New-York tribune., 1868-10-08
TILE NEIH REEEL[LON.

There was, some years ago, IN luuld u iliDc
since put down by the strong hand of the Gov
eminent The hereditary business Of this
Oriental Ku-Klux Klan WAS homicide, and rob
berry was its constant recreation. 1t waylaid
unsuspccting travellers, and having knocked
them on the head, or stranged or stabbed
them, it concluded by rilling their carpet-bags.
These pleasing professors Of the Fine Art of
Murder, although extremely enthusiastic, and
even fanatcally devoted TO their trade, did
not publish a newspaper; and IN this respect
the Thugs of Alabama are rather IN advance
of their Eastern prototypes, being, indeed, the
first organization Of banded murdercrs in the
world which has arrived at the dignity
of an organ. The Tuscaloosa (Ala) Noai-
tor (R Randolph, Editor is a curiosity
in its way, and is just the journal
which the East Indian Thugs w"sld have
printed, if they had printed any journal at all.
We must premise of this agreeable sheet that
it proudly bears the names Of Blair and Sey-
mour at the head of its homicidal and iucen-
diary columns. 1t openly ayows that should
these persons be elected TO the places for
which they have been nominated 10y the
Democratic Convention, the work of whole
sale lynchiDg at the South will begin. In or
der that there may be 40 mistake about the
methods TO be employed CAS- the editor is
pleased to say) on the Fourth of March, 1862"
The Monitor gives n rude wood engraving in
which two carpCt-baggcrs' are represented
suspended hy the neck from n tree, with the
legend, Hang. ours, hangw The genial Ran
dolph adds: "The Unprecedented reaction Is
moving onward with the swiftness of IA velo-
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"the crash Of an avalanche, sweeping negro
ism from the face of the earth. The happy
day of reckoning with these whte-cuticc
"scoundrels approached rapidly. Each and
"cvery one who has unblushngly essayed
:" to lower the Caucasian to degree even be-
"neat the African race, will be regarded rs
"hOstis sui 0eReris, and be dealt with accord
"ingly, if found hereabout when the time is
"ripe for action" The Monitor is good enough
to give us a particular description of the
moduS Operandi as follows:
We candldly believe that the picture given to our
readers m supra, correctly represents the attitude and
shall have the folly 10 remain down South after tho
ides Of March The contract for hanging VIII be given
10 the negro, who, having mounted the carpet-bagger
and scaawag on the mule that he didn't draw at the
elections, viii Tie them to mb and, leading the said
that he also didn't GET Will leave the vagabonds high In
Sit viii be seen that there Ia room left on the limb
for the suspension OF any bad Grant negro who may DO
found at the propitous moment"
After this exhiarating description, which is
very much aided by the wood-cut above men
toned, The Monitor calls the public attention
to "a Scalawag Justice of the Peace named
"A. II. Sealy of IIickmans Beat" who has
discharged rascally negro from custody
and suggests that Sealy and Jack (the negro
"discharged) be turned over to the merces of
"a Ku-Klux Klan, or some other good society
protectOrate." This mild hint to n band of
bravOs to commit only couple of murders
comes it must ,be remembered, from sheet
enthusiastically devoted to the election of
Horatio Seymour, and which proposes after his
Inauguration, on the 4th of March prox to
hang without judge or jury all Republicans,
including "any bad Grant negro who may be
"found at the propitious moment"
In order to prove that these ru1ians are per-
fectly capable of executing the atrocities
which they recommend in a public journal, it
is enough to show. by their own exultant con-
fessions, that they have already executed the
like. Thus, The Monitor says: Five notori-
"ously bad negroes were found swinging by
"the necks to limbs in the woods of Colbert
"County, few days since They had been
"quilfv of making threats against the WhiteS.'
If threats were capital onense pray how
long would "R. Randolph, Editor" escape
strangulation.9 Here is another specimen OF
The Monitors persuasive ways:
"sealawag Cloud Of Montgomery, and carpet.bagger
akin of Nowhere arrived here Thursday Cloud the
Radical Jockey comes as trainer oI lhkn, the negro
loving inckass The one Is long slim creature OF lhe
griT Kind; the other stout, pui5y reptile the genus
bqlr0eltn Both would mako hrstatc henp sltelchels.
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