The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-10-01
ME MAsSRcRE 1N GRoRGIA.

PV'"uPs WoIo PIOPef' lIHmeuIulely dIleL
the apostacy of Andrew johnson, we
have had inIimalibns that there were be.
ing organized throughout the Southern
States, clans Of men, whose oaensibIo
purpose was aud is to terrify into sub.
mission 10 rebel rule and domination,
the loysl element of those States, and
TO remand again intp bondage The freed.
men Of the South. Democratic papers
and Copperheud stump orators it is true,
deny that there exists any such an or
ganizaliOn, with any such designs, but
acts speaker louder than words. Not o
paper that issues from the press, lex.
cept it be from the rebel Democratic
press,) but lhst details some horrible
bulchery, committed by the Ku Klux
Democracy, 10 one or more sections Of
the Rebel States. Men, women and
children, alike have been, and are being
the outraged and murdered victims of
these desperadoeS, these midnight as
sassins, these treason covered Clans,
these bloody handed traitors, these ven
omous reptiles Of the Democratic parry,
'ha: cheer for Seymour end Blair and
huri their bitter invecliyes and foul de-
nunciaiiOns against the true loyal men
of the country. And the record shows
that the negro is not the only object Of
these rebels hatred, for we have il from.
an official report of the conduct of these
men in the State Of Tennessee, that from
The fist day Of July, 1867 to the first
day Of July, 1868. 10 murders were
comm tilted and out Of that number there
were only II blacks killed. whit 1863
Of the willie population had their lives
cruelty, and for no other reason under
heaven, but because Of their devotion 10
the cause Of Liberty. the government AMI
equal and exact justice, taken from
them by clan of bloody traitors
And, is this all? Would to God it
were. Whatdo we hear from Georgia?
We hear that one Of the most foul, vi,
cious, deyiish end unjusIifable whole
sale slaughers has been committed, that
ever dsgraced the pages of history, upon
defenceless and harmless asscmbloge
OF the citizens of the State. that had
como together for the purpose of hear
Jog the political questions in which
they were all interested, discussed,
hOrmiug no one, nor intending harm to
no one; and while thus presuming to en-
JOY the rights Of American citizens, and
without any provOcalion whatever, on
their part, we're set upon by an armed
mob of this Ku Klux Democracy, Qor ev
cry man in the murderous mob, was
Democrat, and we're shot down like wild
beasts, Let US here remark that it By
no means lessons the deep. damnable
crimina!ty Of the act. 10 say that they
were negroes, for we assert, that any
man, whose heart is so corrupt and de,
based, so lost 10 all the dictates of blu
mauity, as 10 be guilty of such an out
rage upon peaceable assembuge Of col
ored men, will do the same with white
men, and the facts in this case will JUS
lily what we say. And We say shame
upon the man, and 10. his name forever
perish from the annals oil human records,
who will utter the language, that they
were only negroes" Humanity might
we'll weep tears Of blood over such an
obduratO heart as that. Go away thou
monster! Human associations. however
rePulsiVe and degraded are too good for
such f. only for the undefnable desc.
lslious Of that empire where Jehovah
only frowna, AMI where every spark that
tends 10 the remotest sense 10 make US
men, is swept away.
But, what will tho government do?-
Is there no protection Tor the liberties
of the people? Is mob law to bo the
order of the day? Arc American citi.
zens 10 be murdered in this wOy-nur-
dercd in cold blood, aud for no crime,
and no government to which TO appeal
for proieclionl Great God is This Amer.
lean liberty? Is this the liberty for
which General Washington and the
heroes Of the revolution Fought
I! SO, then ii is farce, and the sooner
we are undecOived the better. But We