The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-28
u,, ,x,,,rlnr Machine.

n n
developed in its executioh-n 'as a.
mary manner Of its enforcement a"o 'he
oytrsyaeant punishments inflcted upon
narsons convicted under 1t. 1t IS dciloc-
r,,e scheme to make the kuklux organ'za-
,;ons As frishtfui rs possible, that the sec.
tional autipathies existing in the northern
snInd towards the South may be still iur-
Their iptlamed. and the North may be kept
strong in it's support Of the party in power,
which was put in power by the war, and
whose existence can only be prolonged by
cherishing the passions which war cngeh'
dered.
Opposed uucompromisingly to all secret
political orders, we have no k'nd ieeiins
| for the kuklux. But is 1t worse I'M" VI.
Radical leagues? Those leagues nave i''ea
the negroes 10 the South with ROD OF iron.
| They have placed the lives OF all VINO daieo
to vote against their will in peril. The olt-
tor hatred fostcred by those leagues to-
wards the southern whites phrensled t1c
PASSIONS of the negroes and drove them 10
acts Of singular brutality towards hundreds
Of their own race In this State who gave
intimutiops of their purpose to disobcy the
order of the leagues. How often has it
been that the whites in Virginia have inter.
posed TO save the very lives of colored peo-
pie from the yindictive wrath of their own
race? These things are familiar to us all.
Could there be more dangerous organza-
ton than the Radical league, one more de-
lliberately Intended to restrain the liberty
of men and restrict them from following
the inclinations of their own judgment i'll
casting their votesf We believe not.
Look to North Carolina, and remember
the brutality and lawlessness Of k1Rk's
command. They arrested and detained
| many citizens without bringing an accusa-
ton against them, and inflicted punish
| ments upon them such as tying them up by
| the thumbs and hanging them up for
awhile by the neck, disseminating their
practices only when the poor victims were
more dead than alive. And when the writ
| Of hdbeas corpus was issued in proper form
by the proper officers to release some OF
those men from the cruel'ics they suffered,
did not the wretch KIRK treat the process
with contemptT Men were surprised al
home and carried off by armed guards, aud
placed in prison without accusation, as We
before said, and not permitted to coinmu'
nicatc with their families. No such out
RACES had ever before been perpctrateu III
this country in time Of peace, and never
before at such time, within the limits OF Il
State in the Union, and con>tructllely the
equal of the other States, was il known
that the sacred writ of habcGs corpus was
treated with contempt.
These were wrongs that were without
precedent In the land, and yet was ever
one of those who inflicted them brought to
punishment?
At this very time the Republican LOWRY
and his negro followers are keeping large
section of country in perpetual fear by
their marauding outrases and murders.
lI ronHGpSSn nty OF Robson and the adjacent
prehension for mo iiiftRt in continual 'r-
band uniDfluenced by political feemI'"Ss,S
What are the maltreatment and threats oil
a few persons by the kuklux compared
with the murders and tcrrors Of Lowry
Aud now that few men in State
uniformly peaceful and orderly, excited to
bitterness by the Radical ourageS-lhc
Radical misgorclnment which involved the
stale in debt by millions, and squandcrcd
its treasure also by millions -provucaliVu
which every northern man Of lberality and
intelligence. no matter What party he be-
longs to, has declared was sufficient 10 drive
| the southern people to reckless retaliation
now, when few men thus madLencd
| have mallreatcd-not killeG-a few persons
who were conspicuous in the party move
mcnts which brought calamity upon
| the State, their acts are he'll up
as the most hcinouS, and their order is
| the most horrible and dangerous that ever
existed. They are punished to degree
utterly disproportioned to their offence in
order to magnify tho offence and ir.f1 line
the northern mind while worse offenders,
who committed greatly worse offences, and
Ms much co!ored with politics rs were the
! acts of the illfated kukluN. are permitted
to escape without any punishment what.
ever.
The contrast is disgraccfui to the coun-
try. Such q condition OF things is damn.
ing to the Government, and displays cool
purpose Of wrong and outrage TO the south.
ern people for political effect that is with
out precedent in this land.
Could We regard the policy out of which
these wrongs have grown as enduring, we
should despair. But parties themselves are
ephcmcral, and their stratesies only serve
the purposes of the hour. These things
cannot last, and what is better, they must
| tend to shorten the public career Of their