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The Weckly Enqnirer.
JOHN H. MABTIN... Ebito*.
COLUMBUS:
TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 187S.
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One Twf in wlwnw • • • • •*•**;_
~ FOB I'HKXWKKT,
HORACE GREELEY,
OF y£!W YORK.
FOR VICK PRESIDENT,
BENJ. GRATZ BROWN,
OF MISSOURI.
STATUE ELECTORAL TICKET.
ror. STATS AT LABOZ :
Frincipnl*. AUfmaUi.
XT. T. WOFFORI). A. M. OOMRJITT, *
If. f.. RUNNING. KM WAKKBV,
JULIAN IIAHTKIWIE, A. II. HANSEL,
M AMIINUTON POB, OSOKO ED. KICK.
DISTRICT ELBCTOBS.
1 If. O. TURN**, 1. J. RIVERA,
u. U. N. ELY, 2. A. L. HAWKS,
X W. I. HUDSON. 3. B. F. SMITH.
4. JAMES M PACK, 4. T. F. NEWELL,
ft. A. M. RODOF.KH.
L. J. ALLRED,
7. R. A. ALSTON.
5. N. fl. CASEY.
H. J.N.DORHRY.
?. E. D. OKAflAM.
JOB OOYKUSOR OF GEORGIA, .
JAMES M. SMITH,
OF Mt ’SrOGKE.
Whit#!?'*. IsfcMOM Work—ArsIh.
It in a littlo encouraging to see lhat
even nomo of tho Radical paper* condemn
the employment of such an infamous
evonturo as Wbitely to ooai, purchase or
extort from the Federal prisoners in the
Albany penitentiary confessions to be
i»Hod for Grant’s sdvsntsge in tho Presi
dential campaign, as well as tho mode of
inquisition rosorted to. Huch a paper is
the Baltimore Amrriran—one of the bit
terest and most ultra Radical journals in
tho country—whose comments upon
Whitely h mission and report appeared in
our Tolcgiafipic oolumns yesterday morn-
ing.
Tho truth of thn matter is, thin job of
Whitely’s is one of tho most disgraceful
nets of Grant s administration. Its cun
ning kuaYory is ah despicable ah its bru
tality is revolting. In its imitation of the
inquisitions and unfeeling insults to
which prisoners of state wore bo frequent
ly subjected in former tiinoH, it proveH
that tyranny even in our day, when bent
on the perpetuation of its {tower, will
overleap all the barriers imposed by hu
inanity and civilization and all tho deceu-^
cues of privato and official life.
I bit the Ht isjndotm of tho Haiti more
American as to tho incrodulity of thn
peoplo nought to bo imposed upon by thiH
Adininistration trick, aro likely to hi-
more than verified by NlateiuentH directly
contradicting Whitely’n report. Tho New
Vork World of the Hth inst. publishes a
report of an interview with several of the
prisoners, iirndo directly after Whitely h
inquisition, in which they told tales very
different from his. Wo will tuako extracts
f ruin this report to-morrow.
Negro It lot Near Kavamaab.
On Monday afternoon three officers with
n warrant wore resisted by ii |>srty of ne
groes, to proveut the arrest of ono of their
number on a charge of laroeuy. A noto
rious negro rioter nainod liutler King
struck officer Ottorman with a stick,
knocking him down. OUertnnu, rising
again, tired at and mortally wounded hiui.
Tho ofllcors wore then surrounded by a
largo party of negroes, who threatened
und maltreated them, and would probably
have put thorn to death but for the inter
cession of a negro Justice of tho Ponce
liann d Moody. The officers had to return
to Havaniinli, badly usod up, and without
t he uegro whom t hoy wont to arrest. Tho
negroes gathered in large numbors to re-
aiHt another attempt to arrest. A Havan-
nnh dispatch of tho 14 th to tho Macon
Enterjirise says: "Warrants have boon
issued for tho arrest of upwards of forty
black desperados who aro positively
known ns leaders in tho disturbance.
The partioH who aro expootod to make tho
arrests aro officers uotod for their bravery
and determination, and lively skirmishing
within tho noxt few days may be oxpeoted
among tho darkey warriors of the Ogoe-
chee."
We rcK)toctfully doeline to publish tho
communication signod "Old Harris," be
cause (though not so intended by tho
writer) we appreheud that ita animadver
sions upon the eouduot of men in Confed
erate times would only irritate old tores
that onght to be hoaling while we are
"clasping hands across the bloody ohasiu."
A difficulty botweon Geo. T. G. Ander
son, chief of polioe of Atlanta, and Col.
T. Goode, Representative of Huiutar ooun-
ty, has been adjusted through the inter
vention of friends.
The Democratic and Liberal Uepublicon
Conventions of Florida, meeting in Jack
sonville on the same day, fused, and were
working hurmonioualy together on Wed
nesday. It was then thought that they
would nominate for Governor A. M. Blox-
hain, whom the Democrats elected Lieu
tenant Governor last year, but who wah
fraudulently "counted out."
The Montgomery Advertiser, uoting the
arrival of Ex-Gov. R. M. Pattou in it«r
city, adds: "Wo are pleased to know that
the Ex-Governor favors the election of
Greeley and Drown notwithstanding all
that his enemies have asserted to tho con
trary. We have been shown a letter in
which he denies the slanderous charge
connect iiw him with an attempt to re-sub
ject the Htate of Alabama to the horror*
of Radical and carpet-bag rule."
The Kadi cal State Convention of Ala-
lxuna. on Thursday, made the following
nominations: For Governor, David P.
Lews; Lieut Governor, JudgeMoKinstry;
Decretory of State, Pat England; Auditor,
OoL Robt. T. Smith; Treaanrer, Arthur
Bingham; Attorney General, Bcuj. Gard
ner; Hupt. of Ptiblio Instruction, Joe. H.
Spaed; Commissioner of Industrial Re-
aeuroes, Thus. Lambert
Hon. Ale*. White and C. C. Sheets
, were nominated as candidates for Con
gress at large.
W. J. Gilmer, L. E. Parsons, L. C.
Cosdaon and J. L Pennington were nomi
nated a• candidates for elector* forth*
fUateat large.
Tha Spanish ram Nnmancia, which put
tot# tha port of Hew York the other day
wHh yellow favor on board, is of 7,000
ftoMi capacity and draws 28 fast of water.
Tha World Bays that aba draw* more wa
ter than any vernal that ever before an-
tered tha port of Haw York-
Tha flavpaeah ofltear and pome, aant
eat to *tfa*t Morgan And—on, whoaa ar-
Mt.VM pravanted on tha diet trial by a
l him on Thuadtyand
i jail. The negro liotna
|M4dhpMf<L
TIIK LEASE UONFIHMKO.
It will be seen that the House of Rep-
resentatives of tho Georgia Legislature,
on Tne'dny, following the example of
the Senate, sustaiucd tbe lienee of the
State Road, by a large majority.
Wo have not the resolutions of tho
House before us, and do not know that
they go as far as those of the Senate in
asserting the absence of fraud in tha
procurement of the 1xm*o. While we
applaud the action of the Legislature in
refusing ta annul tha Lease—believing
that it is a good and safe contract for the
8teto—we do not see tha neeaasity, or
even the justification, for a declaration
by the Legislator# that there was no
fraud that would warrant a court of jus.
Uce in interfering with it. In our hum
ble opinion, that is a question for the
oonrt to deoide without Legislative in
structions, should the laiaso bo thus con
tested by any other party but tho Htate.
The implied Legislative acknowledgment
that tha questiou of fraud wan one that a
court of justice might properly pass
upon, involves also tho acknowledgment
that the court ought to be entirely free
in passing upon it. Its decree ought not
to bo influenced in atiy way by a Legisla
tive declaration. The two departments
onght to be independent in their respec
tive spheres, and supreme ns well as inde
pendent. This independence and su
premacy would have been amply exor-
cised by the Geueral Assembly by ils do-
deration that no fraud bad been disclosed
Which would justify tho Legislative De
partment, noting as t he represent alive of
and in tho interest of the State, in annul
ling tha Lohso.
in saying this, we do not wish to be
understood ns expressing the opinion Hist
fraud in the proeurenient of the Lease
has been proved. Tho evidonce fails to
convince us that there was fraud. We
only object to any Legislative action cal
culated to prejudice the cmiho of liny
other bidding company that may choose
to contest in a court of justice tho con
tract with the present Lessees. Wo are
glad that the quest ion of the Slate’s in
terference hint been decided, and decided
in the negative.
1*. H. - The resolutions passed by the
House have been received since the
above was written. They are not quite
so Htrotig as the .Senate's resolutions, but.
may m(ill infringe upon the jurisdiction
of a court of justice.
• THE flTHE OF THE WITH.
Kditor Enquirer: The oppressed i
defrauded people of the Sooth are **&\
anxious to have oppression removed and
fraudulent rulers divested of power. They
have folk that Grant and bis subaltern*
Ml IWUTICAL CjSYAM* IN IOWA.
'Davbnpobt, Iowa, Ang. 10,18t2.
Editor Enquirer:—By request I give
you a little of the political news from this
section of the country.
'The Democrats and Liberal Itepnb
have oeed all illegal and military means j assembled in convention at Des-
to make ns pay enormous taxe« 4 and sue- j tnnines on August 1st to nominate State
onmb to their political desires. A great j offlcora aod E | 00 t or8 . Doth parties had a
many of our peoplo have bowed their | KOod „,*<**„ tatioo. The Democratic
neck* to (he yoke of the present National I waH t i, 6 i arg0(l t convention ever ossem-
Government—most of them for the love ! j n tbe g^te. Nearly every couuty
of office, and many through fear of j Htate was represented in both con-
having tbeir property confiscated or being i vonlion)! . They united and nominated a
imprisoned. It is a fact, that a large , ft ticket. . The utmost harmony, good
number of the patriotic men in onr midst j feeliug and enthusiasm prevailed. Cassius
still persist in denouncing the system of | M CUy Hpoke to an .i mnic nse crowd in
government as adopted by Grant and bis | the eveIling . The Greeley and Drown
satelites, aud to-day they are bandiug j G f Davenport is creating much en-
together to elect more honest men at the j tbuhiMm j u oar mtfigt. It will soon have
helm of tho Government. From one end 1 ejght |,„ ndrcd members. Wo expect to
of the Union to the other, the mauy J Cftrr y ftcott connty by eight hundred mn-
people who are sustaining Greeley and j j ority for Greeley and the Liberal nomi-
Brown, are thoroughly convinced that the i noo f or Oongress in this district, and
Grant Administration bus usurped power | htand a good 0 hanco to elect our Congres-
and is oppressing the country. The time j H j ona { candidate. Tho district Ins here-
AN IHTOBTANf AND PATRIOTIC SPEECH
BY HH. OBKKLKY.
DEMOOBAT8 AND LIBERALS TO SBABi:
- ALIKE IN THE FAVOBM OF HIS ADMINIS
TRATION— "UNTIMELY” OFFICE -eEKKEBH
TO TAKE BACK HEATS—THERE ABE BUT
FEW OF THEM YET— CONCILIATION AND
FRATERNITY WILL SOONER OIV* US j
PEACE. THAN PENAL LAW—THE BOOTH
SHALL NO LONGER BE nOBDED BY CAR-
PfcT-BAOOEBS.
Portland, Me., August 15.—The fol
lowing is the address of Mr. Greeley, in
the City Kali yesterday:
Mr. Chairman and iMdie* and Gen
tlemen It is certainly true that through
out the course of my life, so far as I have
been connecled with public uffairs, I
have struggled with as much capacity as
God has given me for—first, impartial
aud universal liberty; second, for Iho
union and greatness of our common
country; and third, bat by no means
least, when the former end was attained,
for early and hearty reconciliation and
penco among oUr countrymen. For these
great ends I have struggled, and hope the
insne of the third is not doubliul.
I thoroughly comprehend that no per-
THE Kl'-KM X PKINO*CBN,
The following is a statement of a re
porter of the New York World who was
permitted to interview Orant's prisoners
in tho Albany penitentiary on the 7th ioat.
Unlike Whitely, he givee the name and
the language of eaon prisoner, and not
general statements whose falsehood it
would be difficult to establish by proof
positive:
Punctually at 2 o’clock I presented my
self, and wss politely received by Mr.
Louis D. Pillsbury, the Deputy Superin
tendent end son of Mr. Amos Pillsbury,
the Huperintondent, who is in Europe at
tending the conference on the subject of
pri-iou reform. On making known my
wish to this gentleman he at once inform
ed mo that l was at liberty to interview any
or all of the Kn-klux prisoners as I might
choose.
a pkimjskb’h statement
Tho first ono called was Randolph A.
Shot well, slight built, abort, dark Corn-
Well, eoatawaga, poor whites, traitors,
etc. I demanded their authority, and my
father alao demanded their authority; but
both reqoeete were refused, and l was
carried to the eonoty jail and thrust into
a cage sis feet long by twelve feet wide,
in which were seven others already, in
cluding three negroes and three murder
ers. We suffered greatly for water,
which the jailor woold not let us have,
although there was a opting within a
"At Raleigh, beforoTndgos Brooks and
Ford." A .
"Who was a witness hfiainat you.
"Tom Tate."
"Where is ho now ?*’
'‘They write to me that he jins left the
country."
"Did ho belong to tho Kiau ?" £
"Yes ; he was one of the loaders, I
tbihk. i'hqy call hjm the monarch night-
*tone's throw. After being kopt there for t hawk, or something of that sort. I soon
two months, we were taken out one 8nn- j left the KUn. I was opposed to it from
day at a moment's notice, handcuffed and 1 the first; but I lud to join. It was re
carried in wagons to a town thirty miles ! ported that they whipped roe anil made
distant. There was not the alightest ne-1 me join, but that ain’t ho. There was a
oeBaity for handcuffing us, for there was I psrtv ettmo by my house and stopped, but
an armed gn&rd of thirty or forty mon- 1 afterward.-’. tl*ay passed on anil did not do
grelB in attendance, and we were well anything."
known to be gentlemen of respectability "How were you errested?’*
at least, who woald have appeared at uny I "Just this way: I did not know of guy
time if notified. Remember that i had J ehaige against me until I got to llnther-
not at this time had even a preliminary t ford. They drew me over tho line with-
examination, although I was thus treated out any orders. Leapdcr Jolly, a Deputy
like a felon. At Marlin I was thrust into marshal, arrested me without any warrant,
another cage. I there saw Col. Oarrow, I Ho came to my house and said he wanted
U. 8. Marshal,and asked him for the war-1 me to go rouifil to Tom Tate’s to show
rant for ror arrest, aod he admitted that him the road, aud then could come back
WF CANNOT ItH.IKVK IT.
Hrunll hh is now the remnant of Ilio
Democrati' a party that rcfnsnu to support j
Greeley aud Drown, it in difficult for us
to hnliovo that even those few will lie
found wanting in the final hour of notion.
Never having doubted Iho sincerity of
most of them in making their stand for
the maintenance of a strict Democratic
organization, we are not prepured to
doubt the patriotism that must compel
them on the day of the election, when
tho inevitable alternative of Greeley or
Grant is presented, to vote for the for
mer. The two policies of AduiiniHtrutioii
which they respectively oiler are ho di
rectly antagonintic- tho ono being ho
plainly committed to the discontinuance
of tho system of arbitrary government
and UHiirpation,which tho other is pledged
to continuo—that no Noiithorn man can
fail to soo that we linvo large promiscM of
snlutary reform should Grooloy be elect
ed, mid no hope whatever of amelioration
under Grant s continued rule. The most
indexible Democrat must see that if
Grant succoeds again tho Democratic
party will bo powerless, deprcHsud and
distracted for tho uext four years, ns it
has boon for tho inat sir or hcvoii ; but
that if Grooloy is olacLd, mainly by
Democratic votes, tho DeiuocrntH of tho
country must bnvo a largo Hharo in tho
Adminintration and in controlling tho le
gislation of tho Uuiou. Tims tho object
which tboy profess most'to cherish—tho
maintenance of tho vitality nud efficiency
of the Democratic party—is almost us-
sured under Grooloy, but is utterly hope
less under Grant.
They may hold n few thinly-attended
county mootings; they may indiynutt a
little in State Oouventinus, and oven at
tempt another third-party organization at
Louisville, as tboy have heretofore at
tempted it at Giuoinnnti, Baltimore and
Now York. Rut such whimsical deiuon-
etrations cannot, after all, couocnl from
them tho stern fact that either Grant or
Grooloy is to bo tho next l*rosidout of tho
United Htates, aud that he who refuses to
chooee Intireen them is only trifling with
his great prerogatives and neglecting a
most favorable opportunity to discharge
his publio duties as every notisihlo man
and patriot should—in view of tho grant
practical issues involved in the election
and of the uncontrollable political cir
cumstances that hedge him around.
Wo entreat our "straight-out" friends
to consider now the ordeal of coiiacience
which they will have to stand in the "Anal
day," when they must help to elect either
Greeley or Grant. Whistling to keep up
oourage at connty meetings, nr higlt-
aoundmg declarations of prinoiplo at
Btate or ao-callcd National Conventions,
will not avert oitlier the alternative or
the personal reaponsibility. It is Greeley
or Grant whom wo must elect, nud ho
who soonest takes his stand for thn for
mer will do Uio most good nud be in the
better humor with himself and with his
fellow-Democrat a for the balance of tho
will soon roll around when tho peoplo can
show their determination that oppressors
shall not longer remain in official position
to enrich themselves by robbing the
people in illegal taxes and unjust appro*
print ions. Let us hope tlint Greeley and
Drown will be elected in November, and
a welcome future to tho Houth arrivo as
dosirod. J. T. 8.
HARRIS COUNTY.
Editor Enquirer: In your issiioof 10th
inst., I sco the Secretary'h report of a
meeting held iu Hamilton on tho fith
j lust., in which tho following resolution is
found :
"Uof.olved, That thn delegates ho re
quested to present the cluims of Gal.
.lames M. Mobley, and do what they can
to promote his nomination."
Am ono of tho delegates, 1 demur to the
Inst clause in said resolution ; or rather
Htate that no snch resolution was over
adopted by the meeting. A resolution,
ininiiM the last clause—"and do all they
can to promote his nomination" was
adopted, if I am in error, noiiio of my
brother delegates will please set mo right.
Onf. of the Df.lko\tkh.
Hamilton, Gn., Aug. 15, 1H72.
ii R A MS A mil NISTRATION.
Editor Enquirer: The Havaimah (fin.)
lit/m/dienii patriotically nays'that ii sns-
tains Grooley and Drown, and that "tho
present corrupt military despotism shall
have neither its friendship nor the quali
fied support of ils neutrality." Giosabeck
has said that Grant "is not suited for the
eivil magistracy, and we should allow his
administration to close with tho pending
term." Judge A loom, of Mississippi, has
deserted Grant, and now supports Gree
ley. Klizur Wright, of MnssachusottH,
asks a Grant man, "What has the Admin
istration given tho Southern States in
compensation for the two hundred mil
lions of dollars it has robbed them of, by
keeping swindlers in power, by the aid of
Federal bayonets?" From tho Savannah
Diver to the Kio Grande, Grant is fnr
behind Greeley. The Grant vote will be
less Humorous than that roooived by Gree
ley ; nud oven in New Orleans the Grant-
ites have dwindled down to n minority.
In tho West and North, tho Administration
is growing more unpopular every day;
and throughout the Union tho peoplo are
dissatisfied with excoasive taxation, the
Presidential qualities of Grant, ami his
leutiing towards centralization. Grant,
like Ulysses of old, will find himself and
Miiputiions outdone by those who oppose
their uii.statesniauliko rule.
J. T. 8.
tofore gone Republican by 4,tXM) or *#,000
majority.
Only two German papers in the Htate
ero for Grant. All tho rest, about fifteen,
are for Greeley and ’Drown. T he Noith-
wost is responding nobly to tho call for
reconciliation and ref<
expect to carry Iowa 1
for Grant—an immense fall from 40,000.
Many Liberals claim thn Blutc for G
Icy, but tho majority i
overcome at oue election.
Tho Radicals aro fighting tho campaign
in tho name of tho gospel of hate. They
souhI consideration has drawn this vast | p| ex j wn young inau, about thirty year old
assembly together. Other, higher and I apparently, but the prison dress mode
grander considerations have collected yon j n p., ftar 0 | der than he really was for I
around mo to-day.. It is part of tho un- ft f terw „ rd aHcertained that he was but
written law of our country that a candi- twenty-eight, and in answer to my nnes-
date for tho Presidency may not make tjonfi bo wtid . *•{ aro a native of \ irgi-
Kpceohes in vindication and connueudu- Lifl bnt j lqd ij ved j n Rutherford Town-
tiun of the measures which his election j Rutherford county, N. C.; am not
is intended to promote, though a candi- j UJ . ir ri e d, but have parents still living *“
date for Vico President is tinder no such (bat p i are; uiy father is a Presbyter
bites and
ted ho
are doing all they can to rc>
sions and prejudices cngoin
war. They toll the ignorant
norgoos that if Grooloy is id
pension rebel soldiers, rc-< nslavu the
blacks, Ac. There is no cud to such fool
ish talk. They have umv, going the
rounds of the
leading men of the Hoillli arc plan
and scheming for tho accomplishment of
the above results. Those things only
show how desperate their condition is be
coming. They don't Indievo them them
selves, but are resorting to such vile and
unscrupulous means merely to deceive
thn ignorant and ret;
, inhibition. I not merely acquiesce in
Tho Radicals ; tho restriction, but I recognize and affirm
10,000 majority I Us propriety. Tho temptation to mibin-
' terpret aud misrepresent a candidate for
the higher post is so great, tho means of
circulating such perversions among peo-
gruut to be pie who never see a word of their refuta
tion arc so vast, that a candidate has no
moral right to subject bis friends to the
; perils he must brave, if nut invite, by
taking part in the canvuss ; yet the
that place; my father is a Presbyterian
minister.
"Were you connected with what is call
ed the Kn-klux/"
"X was ; 1 was ono of tho county chiefs
of*the clan; it was composed of several
societies.’’
"What were tho causes which led to its
formation'/ ’
"Wo consider that the goneral organi
zation is tho legitimate offspring of the
Freed men's Bureau and the Internal Re
the pus- ; truth to bo uttered in behalf of ( CUU(J j),.| )ur i, m u t of the South. It is dif-
red by the ' who havo placed me before tho Americ.
»ple in my piosout attitude, winch
docs thorn such honor that 1 claim the
privilege of stating it hero and now.
This is that truth : No person has ever
yet made tho fact knowm th .t ho pro
posed to support or actively did support
my nomination, whether at Cincinnati, at
Blanton Duncan, the fntli
isvillo Convention, and thn
graced liimsclf ill connect
Confederate States Troaai
finds no sympathy from
hero ; and, in looking «»vi
woh sorry to sc*) "fifty or i
of Atluntu" giving aid i
Duncan and Grant. Tho
arc encouraging tho movement,
better evidence is unruled that they
it to benefit Grant iiim[ injure tho I
racy ; but it will be us big a failure
holt at Dullimorn.
1 fired ono of tho lust guns in
IHi.'i, in defetieo of thn Holitli
poet to tiro another in Noveml
for Horace Greeley
are truo, aud will pr
, a report that the Baltimore, or in any action which
cd in sending delegates to cither conven
tion, as the basis of a claim for office at
my hands. No ono who favored my Horn- ]
ination beforo either convention or at
either convention, haa sought office at
my hands either for hiuisolf or fur any ,
one else : nor has any one suggested to
me that 1 might strengthen my odf as a
candidate by promising to appoint any J
portent office, in a very f
of the Lou- instances, less than a do
ertaiu,
man who dis- 1
ion Kiili tlin I
y IVpfirtiuent, , „f
lie I lomoorocy
your paper, I
sty young men
id comfort to
Radical press
. the
of the sumllor fry of politicians
since my double nomination,hinted
that J might increase my chances
ction by promising a post office or
some such place to my volunteer corres
pondent.h, respectively. I have not Usu
ally respotuh d to these overtures, but 1
now give general notice that, should i he
elected, 1 will consider the claims of
these untimely aspirants
the more modorule ami
boea fatly satlafiod. [Appli
Iu two or three instances 1 have been
asked to say whether i would or would
not, if elected, confine my appointments
to Republicans. I answor these by point
henlt for any oue not a resident of tho
South at that time to have the loaat idea
of the condition of things fora number
or years after tho war, or even now. The
chief features of reconstruction, the mili
tary and provisional governments, with
all their attendant train of evils, are well
known, but the malicious exactions, the
potty persecutions and annoyances put
upon the Hunt hern people by ibe sharpers
unit adventurers that settled upon the
land under the auspices of tho Freedman's
Bureau and the Internal Revenue Depart
ment call only ho realized by those that
experienced thorn. Every town and village
had ns potty autocrat iu uniform, whose
! mandates were to be law to the surruund-
i ing country, and whose ill-will
l more to lie dreaded than the presence
of u hostile army. At this day,
j Mr. Shot well oontinuod, wndliug, “it
• sounds laughable to tell of marshals with
drawn swords chasing a lot of wretched
, countryim n to cut a lew Confederate but-
I tons olY their jackets, or sending a file of
rant for my arrest, aod he Admitted that
he had not the capias, but nad sent back
for it, and expected to receive it shortly.
Recollect that this was two mouths after
my arrest. I was then carried to Raleigh.
In the course of time the oourt met. Lx-
Gov. Bragg and others, my counsel, of
fered evideuoe that the jury was packed,
and it whs admitted by the counsel fnr
the prosecution, 8. F. Phillips, and U. 8.
District Attorney Ackerman, who was also
present, that he bad advised the Marshal
to the manner of selecting a jury. I
s tried in the same court with nine oth
ers, not one of whom 1 had ever seeu to
my knowledge before my arrest."
What was the specific charge against
you ?"
"I woh charged with having ordored an
assault to be made upon J. M. Justice,
Republican member of the Legislature,
lio was taken from his bouse oue rainy
night by a band of eighty or ninety meu,
taken some distance from town, aud
rather roughly used,although not whipped
aa stated by the Judge. Alter promising
to behave himself aud cease his piloting
of inongreia after members of the Ku-
Klux, he was seut back to town under a
guard. Judge Brooks, who was associa
ted with Judge Bond on the trial, iu his
stump speech to the jury, when imposing
sent once upon me, stated that Justice
had been whipped for no other cause than
because he was a Republican ; this is uu-
true. lie was maltreated because he had
prosecuted some of the leaders of the
Kn-KInx. I kuew nothing of the raid
until a few days previous to its occur
rence, and I did all in my power to pre
vent it. This was the charge against me.
Of those tried with me,-one or two were
innocent of any participation in the mat
ter at all. Two of them wor,e old men,
seized in South Carolina and carried three
hundred miles to Raleigh, X. C., without
money, without advice, without coun
sel or witnesses, and simply charged
with having been on that raid. Ouc
old man, David Collins, G."» years old, wss
taken from his home, leaving his wife sick
and although
home again. That wqg over the line and
into North Caroliuu, aud as soon aa be
got me over over there ho kept me."
"How long are you sentenced for?"
"For four years. And, oh, 1 do so
want to get away. Yon don’t know* how
sorry I mu. tf I once get oat of here you
can never fool me again, never. 1 want
to get home with my family so much, you
can't toll."
State Hemorratlr Exfcttllvet'ounuiltc-e'a Actioa.
[official, j
The committee was organized by the
election oi liou. Thomas Hardeman, jr. t
as permanent Chairman, and Col. I. W.
Avery os Secretary.
1 ho following resolutions wore oaani-
motj.dy puhsid :
Resolved, That tho Chairman and Sec
retary be appointed a sulvoommittco, au
thoriz'd to represent the committee upon
nil minor questions and iu the details of
tho campaign.
Resolved, That the following local com
mittee of citizens bo requested to co
operate with the Mub comnuttee in carry,
ing out its work: Gen. J. B. Gordon, W.
M. 1. wry, Col. Geo. N. Lester, John IL
James, Mnj. George Uillyer, Dr. H. V'.
M. Miller.
Resolved, That the Democracy of each
county bo urged t<> the immediate orgtiul- '
zatiou of working (Tubs, and the appoint,
incut of Executive Committee; uud that
said Committees, as well us the District
Committees, are requested to report to
tho Secretary of this Committee, at At
lanta, their organization, and the condi
tion and needs of the caupnigu iu their
bayonets t«> arrest a respectable lady be- i in bed, without any help, and
cause l.cr littlo daughter had been seen the judge admitted that the ouly
playing with something that roseiublud a against him was that he loaned his iuul<
vide.
in April,
ml I ox-
by voting
if tlm Democrats
a themselves equal
Confederate flag. Yet such exploits
Is after those of w „ ro common even ns late as lHi7.
retired shall have p rolll lb() {j ulB that slavery was first ubol-
I ished it seemed to he the desigu of all
clanM-s of Federal officials to create an au-
, tagouimi of races. No opportunity was
j lost to alienate tho late slave from his late
, , . . ... , master, while farmers were compelled by
mg to tho plank in tho Cincinnati plat- ; , |U . k of ham j H to reduce the number of
re q.c
lie
dive loeslith
solved. That the Chairman issue an
■ns embodying tho views of this Cptu-
to tho situation, we will bo successful.
I regret to see any Southern man —
and especially the Soldiers who sustained
all who concur in the prin
oiplos tlr
to participate iu thrir establishment and
vindication. I never yet hoard of a man
who asked his neighbors to help him
■aiso a house and proceeded to kick hiui
out of it so soon as tho roof was fairly
over his head. For my own part, I rc-
cognizo every honest man who approves
and adlieroH to the platform us my politi
id. r cultivation. To give an illus-
tkiemnolves liko men during the war | ra | brother, nud as such fully entitled to
liolping, oven indirectly, to elect Uly
Grant. 1 hope no honest nmu will give
any continuance or support to tho Louis
ville fraud. If Democrats wish to bo sold
to Grunt, lot them go. 1 know a ft w of
them uru for sale.
Greeley is a true friend to the South,
and should receive its support. No hon
orable course is left for tho Democracy ...
but to vote for him, and 1 believe it will lotion, hope
nevor be regretted. Grant s re-election
sot, peeved t
I his Ta jail.
At th* afternoon session of Iho Senate
of Georgia, on Tuesday, the bills to de
clare -valid and binding the Slate's en
dorsement of tho bonds of the Macon A
Brunswick, South Georgia A Florida, aud
Alabama A Chattauooga Railroads, were
poised. The following is the vote by
which the Senate, tho aum* evening, de
clared null and void the State’s endorse
ment of the bonds of the Rainbridge,
Cothberl A Columbus Railroad Co.:
Yeas—Black, Burnt, Cameron, Candler,
Cone, Estes, Erwin, Heard, Ilillyer, Hiu-
tou, Hojl, Jervis, Jones, Kirkland, Kib-
Ue, Lester, Matthews, McWhorter, Nicli-
olls, Park, Paddy, Reese, Kichardaou,
Simmons. Steadman', Wellborn—2t».
Nays—Bruton, Campbell, Clark, Col-
man, Conley, Crayton, Deveaux, Griffin,
Styles, Wallace—10.
The New York Herald of the lUth inst.
cloaca a manly editorial, denou noing the
Radical frauds in the North Carolina elec
tion, and celling upon the Legislature to
investigate the matter and do justice in
the promisee fearlessly, with the signifi
cant remark, "and we warn the Adminis
tration not to interfere, but to leave the
local authorities to deoide upon and con
trol their ow* affairs."
Ku Klux.—U. 8. Commissioner John
L. Conley yesterday required Robert
Brown, of Hsralson county, to give bond
In the earn of *R,000 to aaawer to the
charge ef conspiring to kill one Bailey
Murphy. The aocoeed was represented
by OoL L. E. Bleckley.
Oioero Goggins wee required to give
bond in the sum of fcftOO to answer the
S i of ooooeeliag a man charged with
ag the Enforcement net.—riffcinte
, IttA.
ATTENTION, CAN 1)1 IIATKR IN HARRIS!
Mui.iikiiky Gkovk, Hakims Co., >
August III, 1872. )
Editor of Coin mb un Enquirer: lToaso
allow mo a small spaco iu your old and
unfaltering columns, to make what 1 con
sider a reasonable request.
As there are so many candidates for
otlico in old Harris, and prohubly all of
them clever, good men, who havo many
personal friends, like niysolf, who tlud it
juito difficult to decido whom to vote for,
and especially so umv, when there is but
one party—tlierofore, to rolieve myself
and probably many otborH from this
dilemma, I wish to make a request, that I
think will injnro uo ono, and I know will
honetlt many a poor widow and orphan, if
opted aud it proves successful, and I
have uo doubt but what it will.
Now my request is, that soruo (compe
tent) candidate announce thut ho will
give one-third of his anticipated salary (if
elected) to support the poor and destitute
widows and orphans of our county.
I mu fully satisfied that the first com
petent candidate making tho foregoing
announcement, may be vory confident of
his election. Indeed, I am so certain of
it, that 1 feel I would bo risking nothing
to nay that if such candidate fails to got
elected, ho will not fail to get his pay—at
leant tho one-third (hat 1 request him
to givo.
Now, I do hope that some ono will be
willing to make the Haerifico (if a sacrifice
it is), and accept the hollers of the office
aud two-tliirda the pruseut salaries,
order that he or they may receive our
hearty support, and have heaped noon
them the grateful praises of mnuy helpless
ones made happy.
J. J. W. B.
I Al.l. Oft' AN EUOIdTK.
A Solid Mtdalir (ilolif PI«nkc« Thlrleta ft'i
lata the Earth.
A year ago this summer, says the St.
Louis Democrat of the 2nd, Mr. Johu J
Murdock, who lives uoar Laclede Station,
mentioned casually to Mr. Frauk J.
Dow uiau that he had discovered a pecu
liar hole in the ground in a meadow near
his house, aud said for the life of him he
eouldu t imagine what made it. It was
twelve or fifteen iuchcs in diameter aud
seven or eight feat in depth. Mr. Bow
man auggosted au a>rolito, but that woa
laughed ut. To mark the place, a fence
rail was thuat in it. and it enclosed eight
feet of rail before the bottom was reached
This summer the matter was again dia-
cussed, aud various speculations were in
dulged iu to acoouut for the peculiar
onening. After the hay had been cut,
Mr. Murdock couaented that the work
meu should examine it. They immedi
ately set to work, and after digging dowu,
not eight feet, hot thirteen teet, came
upon a spheroid globo of metal, which
was evidently an mrolite. It presents the
strange appearance of a minature globe
fashioned after the |>attern of the earth,
being flattened at the |>olea and encrusted
iu such a manner aa to iudioate that it
was iu flames aa it passed through the air.
The flattened poles axe perfectly smooth,
and bear no marka of heat. It
ii abont the aiae of a large twelve
e nd cannon ball, fnlly 50 per cent.
tier, and ia a solid metal, tha nature
of which has not yet bee* ascertained.
It waa brought to the city yesterday, and
excited considerable curiosity. It ia in-
tended, we believe, to present it to the
Mercantile Library.
The velocity with whioh it fell may be
judged from the fact of its deep penetra
tion into tha earth—thirteen feet The
farthest that a cannon bell haa been forced
into an embankment ia aix feet, and thia
ia a feat only aoeompliahad at recent
experiments by the Brittoh Navy,
a population of about bumlH, had iu
| 18i;<i and 18t»7 a floating population of
about 10,000 negroes; whilo only a few
miles in an adjacent county farm, ner-
vauta could not bo hired at any price.—
Ah might have been expected, crime and
disorder was fearfully frequent. I was ut
that time, tho uMaociate editor of the Now-
hern Journal of Commerce, and I have
had to chronicle no Ichs than s dozen
murders in halt’ ns many months. Bur
glary and highway robbery wore comnuiu
morning news items. It has long been
foreseen that uegro suffrage was inevita
ble, and tho early battles of tho Republi
can psriy under tho leadership of Holden,
began to M'hume for it in the political el
ements. T here wero two Radical secret
socioticH iu the State, tho ‘Heroes of
America' and tho ‘Red Strings,' bnt the
negro had not been taken intw them.—
Tho drat votes cant by the freedmen were
.... . . Hovcu in number, for Major John
Rovem-, H.MUhorn nmu who cmUjl bo olrn-tc.l t,, n |l be , of No „.|, 8rn , recently elected
otnaoyof null- LcgiHluturc, or made Colonol of a militia J
cgimeiit, over suggested the pensioning
fall the rebel soldiers or liny of them
my confidence and friendly regard.
| Ono other point demands a word. 1
I Those adverse to me ask wlmt pledge I
I have given to those lately hostile to the
Union to secure their Blipport. I answer, I
' no mail or woman in ad tlm South ever
asked of me, either directly or through
I another, any other pledge than is given in j
j all uiy acts* and words from the time of i
i Lee's’ surrender to this moment. No j
Southern man over hiuted to me an ex;;
wish that the rebel d< lit, \ ‘
whether Confederate or State. Khotlld l
. Assumed or paid by tho Union, and n
moans perpotuatiou of carpet-bag govern- ! s«>ut)i
incuts, Ku Klux laws, sup
tary over civil authority, &
Greeley's I
election inoeiie emuosty, reform of civil j ovo| , „„ „ , >onH u.ility
service, States’ riglitH. banishment of tho j nominated me were perfectly aware that 1
oarpet-baggers, whom ho culls "tho thieves
of tho world.” Iu a few words, his elec
tion means roliof to tho peoplo of all
sect ions. W. W. G.
[Special to tho Courlar-Jmirnal ]
Washington, Aug. 12.—The statement
which the ro-olectioa journals an; now i
circulating and expanding to tho effect
that President Grant took u<* part in aid- |
ing or procuring the Kuklux legislation of |
the present Congress, blit was Himply and | P r *''
solely au administrative officer executing 1 ’’
the doerees of Congress, is not well sus
tained by the facts or the records. Grant's
persistent demands of Congress for a Ku-
riux law during its first session in tho
spring of 1871 are matters of common
fauio and general recollection. If (hero
could he a lingering doubt of the Presi
dent's position at tno time, it ought to bo
removed by tho following ([notation from
a Washington dispatch of March 2d, 1871,
to the New York Times, then, ms now,
Grant's own familiar organ :
"Up to this morning tho President had
not decided to send in any messago upon
the condition of affairs at the South.
Soon after twelve he weld up to the Sen
ate to hear Senator Scott speak ou the
Sherman resolution. While there l»o re
solves to odd (he weight of his official
sanction to tho efforts that were making
to provido Home measure of relief, ami
show that ho was cordially in sympathy
with these efforts, as well us to show , con
trary to the repeated charges of liis ene
mies, that lie had uo object iu desiring
tho prolongation of this session for any
other purpose. He therefore sat down in
the President's* room of the Senate and
wrote his brief message."
upheld and justified Federal legislation t
repress Kn-klux conspiracy and outrages,
though I had long ago insisted ns strenu
ously its I now do, that complete amnesty
and general oblivion of the bloody, hate
ful past, would do more for the suppress
ion and utter extinction of such outrages,
than all the force bills and suspensions of
habeas corpus ever devised by man.
Wrong and crime must ho suppressed and
punished, hut fnr wiser and nobler is the
legislation—tho policy by which they are
i'aliforal* Colton.
The San Francisco Finaueial Postscript
says :
J. L. Strong, the leading cotton planter
ami advocate of cotton planting iu Cali
fornia, writes from Memphis, Thud., that
the promise of this year’s crop in the
San Joaquin Valley is better than iu Mis
sissippi ; and that on account of our dry
summers the yield is larger and more reg
ular here than there. He incloses the
written opinious of several experts. 8. O.
Nelsou, 1*01(011 broker of New Orleans,
says the California cotton is equal to tho
best lowland cotton of Louisiana, and the
value from two to three couta per pouud
above the average of the New Orteana
cottons. W. T. l’ustis, of Memphis, a
eottou broker classes tho Merced cotton
aa8trict Middlings, and would have class
ed it higher if it hud not beeu ginned too
closely. It would sell for 24 cunts, while
the average Memphis eottou bringa 22 cts.
R. B. Clarke, of Memphis, thiuka the
Merced cotton should sell for 20 ccuta,
aud, noceptiug Mr. Strongs statement,
that the cost of production in California
ia (1 j centa per pound, and the average
yield ia fiOo pounds per acre, be calculates
b net profit of 50 per acre, wbereos
in the Gulf Hiatus the average yield ia 200
pounds, the tale price 22 ct*., and the
cost to the producer 15 cts., leaving * net
profit of $14 per acre. Abont a thousand
acrea have been put into cotton this year
iu tho Joaquin Valley, mostly in Merced
connty, and it promises well. The exten
sion of the railroad to the southern end
of the valley, and th# increase of irriga
tion ditch#*, will furnish greatly increas
ed facilities for cultivation and make cot
ton better than wheat for counties remote
from the market
Ku Klux.—George Uoggin, of Haral
son county, had a hearing yesterday be
fore U. 8. Commissioner John L. Conley
on the oharce of violating Iho Enforce
ment aet. The proof not being sufficient
Commissioner Cdnley discharged him.
The'aoooaed was represented by Senator
Brook. Several others, charged with a
. similar offeoae. will have a hearing this
morning.—Athn(a (Vnst., 15M,
»sc who support me iu the
South, 1 linvo liuurd but ouo demand—
justice; but one desire—reconciliation.
They wish t<* be heartily reunited and at
pence with the North, nml ou auv terms
which do not involve the surrender of
their manhood. They ask thut they
should he regarded nml treated by any
Federal authority us citizens, not culprits,
so long as they obey and uphold every law
consistent w itli equality and rights. They
desire a rule alike for white and bhu-k,
which shall encourage industry and thrift,
and they discourage rapacity and villainy.
They cherish u joyful hope, in which 1
fully coucur, thut between the 5th of No
vember aud the 4th of March next, quite
u number of Governors and other dignita
ries, who, iu the uhfmrd nuuie of Republi
canism uud loyalty, have for years been
piling debts aud taxes upon wur-wosted
States, w ill follow the wluuenoiuo example
of Bullock, of Georgia, and suck the
shades of privato life. Thu darker and
deeper these shades the better for them
selves and for tnaukiud. and the hone that
tuy election may hasten the much-desirod
hegira of thieving carpet-buggers has rec
onciled to the necessity of supporting me
inanv who would otherwise have hesitated
and probably refused.
Fellow citizens—the de[>osed and par
tially exiled Tammany ring has stolen
ubout thirty millions of dollars from the
city of New Vork. Thut was u newt
gigantic robbery, uud it hurled its con tri
ors aud ubettors from power aud splen
dor to infamy; but thieving carpet-bag
gers have stolen at least three times that
umouut—stolen it from people already im
poverished and needy, ami they still flaunt
their prisqMToiis villainy in the highest
places of the land, and are addressed os
honorable and uxculleucy. (Applause.)
I think I hear a voice from the honest
people of oil the States, declaring that
their iniquity shall be gainful and insolent
uo louger, ut the farthest, than the 4th of
March next. By thut time a national ver
dict will be pronounced that will cause
them to • fold their tents like the Arabs
And os silently steal away, aud that 1 trust
will be an end of their stealing at the cost
of the good name of our couutry and tho
well-being of her people.
At the conclusion of his speech. Mr.
Greeley sat dowu amidst a “storm of
cheers. ^ ^ ^
Fatal Accipknt.—On going to press,
we are informed e fatal shooting affray
took place at Geneva yeaterday. It ap
pears that a previous unfriendliness ex
isted between tho parties who arere
brothers-in-law, Mr. Goolsby and Anglin,
and that Mr. Anglin had been ordered by
Mr. Goolsby not to enter his boose again.
On yesterday, Mr. Anglin drove up to Mr.
Goolsby's for some purpose, whereupon
he wae fired at by Goolsby. Mrs. Gools
by, in attempting to get poaaeeaion of the
pistol, received the contents, accidentally,
m her head, and died instantly. It is
snppoeed the death of hit mother so
shocked the young man that be ran off in
tha woods end shot himself. The report
oi a pistol waa heard.
[TalbotUm Standard, 15/A.
The Bainbridg* Bum haa authority for
announcing that tha names of Messrs.
Isaac Bush, RepreetuteRve from Miller
oouaty, and Jaa. L Seward, were signed
to th* oall for tho "straight-out" conven
tion at Atlanta, ou the 20th, without their
tut-Governor, a life-long Demo
crat ; which evout ho alarmed tho Iioldun-
itoH, that they speedily enlisted the whole
power of the guvoruiuent iu favor of the
Longue, and with such success thut in a
few mouths there wero not 100 negro vo-
turn iu the State, nml hardly so many in
the entire South, unbound by a fearful
. oath to vote for the Radical candidates.—
j Besides tho negroes, largo numbers of il-
j literate whites were drivon into this
I League by threats of confiscation or loss
, of privileges, it being openly asserted by
j League orators ou the stump and through
! the press thut the government designed
tako away the ballot from all who re
fused to register in the League ranks.
1 will stale that I was a Conservative
candidate for tho Constitutional Couvcn-*
tion in Rutherford aud Folk counties, and
told weeks beforehand that I would
hu beaten a precise number of votes, and
tho result justified tho predition exactly.
My opponent was a man who it waa said
could not write his own name. No won
der that a convention formed of such ma
terial should have framed a constitution
that has ruined tho 8tato. In a few
months the Htate was plundered of over
thirty millions, her credit was wasted, her
Immis dishonored, her treaanry prostrated,
her fair fame blackened, and her internal
quiet disturbed by political sooundrela of
tho most disgraceful sort. The jndioiary
whs most incompetent. There were two
of tho judgoa that were common drunk
ards: two more were proved to have re
ceived huge bribes. All were violent
partisans, aud Democrats were made to
feel that they had no rights which were
bound to be protected. Democratic law
yers frequently confessed that they could
ilo ouly so much, owing to the partisan
ship of the judges, while negroes impli
cated in crime would seem to have au un
derstanding with the judge, as if they hod
said, "Now, Judge, remember that I'm a
worker on election day, and von must lot
..... ...V ~ ....... am. .n.l I Vi t.i M.a
uie oil' with n light sentence; and this waa
the common result."
"And it was this state of thing* that
produced the Ku-Klux?" said I, winhiug
to get Mr. Shot well to talk of his *
case.
"It was this state of thing*, which did
not belong alone to North Carolina or to
Soth Carolina, bnt was common to all the
Southern Htates, and the feeling had be
come universal that there should be some
organization among good men for the
suppression of crime, aud to conntoract
tho baleful teachiug of tho league. In
East Tennessee a secret protective asso
ciation had long existed among the re
turned raugers, who were in danger of
their lives. Subsequently, when Brown-
low was at the height of his power, with
bends of negroes all over the State, this
nucleus was reorganized m the Constitu
tional Union Guard of Tennessee, and
this movement spread with great rapidity
through the entire South. The chief ton-
ttires of this organization were that there
was a supreme head of the South, and un-
dfir him tbero wore ohiefs of States, chiefs
of oougressional districts, and fronrthia
to chiefs of counties. The oath had five
principal clauses—first, to uphold the
Constitution of the United States as hand
ed down by onr forefathers, ala very ex
cepted; second, to oppose tha Radical
party in alt its mcasurt s, and endeavor to
maintain for the intelligent whit#
the privilege of governing this country;
third, to uid and assist each other in dis
tress according to our pecuniary ciroum
stances; fourth, to have ears of widowa
and lone females, and to nroteot them at
all times; the fifth clause bound tha neo
phyte to secrecy and obedience, and in
voked death upon him if ha turned
traitor."
"Before whom were yon tried?"
"Before Judge M. L. Bond, at Raleigh,
in September, 1871."
"Did yon have a fair trial ?"
"I did not There waa nothing fair
either about the arrest of the trial. I waa
arrested on the 5th of July, of the tarn#
E ar, on my father’s prantation in Green
ver, Polk ooonty, oy a band of mon
grels and Federal soldiere."
^ ‘‘Who do yoq oall mongrele?"
and gun to a party of Ku Klux, ho
sentenced to four yours at hard labor in
this penitentiary. One of tho party. !)«•-
priest, to my knowledge was not iu tin- j
raid end probably know nothing about it, i
uud hu vow sentenced to three years in
this prison. 1 waa sentenced to six years
at hard labor and a tine of $5,000. 1 feel
thst I niu an inuocont and u wronged umn,
and that l have been persecuted for polit
ical effect. Just before l was arrested 1
was the editor of the Ashcvillo Citizen,
and hud oiude a great many enemies hy
my course in thut paper. There are men
in this prison who were not members of
tho Klun at all. Numbers of them have
actually confessed to participation iu sets
of disorder of which they were not guilty,
for the Government held out the idea that
persons confessing would b* let off with
light sentences, and many of them wero
convinced thut they would be convicted
if they stood their trial, on accouut of tlic
partisau character of the court and jury ;
aud so, at the suggestion of their lawyers,
they plead guilty. It haa been said that
we iutonded to violate the law ; this is not
s.»-*we did not understand it ao. Our
object was to assist in tho execution of
the law and to punish crime, and most of
us entered the Kian from conscientious
motives, thinking this the best way to
restore order and prosperity to the
country."
This ended tho interview, although Mr.
Khotwell was by no means tired of talk
ing, but expressed his ability to go
hours upon the same topic. But the time
would not admit, aa I wished to get the
statement of othera.
ANOTHER l’RIHONEB a STATEMENT.
Hamuel G. Brown, of the town of York,
York county, 8. C., waa the next one in
terviewed, and to him I said ;
"Toll me of your caae, how yon came
to be here, and what you have to com
plain of ?" •
"The greatest hardship whioh I com-
.lain of is being arrested for being a Kn
Gux, when I never belonged to the order
at all. My family are left in a very des
titute condition.
‘What family have yon ?"
‘1 have a wife and three daughters and
two sons. My wife and daughters have
uo one to look after them ; then there in
my stock and farm all left to ruin without
attendance."
When was yon arrested
I was arrested on the Dffh October,
1871, and by tha advice of my counsel 1
plead gnilty, which was a very foolish
thing to do, although a gentleman here
yeaterday—CoL Whitely—told mo that ho
did not believo me when 1 said I waa in-
uocent, yet such ia the fact. It waa on
the 2tith of December, 1871, that my
counsel plead gnilty for me, and 1 am
sentenced to five yean.”
Did yon have no connection with the
Klan ?"
I knew of the order, and I attended
one meeting of the Kiau, aud that was the
hold they had on me, and that waa the
reaAon I plead gnilty."
'For what purpose did yon attend that
meeting ? Did you intend to’ join the
Klan ?’’
No, not at all. I had a double pur
pose iu going there. I wanted to Havo
the life of a young man who had, in a
drunken froliok, let out*some of the se
crets of the order ; and also to induce my
sou to resign hia position as chief of the
Klan."
‘Did you succeed?"
I did, in both objects. My aon re
signed, aud I alao saved the young man a
life."
That was all tha connection you had
with the Klan ?"
That waa alb I never belonged to it:
never approved of it. I had two sons,
both members of it, but I never was."
"Ware your sons arrested ?"
"No; they got off; they left the Htate."
"A\here are they now? %
"I don’t know where they are now. I
think they have left the United States."
Were'there many outrages by the
Klan in year part of the country ?"
"No, not many; there waa one negro
killed a mile and a half from my house,
bnt the Klan that did it crossed the river
from another diatriot; it waa not done by
the Klan of my district; and there waa
very little whipping done, not more than
two or three cases in my immediate neigh
borhood, and they were previous to the
paaeage of the Ku-Klnx act."
Mr. Brown is a fine, hale and hearty old
gentleman, about fifty years old, and was
a magistrate of the connty at the time of
hia arrest. There is no donbt but that he
speaks the truth in his statement,and thst
he never has had any connection with the
Klan other than ha admits.
STATEMENT OF DAVID COLLINS.
The next prisoner called was David
Collins, a tall, raw-boned specimen, with
a face as simple end innocent-looking as
a child’s. Hi said: "I was born and
raised in Lincoln oouaty, North Carolina,
but I lived at tha time of my arrest in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1 tea* tent
here as a Ku-Klux. J did not belong to
the order; I had belonged to »f, but 1 had
quit it,"
"What was the evidenoe against yon.
"I had loaned a mole and aa old shot
gun to a party that earn# along. You tee
they had mad# a role when they eame
along to prom things, and if they ware
not given op willingly the party owning
them wa* fined five fioUaio or fifteen
Resolved, That a grand State mam
meeting 1 o lidil in Atlanta, the details to
be determined by the sub-coinmiUeog
Also that District mass meetings ho hold
under llu- direction of the District Com
mit t«‘( s.
Resolved, That where there is uo dis
trict Executive Committee, and a hero a
cuiiveiitioii is not otherei.se failed, that
the Hen .tors and Representatives of tho
Geueral Assembly of each Oongrmnionat
I list net bo requested to call District Con- >
\ontioriR. « j
Resolved, That the chairman be au
thorized to appoint n sub-elector iu each
uuty to assist iu conducting tho can-
Resolved, That tho General Asactnbly
now in sossiou be requested to take into
consideration tho propriety of enacting a
rogi.st ration law to securo tno purity of
tho ballot box.
The following Committee of Finance .
was appointed : Col. J. 0. Nicholls, lion.
J. 11. Huntor and I. W. A vory.
Au oiler pas accepted of, and thanks re
turned for, the permanent use of a room
in Tho Constitution building free of cost
committee headquarters during tho
campaign.
Tho committee adjourned to meet in
Atlanta at tho Htate uum meeting, which
will hereafter be announced. 'Tho com
mittee urges a vigorous campaign n[Hin
the putty. Thus. Uahdeman,
Chairman.
I. W. A\f.i;y. Secretary.
'the Htate Democrat io paper* will pleoso
«>py.
Itailro.-ul .Yacttnir.
Gi.ab-All, Ueakd Co., Ga.,\
Aug. 12, 1872. >
The citizens of thD neighborhood,
agreeably to a previous notice, met on tho
12th inst.. in the interest of the North «fc
South Railroad, and a meeting was organ
ized by calling It. F. Wood to the Chair,
and M. Edwards requested to act as Secre
tary.
The meeting being organized, W. D.
Cbipley. Hecretary oi tho Rood, made tho
following statement: "That there had
been raised by subscription $27,450 of
stock north of LaGmngo, in Troup nml
Heard counties, and of that, $12,500 had
been subscribe l exclusively for the route
by Liberty Hill : and before the Company
would be authorized to locate the Rond
mirth of LaGrange, there must be raised
#50,ooo, including what had already been
subscribed on that part of the route.”
Ou motion of Mr. R. Ii. Dnnson, it was
resolved, that a committee of five be ap
pointed l»v th«* Chair, in the counties of
Heard and Troup, to solicit stock in the
immediate neighborhood; upon which
motion, the Chair appointed the following
committee: S. 11. Dunsoii and J. T.
Hearn, in Troup: and Matlicw Owensby,
W. M. Wilder uud M. Edwards, iu Heard
county.
The enquiry was then made by parties
present, it subscription would be received
to be paid in grading the Road?
Secretary Cliipley responded and in
formed the meeting thut propositions
would bo received for subscription, iu
writing, to bo considered npou the terms
and conditions of contractors on the Road.
Ho nNo announced that a meeting would
be held on Wednesday, the 18th day of
September, nt Franklin, iu the interest of
the Road.
Col. C. W. Mabry impressed upon tho
meeting in au.eloquent and stirring ap
peal, the importance of a full report from
the committees upon tlint occasion, that
rlt might be commcueed this fall
north of LaGrange.
The following additional subscriptions
>re tbt-u made by parties pro. nt :
W. 8. Evans, jyiUOOj J. T. Boykin,
$1,000; J. II. Brittain. jj>.‘hhi; A. J.
Heard, $3ihi. These were in addition to
the subscriptions heretofore made by theso
gentlemen.
From the iiitcrost manifested at this
meeting in the progress of the Rond, tho
committees will undoubtedly report the
$50,000 of stock raised at the meeting iu
Frnukliu, in September next.
notion of 51. Edwards, the follow
ing resolution xvas unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the citizens of Grab-all
and vicinity, tender to Gov. James M.
Smith their thanks for his constitutional
otection of Western Georgia, in the en
dorsement of the bonds of the North A
South Railroad, nud that his Excellency
be furnished with a copy of this resolu
tion.
The meeting then adjourned until th©
third Wednesday in September next, at
Franklin. R. F. Wood, Chain.
M. Edwards, Buoy.
Genetal Banks on the Prospects.—
The World of Tuesday interviewed Gen.
N. P. Banks, w ho. it will be remembered,
ha* receutly oome out for Greeley and
Brown. Banka says this much about the
prospects of the tiuket t
"I oom-ider th# pr ospect k of Messrs.
Greeley and Drown in Massachusetts to be
good aud daily improving, and in the
whole country as magnificent. I have no
doubt of tboir triumphant election by the
people. I d# nqt aay this because tho
wish is father to the thought, but because
my sources of information and a careful
survey of the field so instruct we."
Murder near Isabella.—On Friday
morning last, a quarter of an hour before
tho train of th# B. & A. R. R., bound
•aat, had reached Isabella station, two
white men, named respectively, John Por
ter (a carrier) and McGuine, had a
difficulty about a woman,in which tbeUt-
ter was shot and mortally wounded. There
was no Doctor present and the wounded
mao, after being carried to his home, died
in two hours after he reoeived the wound.
W# learn that John Porter has not ye^
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