The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-18

The aim and purpose VI the Rebel press
and politicians is to drive Out the Union men
of the South, BY system Of threats, assassi-
nation, and general reign Of terror. The
organizatica Of the Knklux Khan contem>
plates for its object the intimidation Of the
loyal whites and the subsection Of the blacks.
And the means by which they propose TO &C
ccnplish these objects are similar in spirit
and bloodier in execution than those preya-
lent prior to the war. 1
The Alabama Aai, fierce Rebel sheet,
sounds the tocsin of armed resistance and
bloody war 10 this exciting strain:
I'VE have a right to appeal to the ultima
ratio regHm. From the valleys should 60 up
the defying shouts Of an outraged people.
From the hill tops shouad blaze forth the fiery
cross Of vengeance, and the soil of Alabama,
fromth rivers 10 the gulf, should thrill
once more beneath the tread Of freement
By the memory of Alabama's sons, who died
in glory on the plains Of Chalmette, At the
Chiekamauga, at Shiloh, and at Manassas, We
would say strike
Strike for your affairs and your fires
ctrtAe Tor tae green graves OF your stres
God and your native land ="
The Tuscaloosa Monitor, in clarifying the
heroic achievement Of the Kuklux Khan at
Eutaw, in driving oute minister of the Cos
pei, beseeches an extension Of the order and
their illegal exploits to other localities, in
the following terms:
"Cannet some Of these Eutaw boys, who
expelled Parson Hill, be paid to come this
way aud work upon . dozen such moreg
We will pay their board. liquor bills, DC.
There is nothing like keeping your hands in.
Here is material enough for you to work ON
for few nights. Every exchange comes
full Of accounts from every quarter in The
South Of the singulary beneficial operations
of nightly visitors in disguise. Most of the
newspapers either encourage openly the pre-
servation or extension Of the organization. or
recommend 1t by piain inuendoes Some
few mawkishly moral sheets Of the Conser-
vative stripe oppose the institution tkukiax
Klan): while, of course, all the miserable
Radical organs are loud 10 their howlings
against it for it only works to the detrimest
of villains, with which term loyal leagues are
synonymous"
At Memphis The Chief Of Police, Mr..
Beaumont, broke up meeting Of the Kuklux
Khan, in pursuance of his sworn duty Is g
public officer. Thereupon the Avalanche
urges his ASSASSINATION in open, unsquirooal
and bold terms:
WHETHER THE ORGANIZATION
BE GENUINE OR BOGUS, BEAUMONT
HAS BEEN GUILTY OF CONDUCT
FOR WHICH HE OUGHT TO BE MUIR
DERED.n
Such shameless advocacy of assassination
by leading and popular paper, indicates the
general sentiment Of the party of which it is
Al accepted and honored organ.
In speaking Of the assassination Of Ash
burn. leading Union man in Georgia, the
same paper says.
ut is said that = steamboat wss the FRS.
public conveyance that left Columbus after
the killing Of Ashburn, and that Il was
loaded down with New England school
marms and Yankee missionaries of one sort
and otEer.'
The editor glosts over this assassination,
and rejoices that Northern men and women
are forced to fly for their lives from the sacred
soil where hundreds of thousands of North
sru men lie in bloody graves, sacrifice to
the fell spirit of disunion, treason, and re-
bellion, once more famed into fierce and de-
vouring flames By the breath Of Andrew
johnson. the head champion Of the Rebel
hosts who are wrsakius vengeance upon loyal
men for their late discontinue in the Los.
Cause
The spirit thus evoked and thus manifested
is the kind of spirit with which the Northern
Democracy must affiliate and be inspired if
they would regain and retain the good viii
OF their Southern friends, upon whose votes
they rely for success in the Presidential cleo
tons Of the future. Will pay our German
feilow-citizens and the boys in blue, who
fraapled down the rebellion in blood, to- en-.
list IN such : party, and 70 excuse, justify
and participate ia such desds, and in such
spirit.