The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-30
SOUTHERN DIsfuRDANCEs.

rlble In K1ux outrages, we had be-
gun to believe the superstition cor.
rect which suggested that the organ
ization had resolved itself into a
Young Mems Christian Association,
or Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals; but the dis
patches dispel the Illusion. The
Enterprise seizes yoraciously upon
the Geographic morsel, and rolls it
through successive m%astications with
a zeal which indicates an infinite
relish. 1t makes no reference, how
ever, to the operations of the Ku
Klux in Nevada; Phoebe is not even
named. Arms are transported to
that district, a secret organization
has enrolled it's members, men are
driven out of the camp, and a Vigi-
lance Committee threatens to over
throw the Courts and take posses
sion of the country. But these
scandalous operations have no charm
for the Enterprise. The local
troubles of some obscure district
way down in Alabama, loom up with
exaggerated dimensions and are her
aided over the country as far and as
fast as steam or lightning can carry
the news to Mary" Every chicken
thief caught in his neighbours hen
roost in the South is instantaneously
di9nified with national fame, and
washed of his sins in the redeeming
waters of Radical necessity. If a
rowdy gets a black eve, the whole
national horizon is hung in black.
If an insolent negro happens to be
kicked out of n corn field in which
he is too lazy to work, but able
bodied enough to steal, it is better
than roasted ears" to the Radical
party from ocean to ocean. Scarcely
day passes which does not chroni-
Gle murder, a rape, q tar-and feath-
in some of the Northern and
Western States; but they scarcely
notice. There are more out
committed in any n day in
any of the larger cities of the Union
than throughout the entire Southern
country. But the horrible Ku
Kluxl they must be suppressed,
There is no doubt that often acts of
violence are committed in the recon-
structed States which deserve severe
punishment, as there is elsewhere.
bands of outraged men
sometimes disguised themselves and
abated some fragrant nuisance, or in
summary and merited punish
ment on some criminal offender.
Men are liable to do these things in
every country; but that there is any
great organization extending through
States is one of those tictions of fools
frightened by their W consciences,
and disappointed carpet-baggers and
scoundrels interested in creating a
disturbance out of which they hope
TO prolong their miserable lives.
State north of the Ohio is
July competent to preserve its
own peace, execute the laws,
md protect the lives and prop
erty of its own people. They
need no assistance from the Federal
government. Even Gov. Scott,
by the Radical negro votes
If South Carolina, the most unsettled
State of all the South, denies these
disorders, and desires Gen.
Grant to keep his troops to himself.
All OF those States are IS tranquil
low as they were before the war
probably more SC. Forrest vas not
an from the truth when he told the
investigating committee that what.
,ver lawless acts had been commit
ed in former years in Tennessee,
grew out of Brownlow's lawless
outrages. The only Ku KluS
Tennessee we're in that militia.