The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-01
"LET THE MAYNARD SISTERS GO IN
PEACE"
From the Raleigh (M c. STANDARD,

From, the Raleigh (M. c. Standard
This remark has been attributed to Gene
raj Winfield Scott, when his advice was soli-
cited in regard to the proposed secession of
the Southern States. But it was determined
by the loyal men of the nation that they
should not go. And after desperate struggle
the territory was reclaimed the true men of
the South advised and assisted to restore re-
publican forms of government And the aid of
all others, with but few exceptions, solicited
in the patriotic enterprise. After long
struggle, with varying fortunes, govern
ments were at length erected in the Southern
States, and the Constitutions adopted by
large majorities, approved by the representa-
tives of the people in Congress assembled
But there was the most bitter hostility
evinced against these acts of the
Republican party, and here in the South,
from the riots at Memphis, New Orleans,
Mobile, Richmond, and Savannah, down to
the present time, the more desperate portion
of those who hate the General Government
have signalized that hatred by the perpetra-
ton Of outrages of most fragrant character
upon the persons and property of loyal citi-
zens for the purposes of revenge as we'll as
of intimidation. The story of their deeds in
North Carolina is the story of their deeds in
other States. And they have but one end in
view, the subjection of true men to their
will and repossession of Office, place, and
power, whence they can embarrass the Gene
raj Government, destroy the national credit,
glorify the lost cause, reduce the negroes to
peonage, and hold their own again with lofty
heads despite the results of the war or of
future consequences.
1t has been only eighteen months since
they moved for the utter annihilation of the
Southern State Governments. Fooled in this,
they now attempt to get control of the ma
chinery of those Governments, under the
falsest pretenses, and with the coolest effron-
terry. In their hands the State Governments
will be annihilated, destroyed and rebelized.
1t is the old wolf in the skin of another
sheep, which it has just slaughtered.
Shall the wayward sisters go? Will the
Congress stand by and see its work pulled to
pieces, in violation of the final terms of the
settlement? We believe that it will not, but
a strange apathy seems to have fallen upon
that body-it makes haste to do some things,
and leave undone Others while the impending
danger thicken, and the whistle of klan of
murderers floats on every breeze under all
the night skies of the Southern heavens. We
do not wish to use force, but when force is
used, it must be met with force. We do not
wish to retaliate, but we should certainly do
so if attacked and maltreated, and hold to re-
sponsibility life or limb as worthy as ours,
and as dear to others as these precious gifts
are to oursef and to our friends.
When this Ku-Klux organization is dis
solved and exposed to the infamy which it
merits then the moderate men of the other
party will be welcomed into power, if it be
their fortune, by generous foes after fair
| contest, in which truth shall be left free to
combat error. Then the halcyon days of
| chivalric difference will be restored; but so
| long as moderate men, as they call them
| selves, remain in the same ranks with muir
derers and assassins, they cannot hope for
| either confidence from us or from the General
| Government Time and time again they have
been put forward as fgure-heads, but when
in the fulflment of settled purposes the hour
to strike blow arrived, they were set aside,
and the arm of their most extreme and de-
structive associates appeared to deal that
blow, coming forth as the power from behind
the throne, which is more mighty than the
throne itself
Let the wayward sisters go. No, gentle
men, they will never Co. And though it
may seem that the question of the immortal
Webster, who exclaimed, "Who shall restore
the shattered columns of constitutional lib
erty ?" yet remains but half answered, still
we believe that those columns will be re-
stored by the hands of those who love the
temple, whose front it is their place to
adorn, and in whose halls the consecrated
fires of liberty burn upon the affairs of oui
country.
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