Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-07

the hated and pestiferous carpet baggers,
with their concomitant evils of churches
and school houses, all disappear together,
the blacks ere remanded to their former
servile condition, and the Southern loyal
ist once more rules the South.
Through such election, even, our self
important politicians Of the South get
absolute control of the government itself,
and impose terms upon their former
despised and still hated foes. Southern
State governments are not only remod-
eled to suit their rebel leaders, but all
and every imaginable grievance of the
chiyalry is satisfied by the government a;
large.
The present Congress being an uncon.
stitutional body, such acts as are in con-
fict with Southern opinions are decided
null and void, while the so-called consti-
tutional amendments are repudiated by
the Southern States in general.
With such election, too, through admis-
sion of newly chosen Southern delegates
to Congress, and its const quent control
by the Democracy, comes remuneration
to the people at the South for all losses
incurred at the hands of the General Gov
ernment during the rebellion-such losses
to include not only the vast amount OF
property destroyed and taken for the
support Of the armies, but also pay for the
slaves freed by the war.
To prove that this last preposterous
claim is actually entertained at the South,
with expectations of final payment,
through success of the Democracy, it is
simply necessary to state fact that can
not be denied: that throughout many
sections of the South correct and certified
! statements are kept by the planters of all
slaves so lost, ready for registering when
J the proper time shall arrive. That belief
| and faith is entertained in not only the
l., justness of such claim but certainty of its
payment, in case of the Democracy once
more being in lfhe ascendancy, is well
known to all residents at the South.
These and many other insane ideas
and calculations have been and still are
based upon the election of Seymour and
Blair, and rebel hopes have been raised
to pitch thereby that, reckless and des-
perate, will stop at no means that prom
ises success to themselves, or ruin to Re-
publican control. Here in Tennessee
their hopes Of carrying the State ia the
interest of their pet candidates, through
outrage and intimidation Of all promi-
nent whites and obnoxious blacks, has
met decided check through the pass age
Of stringent laws against the Ku Klux
organization, and an act calling out a
suitable force of militia for their enforce
ment.
The promise of the President also to
place body of troops in Tennessee un-
der discretionary control of that old hero,
Gen. Thomas, to aid in enforcing the
laws of the State, has been serious blow
to the rebel Democracy.
Though their hopes are thus apparently
doomed to certain defeat, they are still
far from giving up the ship On the con-
trary, rendered desperate at impending
failure of their revolutionary designs,
though held in check somewhat through
fear of the effect of their actions upon
the loyal North, outrages of all kinds are
almost constantly heard of in every di-
rection.
At Pocahontas, on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, few days since, a
colored man, upon mere suspicion OF
theft, was most numerically whipped.
Another colored man made some remarks
about it not pleasing to the chivalry.
The next morning found both Of them
missing. One was afterward found sus-
pended to tree. The other, though not
found, must have met the same fate, as
several known Ku Klux in town were
heard to say "he would tell no tales.
At Whites station, on the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad, but ten miles
from Memphis. colored man named
Frank White was pulled out of bed and
ordered to leave town or he would be
hung, and threatened with the same fate
if be returned. This mans crime was
having complained of some Of the chiv-
airy who tied him up and whipped him
as in chivalrous times of old.
At station of the same name on the
Memphis and Charleston railroad, few
miles out, the cabin of colored man
named Isaac Cooper was surrounded by |
some eight or ten of these masked Dem
ocrats, who ordered him to come out.
Creeping cut the back way he broke for
the woods, the whole gang giving him q
velley as he ran. Luckily he got into
the woods'with but one ball, and that 10
his thigh, and in that condition made his
way iato town, where of course he re-
mains
Near the same place lives white man,
an old resident OF ffteen years, who, for |
daring 10 act as chairman of a Radical
meeting, has beeH sc. threatened that for |
the past three weeks he has come into
town nightly to sleep, not daring to re-
main among his own Deighbors during
the night
Through various sections Of our own
county, up to the very suburbs ofthe city
itself, gangs of from. six TO fifty Of these
ardent Democrats are riding in some
direction almost nightly, in full uniform,
arousing the blacks aud threatening them |
with the direst vengeance If they do not
at once join some Seymour and Blair
club. and committing outrages OF various
kinds From every direction, in fact.
similar reports are almost daily coming
in.
In Northern Alabama the ku-klux
campaign for Seymour and Blair has
been insugurated with the same species
Of tactics as in Arkansas and Georgia.
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