The Lincoln County herald., 1868-05-21
White Or Black Secret Societies.
From the N. Y. Express

Ffom the N. 4. Express
The Kuklux Khan so.called, 10 said "a
Be secret organization Of whites, South
in opposition, We may add, to the Ne
gro Secret Societies, South, organised By
Northern Office seeking white men, set.
tling there, to use the negroes to be slec.
ted to Office. The Republican paper oi
the North while patronisiug and favcrisg
the Black Secret Societies, bemourn the
existence Of the Kuklux (white) Khan.
Let No think over this. Secret Socie-
tics are the natural offspring, and inev.
table results Of despotism, military, DO.
litical, or social. When the recsnstruc.
ton acts created military despotisms iu
the South, they also by law Of nature
created secrst Societies In opposition. A
Despotism, such as are the Five Military
Msnarchies, or an Oligarchy Of negroes,
such as is springing from them, in Ten.
nessec, necessarily, and by law Of hu.
man existence, brings into being Secret
Organizations against them and the
more rapidly, as Negro Secret Societies
are organised on one side, must White
Secret Societies be organized on the other.
And these opposite organizations, founded
mainly upon racc, and tho different phys.
ical organization Of man, necessarily lead
to collisions. They who created these
Military Dsspotisms, must have known
oil this-for il is law ef human nature,
written out 10 al history, from the foun.
datiou Of the world.
The men who arc responsible for these
"Klans," white or black, are Congress
men, and Congress is tho father and crea-
tor Of them all. The determination Of
Congress to destroy this as Republic
as self.government Of the Constitution
and laws-and to substitute therefor, o
Government Of soldiers for the time being,
to be followed by on oligarchy Of negroes
was practical-if not and intended, dc.
termination to create "Klans," etc., etc,
to resist these military despotisms and
these negro oligarchies. The same Con.
gressmen must have also determined to
keep up standing armies there, to keep up
these despotisms and these oligarchies,
and to impose taxes upon US, Of tho North
and West, to pay for these standing ar.
mics. In all ages, and at all times, and
all possible ways - man (God so created
him) will conspirs against, and resist
these dcspotisms, und these eligarchiss-
sometimes by open war, at other times by
''klans," conspiracies, etc., etc.,
Our race Of English and Irish blsod
has been, to great extent, educated in
self.governmcnt, and it will never respect
my other. The Irish have been 10 re.
bellion for four hundred years against
British Military Government-and will
be, kept under IL, four hundred years
even while living under En-.
glish institutions, they have been only
The moro educated to self. government.
Hence, this imposition upon US, Saxons
'r Celts, of military government, or nc.
gro oligarchy government, is an imposi.
lion always to be resisted and never to be
The only question prudent
men will ever put, is-when and how to
DO resisted-and this to be determined
BY place, power and opinion-so that the
'ursc Of the conquerer becomes sverlast.
ng taxation, and the oppression Of him.
ell, to govern the conquered.