Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-05-01

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pEATH 10 THE RESEeADEsr
Lightning CrAg, Midnight Hour.
Sachenas: The time ia propitious for the
fal6lnent Of the bloody vow. and the hour
draweih nigh when the shafts Of vengeance
must be hurled at the heads Of loaihsome
traitors. The gaunt speetrss Of our dead
chisfs, cry aloud for vengeance. and the
vampires Of our country must be sx.ermiaa-
ted. Strike quick and sharp, and let their
carcasses fatten the land which they would
wrest from ~. A hecatomb of lives must be
offered up to Appeass the wrath Of ths Great
Spirit. Traitors, prepare for your dooml
Tennesseeans, q. s. -
Ku-Klux Khan Wigwam, z 900, ZAZ, WV.
The grotesque and mysterious placards
| would " merely laughable, if they did not
conceal designa and practices the most dan
gerous and criminal, ast as balls and .fetes
during the first French Revolution masked
the bloody tragedies of the Reign Of Terror.
1t is a notable fact that wherever these snig
matisal manifestoes appear, the threats in
them are soon after signalizsd by some out>
rage Of fpeculiar atrocily, committed by psr>
sons wearing disguises, evidencing that there
is concerted action and sys.enatical plan
of operations in assaulting the lives and de-
stroying the property Of such cirizens as have
become, by their avowed Union sentiments,
obnoxious to their rebel neighbors.
Notwithstanding the indisputab!e evidence
that dangerous secret political organiza-
| ton does exist, aad in spite Of the fact that
its reasonable and aggressive operations
| have been so hagiant as to obtain the closest
| sognizaacs from the military authorities, al
mos; universally the reconstraeted newspa>
pers either scout the idea Of the Kian's ex-
istenee, or boldly justify its iniluitous pro-
ceedings. We Gull the following comments
from the Southern press:
Il In all seriousness, we assert the opinion.
that this organization is The natural growth
Of these dieordered times, destined to ertead
to erery Southern city aud tora, for violence
and wrong beget violence and wrong. We
sisting in humiliating and insulting Southern
whites, to be careful in future, and rsmsn-
Der the fate Of the tiger, Robespierre. In
that which has been. behold that which will
be, and there is no new thing snder the
sun. ."-Nerman Ca. Herald
"The Ku-klux have not made their ap>
pearanse. SO far as we know, in West Tenn>
esses. Their operations. we believe, has
been confined to Middle Tennesses, where
their mission has been 10 look afier horse
thief or two, and murdercr, and to scare mig
gers ~ this bilious dealer IN contra band
quinine and dissiliers Of "coil lag" faise>
hoods. s."-Nemphis Aroldnckes
the orcanixers of secret negro leegp.s sar
The spoi,atien. derradstion and on,isvrv of
our hest citizens Are trembling IN she;r sboes
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