The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-25

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would be his duty to dispense these
new State governments at the point
of the bayonet, to oVeTturn By force
and violence what had been done, to
establish a revolution, and to restore,
as he said, the white men to power.
The canvass of 1868 on the part OIL
the Democratic party was made upon
a revolutionary basis. These docu
ments are all incendIary documents. /
They all sound like Mexican pronun-
ciamentos. They breathethe feroclty /
of Spanish manifesto. The party !
went into the canvass upon the |
strength of that platform-thls letter |
and all these State platforms-and
now | call your attention to 1t.
What was the result? l call your at
tention to the practical results OF
this teaching upon the part Of the
Democratic party. This instruction
took root, it bore Gruit sixty and a
hundred fold, and it is now blossom
ing for fresh crop of murders and
nameless viIlainies.
Why, Mr.. President, one of the
first results after the Convention of
the 4th Of July, 1863, was the expul-
sion of the colorea men from the
Georgia Legislature. Was the per-
Torrance of that revolutionary act in
exact accordance with the platform
adopted in New York? IF l advise
a man to go and kill my neighbor,
and he proceeds from my presence
and kills my neighboF, am / not re-
sponsible before God and man2 And
| when the Democratic party in the
city of New York advised Southern
people to resistance aud to revolu-
ton, and the first act was to revolu
tionize the Legislature of Georgia
and expel the colored men from that
body, was not the party IN its Con-
i vention responsible for the act as
If it had been present aiding and
abetting2
/ Democratic politicians pretended to
be incredulous about the existence Of
secret societies in the Northern States
/ during the war. We had vile con-
i spiracy, known as the knights of the
| Golden Circle, In Indiana, established
/ In 1861, and under various names and
i forms continued until 1864. was
the Governor of the State at that
time, and was watching its progress
through the war. and was denouncing
it upon the stump and in every way,
and yet the Democratic newspapers
of Indiana solemnly asserted that my
declarations were false. and they
charged from 1861 to 1854 that the
4 whole story of secret societies in In
!, diana and conspiracies was a wicked
invention for political effect Again
we find the same thing in regard tc
/. 1 q II .lrls nE he Ia la
men profess to be incredulous; they
do not believe a word of it. The
Senator from Delaware (Mr. Sauls.
bury) the other day said he hoped tc
live long enough on this earth to SEE
a living Kuklux. Well, Mr.. Presi
dent, have here the ritual of the Is u
klux Order. It was dug up in thu
/ State of Tennessee during some o.
the recent troubles they had dowT
!. there. / should like to read one ex
tract from it. / will read the titleI
of the officers, which viii give tb'
& ghostly and diabolical character 0
the society. lgb
The officers. of this shall consis
/ Of Grand Wizard of the Empire ant
:. his ten Genii; grand Dragon of the
Realm and his eight Hydras; Crane
Titan of the Dominion and his siz
Furies; a Grand Giant Of the Prov
inca and his four COLLINS; a Gram
Cyclops of the Den and his two Night
!, hawks a Grand Magi; a Crane
Monk Grand Exchequer; Crane
i Turk. - ~ stf 90 c4eJ
i These titles are inlendedqo portray
and do pretty we'll, the murderous and
8 diabolical character of this organiza.
ton, as shall show hereafter.
And now, Mr.. President, | call your
attention to the fact, that while the
war was progressing, and our prison.
( ers were being starved and tortured
land murdered In Libby and Salisbury
aud other prisons in the South, thu
+ Democratic party Of the North were
utterly incredulous upon that subject
1--we could not make them believe it
They professed to believe that -+iiesc
| were Radical in.SHeions Tor the pur-
4 pose Of having political effect; bat
when the war was over and we went
down there and connted the graves
/ alongside of those rebel prison pens,
we found the visible physical eVideneo
of the truth of all we have said and
more. ssai Nls. o-
4 Now, sir, talking about living Ku.
misfortune to see one of them since
the progress Of this Georgia debate.
One of them has been in this city,
and / believe is here now, a man of
talents and education, who called
lgupon me, to argue me out of my con
victions upon the Georgia question
man who, IN, different places in this
city, declared himself to be member
/ 80 h. Il Il
ried in 1t. / presume he called upon
many other Senators. This Kuklux,
openly ayowed, has named his child.
very properly. John Wilkes Booth, 7
the original Kuklux. .ri. ssr
/ The Senator from Alabama Mr..
| Warner) presents me with one of
| their letters, one of their warnings.
with the Inscriptions and outlines
upon it Tor tho purpose of conveying
Eevidenee of their bloody intentions,
/ l now state what shall attempt to
prove, that there is an organized con-
spiraey in all the Southern States for
the purpose of breaking down the Re-
publican party or the Union party by
deeds of blood and violence, by Great
ing a reign of terror that shall induce
Union men either to abandon cthe
country or to abandon their principles
and purchase, their peace and safety
by silence; and that--I say it with
| profound regret-there are men of
position and character in the Demo
cratic party in the South who connive
at this conspiracy, conceal it where
they can palliate its crimes, aud in all
cases protect the members of it from
punishment. Not one of them has
been brought punishment through
out the. South. Notwithstanding they