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Fellow- Citizens of the Coimty of Franklin j x am nere in response to an invita tion irom some of your leading Repub licans to address you on the political issues of the day. The Greeks, in their earlier and bet ter days, met every fourth year to en gage in their Olympic games and to re new their patriotic devotion. So, my .friends, the people of this great Ameri can on tinrnr Tire callMl .n finndren nially to select nearly all the officers of our governments, both State and Na tional. . . It is highly. proper then that we should meet and discuss the political issues of the day. Whether the whole people are to be benefitted and enlight ened by these discussions and argu - incuts depends in a great measure upon j the manner in which they are present ed. It should, in my judgment, be done soberly and by appeals to reason rather than to passion and prejudice. l am not here to inflame the public mind, or to prejudice anybody, out to present candidly, and as clearly to your minds as I can, what appears to me to be the best way to relieve ourselves from the present embarrassed position which seems to pervade every part of our good old State. I I will attempt to be brief, and with . your patient attention, will endeavor to show that much of the evil that has befallen us, is the result of a failure of our people to listen to reason; and a too ready conclusion of our minds to embrace what passion and prejudice, inflamed by designing deraogogues, suggest, as a cure for those ills that daily afllict us. REPUBLICAN PARTY. There f are to-day but two political parties in this country, and whatever we may find to approve or disapprove in either, we are hound to act, if we act at all, with one or the other of! them. The Republican party, to which j I belong, had its birth just prior to the beginning of the late rebellion, in the! II F . I . : . I children? Away with such a theory of Government. No. my friends, not so with our Government. As brilliant, "lorions and beneficent as many of her deeds have been, they are but the conseouences of the first irreat act that saved the Union, that we might be a Nation of freemen with equal civil and rjolitical rights. If, in the assertion of the National sovereignty, that of States has some times been encroached upon, the fault has not been with the Republican par ty, but with the almost unsurmounta- ble difficulties of the situation. Its nrincinles DroDerlv construed and un derstood, do not lead to a great consol idated empire, which ignores the rights of States, but teaches that both are su preme within their proper spheres. II venture the prediction that with the cessation of violence by secret organi zatiansand conspiracies in the South, all interference by the General Gov ernment will cease and the punish- mont of crime lw loft exclusively. with the State governments and their local ljlWS f We are also charged with disregard of Constitutional provisions in the pas sage of the Reconstruction Acts, the only made the slaves free, but placed our;&tate, have turned the colored people of the whole country at a, time they were n 1 - Til on a civil ana political equauty wiui the whites', guaranteeing equal protec tion by express provision in the Na tional Constitution. This policy was adopted first because it was a matter of abstract iustke and right. But it tiorrs In this world. That it will so speak- as io niaKo ineni penitent, and that trusting in ijie aispensations oj Heaven, whose jus tice's dispensed with Mercy, when they shall be brought before the bar of their irreat tribunal, so to speak, that incomprchensi ble tribunal, there will be found in the fact of their penitence, or in their previous lives, some prrannds npon which God may say rjie counsel for the defense did not attempt to deny that horrible and re volting crimes had been committed. Their defense was mistaken identity. Thd existence of the murderous klan was, admitted. With the evidence elicited Injure the Courts and by the Congressional Committee, staring them in the face. Democrats denounce the Congress for passing thoKu Klux Bill, andapply the epilhet of "tyrant" to President Grant l;causehe isexecutinff mat law. i My friends ther.-are painful consid erations in eonmvjon with this sub ject,; No one could . insensiblo to thp. uisarace Inciirrl lv southern society oerinittiner orsrar!i;-;T inurut-rs, scuur- . - ; i' . . " , j, , . gin, ana ouie; jninti ioss anu mueous outrages to go unpunished. But our loss;, has been greater stiil. Capital, en terprise, ana lmmigmtion, mat we so mucn neea to tin me waste places in away from us most needed, to her rapid strides toward wealth . and power. Her ships laden with com merce, floated on every sea. Her flag, the glorious old Stars and Stripes, com manded and received the respect of all nations. Our own homes here in the South, gave ievery where unmistaka ble evidences i of Peace and Plenty. But, in an ill-fated hour, the evil pas sions ot bad men or Dotn sections. whose desire for place and power ex ceeded their patriotism, concocted the mischievous idea of disunion. Each. in their own sphere in society and in the halls of Congress, uttering disloyal sentiments which unfortunately found a too ready place in the minds and hearts of their beguiled constituents. How this ended, is known to all before me. . The mischievous idea of disunion grew popular in the South. Her people matuienea uy threats ana acts of the North, were easily persuaded by lead- er epta, that they were being op ... . , l.ir-. 1 IIH I nr. . -l it. But they failed in that, as most of the machinations of the Devil and his allies must fail, while the Christian religion is a reality and a just God reigns in the heavens. The Constitution was . ratified and Grant elected President of the United States, and this Democratic party car ried only a few States out of the thirty-four States in the American Un'on. What shall we do? said these old Democratic politicians. This won't do ! ! No public pap ! We can't stand it; these d d Radicals have swept the country. What's to be done? and niggers How is this? nit? uuw mttea states, and they h,ol.l Frien us .retriey our misfortunes.- endiy ana bcniucieut legislation by the? Congress of the nation tor the South, has been checked and delayed. General Amnesty refused to our peo ple.!; . Largo appropriations of lands for was hastened by well grounded apprf educational and agricultural purposes year WoS. The rapid growth if this great party is familinr to us all. It swept the whole North, circling Mr. Lincoln, In I860, and has retains! coin plete control of the National Govern ment to this day. Its achievements have been great. No parly that ever existed can show a grander or a proud er record than the National Republi can party. In great deeds doneTand their mighty influence upon the desti nies of the country and of mankind, it stands without a rival. No party in ancient or modern times has accom- I dished so much in so short a period. jet us scan its record. It crushed the mightiest rebellion the world ever saw; saved the Union ; and re-established the Government upon the only basis upon which it can be perpetuated. It asserted the sovereignty of the Nation al Government for the preservation of its own existence, and without which it must have failed. It abolished that great curse of our- country, human slavery, and in accordance with true Republican principles, Invested them with the rights or American citizens, thus engrafting In our National Consti tution the great principle of impartial suffrage and equality before the hw. It has so managed the public debt of the nation as to place it securely in the con fidence both of the people in this coun j try, and of the whole world. It has established the grandest international Frinciple of the age that of arbitration, t has placed our Indian Policy upon the solid basis of Christian humanity. It has established friendly relations with all the great powers of the Old World, and by patient firmness, given to polygamy in the Mormon settle ment such a check as to secure its peace able and speedy eradication. I might elaborate and speak of many other great triumphs ofjthis great party; within the last twelve years, in most all of which it has encountered the most obstinate opposition from the Democratic party of this country. Can any one point to a party that has accomplished so much in so short a time, or even at all. I admit that it may have committed blunders In the accomplishment of these mighty works: But, my friends, all the par ties that preceeded it in this country committed serious blunders. The old Federal partv.the noblest in many ! respects, and "certainly the most intel lectual that this country has ever seen, committed many errors of grave im port. The old Republican party that i governed this country uninterruptedly I for twentyfour successive years, with 1 much ability and success, was not less free from errors than its great rival had l.een. ,The old Whig party, that mim U red among its members soi many of ; I he ablest statesmen of the land, had i its faults too. administration op tiik covers- ! MENT. . None of these great parties had one half the difficulties to encounter that have beset the Republican party. et ;ia vihMn of less magnitude than most of them, and not one tithe ofthose of the Democratic party its rival of the present day-of which I shall speak directly. The Republican party hTcharged with centralizing too much power in the General Govern, ment, And with stripping the Stotes of their sovereignty. It certainly did not errin asserting the rightful sovereignty of the central government for the pre servition of ils own existence. The verv fact that It did assert thatover xisntv for the-highest of all purposes 'mist ever be regarded as its distin guishing act and crowning glory. It ontv carried. out the true principles of the Constitution as understood by such expounders of R as Marshall. Webster, Clav. Gaston, and a, whole host of others scarcely le-s distinguish- ed. ' ; ' " - - ' t nur crovernment but a . rope of i sandt 'Has it no power to preserve itself, but must lie prostrate and divi ded at the caprice of any of her erring hensions that the white people of the South would not willingly allow these emancipated slaves the practical exer cise of the the enjoyments of the rights of free citizens. It was precipitated, J say, by the conviction that the future peace and safety of the country requir ed the introduction of a new element in Southern politics, attached to the perpetuity of the crovernment by senti raents of gratitude and interest. It is idle at this late day to discuss the jus tice of this distrust on the part of the grovernment. f It was humsn nature just after the war for the wline people of the South to feel alienated from the government they had struggled so maniuny to de stroy. And, my friends, it was but natural for the crovernment to be sen sitive to any manifestation of continued hostilities, and painfully anxious to avoid a repetition of the dangerous or deal through which it had just passed. Hence I say the colored vote was and perhaps for great works of internal improvement delayed. Increased mail facilities, the payment of just losses by the war, and a general solicitude for our material interests havr. I say, alLbeen prevented or postponed because we were not in complete harmony with, and safe relations to the general gov ernment. : ;i)KMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY. Whence comes all these evils? Who is responsible for all this ruin and disaster to our State and to her people? The answer is plain. These same dis satisfied politicians in every locality, who. vet chafin? under the novertv and j ruin, caused by an ill advised -resort to arms with the general govern ment, and by the criminal protraction ofilhintoa hopeless struggle and the attempted to withdraw eleven states, and did estab iisna.ae facto uovernment known as the Confederate States. This Govern ment, upheld for fOtir years by the ob stmacy of strife and warfare, went down, in the ruin of disaster and de feat, and with it should have been buried all those hostile feelings that engendered strife between the two sec tions, and marshalled opposing armies upon nelds ot carnage and bloodshed. With the failure of a cause thrown into being by great political differences that had agitated this country for a quarter of a century, came also the overthrow of slavery, an institution peculiarly Southern. i But, my friends, these are events of the past. Secession is as dead as many a orave and j nonie arm - that once stretched forth to support it; as silent in the bosom of fate, as many a gener ous heart that espoused it, is silent and pulseless in distant and unknown graves. Yes, every community mourns the loss of some noble spirit who spilt his life's blood in this unnatural and unholy strife, and many of you, my colored friends, be it said to your praise and honor, followed them with watchful and faithful care to their last field of conflict, and shed tears of anguish and sorrow over their remains on the dis tant battlefield, and with heavy hearts a useless destruction of life and property ""r ' - i ZmcL of . after all chances of success had vanished. Pimod the, last sad offices of j menu. Slavery is These democratic leaders owed it to themselves as honest men and to their people whom they had led to subjuga tion to' have informed them of the danger . of unfriendly manifestations towa rds the government, and counsell ed them to prudence and moderation. Did they do it? The answer is from every honest heart before me that they did not. They appealed to every hu man, passion to array you against the " 1 A t I If government ana to maice you oeiieve it oppressive. And even to this day, the foment one of them begins to har- rangriie tne people tne Duroen oi nis songr-is tne oppression oi tne govern ment ami the dishonesty of its oflicials and an favt of every body else except himsiclf. A more systematic set of nrpnii'lore i - nvrr hnrl nn visf pnpp. Til nv .u.y.v.. .. . . .7 oppose everything and propose noin ing. 7-But thank God there is nothing so b;ul in the affairs of North Carolina thathev cannot be remedied if.turbu lenci and lawlessness in action and counsel can be made to cease. Capital, enterprise, and benifieent leg islation and all that make up the com monjwealth and advancement of a peo ple aro watcniuiiy awaiting an oppor tunny to come to us. Here in your ownicounty you have mineral ores and water power enousrh to run- the ma chinery of New England with her vast spindles and foundries. But those peo ple will never come until our people show less hostility to the general gov ernment and afford better evidence of security to both life and property. The impression unfortunately prevails abroad that instead or moderation ana sbbec reason that mob spirit pervades our State. I cannot believe that the sober solid L a - -r i 1 it men ?oi isortn Carolina win -longer fail to appreciate the situation. We should improve the first opportunity to vindicate ourselves before the country by vcitinsr with the great Republican partyl a party of law and order. Whose brought in to conform to the establish ed usages of American institutions, and that vote is relied on still to uphold and maintain it, and thus prevent the necessity for further military force by the government. In these Southern States. It is the fixed purpose and decision of the American people to maintain by every means that may be necessary the free exercise of all political rights to every citizen of the United States. It is evident that no respectable party at the North, by Whatever name it is cal ed, will longer avow a purpose to dis trust mat decision. THE KU KLUX. But what do we find here in the South? Dissatisfied and disappointed political leaders have perfected a secret political organization in nearly all the Southern States : extending it into ey ery favorable locality for the purpose of practically nullifying the policy of the government, by intimidation and violence upon the colored people, and those . of the whites who encourage them in the free exercise of the rights that have been conferred on their rac.' I do not say that all Democrats are Ku Klux, for I know that such. is nbt the case. But I do say that all Kb Klux are Democrats. f The crimes of this Ku Klux organi ration have been of such a character as tt attract the attention of the whole country and to arouse the indignation and horror of all men, except those whosfc political interests and views their htJHsh deeds do serve. It has' been . perfectly evident that the government could not and would not permit ocal violence, to subvert the line of polcy to which it felt bound to resort for its own protection. I Numerous and horrible- as their acts have been here in North Carolina, yet th6y appear to hiiv been more so, in some of the other Southern States. r While, as I said before, all Demo crats are not Ku Kluxyet that it is a faithfaV.ally of the Democratic party, has beev shown to the entire satisfac tion of every candid mind.: I am inJarmed that in South Caro lina, for the purpose of shielding them hfnrA the - "PWIornl Pnurf . dan Wade Hamptun and other leaoine-1 Deit &Jn harmony Ttomnrrflts. notuftliv nAri oanH government and IS ty in the State for' the purpose of em ploying counsel. The lion. IteverdyS Johnson and Ex-Attorney General -l Stanbery were employed, and went all the way from Baltimore and Wash? Ington to defend them, and after hear ing the testimony, Mr. Johnson was forced to admit what he haA never be fore believed to bo truo. Fr, fear I will do him injustice, I wilTqtiote his own language. Hon. Reverdy Jqhn--son is a Democrat. He is an ex-tS. Senator from Maryland. Democrats cannot refuse o believe anything lie may say concerning the Ku Klux. lie is their own witness. He listened i to the disclosures made before Judge Bond, and in his "speech to the Jury said: ''Neither my distinguished friend Mr. Stanberv nor myself are here to defend or justify or palliate any outrage that may hare been perpetrated In your btate by the association of ku klux. I have listened with horror to some of the testimony which has been brought before yon. The out rages proved hare been shocking to hu manity; they admit neither of justification nor excuse; they violate .every obligation which law and nature impose upon men. These men appear to have been alike in- sensible to the obligations of humanity and religion; but the day ill come, however, if it haifnot already trmTedr when they will deeply lament it. Even if jufclice should not overtake them, there is anbther tribu nal from which there is no eicape It is their own conscience, that trilional , which sits in the breast of every living man, that still small voice that thrills through the heart, and as it speaks gives 'happiness or torture the voice-of conscience the voice of God. And if it has not . already spoken to them in tones whicft have Waked them up to the enormity of their conduct, I trust in the mercy of heaven that a voice will speak before they shall be called to the dread tribunal to account . for their transac- as irrevocably abolished as if it never had an existence, and-with it the doctrine of State Sovereignty, an other political principle always incom patible with a Republican form of Gov ernment, has been consigned to obli vion by the irresistible force of circum stances; and so far as the sagacity of men of the present age can stretch into the future, these exploded ideas are re moved from the path of future events. OUR TREATMENT BY THE GOVERN MENT SINCE THE WAR. Now, my white friends, I will not pretend to say, that we of the South, have been more kindly dealt with since the war, than we deserved. But, I will say, that we have been much more kindly dealt with than our politicians and-Ieading men told us we would be. Wei were told, in order o fire our hearts) against our Northern brethren, that surrender meant death to ourselves, our wives and our chil dren; confiscation of all our landed property and worse still, insults, and indignities to us all. ' This is the picture they drew. But these things did not come to pass. They misled us and staked everything on their cause, ad then preyed upon our credulous minds to carry on the con flict. Now that the struggle is over, for any of us at the South to give expressions of enmity or defiance, is not the part of true manhood, dignity, or wisdom. And for those who conquered us to do so, is not tne part or just ice, magnan imity or manliness. When the instruments of death were stacked, and the sword sheathed, the hatred that gave them deadly aim and used them for destruction, should be banished from us, or at least stifled in the heart and denied utterance. But at the close of this horrid war, gotten up by t heir revolutionary leaders who ' to this day attempted every CONVENTION SCHEME. We will have a Convention, they said, and counsel together; and accord ingly they met in Raleigh, and Gov. Graham (that artful old political dodger and trimmer) was made chairman and announced his great theory of a white man's party, making color the divid- attempt here in North Carolina to ar ray the races against each other, and drive every white man into the ranks of the Democracy. This was a strong card: to play, for it is easy to prey upon the prejudice, of the people, especially that of races. We are all quite subject to these influences, and from every stump the Republican party was called and denounced as a "nigger party," and I fear it caused many a man to vote! with the Democratic and against the Republican party, nbt because he thought it best;, but because of the want of moral courage to face these unscru pulous Demagogues, aided as they were by social influences and prejudices. But these social influences only reach ed the class who were wanting in mor al courage to face them with argument. There was another class of ignorant and I poor people to be reached, and hence the organization of the Ku Klux Klan. These Democratic politicians knew they could not carry this State by legitimate means in 1870. Although the Republicans had made grave mis takes in 1869, by issuing to thieving R. R. Presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, large quantities of bonds whieh never have been fairly accounted for, yet there was in the public mind a want ot confidence with old secession leaders that rendered their defeat sure. What then, why the Ku Klux organi zation must be organized more thor oughly and made to ride at night and whip and scourge and even to take the life of xfyeir neighbors as was done in the case of I Stephens in Caswell and Outlaw in Alamance and the Morrow negroes in Orange, and many others in various portions of the State. By these means they aeieatea us in izu oy about 5000 : votes in the State, when there were at least 10,000 Republicans In the State who were kept from the polls, afraid to vote and a great num ber of the more timid went to the pons and voted the Democratic ticket to save themselves from corporal punish ment at the hands of these fiends, in human shape and attachees of the JDem ocratic party. They having defeated us and having control by a large ma toritv in both branches of the General Assembly. What did they do ? terest of the Democratic - party, or to use their own language: "Put down the Radical party and put up the Demo cratic party." Surely the Devil must have control of the whole concern. This Democratic gentry having a ma jority as I said before, in the Legisla ture, elected j by force, fraud and false promises of retrenchmet and reform, next proceeded to attack the constitu tion the instrument of all others, thev dispised, because it had engrafted in it those great Republican principles, loy alty ana ireeaom. No, my friends, the debt is greater. taxes are as high, and incalculable damage has been done to our good name abroad, and to the Democratic party and its allies, the Ku Klux, aro we indebted for that general despon dency among our people. That feeling of insecurity and that prevalence of mob spirit that keeps immigration, enterprise and capital from our State. DEMOCRATIC SLANDER.'' ; ; My friends, the public have been much shocked by the action of the They first passed a bill in the Legis- leading Democratic organ in this State lature without a constitutional major! ty, submitting the Question of a Con vention to the people, and it was so clearly revolutionary and unconstitu tional that the Governor, after being confirmed in his opinion as to its consti tutionality by the opinion of the Chief Justice and a majority of the associate Justices of the Supreme Court, refused to sign it, and hence it fell to the ground. t - 1 ' tj. - T ? V -'"V. joeni on iniBciiiei or ME. of all the officers as in 1861, passed a bill giving to the Speakers of the two Houses authority to act as Deputy Governors and order an election any way - on this Convention question. This method, is possible, was less constitutional and more revolution ary "than the former. But they pressed it upon the people and after an excited campaign, resulting in much loss to the people in time, money and much feeling and political strife the people decided against them. Prior to the election, I however, they issued a celebrated legislative address threaten ing thepeople with severe taxation if they d4 not relieve their tender con sciences from the binding oath they had taken to levy the tax to pay the interest on the public debt. Of all the political productions of the age none can surpass that address in sheer hy pocrisy and want of candor and truth. They cried Convention ! Convention I from the mountains to the sea-shore, and attempted to prey upon your cre dulity and stir up your passion and prejudice and to scare you about taxa tion that they were in "all conscience" bound to levy. My friends; can you believe a party that so grossly attempts to deceive you. They have spent $100,000 of the people's money this winter at Raleigh and were in session three months. Did they levy that tax they told you they had sworn to levy and would levy, if you. didn't relieve them by a Conven tion? The proposition to levy it "didn't get sufficient votes for a Corporal's Guard in either branch of the General Assembly. Such hypocrisy is intoler able. Such false pretences are criminal in the extreme. , Just so in 1861, they misled the peo- rlf Thpv rr?prl fipnAssinn f Sppssirn f It will be peaceable Secession ! "The people can call a Convention in spite of the Constitution." "There is no danger of a war, and if it does come the Northern Democrats will help us." Don't you remember it my friends. Don't it sound like 1861. "They said, oh come along don't talk about the unconstitutionality of secession. Let us whip the yankees in thirty days will discuss its constitu- Thus he was ill-gotten gains ing taken from SIIOFFNER ACT LEGISLATION FOR j THE KU KLUX. Why among their first acts they repealed the act known as the Shonner . 1 1 i i act tnereDy encouraging xneir pet kuiu to murder and outrage with impunity. The next thing was to outrage public sentiment by - turning out Smith and Lassiter, Republicans in the. Senate and seating Democrats so as to have a two-thirds majority and to im peach the Governor who had tried by enforcing the Shonner act to disperse their murderous klans and thus to protect poor innocent and unoffending i i ' itepuuiicans wnose oniy -crime was a want of devotion to the Democratic party and a real lve and admiration for the general government. ' This was carried out, and the Gover nor impeached and forever disfranchis ed driven from his native soil by the uiireienwiig ueraxuuuHsui ma nd hiirdfrns. mv friends. T think' nf the This Democratic party, howl- i-j-u.v. f uV .w.,r v i 11.1111,1111 iii i .'in .ii - iii . l i 1 1 i i and then we tionality." LESSON OF THE PAST. Ah my friends, I for one, know what such teachings led to. I followed these 1861. I remember how they dangled their pocket handker chiefs at me and beckoned, me on to conflict with j my fellow men of this, our common i country. I went to the war and staid over two years, and re turned only to find these same gentle men still at home firing the Southern heart to protract a hopeless struggle. Will we learn nothing by these sad lessons of experience? The Democratic party is. false in its representations to this i people and has more than5 .once grossly deceived them. It is a Party Of Revolutionary tendencies. It is a rule or ruin Party. And when I hear these gentlemen talk about taxation bannrhas inscribed on every fold The species of revolution and disregard for perpetuity of the Union and the Ln forcement of the Laws and equal rights to alls I do hope for our good name that the list vestige of ku kluxism is dead forever, but to nail the na oi its comn morevsecurely, let us all in August and November next, vole wth the ltepub- lican party for whatever its faults may with tne general free from even a defence of murder, assassination and outrage. , ... ' I have spoken my friends briefly of thfc; Republican party and its great achievements, and have endeavored to showa few reasons why it should be supported. What I have said of the ku klux wan in the light of an ally to the Democracy. . Buf as all things human are compar able ip their nature Jet. us see for a moment' the history s and record as made both in the State-Vnd Nation by mis Memocrai,n; party V constitutional law, what did they do? I ask after having dyed their hands in fratricidal blood and entailing upon this people losses that years of care and toil can neve rebuild. What did they do? t I shall content myself with refresh- ing your minas with tneir acts in tms State for the last five- years, believing that five years of political infamy," crime and murder sufficient to satisfy you that it has no National existence and has only. acted herein North Car olina with the basest of purposes and should be forever deserted by every law-abiding patriot who loves civil liberty; h - ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN . ' PARTY. Tn 1867 the Republican nartv was first organized in North Carolina. The Reconstruction Acts were passed. The Republican party accepted them as a fair settlement of all our troubles grow ing out of the rebellion. . The Democ- . -c " A. . MroTHSSl n r LI) Vntnfn within its efiror'lrr!i. n ak - yirtuK, intelligence ana respectability "u&"u .-,.-. Ofthri AmPriran TTninn T chnPi -. tlie DeOPie OVerwneimingiy susuuiieu if . r . . , eu- .i .i.f.ti! - - - 4 i tne JLtepuuiican party. iu 1000, aim tne Convention was "carried. That Con tention frantted a Constitution and it wa submitted . to the people. Here again this valliant Democracy rallied toderea it ratification, and the most f-xrr2rinKry efforts were made to en list the replug vote against it the uemocratlCliand. Awnfra in mtinv In- on- deiiryor to be plain, that the most iK. norarft may understand, if , notV all I 'saytat least those leading principles, of actioo that are essential to a proper discharghx)f our duty as citizens, to ourseves,p-ir fellow-men, our God, and qur coiftUy. ,-m jj DEMOCRATIC PRTY. ' V" , If in the rehetsal of the many wrongs of thfe Democratic party that attempt ed to destroy the Union, (for it was in power in 1860, wheiylhe trouble com menced) I shall at tlms seem severe ; I want any Democrat before : me to re member, that I am dealing with It as a party, and shall lay thejtdame where It belongs not on you: theeople, but calities refusing t employ any and all moil wnr wntm to Mk n ik -"V-t-icH fnf ion ri 4.1 ll. T 7 wvv.v.v.., i'H"et xvcuw-ivii ueket. Demo crats -then proposed to atre every man and his family who dio. up his freedom and bury hi? manhood and become a siaye to tne Denesu f chastise or even. take- the that party. J3ut tnanK uoa tnere wer Neighbor: But, how men. yOUUV IUtUI VV iltXKM. U1C UC1 M VUtC . - 1 ! l 3 l!i2 3 L1V enemies ing against the general government from every skimp in North Carolina, and through every cross-road editor in the State, because it did not relieve the disabilities of a few old broken down politicians he$e in the South who had imbued their hands in the blood of the Nation, actually forever disfran chised Gov. Holden, so far as holding any; office in North Carolina is con cerned. Pretty pinks of consistency, they are consistent set of gentlemen, prating about amnesty by the general govern ment to grave offenders and forever disfranchising Gov. Holden for cer tainly not more than a mistake. What did he do? He simply at tempted to execute a law passed by the previous j General Assembly. This at least was their pretext. But, my friends, I desire to do no one injustice. But I ask in. all candor, did they not impeach him because of his attempt to put down the Ku Klux? Was not his impeachment decreed by the midnight lamp or camp fires of this murderous Klan? I ask reflecting minds to con sider this question. Consider what has followed. The developments of the murderous objects and political pur poses of this Klan by the Federal Court that sit in Raleigh last September, and ask yourselves the question, was not this whole matter of impeachment the result of the dictation of the powerful organization, the strong tfid firm ally of I fear hearts shall be disclosed; we will find that the whole proceedings of this Leg islature were prompted by this Klan, .whose, crimes surpass any hitherto known in any of the' old countries of the world. I can understand, my friends, how a hardships of the tented field and the Democratic tax collectors ofthose days. They took one-tenth otall you made on your farms and if you had more than enough for family use they would come and " press it " and take nearly all the balance. Nice party to prate of re trenchment and reform and low taxes." Will you trust them again? How long will you allow them by false promises and appeals to your passions to array you against the only party that can restore peace and happiness to North Carolina? In what instance has the Democratic party made good its pledges to the people? Laws Jiave been enacted solely lor the purpose of making political -capital. -In their jealous efforts to aid their lu Klux brethren they forgot -the good of the whole State. They changed the laws of evidence so that a brother Ku Klux could testify for his co-murderer. Maj. Graham, of Orange county pro? posed to extend amnesty by the pass- flffi of a Tprislativfi enactment to evprv man who had Ku Kluxed a Republi- partizan bias. in many ways. jFirst, its violentabuso ot any and all men In North Carolina who have affiliated with the Republi can- party. No Vituperation has been too severe. No denunciation sufficient , for its editor against those who aro un-. fortunate enough to differ with him politically. He j has even disgusted many of his own party by his whole-' sale denunciation of Republicans. His . keen scent afteri frauds committed or alleged by him 1 against Republicans l..!?fLj?ittea to he of a most find? This samorgan VslvM? -iY.8- ' the public printing and iu lcoi thnnono year it is discovered that itsjinroacis upon the State) Treasury amount to -, over $3,000. Th$ editor, Josiah Turner, is apprised thrpugh the Republican press that he has overcharged the State and wrongfully drawn from its Treasu ry this money iii September 1871. i 'LETTER I'M" ROBBERY. " What does he) do? Did he do like an honest man and say if I have done wrong, it was n6t intended, and I will make it good? No, sir. He denied the charge, assailed the Auditor, Mr. Adams, as a drunken official, and threatened him with impeachment when the Legislature met, if he (Ad ams) did not continue to audit his ac counts by the letter mf that he might continue to dra-v wrongfully from the Public Treasurer the hard earning of. an oppressed people. : ' Was that in keeping with his bitter denunciation o" everybody else, who he had judged as corrupt or dishonest in Republicans 'ranks. I shall not say. as he says of Republicans that they steal, but will use the Democratic word for it, and say he overdrew, j But the Legislature did iiybet, and instead of impeaching Auditor; Adams, . said he was right, and that Turner was wrong, and appointed a committee to investigate his accounts as Public Prin ter, and that Committee, though a mft -" jority of Democrats composed it, said he should lefund to the State over $3,000, wrongfully drawn from its Treasury. forced to disgorge his and the Public Print him, as a rebuke to his grasping propensities. What a ridicu lous attitude ddes he assume,1 having hollowed for a long time stop thief! wolf! wolf! with this whole .mutton then dangling qn his back. . I, might go farther,' and criticise the action of this Ku Klu Legislature in giving, after a this had happened, the Public Printing to Theo. N. Ramsey, . the business manager, of The Sentinel office. The very man whom Turner and Moore both say did all the mak ing of these unjust and fraudulent ac counts against fhe State, actually drew and received the money, for he was the business manager of 2 he Sentinel, i I leave this matter of the Public Print ing to the honest judgment of the vo ters of North Carolina.,, i i I ' ' i ! i - ' FRAUt) COMMISSION. The 'General Assembly appointed a fraud comm.ssion. Tne testimony elicted is voluminous, and doubtless discloses much fraud and corruption. But that it discloses all that has beei perpetrated by jas. vile . a set of miscrc-; ants and swindlers as ever Cursed a State, (the Democratic Tammany Ring of New York (excepted,) but! few be lieve. Why was it that they did not put at least on honest Republican on that committee? Messrs. Batchclor, Shipp and Martin may all bo- good men, but theyj are Democrats and par tizans. And you, my friends, know how hard it is in these days of bitter partizan rancor, to do -justice to a po litical adversary. ,i Governor Caldwell, on a former oc casion, while Speaker of the Senate, set a noble example by appointing that honest old Democrat, now in the silent tomb, Thomas( Bragg, on a committee raised by a Republican Legislature to investigate fraud. Why did they not do likewise? Such a commission would have commanded the confidence of the whole people of the State. ' As it is, our party may) be left in doubt, as to whether the many Democrats known to have figured in those great swindles against the State, have by this com mission been fairly exposed. ! It is to be regretted that in such a matter when aj candid and just expos ure of fraud was to he made that the ' commission was not divided in politi- . cal sentiment, fco that thieves and plun derers on both feides might be exposed and punished,! and then -the report would not be open to the suspicion or can. some ; older neaas thought that going it rather strong and it was allow ed to die out. .. CHARACTER OF THE LEGISLATURE. Members of the Legislature charged with murder and all sorts of heinou violations of law, were allowed to re tain their .seats without a word of en quiry. Petitions from the people xisk-inp- that said charges be investigated the majority of that body? were reiected. thus the sacred right of that when the secrets of all netitlon bv the people received a fatal stab at the hands of this Ku Klux Democracy, t Two years of Legislation show only that the Democratic party, true to its old instincts intend to govern the State or ruin it by abridging the rights of its" citizens, by disregarding their on thl. leaders of that party . I do not the - Republican ticket and ratified the desire! to be harsh but to present a true rconstitution. So violent was the eppo pictuie and to arraign this Democratic I si tion -to the Constitution that every partyi fairly before the bar of public device was used and threat made to opinion. . the-poor colored and white people of But a few short years" ago, peace aftd North Carolina by these Democratic prosperity -with their manifold blessM politicians, and they would nave Deen ings pervaded the 'whole land. The Hortured: to death by the cravings of Government of the United States chal- hunger, had it been possible for these lenged the admiration of the world in hypocritical patriots to have inflicted man cam in a fit of feigned passion gor- ritit.ifns. and bv class legislation! ed by some imaginary or real wrong, Burglary; was made a capital offence rttlnrt .Tn -o ! -! ltf r Vila I i i ? 1. . " j witn a views oi nauging ncgrues, ju uk not infuri- TTn TClmr incr was mnr? a a misdemeanor bv P3551011 Wlth no malice in their to prevent Democrats from being sent iitir' Dut on,y because ofdifferent po- to the Penitentiary. Vi5iioas can, in the dark hours j - ' ! i,,:, f b? visit, their poor neighbors i beform-retrenchmeni. A Jt VJILI Illf-li LlIKill I 1 1 f 1 LlllA II IIVI.V w - vw. mum. was repeuvemy n f-in folro them from a loving". children, and whip aS&S? JS?42S murder them, is somf and often understand. Yet it to confessed it and said it WasX? m.n . j " xe in- taxes promised in 1870 by this party? . Wherein have you heen benefitted by this Legislature just adjourned in Feb ruary? i Are vour taxes lighter ? Is the State debt less than it was in 1870? t . REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCY. It is guilty of attempting revolution fn every form, and have lost no oppor tunity to grasp at .power, even at the sacrifice of all organic law. . 1 j They went to work, and through their Deputy.Governors, Messrs. War ren and Jarvis, appointed directors in all the Asylums, on all the Railroads in which the State had an interest, and Of the Penitentiary, In direct violation of the Constitution and the laws, which makes the Governor of the' State ; re-, sponsible for tne proper management of the Railroads and institutions, and consequently gives him the appointin power. . j But they override law, take the whole management in their own hands, and the Governor being a law-abiding man, appeals to the pourts, who have lately in an able opinion declared their acts unconstitutional and their authority usurped. WMt then? Do they sub mit to the decision? No, not they. Trnfl to their old rule or ruin princi ples, they refuse to obey the law as in. terpreted by the highest judicial " tri bunal In this State, and Moses A. Bled soe, the old secession leader in Wake, surrounds himself with his military guard at the Penitentiary and denies admittance to the lawful and regularly constituted Board of Directors up- 4 JL- i 1