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11 " ": " :r I "T J" 7TT"-. ' " " i" . . - -. : I 9 T T TRl-WEKKLY AXD W!XK!.V HVTIIK ERA PUBLISHING COMPANY. Itntca of Kutoriitioii x Tri-Wkkklt Ono year, In advance, 3 O0j 0 months, in advance, 2 00 , 3 months, in advencc, 1 00 1 1 month, in advance, oOf Wkkki.y -One year, in advance, i w Six months, in advance, ,0 The Public Printing. The Sntine assumes an air of defiance in relation. to the public printing it aln-cts to defy. all the saints in the calender. Hut this bmvado will scare no hotly. The public . fhall know the truth Uforo the matter is done with. The fact- charged do not need to be proved they stand admitted. Theonly .jticstion is, who is the. responsible party ? That will l.c shown in due time. Kvery.1ody knows where the money went to support 77te Srnfintl news p:ipr and its 1-ditor. The facts, as' we understand, are the: The legislative Committee con tractcd with James 1 1. Moore tp do the printing at 75 cents per thousand em. Ho paid his printers "A) cents per thousand to do the work, the measure ment used being the quad. em. This left him a margin of i cents per. thou sand for profits. The quad, em is the measurement in use by the Printers Union of this city, and is the one by which the (iovernment printing has Ihh'H measured and'jsud for by the Mate for many years. Willi this mar gin for profits Mr. Moore wasnotsatis- Jied. lie, therefore, sui)stitutca tnc measurement of the letter m in mak- ! ;ifr. .lif lil lilllj n'r-litlit thf St-ltf. : Ilv i ,t2 ;,.,,..,., .tu,,,io,i in ,i'm-- ! l'" '"" " , ing from the Treasury some three thou- receivetl had the established standard f measurement by the quad, em leen usctl. These facts cannot be denied are not pretemletl to 1h deniel.' This makes it clear that the State i lias paid the present printer some three thous:ind dollars more than she has heretofore paid' for the same amount f printing under similar contracts. ' . f .. ,rl , Y ho is to I lame for it ! That s the question, now ! Mr. Moore says he had a private understanding with the Com mittee, that in making out his bills the measurement of the letter m should 1h substituted for that of the quad, cut the estabiishetl standard. Ts this so? We intend the public shall know. If the facts cannot be obtained in one way they ran in another. If one Commit tee can't get at the truth another can. What says the Legislative Committee to this attempt to fix the responsibility on it? Is it really the responsible party? Did the Commit tee agree that Mr. Moore might make out his bills in the way he did that the Sentinel might thereby be re warded for party services? Will the Committee admit tliat it thus onstrucd the contract in order to re ward a party favorite? W; shall see. Why docs not The Sentinel make a statement in relation to the matter? This pa i er is not to lx? deterred by wholesale charges of corruption against the Republican party. It is not to le deterred by intimations that a Repub lican onicial is in vol veil in the matter ot auditing the accounts. What it wants is the truth, no matter who suf fers by it, and this it intends to have, if it ran be had. No, indeed, the' mat ter cannot be silenced in that way. The Snfinel has long played the role of Mie Watch dog of the Treasury. Its business has been to expose fraud and theft. If it has trotted out of the Treas ury with a bag of illicit gold in its mouth, as is believed, the public have a right to know who is to blame for it, whether Mr. Moore, the Ixgislative Committee or some Republican official. It ran no more be excused in the one. than the other, and will not be by this pajKT. Did not other parties, with equal or superior facilities, oner to do the print ing at 7.7 cents per thousand quad, ems t Will 77i-.yifi7trllus? Will the Leg islative Committee answer? Did the Committee agree to change the estab lished standard of measurement to en able it to pay Mr. Moore what he de manded for the printing without seem ing to the public to doso ? Or was the Committee deceived by the statements of Mr. Moore, who is a practical prin ter while they are not ? And after all has Mr, Moore measured the matter as he a;rceti with the Committee to meas ure it in the prirafe contract, which he -ays he made with the Committee? Those are all questions for legislative investigation, and the attention of the General Assembly is 'specially called to them. If the investigation isgyer had honestly and firirly what the report will be cannot be a matter of doubt. If the Committee re-ally agreed to the construction placed iqx)n the contract by Mr. Moore it is conceedod that it is chiefly to blame. And for the acts of the Committee the Legislature'and the Conservative party will be held re sjonsible by the people, unless the mat ter is investigated and corrected by the Iiegislature. Will that body make a proper investigation into the conduct of its Committee? Time will show whether it will or not. A Democratic Bomb-Shell! We understand that the article from The Augusta Ga.) Constitutionalist, of the 7th inst., (extracts from which we pub lish to-day,) fell like a bomb-shell among the chivalry at the Columbia Fair this w eek. If some of the leaders J In thl- tnt irnnH ftnlv TTlft Out and ! ' , . f speak in like manly style, there would : soon be an end of the Ku Klux in this State. J ...! .J ; .Lij1- 'j' : L : i "' :" ,: : : 1 Jt : . LLi i vol. 1. I j v j RALEIGH, IN. U., THURSDAY,- INO V l-iYlJ-l-l-C 181.. t Senator Pool. ! ? States. rphe South has no better friend 1 Let the people of the South once be Mainly Sentiments from a Deuiu- Senator Pool. After an absence of oyer nine moAths, in. attendance upon his official duties at. "Washington, this distinguished gentle- r . ...... L . man returneu to his home in Elizabeth r-iK. - r.,r ,i o. it., W Cd afeu daJ&ago. lie was mbt at tte landing by a large number of his fraendsand fellow citizens. A speech of 'welcome was made by C. W. G randy, j Kp, to which the di.stinguishetl Sena tor made an eloquent and appropriate response. He was then taken in acarri agi", escortcd by a band of music, to his house, followed by several hundred citi zens, the streets blazing with bonfires. On arrivini' :it his rosideneo nnnrthrr adilress of welcome was made hi Dr. Joihn, to which Mr. Pool respondf il as 1 . j i loiiows: j , At this late hour of the night, stmd- : ing in the oien air, cold and with not omortunitv for anv one to be seated. it f-annot be expected that any elabor ate discussion of public allairs ran take place. Yet you seem to insist on I ear ing a speech from me. The interest you manifest ran be but tartiall re sondd to. North Carolina honored me with a seat in the American Senate in a time of much uncertainty and s. trouble. While I know no section of tion of the Southern States was necss rily a matter of peculiar solicitud f peculiar i The results of the var had left the Southern people prostrate in air th heir i; national interests. Disorder ana con : fion were added and uncertainty M the minds of all observing men. I be Helved our true interest and only fety consisted in a manly and prompf; ac quisence in the result of events and in being in full accord with the national sovernment. To the accomplishment i i-v iftHi T lio-o ini?nlr 15rrvtvl mv (f : fort:, It xvoulli imve him fully accom plihcd long ago, but for the disturbing ! elements of secession hatred andl the I Ji?ruers jhich have grown out of itj hTlie organization of a conspiracy to lSUDstitute loc-al violence in the plale of jih great constitutional guarantees of lilbrtv and equality, was a crime liardi Iv jless monstrous and fanatical than n4 original rebellion. It Is strange that-Any thinking man could havepup-j poed that this great nation would per nnt it to be carried out. In the XlVj Aniendment to the Constitution there hail been incorporated an express de- L'laration of American citizensnip It carried with it incident rights, and claimed primary allegiance from every; Protection was as plainly a duty oft the , government to the citizen as was hlle-i ! iriance of the citizen to the Govern-!! mqnt. The Constitution was madeh the i integrity of the Union. Thir L'HiK'lL'" tfttTAt i M'iNW.M oo have been follow- rotection of the laws. Rut the Ku ! iCInv onmnization was ontraerinsri bvi thd wholesale, every ricrht of American I citizenship, and the States, either from inability, inadvertance or other c-ause, i had failetl to punish the offenders, land ! or protect the citizen and thus had whol-?! Iv denied to a large class the equal pro-; tection of the laws. Congress was (em powered to carry into force and effect thd constitutional guarantee by appro-, priate legislation. The power of the. National jrovernment was beyond ques tion, and its duty and disposition to j uiscnarge 11 were wpjaiiy in;vumi 'lM-" tloft. ' rhe State courts having tailed 1 advisetl that the State military be call ed In to aid in the discharge of the 'pri mary duty of the States and thus avoid the necessity from further national in terposition in their affairs. But; in North Carolina, this riot only failed:but resulted in making matters decidedly worse. The interposition of the Na tional authority then become indispen sible. I urged that the Federal Courts be first tried, and the military power he held back until the last resort. Con gress finally adopted this course bnd passed the necessary legislation. I wished North Carolina to have the op portunity of showing that we had enough good men in it to execute the laws of the Union through the courts of the Union. And we arc now show ing it to the full satisfaction of the whole country. While the habeas wr pus has to be suspended in another State, and military power freely u$ed, we nre escaping the necessity for it in our State, bv bringing criminals to jus tice before the Federal Courts and laid in the due execution of the laws. t is said that hundreds are flying from the military in South Carolina. Rut why so many hundreds fly from the Civil Courts in North Carolina?" Innocent men never fly from justice. The -future looks brighter. I hope to see soon, law and ordof restored find power and prosperity dawn upon us. Let law and order be secured in jthe South, and immigration will pour in as it has done into the North Western States. Let it come. It will bring cap ital, enterprise and energy with it. j e want, all over the South, such men as Dr. John and those who have cpme with him here. Yankee energy, yan kee education and intelligence. Yan kee thrift and industry are what tthe South needs to build up her waste pla ces. Every true friend of the South welcomes such men. t In all that I have done as a Sena or, V have looked only to a firm and faith ful discharge of every duty. Personal considerations were not to be thought of, in the midst of the. grave resnonsi bilitioes of my official position. When abused and slandered, I have remained silent and trusted to . that sense of right and justice which has ever characterized the people of North Carolina, for hiy vindication in- due time. I have un bounded confidence in the sober wisdom And virtue of our people. Let them but understand what is right and good, and they will embrace and honor it. Bandying rough words, and having personal controversies with slanderers n-rtA maliimnrils m lint XV'hnt. thA TkWw nnd malignarits was not what the peo ple of North Carolina expected or de sired from their Senator when the gravest of duties were demanding his unremitted attention and thought. You, my friends, have watched my course with more solicitude, perhaps, than others, i ou endorse it and ap-i P.laU.me nU W Wiltt? ' f " . j 1 t 1 i? : 1 1 4U L tire state. jut t cannot leave you without bear- i ing w itness to the faithfulness and Vir ! tnes of t o President of the United f; ! States. The South has no better friend ! 4.1 - . i mi x J 1 mf.,v ,lf thA Mh n v nfidpnti v rol v 'l upon hiiii in every emergency. 'There is no mari in this nation, who has the ( t . : ,.i r c -,.l "ue ""v-i cu"'u pwpw ' more at heart than he has. Time will provethitruth of what I say, bo plainly tnat n isi worst enemies will soon ac knowledge it. When I say this of the President I speak what I know. And now I- bid you good-night. May the eaccj and prosperity that is dawn ing uon j us receive no futher check from folly and fanaticism. May we all liye to see liberty and law good order ad contentment cover us with their blessings? and give their promises for our children. The Hcfnator was frequently applaud i i ; j t , r i ! ed, and, on the conclusion of his speech. ree cliticra were given him, also three cheers for President Grant, when, after mmic hy the liand, the enthusiastic crowd qqietly dispersed to their homes, 1 ; i f ' r The Fatal Rock. Sectionalism in polities is the bane of ths ipountry. Such a declaration seems; unnecessary in the light of past events. sYet such are human passions and human infirmities that men too soon j forget the most instructive and solenjn teachings of history. Sectional ism gradually worked itself into Amer ican politics for many years.: At dif ferent times it had nearly culminated in civil trife.i At last it produced its inevitable consequences in, the late -dreadful and unnecessary civil war. This an scarcely be doubted by candid reflecting; men. Seciiorial feeling distorts patriotism. It dwarfs the vision and contracts the minds of statesmen e neea -noi go 4art6;find demonstrative proof of this. It meets .the eye on almost every page of ouV history. Its pernicious influence is eariy seen. The few sagacious states men And noble patriots of the South, who early saw the necessity offemanci patioi), and urged it for the good of the ocohntry, were borne down by this fueling. The supposed interests of a section soon swelled into a torrent whichl they were unable to resist. The noblest band of patriots that Virginia has seen Kvere compelled to succumb to it. ;If tiie great men of the Virginia Convention of 1829 had succeeded in carrying out their emancipation views no othier disturbing cause would likely h;&;e arisen for centuries to threaten -cuoji ' -joiner ooummi lustricrus: Gaston stroncrly favored it in sm i I'm si jf 1 A X mi "21 Xnrth Cnrnlinn. ns did some others. With emancipation of the slaves at , 7 1 that irly day the great dnersity of interests .oeiween tne secuons in ouivr respects Would have soon ceased to ex ist. Thb diversity of feeling would lutve ceased with it. The colored pop ulation was then comparatively small in numbers, and could have been easily dealt -jth in the body politic. We should! in all probability, never have had parties organized upon the basis of a purely sectional interest. A united South 'against a united North on any question! of policy would never have beenjkhown. And without these civil strife? bejSvecn the sections would have been iriipossible. Jt is Strange that men can be so blind ed by passion and prejudice as to loose sight of these, the most important les sons of buf history. Yet such is the melancholy fact. Men still acton'uo higher :prinei pie than that of hatred to their brethren of the other section. The ground work of this hatred, too, results fitom the legitimate consequen ces of th?ir former sectionalism. Ap peals arejst ill being made to the people of the South to present a united and compact front against the Republican North. lThey are urged still to resist the policy, of the government in refer ence to reconstruction, now become an accomplished fact. Or if they are not urged to bo this their passions and pre judices a e still successfully appealed to o uqitd' hem on the basis of sectional hostility to the ruling powers. This is seen in t le result of the recent elections in Virginia. -What has been accom plished; pii Virginia it is hoped to; ac complish, in most, if not all, ,the Southern States. To what good? T 5 What i.4 Expected as the result of such a coursqf : causes always produce like effects under like circumstances. Such a course, If it does not produce a renewat'ofi actual hostilities, ran only prevent! a restoration of peace, harmo ny and (fraternal feeling. It can only prevontfiis, as Americans, from becom ing! a homogeneous people, which is, of all things the most to be desired. ; The Republican party has fully suc ceeded in engrafting its reconstruction policy upon the country. That policy the outh must accept. The Southern people jirill be bronght to stand upon the Republican platform in this respect. There is no other vital issue between the two! parties. Then why not unite with thiit party the only party that has it iif its power .to render us any as sistance. m our distress? Statesman ship , consists in such a course. i Statesmanship is simply the highest and wisest policy. It is the business of statesmanship to seize passing events and turn them to the best account to make the; best of the situation or actual condition) of things. Let our people thj.nk of these things, and not again split upon the fatal rock of sectionalism. Let the people of the South once be brought into harmony with the Feder al Government; let air resistance to the Constitutional Amendments, and the lawspassed under them, cease in the late Confederate States; let the Ku Klux Klans disband arid the members of them become loyal and law abiding citizens; let all this be done and we shall have no more interference of the Federal Government in our lo cal affairs. Let all thfs be done and J soon the government will resume its old channels ; the States will he left to govern themselves as it" becomes mani fest that the State governments are able and willing to afford protection to all their citizens the humblest as well as the most exalted. It is idle to de-i claim against the intervention of the Federal authorities, to punish crime and protect personal rights, hi the Southern States, so long as the people of those States pursue a course which renders that intervention a duty and a necessity. The course which the gov ernment is pursuing in South Caro lina is beginning to be admitted by candid Democrats to have been a duty and a necessity. Let the necessity never arise again. The Public. Printing Again. Our clever neighbor, The North Car olinian, the Democratic organ in this city, closes an article on. the Public Printing as follows : Certain Republican gentlemen Inivo in vestigated the accounts and compared the measurement by -which the accounts were made out, and they claim to have found-a wide discrepancy between the terms of the contract and the printer's bills which have been audited and paid. Whereat the He publican press of the State open upon the question, and have pushed their inquiries to a point where they feel justified in char-ring, or strongly intimating fraud on the part of the Democratic party in'tho I..egisla ture. Such charges it is our business to repel. The Democratic party of North Carolina hM, neither in this nor ny other inntanoe, been guilty, of fraud, and wo defy the whole liadical press of the State to point to a sin gle instance of corruption on the part of this Legislature, or any member thereof, Demo cratic or Republican. Lot there be an investigation, and if there is any irregularity or over-charges in the printer's accounts let them be publicly shown by a, proper committee, but let no one be prejudged in a matter so serious, and least of all let no gentleman of the Re publican party, professing to hold the even scale:? of justice, be quick to charge a public fraud upon the Democrats of the Legislature without good cause and sufficient proof., We expected The Carolinian to defend its party, but it seems to be rather sen sitive on this matte of the Public Print ing. While facts have been charged in reference thereto, nothing specific has been charged against particular parties. It has been shown that there is some thing wrong somewhere, but whether the Public Printer, the auditors of his ac counts or the Legislative Committee is to blame, The Era has not undertaken to say positively. But it certainly be gins to look very much as if the respon sibility would be saddled on to the Leg islative Committee in the end. Mr. Moore says he had a private understand ing with the Committee that he should measure the matter by the letter rn in stead of the quad, em, and we will not undertake to impeach his veracity we leave that question to those more inter ested. Certainly The Carolinian cannot com plain at us for holding the Democratic party responsible for the acts of a Leg islature in which it has an overwhelm ing majority. Neither can it complain if we hold the Legislature responsible for the acts of its Committee. And this we shall certainly do, unless the matter be investigated by the Legislature and whatever may be found wrong correct ed, and the State saved harmless. On one point there is no difference between us and our neighbor. With The Carolinian we say, "let there be an investigation, and if there is any ir regularity or over-charges in the prin ter's accounts let them be publicly shown by a proper committee." That is precisely what we want the very thing-we urge. We feel quite sure there is something wrong somewhere, and we want it exposed, no matter who, or what party, suffers by the exposure. Frauds must be exposed and honesty introduced to the civil service hazards. aiaii, We repeat, if the Committee entered into any such private contract in regard to the measurement as Mr. Moore al leges, the people will hold the Legisla ture and the Democratic party respon sible therefor, roitess the matter be in vestigated and corrected by the Legis lature. ' ! Let them take the necessary steps to compel the return of the overdrawn funds to the Treasury. We need not tell them where the money went they know as well as we do that it went to the support of The Sentinel and its edi tor. Josiaii Turner, Jr., and Geo. W. j Swepson. Mr. Turner says in his is sue of the 13th inst.,: 44 The FaU tor of The Saitincl does not owe Swep son a shilling, nor did Swepson ever own or hold any right, title, or interest in The Sentinel." s Will Mr. Turner deny that the money with which he bouerht and paid for The Sentinel, was originally borrowed from Geo. W. Swepson? Ko difference, who holds the debt or the mortgage now. Didn't Swepson start- his friend Turner in his new career as Editor? Again: Didn't Mr. Swepson let Mr. Turner have $5,000, for which he ask ed and took no security ? We await specific replies. Tellvus, Josiah, tell us. Demu- cratic Source. i r Cotupibia (S. C.) Union, are waking up to Our thei fact that Ku Klux ourages are being ; perbetrated in that Stated and have come to the rightous conclusion that it I is about time for them to stop, j - V . . t 1 . 1 a e puoiisn in anoxner piace; iroiii Th Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 7tha strong and manly editorial, from which we cup tne lonow ng: '? ti is about time that the communities in whijL-h the operations of these Ku Kluxers have taken place, should spiak out and call on these secret champions of society to un mask. It is time their faceK should be scru tinized and their credentials should be ex amined. They assume to act in the interests of the community. - The community should be entitled to knowitheir representatives. It iii time the community should in public meetings and through the public press de Wo i tviio sentiments. There has been tooH long a reprehensible silence on this subject. In the absence of the voice Qf pro- j test at has been assumed that these secret organizations possessed the approbation and sympathy of society. That silence has been misconstrued. It has been partly on ac count of the ignorance of peaceable and or derly citizens a3 to who constituted the members, that they have not been talked to plainly, and their "operations censure. It has been partly through terrorism that the timid have preferred not to speak, for they feared that their interterence migiit tie pun ished. Some who dared to murmur nave or mysterious been; silenced by threats, hijstsi to guard their tongues Be it remembered that the foregoing is the language of one of the most in flupiilial Democratic journal in the State of Georgia, and we desire: right here to: call the attention of our readers to the similarity of the sentiment contained in the foregoing extract to that which has been expressed by us over and over again when speaking upon the question of these outrages, and for using lan- guage not one-whit stronger than that we; have just quoted, we have been soundly berated by the Democratic press from one end of the State to the Other. We have repeatedly called upon the people to rise in their majesty, and by public expression in open meeting, and by combined effort in the cause of laV and order- to put a stop to the in human barbarities practiced by these self-constituted administrators of " Avild justice." Our appeals have been mock ed 4t and our language; in behalf of good order and obedience to law has been derided and misconstrued for po litical effect. When wii have asked thai jthe people assemble and stop these outrages, we have been I told that no secret oganizations existed, and that all ourl 'detailed stories o cold blooded murders and brutal whippings were but jthe offsprings- of a! "disordered imagination," or the " wily ravings of a liadical politician.". We are content that it should be thus satisfied that time will settle all these questions of intent. :If the Demo cratic journals had taken the stand last winter now taken by thej Conititution allstj there would now be no occasion for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in nine counties of this State. 1 lere is sound doctrine from the same source, which we commend to the calm reflection of those who j might have stopped these Ku Klux j outrages, if they had desired: j MThe evil which this mistaken prudence is liable to bring down upon counties where these things have happened is that of mar tial law. If the citizens of Georgia do not, through their own grand juries, and through their own courts of justice, take cognizance of the infractions of its laws, and the viola tions of the rights of propertj', person and life; off its own citizens, white and colored, they can, with but poor grace, raises clamor against the unconstitutional Ku Kluxism of the1, Congress of the United; States, which has artthorized the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and to! send Federal troops to preserve, order." j This reasoning applies with equal forw to this section. e repeat the proposition : If the citizens of our own State do not, through their own grand juries, and through their own courts of justice take cognizance of the infrac tion of its laws, theyr can, With but poor grate, raise a clamor against the action of Congress in clothing the President with power to protect the citizens and preserve order. Ve quote again : ' There is but one mode to escape such results.- It is for the people bf Georgia in the several counties which have reason to I ferir Federal interference, to rise up and by ixiii. n.ii.t hnw Hint, thev are eanable of ti,n livps of their own citizens. and to bring to punishment those who defy the laws of the State. Had the course recommended by the Constitutionalist been pursued by-the pepple of this State one year ago, "how different vould be the state of affairs to4flay. And had the press but raised Unvoice against this infernal Klan as this Georgia Democratic paper does, peace and quiet would now reign in ev-. ery section of the State, no United States officers would be busy making .arrests, anil ho Federal Courts would be neces sary to protect citizens injtheir rights j to life," liberty and the pursuit of hap piness. What a comment upon the Democratic press of the State. The above applies as lully to Sorth Carolina as to'South Carolina and Geor- giai-H Editor Era. National Debt. was reduced during -The public debt the month of Oc- tober, the Is $8,950,491.84; total decrease since of - March, 1809, $2$2,610,293.82. This steady diminution of our coun try's! indebtedness necessarily carries with it a corresponding reduction of taxation, and is one of the many rea sons why the administration retains so entire y the public confidence. Manly Sentiments from No. 25. (From the New York Evening Tost. The Kn Klnx Constitution. Why Soilth CafoKfia NeedsJ Soldiers, The Rebellion Reorganized. . ThV Southern Denocratic journals j instantly assert that the so-called Ku j Klu outrag in suth Carolina have i na Political character whatever. ' It1 happens that Colonel Lewis Merrill, conjmanding the 7th United States Cavalry at Yorkville, South Carolina, thejomeer upon whom the government hasllargely relied for information as to thej jtate of affairs there, recently ob tained the original constitution or ob ligation signed by the members' of the rcnlii, una was anie toiraee it on un questionable; evidence through I the hands of various chiefs of the order, tir- f rectpy to the " Grand Chief of the Sev entV' m whose handwriting it is. One or two pages of it appears to be miss ingj but the authenticity of the docu ment is beyond question. Ojur resident correspondent in South Carolina the same gentleman who col lected for us the accurate and full infor mation on the subject of the Ku Klux in that State! which was published in TM livening Post during last summer, and not one; word of which has been contradicted has been permitted by Colonel Merrill to take a careful copy I 01 this document, which is as follows? i - o4lijation takej by tiik kv klvx. "J (name), before the immaculate Judge oflieaven and Earth, and upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, do, of my own! free will I and accord, subscribe to the following sacredly-binding obligations,: 'f'irst We are on the side of justice, hu manity and constitutional liberty as be--queithed to us "in its purity by onr forefath ers.! I I "". "- ; ".focond Ve oppose and reject the prin ciples of the radical party. . "Third We pledge mutual aid to each othclrj in sickness, distress and pecuniary emlkrrassment. 44 f?ourthFemales, friends, widows and theijr households shall ever bo special ob jectif of our regard and protection. 44 fifth Any member divulging or caus ing to be divulged any of tho foregoing ob ligation shall meet the fearful penalty and traitpr's doom, which is death, death, death. 44 coxstitutiox. ! - 44 Art. I This organization shall be known as tlie Order, No. , of the Ku Klux KIuh ot the State ol South Carolina. 44 Art. II The officers shall consist of a Cyeijops and Scribe, both of whom shall be elected by a majority vote of the order, and to h$ld their office during good behaviour. "iii t. III. Sec, 1 It shall be the duty of the (J.! to preside in the order, enforce a due observance of the Constitution and By-laws and lau exact compliance to the rules and usagjps of the order ; to see that all the mem bers! perform their respective duties; ap point all committees before" the order; in- specf the arms and dress of each meml)er on L speefar occasions; to can meetings wnen. neceisary; draw upon members for all sum? needed to carry on the order.: "See. 2 The S. shall keep a record of the proceedings of the order; write communi catiobs; notify other Klans when their as sistance is needed ; give notice when any member has to sutler the penalty for viola ting jiis oath ; see that all books, papers or othef property belonging to his office are placesd. beyond the reach of any one but members of the order. He shall perform suchlother duties as ma3T be, required of him by tl e C. " Jrt. IV., Sec, 1 No person shall be in itiatcjd into this order under eighteen years of agte. 44 Sec. 2 No person of color shall be ad mitted into this order. i 44 Spc. 3 No person shall be admitted into the order who does not sustain a good mor al character, and who is any way -incapacitated! to perform the duties pf a Kn Klux. 44 See. 4 The name of a person olfered for meinberiip must be proposed by the com mitteto appointed by the chief verbally, sta ting dge, residence and occupation, state if hje was a soldier in the late war, his rank, whether in the Federal or Confederate ser vice, jmd his command. I ; - 44 Art. V., See. 1. Any member who shall offend against these articles or tho By-laws, shall Jbe subject to be lined and. reprimand ed by the C, as two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting may deter mine) ; 14 Sfee. 2 Every member shall Je entitled to a'ftur trial for any offence involving rc primfuwl or criminal punishment. j ij' "BY-LAWS. f ilAfi. I. Sec.' 1. This order shall meet at "slci. Five members shall constitute a quorum1, provided the C. or S. be present. P !t i - I poin such members of the order to .attend to th sick, the needy and those distressed and those suffering from radical misrule, as the case may require. j 44 stc 4. No person shall be appointed on a commute unless the person is present at a coihmitte unless the person I tho time of appointment. MemlerBofconv mitties neglecting to report shall .be lined :V) ceiits. 44 Art. IL Sec. l. Every member on be ing silmitted shall sigh the constitution and ly-laSys and pay the initation fee. "Sec. 2. A brother of the Klan . wishing to blconie a member of this order shall presekit hi3 application with the proper pa pers ff transfer from the order of which he was 4 member formerly. Shall be admit ted tf the order only by a unanimous vote of th$ members present. " Art. III. Sec. 1. Tha iniation fee shall be r-; -:' i t44srt. IV. Sec. 1. Every member who slial refuse or. neglect to pay his fines or duesishall be dealt with as the Chief thinks proier. "Sec. 2. Sickness -or absence from the country or being engaged in any important business shall be a yalidexcusc for any neglect of duty. "Art. V. Sec. 1. Each member shall pro videihimself with a pistol, Ku Klux gown audignal instruments. " Sec. 2. VVhen charges have been pre ferred against a I member in proper man ner, or any matters of grievance between brother Klux are brought before the order, they Khali bo referred to a special commit tee erf three or more members, who shall examine the parties and determino tho mat ters in iquestion, reporting their decision to tne oruer. 11 tne parties interested desire, two-thirds of the members present voting in favor of the report, it shall bo carried. "Art. V I. Sec. 1 It is the duty of every UlVUIUUt. 11 4J AK4 m j j J w A 1 lit has violated Article IL, to prefer thecharges ness and our very usefulness at the mer and specify' the offence to the order. ev of our eneriiies and the enemies Of Cicwv Thi hrrr frr T-1 r 1 il 1 1 n r i-f 1 i - - - ... . I Itntes of Advert iinjr I ; One Mfjuare, ono time, - - - - - $1 f two times,- - - . - 1 " 1 f three times.- - - - - - 'Z oft U square is the icirlth of a tolumri, xlml 1 inches deep. j ' I jjsir Contract Advertlsfmenu taken proxrtionately low rates. I ' Professional Canlx,notexcceling 1 wniarr win be publLshed one yc&r lor f IZ. - ' ..: - - : , j : : ? clt) II. shall be referred to a coiuniittco of live or more mcmlx-rs, who shall as soon as practicable summon the parties and inycsV tigate the matter. . "Sec, 3. If the committee agrco tliat tl.O charges aro sustained, that memlcr on tria has intentionally violate 1 his i oath, Articlf II., they shall report thb fact to tho ordert ,4Secl4. If the committee agree that the charges are not sustained, that tho meinljoi- ? - & 1.. 1...: 1 f .1. ' is 1101 gumy u vjiaiing jus oani or .nici II., thev shall report to that effect to the 01 lor and the charges shall be (hsmisseil. 44 Seei When the c)mmittee report thai the charges are siistamel, ami the imam mo us vote of the members is given thereo the offending person shall bej sntcnccd fA death by the Chief. ' j I "Sec. (. The person through the Cy! clops of the order of which he is a nicmler can make application for pardon to 'thi tJreat Grand'Cyclops, of Nashville, Teuni, in which case execution of the sentence can 1h3 stayed until pardoning power, is heard Trom.'i I . ' t 44 A it." VII. Sh'. I. Any - member h shal betray or divulge any of tlfc matters the order shall suffer death. J j 1 44 Ait. VIII. Sec. 1. The following shall lo the: rules of anv onler to any matttT hereitt not provided for; shall be manatr''.l lm u mUpmj n au.i: f I .... tuirr, ' j i"SeL-. When the Chief takes liis ixsii. tion oil the right, the Scribe with tho mem bers forming a half-circle around theim and at the sound of the signal instrument there shall be profound silence. j, 44 Sec. 3. Before procceilinp to bushier the Scribe shall call tho roll and note the alxi sentecs. I j I 44 Sec. 4. Business shall bi takcW tip iti tho following order: i 44 1. Beading the minutes. f "2. Excuse ofmembers at preceding 'huh ff ing. ! 44 3. Report of Committee of Candidabf for membership. I 44 o. Collection of dues. ' f4G. Are any of tho order s!ck or Miff 44 7. Report of Committees. ! 44 8. New Business." A careful reading of this document reveals the whole character of tho hor rible organization which is founded on it. It is important that this bp dis! tinctly known by the country, that tho history of recent events in South Caro lina may be properly understood. We, therefore, leave it to our readers ask ing thom to weigh it well, and to beal it in mind, when reading the further annals of the disturbed j community which we shall lay before j them early next week. The Sentinel in a Rage. i.- 1 The Sentinel replies In a half col umn of intemperate billingsgate to ou article of Thursday on the Public Prinl ting. This will do it no good. It ha( better ! keep cool. , If it -canpot . keep quite cool let it keep as cool as" it can It will! improve its temper,! ! I The 'Sentinclhsxs answered none ,bf tho f points made against the fnanagemen of the Pulflic Printintr says it is not t bound to answer us. This reason will satisfy; no body. It has not denied that other parties, with equal !or superior facilities, offered to do tho printing for 75 cents per thousand quad. ems. It has not denied that the printing wa.nj factually paid for by the letter m. It Jhas not denied that sthe amount paid ; - I . ... . . , 3 for what printing nas , been none inii 11 A 1 -1,U.J, J...w..J iDeen xnree iuoutuu uuiuwn m y..v.-."j of what it would have been, liajl the measurement been by the quad. em. It has not 'denied that the quad, em is the Standard of measurement in use by thej Printer' Union of this cityj and the oncl by which the Public Printing has becu 'measured and paid for by the State foi many years. It has not pretcnded.to! tlcny that by the words, " per thousan e?ns," j iised in the contract, is meanfe the quad. em. It has denied nothings that is material in relation" jto thq mat4 er. It has only denied that the Public printer was in collusion with II. II. 4tobertsy a fact not at all material to the: matter in controversy, and one that) 4vas not charged positively, but only from appearances. We give Tie Stwli-; hel the benefit of this denial, an act ofi j justice which we never received at its. ' hands. ... I - . I . 'i j Yet it seems strange that Tie Senfi ! nel should become so excitetl at a mere I suggestion, founded upon apioarancos, as to the manner in which the payment Of the excess was secured, Without 1k ing able to deny the faci itself the manner of the thing being. ' whollyini material. j j Some time since 77,,s;7?'e'atlempt cd to throw the whole responsibility on jMrJL Moore, the contractor; Mr. Itamsay, its business clerk, and Mr. Marconi, its foreman it had nothing to do with it. It now comes fonvard at last i and says that "Mr. James II. Moore, in whose name the contract was made, hadjno interest in the work and could not, nor did not, make a shilling by the contract." This we aro willing to, anddo accept as the truth j We have never doubted that The Sentinel ebt the money, whoever may have been j to blame for the payment 01 tne excess j to which it was not entitled., 1 Who appointed Ilobcrts to examine has nothing to do with pie present in vestigation. We shall not defend WTong, whether done by a Republican or Dem ocratic ; ofHcial. Tiie Sentinet may pa rade its vaunted honesty before tho neonle. and vapor to its heart's con- 2V A.' .,1. tent. Unless it clenieK or disproves what has leen to nothingl charged it will amount U J! ? t . i,. l. ,1 1. . ri jtrvil on1 iAk WU HrU IU U ItUlUKif Um--XT iiiiu obstructed in our course by ; the voices around us. we thereby put our happi- 7" .. -rnth ! . - t i it ft 1
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Nov. 23, 1871, edition 1
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