Assem bly of North Carolina do enact That Tod R. Caldwell, George Davis, M. E. Manly, J. II. Wilson and w. -u. bteele, are hereby con stituted a committee to be joined. and associated with the commis sioners appointed by the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Western District of North Carolina, held at ureensooro, in a case wherein Henry Clews and others are plaintilfs, and the V. N. C. R R. Company are defendants, for the purpose of selling the Kailroad and all the lrancmse and property con nectc-d therewith, under and in pur suance of the orders and decree's of the said Court made, or hereinafter to be made, in said cause. Sec. 2. That the commissioners so appointed by this act, together with the commissioners appointed by the Court, or a majority of them shall have power to arbitrate any aim an ueuis, ciaimt-, ooneis or oon gations embraced by said suits, together with all other claims against said Railroad company, and allow so much of the same as said commissioners may deem just anel legal, and if any of the creditors shall purchase the property, then such creelitor shall bo alloweel his elebt under the order or decree of the Cemrt or commission, in the discharge of his bid or so much of said bid as may be necessary therefor. bEC. 6. inat said commissioners shall require the purchaser or pur chasers or the property, to give them satisfactory assurances of their Sec. 11. That the said company shall have all the rghis, privilege's, property and franchises of the Wes tern Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad: Company be tween Waynesville Haywood coun ty, and Paint Rock, Madison coun ty, via Asheville, North Carolina, so far as may be necessary for them to build, construct,! complete, own and run said road between the points last aforesaid. Provided, That none of said rights, privileges, franchises, or property, shall rest in this corporation unle-ss the provis ions of this act are complied with. Provided further, That nothing here in contained shall be so construed, in any way or manner, as to give the corporation named in this act, their successors or assigns, any of the rights, privileges, property or franchise of the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad, except simply to put into their possession and transfer to them the road bed and right of way between Waynesville and Paint Rock, including the grading and masonry now done between said points last named, and no more. Sec. 12. That said corporation shall begin the work of the comple tion of the Western JNorth Carolina Railroad within six months after they shall have the right and title to the property anel franchises of the Western North Carolina Rail road Company, free of litigation on the part of the State, that the said company shall complete the said road from Old Fort, in McDowell county, to Paint Rock in Madison county, .North Carolina, within three years from the time they get possession of the same; that they shall complete the road from or near Asheville, to Waynesville, Hay wood county, within four years from the time they shall get posses sion ot tne saict western iNorth Carolina Railroad. The said com pany shall not at any time continu ously for two months suspend work upon said road, and if the said-company shall fail to comply, in any of the above several respects, with the provisions of this section, then they subsequently the Supreme Court of sufficient to build and complete said ability and honest intentions to shall pay, as liquidated damages to complete the icoaei, and shall take from such purchaser or purchasers such obligations as - the said com missioners shall deem necessary and The want of a Republican Iaily. The Manager of the Era did not discontinue the Daily edition of the paper from, any disposition not to serve the partys in the State to the fullest practicable extent, but from a desire to aid the Republican party throughout the State more efficient ly and thoroughly. The journals which wield the greatest political influence in this . country, are, after all, the Weekly papers, and it was to strengthen, improve and bo extend the circula tion and Influence of the Era, that the Manager determined to concen trate on the W eekly during the Spring and Summer months, and get prepared by the Fall to issue a first-rate Daily, when an actual de round will exist for a Daily Repub lican paper at the State Capital. Speech .of Representative Ab bott, of Craven The Color ed 1'eople. The speech of Mr. Abbott, of Craven, on the Ku Klux Amnesty Bill, is in type and will appear next week. This speech has been delayed until such time as it could be con veniently published, and is with held this week to make room for the speech of Senator Harris, which, being delivered first, is entitled to precedence. The especial attention of the peo ple of North Carolina is directed to the utterances of these colored men for the spirit of good feeling they breathe, and the evidences of perfect friendliness they give. The Era has sought, under the present management, to give due attention and encouragement to the the State decided Hon. W. II. Howerton to betthe legal President of the Rcpd ;' but; under the pres ent Statef affairs, the Road beine- in the hands of a Receiver, Presi dent Howerton and his Board of Directors, it is said, cannot get pos session, md confusion is made worse confounded. Anel. as if to make the. matter still more inter esting, $Ir. Appleton Oakemith comes iorwarel with English pound sterling In his pocket, from the Lombard) Exchange, Liverpool, and proposes-to lift the mortgage on the Road, pay : off its debts and com plete it ; whileJCol. T. D. Carter, of Buncomlje, backed, by a Company of Northern capitalist, announces to the public that work will be re sumed to? complete the Road, forth with, regardless of law-suits, debts, ownership possession or whatnot. The Piedmont 'Press throws add i tional light on! the subject In an editorial article under the head of " Now, Where are We ?" thus ; Dr. Howerton, Secretary of Stale. and his Board of Directors appoint ed by the Governor, under a late decision lof the Supreme Court Howerton ivs Tate are entitled to I Railroad according to the provisions or this act. i C!t-i A Tl-.r I 41. ; . ; i j r.K . -x. .mob in iitsc commis sioners appointed by the Court should refuse, or from any cause whatever fail or neg!ect to act, then .the commissioners hereby appoint ed shall have full power to carry into effect the provisions of this act. f Sec. 5. That said commissioners shall have the power to employ a clerk, and have all the rights anel r i i . . powers couierreu ana named in Resolution entitled "Resolution to provide for a commission to examine into the management and prospects oi tne Aiianuc ana jN. u. liailroad Company." Laws of 185S-'59. That the commissioners shall make a full report of their action in the premises to the next session of this General Assembly. I Sec. 6. That the purchasersof this property, their associate successors and assigns be, and they are hereby created, a body corporate and politic in law, under such manner and style as they may select, and by that name shall have a corporate existence for ninety-nine years ; and shall be capable of purchasing. holding, selling, leasing and con veying estates, real, personal and mixed, and acquiring the same by gift, release, or otherwise, so far as may, or snau be neeessarj' for the the State of North Carolina, $100,- C00 for each anel every failure, or non-compliance. S Sec. 13. That said corporation shall have no power to discriminate in the tariff for passengers and freight against -any railroad con structed west of i Asheville, in the direction of Ducktown, or against the Carolina Central Railway Com pany, connecting, or which may connect, with the line of road or roads to be built uneler the provi sions of this act. Sec. 14. That should the Western North Carolina Railroad, that is to say, the iuistcrn division oi the . same, ho sold, either publicly or privately, by commissioners, or any other persons empowered to make sale of said road, by any act or reso lution passed during the present session of the General Assembly, or at any future session, or by or under any decree of any Court, made or hereafter to be made, the purchaser, or purchasers, at any such sale shall be, and the same are hereby consti tuted incorporators, under this act, and shall succeed to all the franchi ses, privileges and immunities of the said Western North Carolina Railroad Company, upon their com plying with i he provisions of this act, as fully and completely as u thev were the original incorporators ! herein named. Sec. 10. TJ ilt all of laws, in i;liict with any of the provisions uf ij; act be, and the same are lurehy repealed. Mr. Harris said : Mr. President : I do not rise, sir, so much for the purpose of dis cussing the merits of the bill, as I do for the purpose of answering the charges made by the Senator from Orange (Judge Norwood,) against the Union League, and particularly against the coloreel people, gener ally, s Sir, I denyX emphatically, that the conduct of the colored people at any time before the war, during the war, or since the war, has been such, in any respect, as to justify the organization of the murderous Ku Klux Klan. But, on the con trary, they have used the best means in their power to cultivate and maintain a friendly relation with the whites ; in evidence of this, I need only remind Senators of the conduct and bearing of the coloreel people during the late., war, at a time when nearly every able bodied white man in the South was absent from his home, engaged in a fierce and terrible struggle in defence of the Southern Confederacy, wherein I concede they were moved by pa triotic impulses, believing tney were right.. Not only the sus tenance of their armies and the safe ty of their property, but the lives and the honor of their wives and daughters, and of their de pendent and defenseless house holds were at the mercy, and in almost the sole care of the coloreel people. Now, sir, in the name of the colored people, I challenge the Ku Klux defenders in this chamber to point to a single instance during the entire period of the war wherein this trust was betrayed. Every Senator on this floor must, in justice to truth and himself, admit that the negro has been faithful to his duty and his ; trust. We heard nothing of rapes and barn burning charged upon tlie colored people, nor the bad advice of white Republicans until the Ku Klux Klan found it necessary to render some excuse for their hellish deeds. It is said that the colored people became some what demoralized by the advice of corrupt white Republicans, which the Senator from Orange (Judge Norwood) admits to beofny a mere charge, but for the sake of argument admit it to be true. Then is it to be wondered at, when it is remember- cel that the colored people were thrown into a whirl of excitement unlike anything' they had ever known before? the whirl incident to their sudden 5 transition from a state of slavery to that of freedom ? Sir, if these allegations wereHrue, I as a peaceable and law-abiding citizen, cannot admit the justifica tion of a lawless organization aimed at the whole negro race and the Re publican party. The whole machinery of the law was in the hands of the white peo ple of Orange county, as in other counties in this State; they have the courts in their own hands, and whenever the law is violated it is their duty to promptly arrest and punish the violators. If the colored people committed crime and were not punished, the fault lay at the door of the whites anel not the col ored people; but instead of seeing to the due observance of the law atlU to its prompt, impartial adminis tration, those who now complain of what they call the lawless acts of the negro, baneled themselves into an uniawmi organization, ignored all the laws of the State and took into their own hands the aelminis tration of their kind of justice. Sir, I mean the whipping, shooting and hanging done by the Ku Klux in general, for I will not take" up the time of the Senate to recapitulate their bloody deeds. They are now a part of the history of our State, anel the blackest part, I hope, that will ever be written. Such an out rage as the hanging of Wyatt Out law is one that no man on earth can justify. Think of it. There was a man of irreproachable character, beloved by' all who knew him, that man was taken one Saturday night from the embrace of his fam ily, at the silent hour of midnight, and carried within a few yards of Graham Court House, and there his dead body was found swinging be- the public gaze on- a before the law. Sir, if there had been no reconstruction acts passed by Congress conferring po litical and civil rights upon the ne gro, there would have been no Ku Klux Klan in this or any other State. It cannot be successfully de nied that the purpose of the Ku Klux was to intimidate the Repub licans, particularly the colored peo ple, and thus enable the Democratic party to get control of this govern ment, State and National. But it is said tiy the Senator from Orange, and other Senators, that the Union League was the eause of the organi zation of the Ku Klux.. This I deny, and challenge Senators t6 the proof. i Mr. President, there is no more similarity between them than there is between a seat in heaven and a seat in pandemonium. In evidence of this I will ask the clerk to read the ritual and obligration of the League, anel the oanh of the Invisi ble Empire, and I ask Senators to pay attention while the clerk reads. Read by the clerk : ftartv is rPKnnncihlA r... n suit. i 4 'a( rt. Io conclusion, Mr: Pre.M(jrn, ', repeat my protect against the -V ' 1 that thp conduct .f n. ... i vv!1Jl"i.''- i.. piw mis jusuiieu me orr;ur .;,' the hellish KuKlux Khu "V'f deny that, there is anything . ''T'' Union League to exciw i.V.W ' ' the outrages that have mitted in the interest i.t n,,. i. eriitir i:irt v l I tUn .-.. i-, 'v'1'".- ------- I'i'll.i. 1 am not opposed to amr. pardon properly Bought, liVV 1 hevingas I do,! that, ii tlie hii , '" before the Senate pasts .. 1 present form, t he moral M&rt u'" premium t'..r ' am. constrained; to oppose ..i 1 against it. Letter from A she-Court. WW. an- OBJECTS OF THE UNION LEAGUE. The objects of this organization are to preserve our Lib ties as a people ; maintain the su premacy oi JL.aw, the Constitution and Union of the Government of the United States o f America againstall enemies, whether Domestic or For eign ; secure per manently the as cendancy of Amer ican Institutions to ourselves and posterity ; protect and strengthen all in their; rights of roperty and per son ; demand and sustaiu the educa tion of the Laborer, and make our Or ganization the School for the prompt and effi cient instruction of all men in tho du ties of American Citizenship. The objects ibeing thus defined, ; are you willing to proceed? Ojej.n OF THE IN VISIBLE EMPIRE. I, before the groat immaculate lod H' heaven and earth, dol take and sub scribe to the follow ing sacred binding oath and obligation: I prm ise and s w ear that I will uphold and defend the Con stitution of thoUni ted States as it was handed d o w n by our forefathers in its original purity. I promise and swear that I will rejc:tand oppose tho princi ples ot the radical party in all its tonus, -and lorever maintain and con tend that intelligent white in e n shall govern tins coun try. I promise and pjedge myself to as sist, according to my pecuniary cir- cumstan ces, all brothers in distress. Females, widows, ind their house holds shall ever be specially in my caro aud protection. J. promise and swear that I will obey all instructions given me by my chief.and should I ever di vulge or cause to be divulged any se crets, signs or pass words ot the invis ible 13m pi re, X must meet with the fear ful and just penalty of the traitor, which i s death, death, death, at! the hands To Me Editor of the Era:-.. The Superior Court for tln-ren. of Watauga begun on the hi; I, His Honor J. LP Henry pni(,.1 with his usiil ilirnit - i i ' . ; ;".? v oi. j.rv, : solicitor., having resigned the His Honor appointed S. Trive-t prosecute for the term. The ' being small, very little ,;.;,' 1 was transacted Janus crnu u convicted for thelareenv ot ,:...,' key, and sentenced to lour u-,',,..".'' L-uuuueiueiii in me countv toeverat ot the lieavh st J.Mi by S. TriVeit, 1, ' cjcnerai Ass,,-,!, I'lV. i moved to AsheH countv. Tuesday at 12 in., while ti0 took a recess, the people present ; .l seiuuieu in uie l ourthouM- were utieiresse'el on the various before, the late and tiartieii :iri' tl,r. . i membefed Ku Klux AiniH-tv Li the demerits of which received u ("l proper due-s at his lunula Athhi', , , the expressions given, seven-;, t of the citizen). of the nu.un: , ? counties look upon the m-hri,V ' Amnesty bill as an uutimelv i r; duction, wicked and ahonif:, anel deserving of the eoiuh-nifntr,' ' of every friend of law and ,,1(j(T So mote it be. . Itespect fully, Asi;'. Jefferson, March IS 1ST;:. ; " iX'IAl, A CAHD. XOTK I-S. "nr.- fore the nub he caze on- a bright Sunday morning: and while the dement church bells of that town were call ing the people togetherat the differ ent churches, - to worship the true and living God, the cries and moans of the widow fand orphan children of that innocent man, wjpre heard, as it were, mingling with the church bells ; and passers by beheld the. dead body of Outlaw dangling from the limb of a, tree in the Court House yard, for none dared take it down. For what was that bloody deed counselled and committed? Only because Outlaw was a leading man among his people, and aided and encouragetl in building school houses and churches, and counselled manhood in the colored people. He had said that if the Ku Klux ever visited his house he would use nil the means that nature and art had given him to defend himself and family. That is all that he was of the State, held here in Kaleigh ever accused of. The senator from in lboo, over which I had the of the brethren. Now, sir, I ask where is the American citizen that loves his coun try Who could not take upon .him self that first obligation ? Freni the teachings of the Ku Klux the white man learns to be disloyal. From the teachings of the Leagua the negro learns to love the government and respect the rights of other men. From tho teachings of the Ku Klux the white man learns to hato the government and to feel that the negro has no rights with hifri before the Jaw. . As for the defective legislation of the Ilepublican party as charged by the Senator from ltandolph (Dr. Worth) that to some extent 1 ad mit, but it must be remembered that Democratic members of the Legislature of ISOS-'G'J supported those Railroad measures as well as Republicans. If one, was corrupt so must have been the other. Mr. President, I have no apology to offer for any wrong which the Republican party may have com mittee!. But when we take into ac count the many difficulties that party had to encounter, sir, it is not strange that it shoulel have made some blunders. 1 think it comes with very bad grace from the Dem ocratic party to complain of what they ought to anel could have pre vented. The Senator from Randolph com plains that the interest of the State had fallen into the hands of carpet bagge rs and other irresponsible per sons. Sir, for that I hold that Sen ator and his party responsible. Why did they stand listlessly by and see the interest of the State pass into improper hands? If the lead ers of the Democratic party had come forward with a spirit of com mon justice, and advised the negro and assureel him of equal rights be fore theaw, they would have been warmly received, and their advice cheerfully followed. But, instead of this, they stood aloof and arrayed themselves against a new uolitical whose power thev defied. whose rights they did not and would not acknowledge and respect. and whose votes even they rejected with scorn. Thu3 left to ourselves, all counsel and encouragement re fuseel 'by the leading white men of the Stale1, we had to fill the offices with such men as would at least re spect and sympathize with us in State and National Legislatures. 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Wishing to bene: lit the siilfcring, 1 v. i;l send tho recipo for preparing ntni iisin this remedy to all who lew re it OF CHARGE. Please fend an envelop, with . r name and address on it. AiMiv.-, - IlKVi WILLIAM II. NoUTon, ;?! r.iuKUiw.vv. mar n. .S w3m Nicw Youj in, MAKIilAGi: CLIDi:. EVERY ONE 11 IS OWN DOClTii: -l.V.u: i a private instructor for 1; or those about to be married, !;...!! and female, in everything cmn ru i ,' tlie physiology and relatiins ofoiir v:v ial system, and tho product! u ! prevention of offspring, iuelu.liutf all new eli.scoverics never before given i the English language, by VM. Yol'.v;, M. D. This is ireally a valuable ;: ! interesting work! It is writti n in j -language for tho general reader, mm! illustrated with numerous I-Ingrav All young married people, or iIjum i j. templating marriage, and haiiv' t ' least impediment to married life, si . u .! read this book. It dis -loses sept-s. :' everyone should bo .acquainted wi'1 still it is a book that must I e 1 I ? and not let lio about the 'houvc. be sent to any address on receipt :' v cents. Address1 Dr. WM. Vol Vs No. 410 Spruce street, above 1"" ' Philadelphia ; . electee! to office; but for this the coloreel people are not to blaine. Mr. President, I declare here to day that the colored people havo always cnensiied the most kindly feeling towards the whites, and they heartily desire to have peace and harmony attend all good citizens. -in support of this I need onlv call your attention to the proceedings of a convention or tne colored people JSS AFFLICTED ANb UNfroK IT VI I . No matter what may' be your ii-' ' ye fo re y o u p lace y o u r se 1 f u 1 1 1 : r t ! i " ' ' v of any one of tlioj QUACKS-natm aij ' foreign wlio advertiso in this or other paper, get K copy of Jr. Y"i;- Book and read .ii carefully. It will : the means of saving you many a '"' your health, and possibly your i : Dr. Young can bo consulted n any : the diseases described "in hU tions by mail ij at his ojTic". Spruce street, above l'ourth, r.ii'- phia. , n-w: laws, and clauses purposes within the intent and nur-1 Sec. lo. That ihis act shall be in view of this character, and by that ' force from and after its ratification. Orange (Judge Norwood) charges that crime of different kinds has been ' committed by the negroes through the advleo of bad white men. Admit that some are guilty of all he charges. Sir, I ask when did the colored; people as a class ever justify crime or shelter crimi nals from the laws? If all the charges made by that gentleman were true, I again repeat that the law was sufficient, if enforced, to put down such crime and outraere. and if it was not enforced, the white people were to blame, they filling every omce irom judge down to magistrate, and had it in their power to punish all who were guil ty of crime, according to law: And every colored Tnan anel Republican would have crieel out,'amen. But, no; the work of the Ku Klux had to be done, and an excuse found or one made. They stepped in. numb ed the law aside, and proceeded to carry out tho objects of their organ ization, namely, to defeat there-. construction acts of Congress, and ! honejr to preside. At that Con vention (at my suggestion) a res olution was unanimously adont ed, inviting some of the prominent leading white erentlemen of ihn totate to advise with us in the new outies, that we, as-newly enfran chised, or rather freedmen, were e-aiied upon to perform. Some of them 1 am happy to say responded in a kindly manner by letter, others eameanuaeioressed the Convention counseling us in a proper spirit wiucu was mgniy appreciated. Among those who came were Gov ernor W. W. Ilolden, the late Gov ernor worth, Kev. W. K. Pell and others. But social ostracism and flip or ganization of the white man's party made this, effort on our part a com plete failure. Thfi inhnmnn rrxr f " this is a white man's covprnmpnt and none but white men shall vote," &c, served to sever that silken chord which should hav 1 inn ml uy, politieallv. together Carolinians, our interests being one name may have, exercise and enjoy 1 In General Assembly read three j deprive the negro of equal rights 'j and insepa To all Whom It may (':n,,"JI Office Itey '. of Deed, H'a .'.- ''" Kaleigh, N. C, 13th March, l-. '- ANY AND J:VLIIY PEKSnN.J ; ing a tax on their receipt?;! no as provided in the Revenue I. nu r;tt;-' 3rd day of March, 1873, such at M'1' ;' ants, Auctioneers, Conuni-ion 'M'" ' -4ints. Ac, fcc, ami everv person v :lras first to obtain a Licc'iw, lici'-.re '" ercising any trado or calhn, ;'11 whom are comprised under Sche h;!-' of said Act, and have heretofore M.'"' ed such their lists to the HlieriiJ 'f v county,' AKL NOW Kl'JH 'l',:i ' under sections 12 and '20, of 'said i'-' ' nue Laws, on the 1st days of Jaiuia'. April, July and October,- to list. !! ;l , ' to the liEGLSTElt OF DKKl'-S ' total amountof their mirchases. ree;; and sales, as tho case may be, for t- preceding quarter. This, therefore, 1m lo jrire to any and everyone interested, tlit'1''. undersigned will, on tho l-'IK'S'l' l' OF APRIL next, attend at the OF THE liOAItD OF COlMV COMMISSIONERS, for tho piirp duty it is to attend, and who t.u ":"' do, will bo noted and charged douu tax as required by law. ' , w. w, wiunw Register oi Peels mar lc 2t ' ! Wako l oivni.