The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-08-11
From the New York Tribune of 3lst ult

MALTA, with the pledged and sworn
purpose of putting dorm the RepabIi-
can party and putting up the Demo
cratic party, known in different To-
calities among the initiated by differ
ent names, but everywhere recogni-
zed by the general cognomen "Ku-
klux."
). That the organization came into
being a few months previous to the
last Presidential election, during
which canvass it was in its most Wig
orous condition, but is now through
all the South, with more efficient dis
cipline and effective direction than
ever, reviving in preparation for the
next Presidential campaign, when,
as they told one of their victims in
Tennessee, few since, "no id
Radical voting is to be allowed in
any Southern States by black or
white"
3. That this Ku-klux organization
is the premeditated and determined
scheme for carrying the South at the
next election of President, and so, by
securing the entire electoral vote OF
that section, make sure the election
of the Democrat nominee.
4. That the officers and establish.
ers of these "Dens Gas they appro.
priately call their separate bands
are the leading and active Demo.
cratic politicians of the South.
). That the scheme has the hearty
good. will of large section of the
Democratic party in all those States,
and the acquiescence of nearly the
entire party.
6. That the direct and chief pur-
pose of the organization, as sworn by
all the victims, as the assertion uni
formly made to them by these mid
night assassins, and corroborated by
the universal testimony of the repen-
tant and divulging members of the
order, is this: 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 political
purpose of the order, asserting that
the Ku-klux are social 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 under the influ-
enoe Of Radical Legislation and Metho-
dist preaching the niggers are liable
to become saucy," and without an
occasional Ku-klux visit would "be-
gin to think themselves as good as
white folks" and that these frequent
Aoggings, and an occasional murder,
are necessary to maintain such state
of morals among the blacks as will
permit the vice-hating whites to live
in their neighborhood yet, on the
cross examination, these witnesses
also very generally, as well as very
reluctantly, confess that the Rttm5d0-
ton of Republican v0terS is promi-
nent and not to be regretted result
s. That to secure this purpose,
the putting down of the Republican
and the putting up of the Democratic
party, intimidation is the grand
intimidation of Repub-
lean voters, black and white, but es-
pecialIy the humble and defenseless,
by midnight raids; by burning hou.
ses and stores, and the destruction of
crops; by whippings of such extreme
as often to end in death; by
most indecent and painful manning
by assassination and murder in such
cowardly manner and with such hell
ish device as may strike terror into
whole counties, and bring down the
vote from z 600 or 5000
to less than a single dozen.
Q. That school teachers" and
preachers of the Methodist Church
North seem to be the special abhor-
ence of these Democratic assassins ;
and hundreds OF school houses and
Methodist churches have been given
to the flames and Christendom will
stand aghast when it is made known
the scores of school teachers and
Methoniot preachers, who, by this
Democratic agency, within these
three years, have been whipped,
shot, hung, and, in some instances,
it is believed, burned at the stake T!
10. That in nearly one-half the
States of this Union this work of hell
is now going on, night by night
every month extending the range of
its bloody operations, and fearfully
multiplying the number of its vic
Tins
II. That it is solely and immedi-
ately in the service of the Demo
cratic party--a large portion of the
party South heartily approving
large numbers of the party North at
its palliatiOn by excuse,
and its shelter from scorn by cover
ing up or denying its crimes, as if
cowardly Assassination could be pal
lated, and brutal murder excused,
and the Democratic karty through
ont the land rejoicing in its promise
of help. So, either by open and &C
knowledged action, or by the no less
criminal and the more cOwardly par
of extenuating and shield
ing the crime, the party, South and
Nj l.o,-,o haFora +ba naODla and