The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-23

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We never see any announcement of
these X, X. X. parades. but we are
filled with modification at the folly Of
our people in encouraging them, even
by their silence. II our Southern peo-
pie wish the Radicals to elect their
President, let them get up such things
from this time until the Presidential
election and make them believe that
mysterious violence is the fate of every
negro or white man, whose views do
not chime in with the prevailing senti.
ment Of the people in any particular
neighborhood Of our region.
And there is truth, whether agreea.
bic or disagreeahle, in every word Of
the following from the New York Ex.
press;
WHITE OR BLACK SECRET SOCIETIES.
The Ku Klux Klan, so called. is said
to be secret organization Of Whites,
Soulll.-in opposition, we may adm, to
the Negro Secret Societies, South, or.
ganized by Northern office seeking
white men. settling there, to use the
negroes to be elected to office. The
Republican papers Of the North, while
patronzing end favoring the Black Sc
cret Societies bemoan the existence Of
the Ku Klux (Whitc) Klan.
Let us think over this. Secret So
cieties are the natural offspring, and in
cvitubie results Of Dcspotism. Military,
Political. or Social. When the recon.
structon acts created Military Despot-
isms in the South, they, also, by a law
of nature, created Secret Societies in
opposition. A Despo.ism such as are
the Five Military Monarches, or an
OIigarchy Of negroes, such as is sprin.
ling from them in Tennessee, necessa.
riv, and by law ofhuman exist. nee.
brings into being Secret Organizations
against them and the more rapidly,
as Negro Secret Societies are orsani.
zrd on one side, must White Secret
Societies be organized on the other.
And these opposite organizations,
founded mainly upon race, and the diff.
fereul phl steal organizations Of man,
necessarily lead to collisions They
who createl these Military Despotisms
must have known all this, or ought to
have known it all--for it is a law of
human nature, written ont in all histo-
ry, from the foundation of the world.
The men who are responsible for these
"klans,' white or black, are CONGRESS.
MEN, and Congress is the Father and
creator of them all. The determine
ton Of Congress to destroy this as a
Repubic,--as Il SELF GOVERNMENT aud
as Il Government of the Constitution
and Laws,-and to substitute therefor,
Il GOVERNMENT of SOLDIERS for the time
beng, to be followed BY all Oligarchy
of negroes, was q practical,--f not an
intended, determination to create
"Klans," &c. &c to resist these Mill.
tary Despotlsms, and these Negro Oil
yarchies. The same Congressman must
nave also determined to keep up stand.
Ing armies there. to keep up these Des-
potisms and these OiigarchIes, and to
impose Taxes upon us of the North
and West to pay for these stan ling
armies. In all ages, AMI at all times,
and in all possible ways,--man, (God
50 created him, will conspire against,
and resist these despotisms, and these
Oligarchies, s,-sometimes. by open war,
at other times, by "Kians," conspira-
cirs, DC.
Oar race Of English and Irish blood
has been to u great extent educated in
sell-G"vernment, and it will never res.
)ect any other. The Irish have been
n rebellion for four hundred years,
against British Military Government,
and will be, if kept under it, four
hundred years more,--ior even while
living under English institutions, they
have been only the more educated to
love srlf.Government. Hence, this
imposition upon lis, SaXons or Celts,
Of Military Government, or Negro OH.
yarchiac Government. is an imposition
always to be resisted and never to be
respected. The only question prudent
men will ever put is, vhen, and how, to
be ressted-and this is to be deter.
mined hy place, power and opinion,--
SO that the curse of the conqucror be.
comes everlasting Taxation. and op-
preston Of himself, to govern the con-
quered.