The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-15
Progress OF Anarchy In the soGth-War or
Races.

Races.
1t appears from a communication published
in another part Of the paper, and by information
received from other sources, that the new
secret society with the strange name-the Ku
Klux Klan-is not shadowy appariion, but a
substantial and widespread organization. Our
correspondent, ''Gabriel, G. G. T. and W.
whatever this pOrtentous name of the avenging
angel and these cabalistic letters may mean
assures US that the organization nur beers over
seven hundred thousand members, and that it
is spread over the whole country, from Maine
to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. Only white citizens of the United
States can become members, and radicals,
negroes and infidels cannot. The meaning
given to the term Ku Klux Khan is circle
of friends" and the object of the society is to
checkmate and to act as counterpoise to the
radical secret societies of the Loyal League
and the Grand Army of the Republic,
for the purpose of perpetuating constitutional
liberty. So says Gabriel, G.. G. T. and ""
enough, looking at the other secret societies
named, to which this is established as
an Offset. But when we look at the tone
of this communication in other respects
when &c. G.. T. and "" exclaims: ''Let the
tyrants of mongrel and UNANIMOUSLY corrupt
party beware!" there appears to be more fire
than smoke and good deal of sulphur. Then,
where he tells the wicked, the ungodly and the
perjured, (meaning the radical leaders, of
course), that they will soon feel the keen edge
of the sickle and the invisible boring of the
White Ant (Which we take to be ominous fgura
tive language), there is strong smell Of pur
gatory. 1t is not at all surprising, then, that
Forney quaked and that the knees of radical
Congressman smote together when they re-
ceived the other day the terrible Ku Klux
missives. They were like the ghost of Banquo
to Macbeth. The outrages and murders Of
their own negro Loyal Leagues started up like
ghosts and made them tremble when these
mysterious documents, pictured with collins,
skulls and dead mems bones, met their eyes.
But whatever the Ku Klux Khan may be or
whatever its object, it is only the natural
offspring of the radical secret societies, and
particularly the negro Loyal Leagues of the
South. We called attention the other day
to the murder Of one-armed ex-Confederate
white soldier in Alabama and of the murder of
four other white men in the same locality since
the war, and to the fact that no one had been
arrested for these murders. Indeed, these are
only examples of what is occurring everywhere
in the South. How can it be otherwise when
brutal and barbarous race has been placed
of Congress have disfranchised and Inundated
the whites and have made the ignorant blacks
the masters of the country. The organization
of secret Loyal Leagues among these benighted
barbarians, together with the incendiary con-
duct of Northern radical emissaries, have
societies are an evil and dangerous, but If
the negroes are organized into Loyal Leagues
need we be surprised if the white people have
their Ku Klux Khan or any other organization
to protect themselves? Whatever may be the
consequences-and we apprehend great deal
of trouble-the radicals, and particularly the
radicals in Congress, are to blame. They are
the authors of the evil 1t is evident we are
rapidly approaching in the South state of an
archy and war of races more dreadful than
that which existed in st. Domingo soon after the
French revolution commenced. The Jacohin cry
of liberty, equality and fraternity" in France,
deluged with blood and utterly ruined that
magnificent colony, and it is the same cry of
our Jacobins that will produce similar or worse
results in the South. We are on the eve of a
terrible war of races, and in this war the blacks
must go to the wall. The negroes in St. Do
mingo were far more numerous than the whites,
but in the South the whites are the most nu-
merous. Besides, their vast superiority, men,
tai and physical, must lead to the sub
jugation and destruction of the negroes.
Talk of reducing the expenses of the War
Department! Why, it will require hundred
thousand soldiers or more to prevent even
wholesale massacres in the South. Two hun
dred thousand would not be able to preserve
peace If that war of races which is now threat
ening should commence. This is the legacy of
radical legislation which we now have to con-
template. The atrocious attempt to subvert the
laws of God and nature by establishing the
supremacy of a barbarous race over the white
people of our own blood can only end in the
most frightful scenes. The cost of governing
the South will be enormous, and the people of
the North will either have to bear far heavier
burden Of taxation or repudiate the national
debt. This is the alternative we are coming
to- and as it is difficult to see how the people
can bear greater weight of taxation, the
national creditors would probably be the
greatest sufferers. The radical party in power
has brought us to this terrible dilemma, and
nothing can save the country but its defeat at
the polls in the approaching election.
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