The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-25
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THE NORTH CAROLINA KU-KLUx

The sentence of some of the North Car.
olina prisoners is being made the occasion
of spiteful criticism and abuse of Judge
Bond by the Democratic papers. Even our
neighbor of the Dispatch is ready to retract
all the good things it had said of this faith
full and upright judge, now that he has i'm
partially and fearlessly executed the laws
of the United States. The Dispatch says
Judge Bond shows the partisan purposes of the
law In deliberately saying that the Republicans
OF North Carolina are in the hands of bandits,
Carolina
Who believes thisf We had hoped from the
opinion entertained of Judge Bond by some of
our leading lawyers that he would be incapable
of an injustice like this. No Judge of calm
temper; whose mind is judicial in its disposition
and whose Judgment is discriminatory Just,
wouid venture to sander q whole State because
of the outrages of dozen men, But the passions
Of party will mislead men from whom better
things might be expected
We would like to know how a statement
on the part of Judge Bond, as to the class
of victims selected by the Ku-Klux, can
alter the character of the law. That law
under which these men are punished pro-
tects all ages, sexes, colors, and political
parties alike. Because one party has fur
nished the great majority, if not all the
criminals to be tried, and the other the
innocent victims of fiendish hate and cruel
ty, are we to claim that the law is par
tisan?
1t so happens that in New York. city
Democratic Catholics have repeatedly mob
bed professions of Protestants. A notable
instance occurred on the 18th of July last.
Numerous arrests were made, and these
criminals, now that Tammany is defeated.
are liable to be put upon trial and punished !,
as their crimes deserve. They are, to a
man, Democrats and Catholics. Are we,
then, to conclude that the laws of New
York against rioting OF disturbing peaceful
professions are partisan and levelled aga inst
Catholics and Democrats? This is pre-
cisely the logic of the Dispatch.
The attempt of the Southern Democratic
Press to defend the Ku-Klux, and its as
saults upon the courts, are the natural Sc
quel to its past disgraceful history. They
show that the taint of madness still turks
in its blood. The insanity that repealed
the Missouri compromise, enacted the Fugi-
tive Slave Law to compel Northern freemen
to become the blood hounds of the slave
catcher, and poured its barbarous hordes of
ruffians and cut-throats into Kansas to
force slavery upon her people, against the
law (which, in the madness of political de :
feat, committed cause which all christen-
dom hadsbanned, 10 the arbitrament of the
sword, only to bring utter ruin and over
throw upon its supporters; which received
terms so magnanimous that the world
looked Oh in wonder, and finally accepted
them, only to revive the struggle in
the form ofsocial and political prescription,
against all men not tainted with its own
virus of malignity and hate that insanity is
still rife in the Democracy of to-day.
The unanimity with which this most just
and impartial law is assaulted by the DEM
ocratic press proves that the same danger
GUS element is dominant in the party to-day
as during the last twenty years. It's re-
suits we may confidently predict will be
the same, viz: to embolden the tools
and dupes of that incorrigibly wicked and
hopelessly besotted party, to such outrages
against freedom and social security, las will
arouse the whole country again to the
necessity of destroying the last vestige of
irresponsible power in the States! On the
high seas, wherever an American citizen
treads quarterback, he looks to the flag
floating proudly above him, and feels around
him the mighty arm Of the Nation
to shelter and protect. In for
eign lands, in the streets of London or
st. Petersburg, in the lonliest dell of the
Alps, on the trackless desert of Asia, in
South America or in China, he feels the
proud sense of citizenship, which says to
every aggressor, "Strike him and you
strike the nation" And is this great fact
of national citizenship, felt in the most dis
tant lands with such potency, to be farce
and a sham, at home !? Are these
States, from which the nation has
borne SO much, to be permitted
to nullify American citizenship. by
organizing tribunals, hostile to loyalty
in which no just determinations of causes
are possible for loyal men, which either
openly connive at crimes against class o
their fellow-citizens, or are too cowardly to
punish them? The American people arr
not neutral spon This question. They claim
the right to go every where, and stay as long
as they please, and they iate,,dt to carry scal
them this great shield Of american citizen
ship, aohetaer they go to Vrgi,aa or Mort
Caroliaaor to the Islands Of The Sea.
We are on the eve of another Of thos,
crises which have marked the history 0
the great war for the national life, agains
the baleful influence of estate Sovereignty
and its foul brood of heresies. The for
bearance Of the people is exhausted. Nobly
erring on the side of magnanimity to th,
fallen, they have seen powers bestowed fo
recuperation, and "works meet for repent
ance.o converted into engines of persecu
ton against the very party, which has
spared them loss and humiliation.
They have seen the courts of the recon