New-York tribune., 1871-11-16
he nttnct on them va one Nhlte nan wounded

result Of the attack them White man wounded
| in the log, and iC blaEks killed.
IRaye IN Q dispaseh from OOlnmbaa tbs aEas u tho
KnKiux a. told ma by ~ pns0nsrs brought tste from
apartanburg County, ana have seafy given copy OF
the constitution and by lave OF the order in Polk County
| IN q previous letteE The oomterEiRn Was u Aay,
spoken with peculiar tntOnAtiOn The party nailed II
| o brother KB-Klux, answered "YOu say wharf, 70
which the other replied Nothing" The distress Word
| was Avalaucher which is corruption OF tho WOrd
Ambulance that was common IN the Rerei army fbo
disgses not uniform each Khan choosing log sel
in the way Of cOlors. Tho general resnAtonS required
that the diSguss should consist OF long gown coming
bigb nm on the neek and reaching 10 the heels With
sleeves hood covering the entire head, and mask.
The horses were with white ctoth In Agniso
was perfect for part Of the wearer or ms ordinary
dress could be SEEN Even his neoke was oonceaeu ana
his trosn down to his boOts and his horse was unre-
eoRnizabIe The Ku Klux sfter time became careless
shout THAR dreHs and often went out without their
gounssopoetif1es without masks-and IL wAs through
this earelessness that many were recognized. Theif
plaees of rendezvous fields, woods, crossroads
mills and especially churches, where they would pass
around word of raid at the Sunday evening service,
and start after they had received the benedcon to
naltreat or murder Of Gods poor Religion had no
effect toward making these villains mercfu. On one
occasion four who helped to kill negro on Friday
went the Communion table and parOok OF the Sacra
ment on the next Sunday, the minister knowing that
they had been concerned in the murder.
The murders were generally done by large foroe--
the cOnfessing KuKlux express It, by right smart
drove Of men," Sixty men killed negro named Round
in the northern part Of the county two or three
Rlans coming from North Carolina 10 help. In the case
where four killed negro by orders, 1t was thought
safe to mplicate the whole Kan, and the Chief SUM
moned them ALL led them to the place where the body
had hung three days. and had 1t sunk In Broad River
Whites as well az blacks were the victims OF raidsOne
Ru-I tnd thaFf
teaching negro school, and others because they were
Odd Radicals" The bakers dozen Of white Repubu
the county naturally jubant at the turning
Of the tables their oowardy enemies They say that
no such terrorism existed for them during the War
for Republicans during the past year. Ono Of these
men, "Big Bill Wilson," he Is called. after having been
"raded two or three times had to leave to his
life He back not long ago, and published card
in the village paper saying he had not returned 70
prosecute the KuKlux but to live in peace till he could
get his family away. Before he ready TO move the
arrests commenced The other day big BIZ" rode Ivy
the Commandants house. and seeing crowd Of Ku-KuX
in the yard come to confess when he got near them
he sang:
"The year OfJubllee has come.
Return ye rsnsOmed sinners home,
And aint going to novel"
To the cOOred people, this instant and thorough crush
ing Of the Ku.Kux viainy La q relief long prayed for
and despaired Of No one imagine the sufertDgs
these poor have endured in the past year-the
terrible anxiety, the constant fear Of scOnNng and
MURDER the sleeping in the woods during the cold
Winter nights and in the rains OF Spring and the actual
torture that hundreds endured whose hesh was so hO
rbly mangled by the blows Of their brutal asailants
that they will fully 81 tell you sah"
negro said to to-day, 1--WE was nightly broken up
Hundreds Of didn't dare sleep in our houses for hve
months. We jes' about Ruv 1t up, and done thought
there was help for We aus on dc side Of the
Norf but 1t peared like de EOrf didn't know it and
wasn't gOln' TO do muffin for u.s."
Tho cOnfesslng Ku.Kux agree In the main as TO what
they understood the purposes OF the organization
One says he told 1t was to suppress lawess
and support the Democratic party; another that
he understood II to put down the Radical Govern
ment" another that It to "keep the negroes from
rsing another that tho purpose to keep fuses
down and colored and white women apart" and so
through many variations of the purpose under
stood by ALL namely hostility to the negroes and to the
Republican party A considerable portion Of Ku-Kux
too ignorant to know much Of politics or parties,
but they not slow to the advantages of being
able to abuse with impunity the black and women
who lived In their neghbOrhOOd. The aim Of the intel
gent to control this poor white element for their
political advantage and to thoroughly crush the spirit
Of the negroes that they could be made to work with
out wages and vote a. they were told.
speak Of this KuKlux business in the past As
York County concerned 1t is thing OF the past
1t is extrpated root and branch But I'm all the other
counties OF the proclaimed us1ct there reaoon W Oc
Iieve that the order powerful although pru
dentialy Inactive at present In Fairfield County Is
new Klans are known to have been organized in the
month of August last Is not probable that the work
OF uppressng the murder0us conspiracy will be carried
beyond the three Counties Of York. spartanburg and
Union before the Court meets at Columbia on the nth
If the work s prosecuted in all the counties embraced in
the proclamation with the thorOughness with which 1t
has been done here 1t will be labor of many months
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