The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-24

Or essed:
CIRCULAR.
Eminent counsel from the North have be en-
employed TO defend the men prosecuIea un-
der the Ku Kux acts of Congress. Tnls mas
been undertaken in order that ample Justlce
NAV be done. and to the end that the consti-
tItional questions involved may be con-
sdered. This is deemed public. duty. In
order TO carry out this purpose, 1t is neces'
sary to raise the sum Of SIS, 900. Your county
has been assessed $4,000, which you VIII
please raise and transmit to Columola 10 the
committee in charge.
WADE HAMPTON,
NJ C. BUTLER,
J. B. PALMER,
]. P THOMAS, Commtlee.
s. L. LEAPHART.
W. B. STANLEY,
JOHN MCKENZIE,
To Major T. G. BARKER and General JAMES
CONNER. Charleston S. c.
Accompanying the circular is the following
note:
Gentlensn-Please have several lists for
subscription prepared and placed in the hands
Of different parties so as 10 raise tlils noney
as quickly as possible.
WADE HAMPTON, For
NJ. C. BUTLER, Com'tee.
General Conner and Major Barker have ac-
cordingly issued the following call for meet
ing to be held to-day:
CARD.
The undersigned having been called upon
by the signers Of the above circular to raise
the sum Of three thousand dollars from the
County of Charleston. ask the assistance OF all
who sympathize with the good men who
have been dragged from their homes and 1lle-
gally incarcerated.
For the purpose of organizing the proper
measures for raising the amount required, q
meeting of such sympathizers will be held
this day at II NJ, at the hall OF the Bank OF
Charleston. JAMES CONNER,
THEoDORE G. BARKER.
We hope that the meeting will be large
one so that the sum required can be obtained
at once. 1t must not be forgotten that the
Ku Klux law strikes at the very foundations
of our civil liberty, and if allowed to continue
in operation will make the United States as
miserable a despotism as that of Russia or
Ashantee. The validity Of the law must be
tested in the highest court of the land; This
we owe to the unfortunates who have been
arrested, and to ourselves and to our posteri-
ty. We need not say that the members OF the
South Carolina bar could not, whatever their
IaLuS, Spcdh III IuuCo WuiSh UOphe AS'sSAA '"S
ears of the people Of the North. tits absolute
" necessary that the counsel for the defence
be gentlemen whom the whole country re-
spects, and who cannot be charged withan un-
due leaning toward the South. They will be
able to show the people the abuses and wrongs
to which our people are subjected. 1t was ex-
pected by the government, no doubt, that the
trials here would attract no more attention
than those in Raleigh. No wonder, then, that
the accused are convicted before they were
arraigned. No wonder that Acknowledgement
Akerman, in speech delivered in Brooklyn,
a short time since, dared to say:
In the County of York, ninety men were In
prison, and he felt morally certain that not
one of them Uho had been arrested out had
been ENGAGED more or less in the unldpfM acts.
These men would remain in prison until the
latter part of this month, as by that time the
United States circuit Curt would meet, and
they would be tried by an impartial jury.
Theu are to be convicted, and some would be
fued; some ,oould be imprisoned; some sent 10
the Penitentiary, and some WOULD BE HUNG.
We need say no more to show the urgent
necessity of seconding, heartily and promptly,
the movement which Hampton and Butler
hay e begun.