New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-27
TIE SOUTH CAROLINA KUKLUX.

WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN sPARTANBURG COUNTY
-LAWYERs, MINISTER'S, AND OTHER PROM
NENT PERSONS FLEEING FROM JUSTICE.
SPARfANBURG, S. c., Oct. 23.-The letters OF
your special correspondent from this place last Spring
and the reports OF the Congress Committee, haVe
preparcG your readers the shocking disclosures that
are now being made here OF the Democratic hu-hlu1
conspiracy against the lives, liberties and property OF
the Republicans OF this and adjacent counties Senator
Scott and associates found by the sworn statements OF
tho victims and other credible witnesses that in Spartan
burg County alone, upward OF SEQ men and women had
suffered some Of violence from the Kuklux SeV-
era had killed. others wounded by gun and pistol
shots, while tho greater number had been whipped In
the most barbarOus manner. To escape Vloehco'
many respectable persons, malo and female slept
in the woods through all last Winter, without
fire. fro would havo pointed out
their places Of concealment TO the ruans who sought
their lives From the great number OF victims, was
inferred that the number OF the consprators NUT pc
great but how great but their own leaders had the
means OF knowing Terror relgned IOr months inc
even to ferret out and bring justice the perpetrators
was made No dared to move. The Courts were Ell
On until the e. Court in Raleigh tried and convicted
number OF the North Carolina Ku-Klux. Alarmed by
ward and con frssed his connection with the KuKlux,
and gave the names Of about dozen others several
pa~ies were soon arrested. since then, whole dens
With their Ci ers have come IN and surrendered, and
disclosed the Of their confederates UP 70 tns
-
County All these white Democrats, but as debased
and for the part ignorant and yllainous SET
OF men as any country produce. Their testimony
Involves the most influential men OF the county
embracing lawyers doctors, and even protested minis
tera OF the gospel There warrants out for about
lCO who thus far have euded the officers Among tneSe
il one member Of the State Legislature one member OF
the South Carolina Conference OF the NJ p. ChurUh
SOUTH one leading Baptist minister, and other equally
1t Is believed that from lOO 10 2O
men this county are involved Directly OF lnoreouy IN
the Outrages committed
DELIvERANCE FROM KU-KLUX TERRORISM.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct 22.-The people OF
this section are In state of feversh excitement over
the recent developments In the Ku-Klux question u
g. Marshal Johnson reached here last night with 10 Ku
Klux prisoners, having left co more at Spartanburg.
The whole gang made up Of what the people here call
"low-down" fellows, ready to do any work, how
ever bloody II nstgnted by superior intelligence. tis
perfectly astonishing the ramicatlons Of this internal
order 1t extends In all directions, and Is said 10 en-
brace some of tho prominent men Of this State In
York Union and Spartanburg Counties hundreds have
fed to escape arrest Some have gone 10 Georgia. and
some have been heard from beyond the Mississippi.
Men whom no one suspected left their homes with
their crops ungathered. and have fled no one knows
WHITTIER and yet the work is only fairly begun Unless
a general stampede is made, the jas and prisons Will
not contain the guilty wretches. Many OF those ar
rested confess to being rOped in by prominent Demo
Gratis In their respective counties The developments
are OF the most damning character. The officers are
kept busy night and day hunting the frightened VI
lans The day Of deiveranee from the terrorism which
has prevailed In portions OF this State for more than TWO
years seems to be dawning upon u.s.