The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-14
TENNESSEE.
Political TROUBLES Anticipated - Rebel
HAGred Of the FadeEal GOYerMmont.

Hatred of the Federal GOverMmoRt.
The New York Times correspondent writes
from Memphis, August 3, as folloWs:-
The indications are that we are to have trou-
BILE in Tennessee and throughout the South at
the Presidential election this iall The central
thought that inspired the great Rebellion was
the desire to control the blacks without the
danger OF hlndrapce or interference. The result
OF the conflict with the Federal Government was
SO disastrous that for time all hope OF great
ness by the absolute control of black labor was
abandoned; but the mildness shown in the treat
ment of Rebels and traitors, the sympathy ex-
pressed Tor them by the anti-war faction of the
Northern Democracy, the influence OF Brooks
aud others in Congress- and the course of Pres-
dent johnson, has given new hope, aud the
dominant faction OF the Southern conservatives
is to-day sanguine that they will attain the
objects of the great Rebellion without another
conflict with the General Government, Their
organs openly avow this, and at no time since
the war has the tone of eX Rebels been so
bitter and confident as at present. This will
be universally admitted by all Union meu in
the South. There was time when the eS-
Rebels were so cowed and quiet, SO satisfied
with having escaped conhscauon and tne
halter, so disposed to be law-abiding and or
ture were disposed to remove all political dsa-
bilites from them, but such is not the case now.
There are OF course many, perhaps majority OF
the ex-rebes, who are quiet law-abiding citizens,
but the dominant faction is inspired by worse
spirit and it not only Is not opposed by the
moderates, but very frequently has their secret
eympaCny. Inc UOu1Dalt faction Is Dlttcc IN lt6
hatred of the Federal Government and its hatred
OF Northern people. 1t is determined to get the
control OF the political affairs OF the South and to
bring the negro under some control not very un
like slavery of the olden time. From this alone
it anticipates Southern prosperity. This is the
key TO all the movements OF Southern Conser-
vatives. This is the cornerstone of all their
Democracy. They are sanguine-just as san.
guine as they were at the outbreak of the great
Rebellion. Blair, the Democratic candidate for
the Vice Presidency, assures them that the De-
mocratlc party of the North is with them in
pressing the rubbing out OF all free State Gov
ernment in the South, al the resembling of all
enactments that guarantee either personal or
political rights to blacks, and thus, backed by
the Democracy of the nation, they re-
eon3rol eSnt of the South 'nd drive oat
most outspoken Republicans, and gradually, by
terrorizing and State laws, virtually restore
slavery. Let no man in the North be too certain
that these mad dreams may not be realized. Let
no man be too sure that slavery may not be SO
far restored as to bring on wide spread anarchy
and another bloody civil war. IT may be war
% and s % eps 6Ge yes tn many @9n
Mississippi they have made q long stride in that
direction. There many blacks are now afraid
to leave the plantations of their employers, lest
they should be murdered, as many others have
been.
There is an active, widespread, but not nume-
ricaliy strong secret organizations in all the
Southern States. Where it started is un.
known; but it made itself manifest first, at
about the same time, in Mississippi, and in
Maury and Giles Counties OF this State. This
WAS about six months ago. Either members of
this secret order, or persons who adopt its dis
guises and practices, are now found in many
places prowling about at night, masked and
armed with deadly weapons. These gangs are
popularity designated as Ku-klux, but whether
this is the real name of the organi-
zation is unknown. Its members seems
to be the most reckless men who
served in the Rebel army, and who
hnlin hat hn nnfh nn1ry ha 10 %
prosper by the driving out of all white radicals,
ana getting the negroes under some form of
control by white men. To carry out the designs
OF the Southern leaders, the Ku-KluX have in
portions of this State, in Mississippi and in
Texas made perfect reign of terror. They
haves taken men from their beds, and either
whipped them cruelty for being radicals, or
have murdered them in cold blood. II the
perpetrators of such atrocities were not in all
cases KuKlux, they were at least persons who
had all the hate of Ku-Klux's to radicals. The
Ku-Klux go in gangs, masked and armed, and
this enables them, in most cases. to escape all
recognition and legal prosecution.