The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-18
ORGANIZED ASSASSINA TION.
The Rebel General E. w. Rucker An
the Plot.

From the Memphis Post of Saturday.
The speeches of General Forrest and the
leaders of General Pike, threatening every white
Republican with assassination, have been pre-.
sented IN these columns. General E. W. Rucker,
late of the Rebel army, in public speech TO the
Young Mems Independent Democratic Club last
evening, announced the bloody organization and
intent of the Rebels still more explicitly and
clearly. We have the reports of his speech as
given by the Rebel morning paper, SO that it
cannot be said that we exaggerate anything.
The appeal says:-
Gen kucker made very sensible, business
talk, and said some things which struck the
nail on the head exactly. He warned the in
famous scoundrels in our midst who are striving
to excIIe and stir up the evil passions of the
ignorant masses aud array the negroes and
whites in deadly hostility to each other, inau-
gurating carnival of blood and horror-he
warned them that watch was upon them and
their houses. Not an action or word escapes
a sleepless eye-one set to preserve the peace II
possble-but if it is broken, to avenge every
drop of blood that is spilled upon their worth
less carcasses. They had better heed the
warning"
The Aualdnche reports him as speaking as
iollows:-'It seemed to be the determination to
precipitate a revolution in Tennessee. There is
every indication of it; and there was nothing
which promised anything else. If it be the de.
termination to precipitate revolution IN our
midst, what is our duty? 1t we kick up war,
it will be called by the old name of Rebellion.
Submit to every thing? The more you submit,
the more they will crowd you. You couldn't
uOURe IL. III VIII De sure 10 come. w neu Tue
time comes, and you can submit no longer.
your duty will be plain. The white leaders
poison the minds of the negroes, who, / am
informed, are drilled every night. This means
mischief. 1t is enough to startle you and make
you think. Don't blame the negro. Give him
every right. l have never been STAKEHOLDER,
and always believed our country would
have been better off without slavery, and
was sort of emancipati0nist. But there
are men melting the Aegroes in this city
to disorder and trouble; expect to get him into
difficulty, and then run Of to stir up strife in
the North. These men teach to negroes incen-
diary acts, and expect to run Off. They shall
not get away. | am no Ku-Klux-do not know
an ything about them: but If to respect the Con-
stituton and to seek the enforcement of the
laws, as old John Bell advised and to vote for
Seymour and Blair meant Ku-Klux, he was not
averie to being considered one. He proposed
nothing to disturb the peaceful elements of
ciety. He desired that they should endure while
men could endure. They had great stake to
play for, and must exercise all the patience of
firm resolute men. But of one thing they
should be resolved, that the meters of sedition,
the stimulators of all the bad passions of the
ignorant masses, whom they cunnugly mani
puate, shall not succeed in accomplishing their
devillsh work, and get out of Wn. OF this
they may be as well assured as that the sun rises
and sets ~