Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-05-06
THE KLUX KLAN.

What are the meaning of these words !
The New York Herald says they mean
"Ihe White Mans Band" There is an
association under that title in the South,
but the same paper declares that 1t IS not
confined % that section, and that It extends
from Maine to California, numbering 700,-
600 men. 1t is veIy certain to our minds
that the Ku Klux principle has been opera
ting in the cities of the North, and that
working men have combined upon it. What
but hostility to the negro doctrines has up.
set such places as Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
Williamsport, Altoona, and recently Chica-
GO? These were strougholds of Radical
ism, but the boue and sinew. it is well
known, have formed combination which
brought down the Radical party and set
up the Democrats. What produced that
mighty change in Michigan few weeks
ago? A State, Radical by 10000 MAORI.
ty, voted down Constitution because of
the negro doctrines incorporated in it,
by 10000 majority. What doubled the
Democratic majority in Connecticut 2
1t is Ku Klux. The White Man s Band.
Such associations will spring up where
tyranny reigns. They have done SO in
all ages and in all countries. And why
not North and South Think of it,
States are to be negroized; or rather are
negroized. There is the fact staring the
world in the face. In the South, negroes
are voters, negroes are jnrymen, negroes
are squires, negroes are members of the
Legislature. And that internal Bureau,
organizes negroes into Leagues, and causes
hateful black despotiSm over the proper
ty, civil rights, lberties and lives of mil
lions of white American citizens. Soon
the North will be made to share the fruits
of this policy, for nigger Congressman
will appear from the South and claim to
sit side by side with the white members
in the Capitol at Washington. Go to
that city now visit the Senate and House
and see the dirty lounging nig9ers filling
the galleries Yes, Yes, let the ku Kluxes
be formed all over the South and the
North. What has Hickman, Broomal,
Kelly, Stevens, Wade, Summer, others
advocated? Why the niger doctrines,
in their most degrading form. The Work
ing men of the North, in its cities, have
heard the threats Of the Radical gentle
men, and are aware of the fate that is in
store for them and their families here at
home. They must, eat, sleep, vote in
company with the niger. If there are
not societies everywhere in the North of
the Ku Klux klan, there ought TO be, and
soon will be. THE White Mans Band, "
that is the antidote to tyranny, taxation,
plunder and nigger equality. The Kluxers
are not windy speakers, grubbiHg logicians,
or platform makers. They are men of
action. The great West will soon have
a complete organizations Of the kind
And now white men of the Atlantic States,
both in town and country,-why not
enter into this grand organization, which
the New York Herald assures US, numbers
100000 men, and extends from Maine to
California 1t will be the thunder storm
to clear our political atmosphere of the
fogs of niggersm. 1t will send to their
graves the miserable scoundrels who wish
to govern and Oppress the country through
a degrading fanaticism. 1t will restore to
the American People, peace, prosperity
and UDion.-Jefers9nian.