Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-19
Indiana Ku-Klux.

The Indiana Ku.Klux are known SIM
ply as a mob. They are not called
"rebels" in that "loil' State, nor their
acts regarded as rebel outrages. The
New Albany Commercial calls on the
Governor to suppress revolution as fol-
lows:
If omen and armed resistance to and
violation of law constitutes revolution,
then there is a revolution now in progress
in Jackson county; for in that county
law has been spurned and justice deted,
by an armed mob of two or three hum
bred men, whose acts of violence In the
past nine or ten months have been OF the
most fragrant and murderous character.
| In no other part of the West has the law
ever been SO insultingly dehed.
| In December last, two men, accused OF
| crime. we're taken out Of the Brownstown
| iail by mob, and hanged. Recently a
norton of this same mob went to the resi-
depce of an old man near Rockford, who
had fallen under their suspicion, took him
| from bis bed, hanged him up and cut
him down three different times, in order
TO extort a confession from him, and the
last time be was cut down they left him
in a state of stupor from which he never
recovered, but died in half an hour after
his barbarous torturers left his premises.
And still more recently six men, ac-
cused of robbery, have been taken from
the officers of the law by force, and
hanged until they we're dead. And later
still. the news comes to US that another
man. also accused of crime, was seized
by this mob on Friday night, and hanged
unon a tree not far from Brownstown.
Here are ten cold -blooded murders COM
mitted by this mob of Jackson county
iayhawkers in less than nine months
murders in the frat degree, within the
full meaning of the law.
The Jackson County Mob has regu-
lar organization. We are told it is com
posed Of three "riugs," or distinct clans.
The inner ring" is the one that selects
the victims and passes speedy sentence
upon them, without, however, arraign-
ing. them or examining their side of the
question. These are the Star Cham.
her" chaps==the bloodiest villains of
them all. The second Hring" 10 com.
posed of the execntioners-the men who
seize the victims, fasteu the ropes about
their necks, and then draw them up and
leave them suspended from the limb of q
tree. The third ring" is made up Of
" elaouers," fellows Of the baser sort, who
do The blowing and gassing for the first
and second rings -" set up" jobs for
them, and swear ronudly thst ell they do
is right.
II is said that the inner ring" Of this
mob is composed of the best citizens
Of Jackson county" If this be true,
God pity the worst. The idea of good
citizen engaging in Wholesale murder is
perfectly preposterous. The idea OF a
GOOD citizen engaging IN the most fla
grant violations of lav-indeed, utterly
setting the law at defance-is absurd.
The men engaged in this mob are muir
derers-nothing more and nothing less.
There is no telling where the outrsges
of this bloody mob may end. On Fri
day il prostituted the telegraph wires to
it's purposes, and in a long dispatch TO
the Associated Press most scandalously
libeled Hon. Jason B Brown, Of Browns
town, because as an attorney be accepted
a fee to defend q man accused of rob
berry, and used his legal knowledge in
behalf Of the man when on trial
Governor Baker, as the executive oi
the State, owes it to the honor OF the
State, the majesty of the law, and the
safety Of the citizens to suppress this
revolutionary mob, for it is nothing less
than a revelation on q small scale that il
now prevailing in jackson county. Ia
that county there is perfect reign Of ter
ror. No mans life is safe, it is said, who
calls 10 question the outTsges Of the law
less scoundrels IL the mob cannot be
broken up in any other way, let the Gov
ernor order . military force in Jackson
county, with orders 70 pat an estoppe
upon the mob, il to do so II ID necessary
to employ powder, ball and bayouet
jackson county is a disgrace to th.
State Of Indiana, and il is indeed higl
time that the outrsges enaeting there b
ended,