New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-16
An Increduious Legislature.

The Georgia Legislature has recently passed
joint resolution denying in most indig-
nant terms that there is, or ever has been,
any such an organization as the. KuK lux
Khan, and that any outrage has ever been CON-
mitted by such combination at the South.
They utterly ignore the overwhelming amount
Of testimony taken by the Congressional Com
mttee, the convictions Of q large number OF
the outlaws in North Carolina upon the testi'
mony of members who turned States evidence,
the voluntary surrender and confession of sew
eral hundred of them in South Carolina, and the
fight Of large number from the State. But
the unbelieving members of the Georgia Legis-
lature might as well deny the existence of the
rebellion, or assert that the Southern people
were from the beginning the only true friends
and defenders of the Union, and that they
were always opposed to the institution Of sla-
very.
1t may be that the Copperhead Democracy
Of the North can use such official assurances
as this to deceive the more ignorant of their
followers in regard to the existence of this
band of rebel assassins But the people Of
the South, even the "poor white trash" who
are 80 near the level of the brutes, know such
organizations extend throughout the South. The
Congressional Committee have not yet entered
upon the work of bringing to light the secret
bands Of cut-throats in Georgia but they are
there nevertheless, and probably constitute a
large portion of the rebel majority of the very
Legislature which has stultifed itself by passing
such resolution as we have noticed. Wherever
the committee have prosecuted their work, as
in North and South Carolina, they have found
that the half had not been told by the public
press.
This is especially true of South Carolina;
and every day furnishes new proof of the neces-
sity of the measures adopted by Congress for
unearthing the ruffians, and by the President
for locking up and dispensing the Khan. Sen
atOr SGoTT, whose labors as the chairman
of the Senate Ku-Klux Committee cannot be
too highly appreciated by the friends of law
and order everywhere received, a few days
since, letter from Yorkville, in that State,
assuring him that some of the most influential
and infamous of the conspirators in that Sec
tion-among them AVERY, ToxLrNsoN, and
BRArToN, together with twenty-five or thirty
less notorious rufians-had taken alarm and
ignominiously fled from justice. About one
hundred and sixty of the Khan have volunta-
rily surrendered and made a clean breast Of it.
The evidence of the existence and criminal
acts and designs of the Kan are rapidly accu.
mulating, and it is fearful confirmation of all
the facts that have been stated in regard to
parties concerned in a large number of whip
pings and other outrages, and in hanging Mr..
WILLIAMS the murder of Mr.. Brown, Mr.
LEFT, Mr.. RoUNDrREK, and FIVE other Republ-
cans, which had not hitherto been made public.
Thirty of the Khan concerned in various muir
ders, according to their own confessions, com
mitted by authority of AVERY, the grand chief
of the order, are 10 Yorkville Jail.
Yet the rebels of the Georgia Legislature
send forth to the world the solemn declaration
that there is no such combination as Ku-
Klux, and that the Southern people are all
peaceable, law abiding, and resolved to accept
the situation in good faith