The Greensboro patriot [November 1, 1876]

              THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C,
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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1876.
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li Judge Halite lor Boyd ? We venture
to aimwpr in th* negative, unleRH he linn
changed liia Diuid *inca Le gave in his
sworn testimony before the United State**
Senate Investigating Committee In 1871.
It will be remembered that a committee
Taa appointed by the U. S. Senate in
January of that year to investigate the
Ktl Klux. Judge Settle,being lirst sworn,
was examined as follows :
Question.—With your knowledge of tho
means by which the organization seeks
to accomplish ita purposes, do you believe
it would be safe to entrust its members
with political power as members of Con-reHs
or the State Legislature T
ADH-MT.—No alf. Having hoard the
character c.f tin ir oaths / could not trust
thtm with wmfUaag aaawtov.
Question.—Would it he prudent to re-move
the disabilities of such men f
Answer—Well I would not tiustaman
in any j.oittion private or pubiii- who I be-lieve
was a member of that organization
or who had taken these oaths.
This testin:"riv may he found on page
110 of theKeportof the Senate Committee,
Feb. 3, 1871, Si, Judge Settle is against
Boyd or he has gone back on his oath be-fore
this committoc.
How is it Captain Settle t
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The Special Tax Bonds.
To the Editor of tke Nevt:
The Legislature in 1868appropria-ted
81,500,000 to extend the wes-tern
Railroad from Egypt, Chatham
, county, to some poiut on the North
Clubs o'; Carolina Road, with a further pro-mi
Satur- vision that if the above was not
sufflcieut to complete saitl road, the
President and Directory with the
consent of the Governor could issue
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largest proportionate I ^mortgage toudVMt to^xefeed
r of names enrolled. There $900,000. ren light procession
night.
at
1 nine a II!!
Under these acts,
the
Governor appointed a majority of
the Directory, and they, 1 think,
elected the President. John A.
McDonald, and others were appoiut-
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bh5ertehewGa°sVth,eur-issued by the
r ,. - al the fol- I Governor to this new appointee one
a the various j million, three hundred and twenty
thousand in State bonds. These
the President took to New York,
sold them and squandered the pro
•seeds.
Notwithstanding, the Governor
must have known the fact, he reap-pointed
these same men in in 1809-
'70. And to "cap the climax," this
gjitj same Board and Governor, just as
b the Democratic Legislature in tho
tall of 1870 were endeavoring to
push through an amendment to the
charter of this Road, which would
30Ui rid the Company of snch men, the
1 same President and Directors, by
the Governor, issued the
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ho upheld their validi-etth
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union ol Federal
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1 1■ 1 ■ ■■ I >.i> Ion to take oft
brai•• defenders of
( sent Ol
1900,000 tirst mortgage bonds, and
hurried to New York and sold half
of them before they were headed
off by the above act.
The Governor may have been iie
oeived bj his man in 1808; but he
I must have acted with his eyes open
i in 1869-*?0, as he must have known
! that not one dollar of the proceeds
1 of $1,770,000 State and mortgage
bonds were ever used to extend the
road, and that he knowingly aided
in destroying the former interest ot
the State and private stockholders
in said road.
Why did he not send the State
Treasurer to sell these bonds, and
have the proceeds paid over to the
Company's Treasurer, both of whom
were bonded officers J That was
the way lieid. Bragg, Vance and
others did business.
A STOCKHOLDER.
Synopsis of Election Law.
No one can register ou the day of
. election except those coming of age
on that day.
On the day of election any elect-or
may, and it shall be the duty ot
the judges of the election to chal-i
lenge the vote ot any person who
may be known or suspected not to
1 attain that be a duly qualified voter.
Tin- polls to be opened from 7
o'clock in the morning until sunset
of the same day.
The ballots shall be ou white pa-per,
and may be printed or written,
or partly written and partly prin-ted,
and without device.
The ballots are to be counted
commencing sunn alter the polls
Home.
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. Judge Bet-uxSl
OUNDRELS.
.; [-'LENDS OF
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giatered.—
s are left off in
Take nothing for
have moved from
'.ii Bince you
i get that you
. township in
yon will not
te. Don't lorget
ii' natter.
mds before
ol my Creator
time of war
. and through
■ : temptation and
followed the »ar
honest money
-; and
I 1 1 ver had a
eferred
nd honor of my
• , eeek tit the
pon the peo-when
30,000
disfran-
■ d to vote
—
ual Revenae
en us in the Ral-
. - miided the key -note
il 1 ampaign when he
1 B B have to do is
HELL, AND STICK
are closed in the presence of such
voters as choose to attend.
If there shall be two or more tick-ets
rolled together or any ticket
shall contain the names of more per-sous
than such elector has a right [
to vote for, or shall have a device
upon it, iu either of these cases
HUCII ticket or tickets shall not be
' numbered in taking the ballots, but
shall be void.
The result of tlie count must be
declared in public as soou as the
count is eompleted.
Returns to be made by the judg-es
ol election by nuoii Saturday en
suing the 7th of November to the
Couuty Commissioners.
It is not contemplated by the
law that there shall be more than
one set of registration books, and
supervisors judges of election, and
all others are advised that the su-pervisors
of election can challenge,
scrutinize, count or have to do, on-ly
with the voters as they present
themselves and their ballots at the
boxes for Federal officers.—Char-lolte
Observer.
Il il William A.
1 the Kad
• be Vice Presidency,
1 u> "'.' CitURigktl bill in ita
form.
CW People of Gniltord and Ala-miince
if yon want a direct land tax
for federal purposes, vote for A. S.
1 Iloltou. ^^^^^^^^^
REGISTER.
If jou have not registered, do so
at uuce.
Bavonets for the Whites!
Ballots for the Blacks!
Hen. Grant to the Army.
EVERYBODY
THIS.
We sincerely trust that our read-ers
will give their serious attention
to the following acts and utterances
of prominent Radicals, in order
that out of its own mouth the ne-gro
party may be condemned. No
where do we kuow of a more com-plete
or a more truthful history of
that party or one more perfectly
consistent with itself, duriug so
many years, than is to be found in
the utterances of its prominent men
from its formation to the present
day.
Iu 1808 the women of the State
wore insulted by advice from the
Central State organ and chosen
mouth piece of the party to Radical
canvassers to throw their arms
around them when their husbands
were not about. In 1888 the white
people were threatened openly with
starvation and destructiou ol their
homes from the vengeance of ne-groes.
In 1860 the Radical Gov-ernor
claimed the power to suspeud
all laws at hisowu pleasure, and in
1870 he did so suspend all laws at
his own will and pleasure. Iu ISO!)
the bill was passed under which the
State was filled with spies, who
dogged men's footsteps on the
streets of Wilmington and else-where
iu the State. In 1870 the in-famous
Shofftier bill wan passed,
empowering the Governor to declare
every county in North Carolina in
a state of insurrection. It was un-der
this bill and in this year that
the Holden-Kirk war was carried
on slid the Radical Governor asked
the Radical Congress to authoiuse
the Radical President to snspend
the writ cf Jlabetts Corpus, so that
men might be anested and tried be
fore military tribunals and shot,
and it was in this year that Holden
the Radical Governor declared that
if any bodily harm came to him,
" certain leading Democrats and
Conservatives, who might be named
will be instantly put to death."
During all this time Judge Settle
sustained Holden and supported his
administration when his name to a
"little piece ot paper,'' as he con
temptously calls the great write of
Habeas Corpus, wouhi in an instant
bare restored law and order. In
1871 Judge Settle and the other
members of the Supreme Court
solemnly declared from the bench
that the action they took in those
times, the action that sustained
Holden ami enabled him to carry
ou the Kirk war, was right and
proper. In 1872 the Radical Cou
vention of the State, of which
Judge Settle was a member, formal-ly
endorsed and snstaiued Holden
and his administration and the
Kilk war, even afler he had been
driven in shame and disgrace from
bis high otlice for those very crimes.
And to-day we Bud, that same
Thomas Settle, the candidate of
that party for Governor, John Pool.
the instigator of the war, Irs S11
perinteudeui of Public Instruction,
McLiudsay, the pirate, its candidate
lor Congress and Holden its chief
counsellor and official adviser.
Since the world began, no party
has ever thought, Spoken or acted
so much villainy and Infamy as the
Radical party. Don't tail to read a
single oue of the following utter
ances if yon wish to know the true
inwardness of Radicalism and of
Radicals:
1868.
" But wherever else you work
don't lorget. to work among the
women, * • • Go af-ter
the women tl-en. * *
And don't hesitate to throw your
arms around their necks now and
then when their husbands are not
around, and give them a good .
They all like it. • • •
Our experience with female rebs is,
that with all their sins they have a
vast amount of human nature, and
and only want to have it appre-ciated
to be the most loving creal
uns imaginable, Scallawaga and
carpet-baggers don't fail, therefore,
as you canvass the State, to look
alter the women.'"—Hal. Standard.
•• Did it ever occur to you, ye
gentlemen of education, property
aud character, to you, ye men and
especially ye women, who never re
ceived anything from these colored
people but services, kindness and
protection,—did it ever occur to
you that these same people who are
so very bad, will not be willing to
sleep iu the cold when your bouses
are denied them, merely because
they will not vote as von do 1 That
they may not be willing to starte,
while they are willing to work for
bread I Did it never occur to you
that revenge, which issosweel to
yon. may be as sweet to rbem *—
Hear us, il nothing else you will
hear, did it ever occur to you, that
if you kill their children with nun
ger they will kill your children with
ieart Did it never occur to you,
that if you good people maliciously
determine that they shall have no
shelter, they may determine that
you shall have no shelter — Tod R.
Caldwell.
1869.
•'The Governor has power to sus-pend
all civil law as it was suspen-ded
in lBti.V— IV. \V. Holden,
The Spy Bill was passed in this
year.
The Slmfner Bill was introduced
into the Legislature. Iu advoca-ting
this bill Kadical Senator Cool;,
from Johnson county, said it ought
to pass, because if it became a law
|New Series No. 449.
John Ppol proposed to put iuto
the service a desperado named Mc-
Lindsey.wbo would raise a companv
that, "would give Governor Holdeii
no trouble, for that if any of the
men arrested by him undertook any
resistance he would kill them or
they would be lost and uever be
heard of again;" anil suggested
that the Governor (Holdeu) should
lollow the example of Governor
Clayton of Arkansas, "who had
taken military possession of dis-affected
counties and tried and ex-ecuted
largo numbers of men by
military court."—R. (.'. Badger's
stcorn testimony.
"If he (Governor Holden) is ever
personally menaced his friends will
resent it and punish the man or
men who may do it—if be is slain
or even wounded, it is already de-termined
that leading Democrats
and Conservatives, who might be
named, will instantly be put to
death. The Governor's mind is
made up."—Raleigh Standard.
The Landlord and Tenant Act.
We hear a great deal from the
radical papers and speakers of what
they are pleased to term an " in-famous
landlord and tenant act"
which they say passed the legisla-ture
of 1874-75.
The landlard and tenant act was
passed by the legislature of 1868-09
and ratified the 10th day of April)
The legislature ot 1874-75 amend-ed
the act of 1808 69, as showu be-low
:—
1869.
men accused "could be tried by
drum head court martial and shot."'
The painting or disguise act was
passed this year.
1870.
"If Congress would authorize
the suspension, by the President, of
the writ ol Habeas Corpus 111 cer-tain
localities, and if criminals
could be airestcd and tried belore
military tribunals and shot we
would soon have peace and order
throughout all this country."— IV.
W. Holden.
1872.
"Rally this last time and carry
the election, and there will be no
parlor and no kitcheu."—Kiel Mc-
Kay.
1874.
The pretension that any person
or class may bo prevented from
resorting to a public place whose
doors are open to all but them, aud
denied to them only on account of
color or race, will not be tolerated
by any court honestly and sincerely
desirous of upboldiug the constitu-tion
ami the laws according to their
true intent aud meaning.—t/i«/(/e D.
Ii. Russet
And therefore, I say. if it were
possible, as in the large cities it. is
possible toestublish separate schools
for black children and for white
children, it is in the highest degree
inexpedient to either establish or
tolerate such schools.
The theory of human equality
cannot be taught in families, takiug
into account the different condi-tions
of the different members of
the families composing human so-ciety
: but iu the public school,
where children ot all classes aud
conditions are brought together,
this doctrine of unman equally can
be taught, and it is the obief means
of securing the perpetuity of re-publican
institutions. And inas-much
as we have in this country
four million colored people, I as-sume
that ir is a public doty that
they and the white people of the
country with whom they are to be
associated in political and public
affairs, shall lie assimilated and
made one in the fundamental idea
of human equality. Therefore where
it would be possible to establish
distinct schools, I am against it as
a matter of public policy. —.Senator
l.n'i'irdl
By the treachery of Republican
members of Congress, elected in
large part by colored voters, the
negro is continued an outlaw. For-tunately
the negro has the ballot.
He owes it to himself to use that
ballot iu punishing the treachery of
the men whose treason to professed
principles leaves him a victim to
negro hate. Every ballot that shall
be cast by colored men for so called
Republicans who on Saturday night
last voted against the Civil Rights
bill will be regarded as so many in-dorsements
ot their treason. Our
people are not the cowards to kiss
the hand that smites. They must not
be led into tho support ot pretend-ed
friends by sophistry nor by in-timidation.
DEFEAT EVERY PRE-TENDED
REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED
AGAINST TItK (TVII. BIGHTS BILL,—
Fred. Douglas, negro President of
Freedmen's Savings Bank.
We want the Civil Rights bill
passed and enforced, and in the
name ol our dead soldiers we de-mand
its passage. We demand
that our wives and daughters shall
ride in what vehicles they please,
when an where they please so long
as they pay for the privilege. We
demand that our children shall be
admitted to tho common schools of
the country, and 1 want it shown to
inflated white men that the colored
man's blood is not inferior to the
white man's blood. • • •
We demand in the name of our
dead colored soldiers that there be
given to us complete and constant
equality everywhere. Then we will
exercise our jndgdment where we
will go and how far we shall go, if
we are able to to bear the expense.
When we pay for a berth iu a Pull-man
sleeping car we do not want
to be shoved into a Jim Crow car.
When we pay for a room at the
Arlington Hotel we want to go
tiiere. Let our institutions be broad
and deep; let us be masters of
liberty on this continent.—John M.
Langiton, negro, Pretidint of Jlote-tint
I'nirersity.
There is no more signal error
than the supposition that tho de-feat
ol this biil tends to settle any-thing.
The bill now goes over perhaps,
to another session, but it will con-stantly
reappear uutil the engage-ment
of the country is fulfilled.—
Haiptr'x Weekly.
1876.
"You fiends o f hell, yon hell
hounds, you infernal fiends ot hell—
Settle to the people of Jonesboro.
"A bloods shirt campaign with
money and Indiana is safe.—Kilpat-rick's
letter.
"Resoleed, That any negro who
would vote the Democratic ticket
should be hunted up and killed."—
Betolntion of Radical meeting of
Sept. 2lst.
Original sections of landlord and
tenant act of 1869.
HBO. 13. It shall be competent
for any lessee of land to agree in
writing to pay the lessor a share ol
the crop to be grown 01 the land
dnring the term as rent, or to give
him a lien on the whole crop, or any
part thereof, as a security for the
performance of any stipulation con-tained
in the lease; and when the
lessee has so agreed, such charge,
or such crop shall bo deemed and
held to be vested in possession in
the lessor aud his assigns at all
times until such lien shall have
been satisfied or discharged by
some writing signed by the lessor
or his assigns; and such lessor and
his assigns shall be entitled against
the lessee or any other person who
shall gather or remove any part of
such crop without the consent of
the lessor or his assigns, to the
remedies given iu the code of civil
procedure, upon a claim for the de-livery
ot personal property.
SEC. 14. Where a tenant or
lessee of laud has agreed to pay a
rent in money, such rent, unless
otherwise agreed between the par-ties
to the lease, shall be a lien on
the crop which shall be grown on
tho laud during the term ; and the
lessor in such case shall have the
rights, and be entitled to the reme-dies,
given iu the preceding section.
SEC. 15. Any tenant of land, un-der
a lease giving the lessor a share
of the crop as rent, or giving the
lessor a ben on the crop as security
for tho rent, or for the performance
of any stipulation in the lease ; and
any person with knowledge of said
lien, under the license or authority
of such tenant, who shall remove
any part of the crop liom such land
without the consent of the lessor
and without having given the lessor
or his agent, if to bo found on the
demised premises or within five
miles thereof, three days' notice, of
such intended removal, and before
satislving ail lieus on said crop,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
crop from such land without the
consent of the owner of the land
or lessor, or party entitled to receive
the rent, and without giving him
or hisagent five days' notice of snch
intended removal, aud before satis
tying all liens on said crop, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
In every respect the landlord and
tenant act remains in force precisely
ss the legislature presided over by
|od R. Caldwell and Jo. W. Hol-den
passed it. The reader, after
comparing the original act and the
amendments, will perceive how the
radicals are reduced to falsehood
aud desperation.
Prom the Raleigh N.ws.
HOLDEN'S CONFESSION.
T.
Ggf Don't forget the Club Mass
Meeting on the 4th. Come as or-ganizations
and let every club be
here in force.
" We fiud that he came to his
death from calling Bill Jacksou a
liar," was the verdict of a coroner's
jury in Missouri.
1875.
Amendment* to landlord and tenant
act, ratified March 19, 1875.
SEC. 13. When laud shall be rent
ed or leased by agreement, written
or verbal, for agricultural purposes,
or shall be cultivated by 11 cropper,
unless otherwise agreed between
the parties to the lease or agree-ment,
any and all crops raised on
said land shall be deemed and held
to be vested in possession in the
owner of the land, or tho lessor, or
the party entitled under the agree-ment
to receive the rent and his
assigns at all times, until the rent
for said land shall be paid, and un-til
all the stipulations contained in
the lease or agreementshall be per
termed or damages in lieu thereof
shall be paid to the lessor or party
entitled to receive the rent, the same
or his assigns, and until the said
party or bis assigns shall be paid
for advancements made and expense
incurred in making and saving said
crop, and until tlie said party or
his assigns shall be paid any and
all claims and demands against the
lessee or cropper, which according
to agreement, written or verbal, be-tween
the parties should be paid
out of said crop. That this lien
shall be preleired to all other liens ;
such lessor or party entitled until
the agreement to receive rent lor
said lad, and his assigns, shall be
entitled against the lesse or crop-per,
or any other person who shall
gather or remove any part of said
crop without the consent of the
said lessor or party entitled 'o re-ceive
the rent, and to the possession
of the crop until said liens are sat-isfied,
or his assigns to the reme-dies
given in the code ot civil pro-cedure
upon a claim for the delivery
of iiersonal property.
SEC. 14. Where any controversy
shall arise between the parties it
shall be competent for the party
claiming the possession of the crop
by virtue of the preceding section
to proceed at once to have the mai-ler
determined in the court of a
justice of the peace il the amount
claimed shall be less than two bun-dled
dollars and in the Superior
Court of the county where the prop-erty
is situate it the amount so
claimed shelled be more than two
hundred dollars, and at the time of
issuing the summons, or .it any time
thereafter, upon the filing an affi-davit
of the claimant, setting forth
the amount claimed and the prop-erty
upon which the lien attaches,
it shall be the duty of the justice
of tho peace or of the clerk of the
Superior Court in whichsoever
court the suit shall bo pending to
issue au order to the constable or
sheriff, as the case may be, directing
him to take into immediate posses
sion all of said property, or so much
thereof as shall be uecessaiy to sat
iafy the claimant's demand and
costs, and to sell the same under
the rules and regulations prescribed
by law for the Rale of personal prop-erty
under execution, and to hold
the proceeds of snch sale, subject
to the decision of the court upon
the issue or issues faiued between
the parties. That in all cases in
the Superior Court arising under
this act the return term shall be
the trial term.
SEC. 15. Any tenant, lessee of
land or cropper, aud any peison
who shall remove any part of said
Prom the Raleigh News.
-4 Revelation About the Bonds.
Gov. Holden in his card to the
public, published in the Constitu
tton of Oct. 20th, 1876, says, in de-fense
of himself lor issuing the
special tax bonds:
"And I will state further that
tho treasurer and iryself would
uot decide to issue any bonds until
we had gone belore the entire Su-preme
Court in informal session,
and ascertained from them, dis-tinctly
and clearly, what bonds
were constitutional and what were
not."
This is what Gov. nolden asserts,
in the hope of shifting from bis
shoulders on to the Supreme Court
'he responsibility of the issuance of
the special tax bonds.
Now, let us see what the Supreme
Court says on the subject.
Chief Justice Pearson was sum
moned before the Shipp Fraud
Commission in 1871, (Nov. 14,) to
give evidence in regard to the spe-cial
tax bonds. The following
question was propouuded to his
Honor:
"Question 2 Was there any con-sultation
between the Justices or
either ol them, as to which bonds
should be declared uncoustitntional,
or for any other purpose connected
with the University Railroad ease7"
Judge Pearson submitted the fol-lowing
reply in writing :
"In reply to the secoud question
there never was any consultation
between the Justices and Gov.
Holden or Treasurer Jenkins, as to
which bonds should be declared
unconstitutional, or any consulta-tion
connected with the University
Railroad cuse."
This reply was duly sworn to and
subscribed before the Uou. W. M.
Shipp, chairman of the Commis-sion,
as will be seen by reference to
the "Report of the Commission to
investigate charges of Fraud and
Corruption, under Act of Assem-bly,
session, 1871-72, p. 488."
These two contradictory state-ments
raise a direct issue of veracity
between Chief Justice Pearson and
Gov. Holden. There
from it.
This is a revelation of deep im-portance.
It places the Republican
party ot North Carolina iu a very
serious predicament: and they may
take either horn of the dilemma
they pie tse.
is 710 escape
The Statement of Rev. C.
Bailey Confirmed.
WHO KILLED~STEPHENSf
THAT COIL OF HOPE.
The Holden-Kirk War Policy.
Rev. Thos W. Babb, of Gates
county, the author of the following
card, is one of the most brilliant
and promising ministers among the
Baptists of Eastern North Carolina.
He is a self made man, of unblem
ished reputation, and one one the
moat popular of all the ministers
of the Chowan Association, by far
the largest and most influential
body of Baptists in the State. A
few months ago he was called to
the pastorate of the Baptist Church
in Newbern, but was unable to au
cept. The Rev. Mr. Bailey knows
nothing of the publication of this
card, being absent from the city.
Mr. Babb gives it to the public in
the interest of justice and truth
Here is what Mr. Babb says •
Editors of the News :
I was introduced to Gov. Holden
on the cars between Raleigh and
FayetteviUe, on my way to the
Baptist State Convention, (Nov.
1872,) and had a very pleasant con-versation
with him. I was pleased
with him and he seemed pleased
with me. During the seseion ot
the Convention he invited me to
dine with him at Judge Buxton's,
residence, took dinner and returned
in a cariage to the church.
Daring most of this time the top
ic of conversation was the political
record of Gov. Holden of which he
spoke freely, and confessed bis re
gret for having allowed the interests
of bis party to sway his better
judgment, and declared that he
was forever done with politics. He
said that the Kirk war was forced
upon him by unwise and unsafe
counsellors; that Kirk was uot the
man of bis choice, but came so re-commended
that he could do nothing
but appoiut him to the commando!
the troops; that the whole thing
was against his better judgment
and he regretted that he had acted
as a partisan and not as a Christian.
He said the murder of Stephens
was for political effect, and his
murderers were thought to lie of
his own party. He spoke of the
rojie found on the neck of the mur-dered
man, and the rinding of the
coil from which it was cut as likely
to elicit evidence unlavorable to
parties who were supposed to be
friends of Stephens.
THOS. W. BABB.
Gatesville, N. C. Oct 18, '76.
Card from Pool. CoL
HON. THOMAS SETTLE ARD MT8ELV.
EDITORS SENTINEL:—Whatever
my sins have been, I have frankly
confessed them to the party ag-grieved
; have sincerely, I trust,
repented of fliem; and made all
the restitution in my power at pres-ent
to make; and yet, if there is a
guiltless man in North Carolina
who feels any gratification at throw-ing
stones at my defenceless head
let him do so, and I will submit to
the infliction with such patience and
resignation as I may be able to com-mand.
But when men, deeply dyed
in guilt, persistently and continu-ously,
day by day, denounce me be-fore
assembled thonsands of the
citizens of North Carolina—citizens
whose fair fame it has been my
pride ever to uphold, in defence of
whom I have sacrificed time and
means (trom these sacrifices have
come all my woes,) and whom I
have never willingly wronged in
word, thought or deed—longer for-bearance
cease to be a virtue, and
I may be permitted to say a word
in reply, if not in self-defence.
While I will not write a line to
defend my conduct, I will affirm
that not one dollar of any fund at
my disposal went to the enrichment
of myself or of any one connected
with me; not one cent was spent
in any vicious practice, or on per-sonal
or family extravagance; but
that every dollar was expended in
the vain effort to build up a maga-
If Hnlden's statement be true,
what do we find f The Supreme
Court secretly conniving with the
Executive of the State, and giving
their opinions on the constitution-ality
of millions of bonds, con-ceived
in sin aud born in corrup-tion.
To appreciate the flagrant nature
of t'.iis conduct, as alleged by Hol-den.
we have but to bear in mind
the fact, that the Supreme Court
has no right to advise the Governor
01 Treasurer of the State as to the
con ititnliouality or uncoustitntioii-aly
ol any act of assembly. In the
language ol Justice Rodman, "the
Constitution has wisely seperated
the judicial from the political de-partments
of the government. The
sole duty ol the Judges is to decide
controversies between parties con-cerning
their rights under the law,
and in the case of the Justices of
the Supreme Court, this duty is
limited to such casts as come before
that court on appeal." See opin-ion
in reply to resolution of Geuer-al
Assembly as to tenure of office—
64, X. C, p. 703. Of the sameopin-iou
were Justices Reade and Settle,
they with Rodman J., constituting
a majority of the Court. Justice
Reede says, "At the last session of
your honorable body, a like request
was made lor our opinion in regard
to the Homestead, aud we then de-clined
to give our opinion, for rea-sons
which we then stated. I bad
supposed our action theu was deci-sive,"
&c—64.N. O. p. 791. It is
true that in that matter Pearson,
C. J., gave an opinion, in which
Dick, •'•• concurred; but they did
uot profess to give their opinions as
a Court, but only as individual
Judges.
II Won. Richmond M. Pearson
told the iiuth iu the matter, before
the Fraud Commission, then does
Gov. Holden, the calumniator of
Zebulon B. Vance, stand before the
public convicted by the sworn testimo-ny
nt the Republican Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of North Car-olina,
of WILFUL, DELIBERATE
FALSEHOOD.
Ohio.—We have not lost all inter-est
iu this State because the Radi-cals
carried it by some, 6,000 ma-joiity.
John G. Thomson. Chair-
Ma:! ol the State Democratic Com-mittee,
says:
"With an increased vote of over
thirty tbousand since last year, the
Republicans claim this State by a
majority of 6,500. We concede
lour to six thousand. Twelve Re
publicans, probably, and eight
Democrats certaiuly elected to Con-gress.
The Prohibition vote was
cast solidly tor Barnes. I have
positive evidence of a most lavish
and corrupt use of money by the
Republicans in purchase of votes.
Our people go into the Presiden-tial
fight full of confidence.''
From the St. Lonis Republican.
The Truth Coming to Light.
KELLOGG AND PACKARD CHARGED
WITH TUB COLFAZ MASSA-CRE
IN 1873.
New Orleans, October 4—Pitkin
qualified as United States Marshal
to day. E. n. Flowers,
(irant Parish, and formerl_
ing Radical there, has esiioused the
Conservative cause. In a speech
last night be charged Kellogg and
Packard with the responsibility of
the Colfax massacre in 1873. He
says Kellogg, by the advice of his
spiritual adviser, Packard, appoint-ed
in Grant Parish two sets ot offi-cers,
and told each of them to tuke
offices. Kellogg wanted a few ne-groes
killed to make his hold to the
usurped Gubernatorial chair a po-litical
necessity in the eyes of the
Northern people and Congress.
Ward and myself were to be
killed. Ward, another former lead-ing
colored Republican, who had a
band iu the Grant Parish affair,
and who espoused the Conservative
cause, made a speech. He said we
have endured a terrible govern- !
ment, for the past four years, known 1
as Kellogg's government, which is |
as corrupt aud rotten as sin. Re-ferring
to the Grant Parish matter, |
and being a member of the Legis ;
lature then. Ward says: Kellogg'
got up the fight by appoint ing two |
sets of parish officers, thus array
zine devoted to the North Carolina
and in vindication of her sons; and
: that 1 was involved in my troubles
before I was actually aware of my
condition.
I have no doubt my troubles have
been discussed by many republican
speakers and anonymous scribblers
-these I will dismiss with one
single remark—a child can as easily
cover Mount Mitchell with a thumb
piper, as radical speakers and
writers can hide their enormities,
peculations, frauds and crimes
against good government and civil
liberty by allusions to my short-comings.
Prominent among those who have
denounced me, aud in language
coarser than others, for the honor
able gentleman boasts that he al
wayscallsaspade aspade,stands the
republican candidate for governor,
the Hon. Thomas Settle, once
United States minister to Peru, and
recently (if not now) associate jus-tice
of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina. From February, 1871,
10 February, 1872, Judge Settle as
minister to Peru, drew 89,4o'J 71
salary, aud for at least five months
of that time he rendered no service
to the government. Ho pockets
$1,133 33, rendering no equivalent
service therefor, and justifies his
action with the reflection that other
prominent Republicans have done
the same; for to the victors belong
the spoils. (Pharisee like, search-ing
lor the mote 111 another's eye,
and losing sight of the beam iu his
own eye, he thanks God that he is
not like other men, and especially
that publican and sinner, Pool.)—
I With a few such experts at salary
I drawing, the treasury ot the United
I States would soon be as thoroughly
I " exhausted" as were the powers of
Judge Settle iu 1870, when he saw
his fellow-citizens, meu of the high-est
character, manacled, thrown
into filthy prison cells, their liber-ties
and lives at the tender mercy
ol the notorious Kirk and his lambs.
" Exhausted,'' theu Judge Settle
clothed with ample |>owers, as au
associate Justice ot the Supremo
Court, to prevent these outrages,)
folded his judicial robes around him
by conscut-to
his ever-ng
honor De it said !) asserted
the powers of an nn exhausted ju-dicial;,-
and saved the people ot the
State from further outrage, and
vindicated tin- majesty of the civil
law, trampled in the dust by armed
heels.
Now I venture to assert that
every dollar of my indebtedness to
the Peabody fund will have heeu
paid, long before tue honorable
judge returns to the state depart-ment
of the United Stales thai part
of his salary, as minister to Peru,
lor which he rendered no service.—
All I had has gone and will go to
the payment of my indebtedness;
aud the luture efforts of others will
be added to my own till every dollar
I owe is paid. Will the honorable
judge do as much to refund his over-drawn
salary !
Hew pure must be the record of
the democratic party of North Caro-lina,
when the unpremeditated lault
(or sin) of one of its bumble mem-bens
forms the chiet burden of the
es Marshal """" >"»j««'«'»' luueoui
colored, of '""' !!?"* ".r rH.t,hur "• b5
irly a lead- ; »'K, t'U Judge Ii,ooks(.o
..__—j »u. lasting be :
political song sung by radicals from
one euil of the State to the other;
„,u""V 1 and when il is relied on by there-mg
the factions agatnst each other, | ^y.^ caI1(lj(|ut(. for ti^ottwe of
governor, as the answer, and almost
the only answer to the terrible, but
true, bill ot indictment of radical-ism,
presented by Governor Vance.
In conclusion, there is one crime
ol great and overshadowing propor-tions
which cannot be truthtully
laid to my charge, tor the wilful
and deliberate commission of which,
the people of North Carolina will
and so distributed the appointments
that the whites were arrayed against
the negroes.
He says the trouble commenced
at Colfax with the two sheriffs that
Kellogg appointed with instructions
to go up there and raise a fight and
make political capital out of the
head negroes for tho party. The
white people with Kellogg's author-ity
came into Colfax to take posses-sion
of offices, and Shaw, the Re-publican
sheriff, summoned the
colored people to resist them ; so
white and colored people were
brought together in conflict and
many colored men were killed. It
was brought about directly by Kel-logg,
who planned the movement
and knew what the consequences
hold Judge Settle and the party
with winch he has acted responsible,
j so long as the memory of her events
•of the past eight years shall re-main.
It is the ciime of attempt-ing
to subject the white race of this
1 and other Southern States to the
; domination of the negro, in order
that these white leaders may be
elected to offices of honor aud
were going to be. Concluding, »' I profl[ wllica tliev know they could
says of Kellogg and Packard : It £ ^ ; any other way, having,
was their purpose to have seventy- ,. . > aM||atIOJ; Iorfel*t:
n.no colored meu killed tor the pur- | ^ tbe c(m|i(leuce 0, the^p^.
S. D. POOL.
1876.
nine uu.oreu m.-u ,„» .... »l- ; , th cou|ideuce 0
pose of gaining the support of the ; bJB 8ta[(.
>orthern people and sustaining >" u^,.:.!. 0ct -0
KKeelllloogggg as Governor of Louisiana. ^'e'B". "". _o,
I charge that Governor Kellogg
and S. C. Packard were the inveut-ors
of the murder aud plot, and
that they deliberately planned the
killing of these poor colored men
because Kellogg wanted to do some-thing
that would keep bim in his
seat as Governor, owing to the iu- |
A large Newfoundland dog in
I New London, Conn., has been
taught to hold up his mistress'
train when a muddy or dusty place
is reached.
A Cambridge, Mass., girl kept
tluence it would have on the people i the compny waiting for the wed-of
the North.
When the meeting adjourned.
Ward and Flowers were escorted
borne by a committee of white Dem-ocrats,
to protect them from the
Radical negroes who were iu wait-ing
for them in large numbers, in
the immediate neighborhood of the dros Island, Caliiorma, in the Sao
meeting. iJoaquin river.
ding till she made the groom sign
a written agreement to take her to
the Centennial.
A Factory for the manufacture
of sugar and syrup from watermel-lons
has been w<tabli»hed ou An-