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Day
31
Month
March
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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Fioin the N. Y. WmU, Murcli 20th. Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, arrived at the 8t. Nicholas Hotel, in this oity, op Sunday morning, from Washington. - Whiln in tluit city, Baturday, the (Soveraor callcd on President. Grant and asgured that tlistiiifiuislicd functionary that there wasnotruth Lntheexaggoratea statements about the Ku-Klux out ruges in Alabama. He said that there were violations of law there, as in other Statos North atíd South, but dcnins thut any political orgamEation exista thero for the parpose of perpetrating outragis as reportod. Some of the Sontbéra Btatea are (xisting under restrain+s imposed, in jadgntent of man; of the peoplc, Vjy iaterlopers and nnprinuicú men. But the nfflmfeer of disturbHiiices are small oompared vith the ïwwspapwreports. Besides, they are ontirely ■withiii the control of the civil authoritiea of the ftat-. If th(-y were not, and assumed a magnitude approaohing au inKurre(;tion orrevolutioin beyond the power of the State to control them, Governor LindKiy informed the Presideni that he ühould not 1h sítate to exercise liis privilege onder the Constitntiou of the Dnited States to ük fr Fcdcriil nirl. Governor Lindsa oonfttma tho telegraphio report in World oi Bunday that Jmdge Biohard Bustei, formerly fflf Iliis ciiv, now Jtidgeof theTJmtfil Statea District Oourt of Mobile, Ala., uls eallcd opon the President on Friday and asenred him that there was o occasion to entertain any foar whatevir rflativw to the aliility or dispositdoii of the authoiitisss ia Alabama - State, municipal, imd judiciary - to suppress projnptly all violations of law in tïiat StaAc. Judge Bustccd informed the Preódent ttutt tho utmost qnict. prvailed throughout Alalxuua ; tJrat hv. as;i known Jivrtht-iu lila, eeofddered fiimseif nor. feotly safe to go alone vrhere he plcasod, and when I in that Staf.'. Governor I.iiulsuy s:iys thnt )u' VU ftOcompanied upon lus visit to tli' President uatoi Spencer; that President Grani received him kindlj andaseured hún that be nu pleased to have snoh aasuroBosa frpm him (the GoTörnor) fchat Alábanla was in sucb a healthy ooadition, and hopod that nothing vrould occur roquiring the Governor to ask tor hú nssistaneo. Govomor Lindsay afterwards oall 9 opon Senator Sumner and stated to him the oonditilon oí' amünin Alabama. The Senator reoeivod Goyemor vcry cordially, nul expressed hia thanks f ar the inl tlio information. The interview was mutually pleasant. Governor Liadsay aftorwarda visitod Senators Chaudler, Ldgan and others, and made a similar expUination to thpm. He wil! rciii:iin in the city for some days to look aftor the interests of Alabama bonds;

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