Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-10
kU.kLUx DlA0OLISM.

scores OF Witnesses from Ill seCllOHS Vi
the late insurrectonary Statesmen of
both high and humble station-Presi,
| ding Elders, Preachers, ex-Members of
the Confederate Congress, ex,Generals
Of both Armies, Governors and exsGov>
ernors Judges, Solicitors, Sheriffs, Rev.
enue Officers, Officers of the Army, Posts
masters, School Teachers, Repentant and
-Repentant members OF Ku-klux-
klans, and dozens of their MANNED and
suffering victims, black and white.
And what has this patent and thorough
investigation established--and establish.
cd beyond all future cavilor question
These atrocious facts
l. That in all the late insnrrectionary
States and generally difiused, though not
found in every County, is an oath bound
Secret Organization, working only at
night. and its members always in dis
gnise, with Officers Signs, Signals, Pass
words, Grips, and all the necessary para
phernalia, with the Pledged and Sworn
purpose of putting dorm the Republican
and putting up the Democratic P@rW !
| known in different localities among the
initiated by different names, but every
where recognized by the general cogno,
men "KU,KLux."
2 That the organization came into
being few months previous to the last
Presidential Election, during which can.
vass it was IN its most vigorous condition
but is now through all the South, with
more efficient discipline and effective
direction than ever, reyiviag, in prepara-
ton for the next Presidential campaign
when, as they told one Of their victims
in Tennessee few weeks since, mo
ID Radical voting is to- be allowed
in any Southern State, by black or
white"
g. That this Ku-Kinx organization is
the premeditated and determined scheme
fer carrying the South at the next cleo.
! ton of Presidents, and so, by securing
The entire electoral vote of that section,
make sure the election of the Democratic
nominee.
| l. That the officers and establishers
| Of these "Dens" Gas they appropriately
call their separate bands) are the leading
and active Democratic politicians of the
South.
5. That the scheme has the hearty
good will of large section Of the Dem-
| ocratc Party in all those States, and the
aoquicscence of nearly the entire Party.
t. That the direct and chief purpose
Of the organization, as sworn by all the
victims, as the assertion uniformly made
to them by these midnight assassins, and
corroborated by the universal testimony
Of tb, NJ anI liyu lf,in,r har
of the Order, is this; The putting down
Of the Republican and the putting up Of
| the Democratic Party.
I. That while the Democratic and
| ku klux Witnesses on their direct eX>
animation usually deny the political pur.
pose Of the Order, asserting that the ku-
| kluy are a social necessity growing out
| Of the abolition of the old Patrel that
they have to ride the country to keep
tho Niggers in their place that under
| the influence of the Radical Legislation
and Methodist Presiding the Niggers are
liable to become sa9cy, and without an
occasional Nj kluX visit would begin
to think themselves as good as white
folks; and that these frequent hoggings,
and an occasional murder, are necessary
to maintain such state of morals
asong the Blacks as will permit the
wee hating Whites to live in their neigh
bsrhood yet, on the crcss>examination
these Witnesses also very generally, as
well as we're reluctantly, confess that the
i,aiimidatica Of Repu6iic0 baas poterS is
prominens and not to be regretted re-
suit
g. That to secnre this purpose, the
pntting down of the Republic an and the
putting up 81 The Democratic Party, in
hm'dati0n is the grand measure-the iD,
! timidation of Republican voters, black
and white, but especially the humble and
deleneeless, by Midnight Raids by
burning houses and stores, and the
! Destruction OF Crops by whippings of
such extreme cruelty as often to end in
death; by most indecent and painful
mniming; by Assassination and Murder
in such cowardly manner and with such
/ hellish device rs moy strike terror into
whole counties, and brin1 dosyn the Re-
publican vote from two or three ihous-
and to less than single dosea.
! .. That School Teachers and
Preachers Of the Methodist Cbarch
North, seem to he the especial adhor-
renee of these Democratic Assassins
ar j u. dre1s Of School Houses and
| Methodist Churches have been given to
/ the flames; ana ChriStendom will stand
/ aghast when it is made known the scores
nt School Teachers and Methodist
/ 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
7 10. That in nearly one-haM the
States of this Union this work nj bell is