Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-08-27
How p.mocr,,. nronos.,o win

The Gazette says if they had fail
chance, and the military was with
drawn from the Southern States they
could carry every one of them at the
next election. The following extract
/ from letter TO the New York Times
dated Nashville Aug. 10, will give g
pretty fair idea of what Democratic ''fail
chance" means. They carried the elec.
ton in Kentucky in that way and it is
quite possible that they could carry the
other Southern States in the same way.
In Madison county Union men are
completely ostracised, and dare not form
any Republican association. In Gibson
county ii would be dangerous for any
man to 'denounce the Ku-K Klux outrages.
In Obion county there have been many
blacks whipped and robbed for being
Radicals. Hundreds of blacks have
been driven out by violence from their
homes in Maury, Lawrence, Giles and
other counties in Middle Tennessee. In
Rutherford county woman has been
cruelty whipped near Versailles, on sus-
picion of having told who some of the
Ku-KluX were. At Humboldt, Gibson
county, white man was recently whip
ped, and negro so maltreated that he
died of tb4 injuries he received, their
sole crime being that they were Radi-
Gals. At Mckenzie a white man and
several negroes were recently outraged.
A man in Rutherford, for teaching ne
gro children in Sunday School, was re-
Gently taken from his home, by eleven
masked Democrats, and severely whip
ped. At the recent Republican State
Convention there was a number of dele
gates who had been outraged, and sew
eral members of the State Legislature
had to travel circuitous routes by night,
to escape assassination, when coming to
Nashville. The Military Committee OF
the State Legislature has had before it
some hundreds of witnesses who testified
to the great increase of disloyal violence,
and recitsd numerous cases of diabolical
outrages upon Union men. One man
exhibited his feet, which had been blis-
tered by being held before fire by Ku-
KluX torturers. The Democratic lead
ers, while claiming to desire peace, tell
their followers that the calling out of the
State militia will be such an aggression
On the part of the State Government
that it is certain to bring on war, and
that if it does so, their first purpose must
be to kill off all white Radicals. Recent
ly the Appeal advised its Democratic
readers, in anticipation of another war,
TO arm themselves, and headed its article
in capitals, HSet the Law at Defiance
AT a recent Democratic demonstration
in Memphis, the Southern Confederacy
was loudly cheered, and at the Browns
vile Democratic Convention, on last
Monday, Gen. Forrest assured them that
it would not he two years before the
North would admit that the South was
all right in the rebellion. Not long
since the Avalanche wanted to know
why the Ku-LluX "had not the hearts
of Radicals on their daggers,.n and Gen.
Pike in a recent speech at Center Hill,
Miss, sought to infiame the young men
and make them swear that no Northern
man should cross the Ohio and live. All
the Democratic papers of the South de-
nounce Congress and declare that all
authority exercised in the South by the
present State Governments is tyrannical
and should be resisted and overthrown
by the people. They all seek to excite
the bitterest animosity against Republi-
cans. Not one of them denounces Ku-
K1ux outrages. Not long since the
Brownsville Bee intimated that a citi-
zen of that place would be murdered if
he further offended the Ku-KluX. The
tone of these Democratic papers, the
speeches of Democratic leaders, and the
outrages by masked Democrats in all
parts of the country, gives ground for
the opinion that unrepentant treason
conten- plates another outbreak and the
consequent collision with the State and
General Government is not what these
Southern Democrats desire. 1 believe
they have a well settled purpose, and
that this purpose is illustrated by their
whole conduct and language.