The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-11
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committee in Washington, and another
sub committee in South Caroina-have
now been in daily session more than
two months, and have had before them
many scores of witnesses from all sec
tons of the late Insurrectionary States
--mcn of both high and humble station
Presiding Elders, Preachers, eX
Members OF the Federal Congress and
tx Members of the Confederate Con-
..rcss, cx-Geuerals of both Armies, Gov.
ernors aud ex.Governors, Judges, Sole.
itors, Shoriiis, Revenue Officers, Off
GERS of the Army, Post masters School
Teachers, Repeutant and Non.rcpentant
members Of ku.Klux klans, and doz-
ems of their manned and suffering vic
TINS, black and white.
And what has this patient and
thorough Investigate II established and
established beyond all future cavil and
question p? These atrocous Facts
|. That in all the late lnsurrectionary
States. and generally diffused, though
not found in every County, is an oath.
bound Secret Organization, working
only at night, and its members always
in disguise, with Officers, Signs, Sig
nails, Pass words, Grips, aud all the
necessary paraphcrnaIia, with the Plcdg-
ed and Sworn purpose of putting d0aon
tie Republican and putting up the
Dcmocratic' party known in different
localities among the initiated by differ
cnt names, but everywhere recognized
by the general cognomen KUKLUX."
2. That the organization came into
being a few months previous to the last
Presidential Election, durinI which
canvass it was in its most vigorous Con-
dl,iOn, but is now through ali the South,
with more efficient discipline and cffec
tive direction than ever, reviving, in
preparation for the next Presidential!
canpaign, when, as they told one Of
their victims in Tennessee Il few weeks
since, no id Radical voting is to
be allowed in any Southern State, by
black or white.
3. That this Ku-KIux organization
is the prcmeditated and determined
scheme for carving the South at the
next election of President, and 50, by
securing the entire electoral vote IF that
section, make sure the election of the
Democratic nominee.
t. That the officers and csablShcrs
of these " Dens" Gas they appropriately
call thicr separate bands) arc the lead
49,. ,,.;uo Don,ncrntic polititianS
Of the South.
.. That the scheme has the hearty
good. will of large section of the Dem
ocratic Party in all those States, and
the acqurscenc0 of nearly the entire
Party.
6. That the direct and chief purpose
of the organization, as sworn by all the
Victims, as the assertion uniformly
ma le to them by these midnight assas
sins, and corroborated by tho universal
testimony Of the rcpcn'ant aud disulg
ing members of the Order, is this f: The
putting down of the Republican and
the putting up of the Democratic Party.
7. That while the Democratic and
Ku.Klux Witnesses on their direct ex- '
animation usually deny the poltt'cdJ
purpose of the Order, asserting that the
ku.Klux arc a Soc,dL necessity growing ,
out of the abolition Of the old Patrol
that they have to ride the country TO
~ keep the NiggerS in their place - /
that uuder the inhucuca of Ballcal Leg
islation and Methodist Preaching the
Nigcers are liable to become saucy,"
and without an occasional ku-klux {
visit would "begln to think themselves c
l,s good as white folks )" AMI that these
frequent hosgiugs, and an occasional {
murder, arc necessary to maintain such .
a state Of morals among the Blacks as d
will permit the vice chatting Whites to Ii
live 10 their ncighborhood yet, on the r
cross examination, these WitncsSts also q
very generally, as well as very reluctant r
ny, confess that the Intimidation Of
Uotcrs is prominent and d
not to be regretted result, W
8. That to secure this purpose, the Ii
putting down of the Republican and :
The putting-up of the Democratic Party,
Intimidation is the grand measurable
intimidation of Republican voters, black
aud white, but especially the humble Z
and dcfcnceless, by Midnight Raids
,y Burning Houses aud Stores, and the
Destruction of Crops; by Whippinss
Df such extreme cruelty as often to end
in Death by most indecent and pain
fu Manning; by Assassination and
Murder in such cowardly manner and
with such helish device as may strike
terror into whole counties, and bring
down the Republican vote from two or
three thousand to less than single doz-
en-.
9. That "School tsachers," and Q
? Preachers of the Methodist Church
North" seem to be the especial abhOr-