The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-29
Murder.


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ing to circulate live Republican paper.
Murder.
A state of things exists in the Southern
States which the people, who live peaceably
in their homes in this and States further
north, have but faint conception Of An
organized system of outrage and murder of
Union men and negroes exists in those
States, which surpasscs in horror the worst
days Of the rebellion. These things are
kept quiet as far as possible, the papers in
the interest of the rebel, or as they term
themselves, Democratic party, seldom re-
porting the acts of violence and murder
which those people are subject to by the
kuklux Klan and like organizations. In
Kentucky, where the rebels hold the entire
State government in their control, the
system of murder, abuse and destruction of
Union men and their property is in the very
zenith of its success. The following ac-
couL. = the shooting of Judge M"--'s -.
serve as spet~An % 7a.:....t Is transporting
daily and nightly in all parts of those States,
except Immediately in the neighborhood Of
the military:
SAT Port Gibson, Miss, on the 18th inst, ,
Judge Morris, while walking along the street
about square from the principal hotel, was
shot at from behind by man named Dor
sey, the ball entering his leg, the assassin
having fortunately missed his aim The
wounded man was taken to his home and
the wound dressed. After delay of day
or so Dorsey was arrested, but only because
the negroes demanded his trial. Had the
mouths of the black people been closed, as
in former years, the would be murderer
would not have been touched. After pre-.
liminary hearing he was released on bond
to appear, taken in a very small amount
No lawyer could be found willing to assist
in the prosecution of the case, and if fair
trial is to be had, it will only be after the
recovery of Judge Morris, when he must
handle his own case. Should he die, the
murderer will 60 scot free"
The Judges offense was loyalty.
From Kentucky we have such reports as
the following;
'Last week band of the Kuklux Khan
Of this State made raid into the northern
portion of Pulaski county, killed Jas. Baker,
whipped Noah Blankenship until his life is
despaired Of and badly whipped several
other Union men in the neIghborhood. A
band of the kuklux Khan made an entrance
into Lawrenceburg, Anderson county, sew
eral nights ago. i'll search of several men,
but they escaped before capture. These
things are not reported in the Democratic
papers. They suppress them for fear oftheir
political effect"
sin a public speech made at Harrodsburg,
kentucky, by Governor Stevenson, who was
on his way to Crab Orchard, he declared to
his rebel audience that, on the election of
Seymour, if every right claimed by the reb-
els was not at once given them, they would
resort to the bayonet to obtain them
The same correspondent says:
"They mean war if Seymour is elected
They look upon Blair as their promised and
pledged leader. They propose to open q
carnival of terror and of bloodshed in the
South that was not more than equalled by
the horrors of the late civil war. They pos
lively declare their purpose to drive every
man from the North who has settled in the
South out of the country. They declare
these things in public, and do not conceal
them
Every sign we have from the regions Of
rebellion points clearly to the purposes the
rebels have at heart, in case so great mis-
fortune as the election of Seymour and Blair
should befall the country.
That purpose is war! exterminating mas
sacre of the Union men and freedmen of
those States. They boldly affirm that Frank
Blair is their candidate, elected on the de-
claration of war which his letter to the n.
Y. Convention contained, and which they
expect fully to be carried out in case of his
election. They care nothing for the platform.
They only look to gaining power as means
to the restoration of slavery, and the plac-
ing back in the Southern States, things in
their old condition, and to effect this, they
know of no other mode, or think of no other
than the rifle and blood hound, the bowie
knife and halter. This is what constitutes
the Democratic party of the South, before
whose leaders the northern Democracy
quailed and crouched like spaniels at the
New York Convention. Leniency is word
they know not the definition of, and the at
tempt by the conquering people of the ma
ton, to give it a practical meaning in that
land of savage passions, which have been
nursed for generations in the lap Of slavery,
has cost the nation thousands of valuable
lives, since the rebellion was crushed
These apostles of the rife and rope under
stand that mode of pacifcation and no
other, and will never be convinced of their
wrong or reduced to the state of peaceful
citizens by arguments less potent and con.
vincing. Had the ring leaders of the rebel
lion, who forfeited their lives hundred
times by their own ack nowledgment, been
dealt with rs they propose to deal with the
Union mea in case of Seymour and Blair s
election, and their lands confscated to help
pay the cost of their causeless and nefarious
rebellion, peace would now smile on our
whole country and prosperity nowhere would
shed her blessings with more prodigal hand
than in the South. These men who flew
to arms in 1861 that the minority might rule
and slavery triumph over freedom, declare
their purpose to again hazard the gauge Of
battle in case Seymour and Blair are sue
cessful this fall. Order loving and law abid-
ing people Of all parties, you know what
these men are capable of; you have seen it
oxemplifed in the horrors of four years
war, which placed corpse in almost every
house in the North and literally filled the
South with widows and orphans. You hear
them again, with all the malignant hate their
natures are capable of, avowing their pur.
pose to renew these horrid scenes of civil
war if you but grant them the opportunity.
Are you ready for the question, which is
Seymour and Blair, with War! or Grant,
Colfax and Peace?
Queen Victoria has thirteen grandchil-