Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-04-08


There appears to be no longer any
doubt of the fact that the whole white
population of the South is becoming or
ganized for the basest of purposes. The
Kuklux Khan is reality scarce a night
passes but they prove this by murd ,rs
and robberies-the victims being blacks
or loyal whites. u
Occasionally one Of them-as young
Blair, of the vicinity Of Nashville--pays
dearly for yillainies committed; but
these are rare exceptions; the victims are
usually the innocent. .4t tn ..
The reason for this is obvious. The
Kuklux are organized--the loyalists are
not !; the KukIuz armed, too, often by
Enfield rifles stolen from returned Union
soldiers black and white--vhile the I'M
ion people are not; and, as result, there
is IMMUNITY for his second rebellion, for
it is nothing less. al, t-.-r .....s
y At frst,a the rebel press affected to
make merry of this movement; it was the
freak of few boys who wanted some re-
Lief from the monotony-- Ct labor, but
was all, they said. But
murders and robberies are rather serious
matters, and finally the fact of the exist
ence of the organization become we'll es.
tablished, aud double dealing was drop
ped, and row the Southern press as bold
ly proclaim it as they formerly did of the
/ Knights of the Golden Circle. ~
The Richmond Enquirer, of a late
date, says "that under its cap and bells it
hides purpose as resoute, noble and hero
]ic as that which Brutus concealed ben
cath the mask of well dissembled idiotcy."
ut is rapidly organized whel ever the
insolent negro. acknowledgement white traitor
to his race, and the infamous squatter are
plotting to make the South utterly unfit
for the residence Of the decent white man
b. It promises, we hope to bring into the
field, for the defense Of our lives, liberty
and property, hundreds of thousands Of
| those heroic, men who have been tried and
lndurated by the perils, dangers and snf-
gferings of military service. .'.' -
Ia We quote but one brief sentence in adj.
ditlon to the above:
! s''The first duty of a people whose lib
erty and property are menaced as ours
are by abandoned apostates greedy squat
tiers and insolent negroes, is to organize
with such promptitude and stern resolu.
ton as to strike terror into the guilty
souls Of the secret negro. societies and
their delegates in the Convention, and
the next will be lesson to those crimi-
nails which will teach them that the men
who, for, nearly four years, defed the
armies offs powerful Government, will not
submit to political outlawry and negro
4 squatter domination, and to dishonor and
degradation il. a hundred loathsome forms
in State which they have made famous
/ by their great and many virtues, and
where The white race has reigned supreme
since it was wrested fran the hat dis of a
people superior in every brave and manly
quality to those which God has branded
with marks of intellectual and hysical In
| feriority to all other races of men" |
We would add nothing to this. Il
needs DO comment; the words are the
words of two thirds of the white people
of the South, and it. will be well for the
loyal people of the nation to ponder them
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