The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-04-15
Treason.

= t.rrg. ~ Treason.
d The following from the Richmond Whig
shows that the Ku-Kiux-Kan is far from
being myth, but that it is secret military
s organization. Not only is it thoroughly or
b ganized, but it has enrolled thousands and
thousands of rebel desperatoes, who are
, ready whenever they deem it prudent to do
so, to begin their work of assassination and
d arson. Such an organization of murJerers will
be Of short duration in country of law and
order, where the great heart of the peo-
pie ,throbs with loyalty to the government.
5 Let men beware how they allow themselves
to be seduced into treason. Treason must
be made odious ..5
, The Richmond Wing has an article pur.
porting to be history of the Ku. Klux Klan,
+. which order it describes as "political
: white league which seems simultaneously to
have found a foot,hold in every State of the
South" The Wing says its outlandish
name is not of American origin. nor the
whim of an ingenious wag, g,but like the order,
originated in China, among the foreign mer-
chants engaged in smuggling opium into
that empire and was introduced into the
United States by Humphrey Marshal on his
return from that country, when he became
member. On his return he and some frields
met and organized the order in room 81
Browns Hotel" not dreaming of its being
afterwards changed into an organization to
control the politics of the South. In adapt
ing the organization to political purposes
Il - I, - I a..
lures not of the same secret character as its
original lnitiatory rites. These can be kept
secret or disclosed as policy may dictate :
For instancen no Lang, (they now call it KIan,)
can have over $500 members, over which
there is a chief, who is assisted by a deputy,
who, in case of his absence. death or resign
alton. takes his place. For every 500 men,
bers there is a sub officer; for every 100
captain; for every so lieutenant, and for
every 20 segeant. The chief receives his
orders from the organization and the sub
aterns from him. All orders have to be
strictly obeycd or the infliction of the sever
est punishment follows The Wing claims
for the order in three wards of Richmond
membership of over 1000, with 700 appli-
cants waiting admission-two wards not
heard from. Only ablc-bodicd white men
are received into, the order, and candidates
are rejected if not of manly stature.
The Alabama State Sentinel says:
We could fill each number of our paper
with accounts of outrages perpetratcd by the
atrocious KukluX clans. Scarcely an ex-
change in the Rebel States but furnishes
new cases. Last Friday these infamous
wretches set fire to and burned down the
courthouse at Eutaw. On Sunday last cor
oner Delehamp of Mobile held an inquest on
a German shoemaker found dead, another
victim of the Kuklux Klan. On the same
day he held another inquest upon an Indian
woman, near Mobile, whom some of this
Khan had drowned in Three Mile Creek On
Saturday night two of them, disguised as
soldiers, waylaid and robbed Mr. H. NJ Gaz-
zom while walking fri m street Car to his
house. There is no conceivable outrage but
they are daily committing, and the sooner
the military authorities, in conjunction with
the loyal civil, destroy the Kuklux, root
and branch, the better for those States. We
advise all loyal citizens to 90 armed at all
times and shoot them down like mad dogs
1t will be a. Gods mercy to extirpate the
Klans, composed as they are of. the vilest
dregs and sans culote of the community
Editors and publishers who hound on the
wretches, ought to be hung and quartered.
We want few Turchins to shut their eyes
and tell the boys to scatter, tear and slay the
last of the Kuklux devils