The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-08-19
ku-Klux DiaboIIsm.
ELEVEN PREGNANT FACTS BROUGHT TO
LIGHT By THE CONGRESSIONAL IN
yEsTIGATING COMMITTEE.

Hiittce III washington, anu aHoiHet ouo
committee in South Carolina-hayo been
in daily session more than two months,
and have had before them many scores
of witnesses from all sections of the late
Insurrectionary Statesmen OF both
/ high and humble station Presiding
Elders, Preachers, ex- Members OF the
Confederate Congress, cx.Generals of
both Armies, Governors and ex- Govern
ors, Judges, Solicitors, Sheriffs, Revenue
Officers, Officers of the Army, Post>mast>
ers, School Teachers, Repcntant and
Nonrcpentant members of Ku. Klux
Klans, and dozens of their manned and
suffering victims, white and black.
And what has this patient aud thor
ough investigation established-and es>
tablished beyond all future cayil and
question These atrocious Facts:
1. That in all the late Insurrection-
airy States, and generally difused, though
not found In every County, is an oath
bound Secret organization, working only
AI dAu AIS InCHubClS Az dio-
guise, With Officers, Signs, Signals, Pass
words, Grips. and all necessary paraphre-
MALTA, with the Pledged and Sworn pur-
pose of putting do,en tie Rcpu6lican and
putting up the Democratic Party known
in different localities among the initiated
by different names, but everywhere rec
or,,,oI h., ~ ,ranar.l q
Klux."
2. That the organization came into
being few months previous to the last
Election, during which canvass it was in
its most vigorous condition, but is now
through all the South, with more efficient
discipline and effective direction than
ever, revivinS, inpreparation for the next
Presidential campaign, when, as they
told one OF their victims in Tennessee
few weeks since. sspo id Radical vot-
ing is to be allowed in any Southern
State, by black or white"
3. That this Ka-Klux organization
is the premeditated and determined schme
for carrying the South at the next cleo
ton of President, and so, by securing
the entire electoral vote of that section,
make sure the election of the Democratic
nominee.
4 That the officers and establishers
of these "Dens," Gas they appropriately
call their separate bands) are the Lead
ing aud active Democratic politicians of
the South.
5. That the scheme has the hearty
good will of a large section of the Demo
cratic Party in all those States, and the
acqniescence of nearly the entire party.
6. That the direct and chief purpose
Of the organization, as sworn to by all the
victims, as the assertion uniformly made
to them by these midnight assassius, and
eorroboratcd By the universal testimony
of the repentant aud diyulsinS 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 pur-
pose 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 influence OF aRadical Legislation and
Methodist Preaching the Niggers are
liable to become saucy," and without an
occasional Ku-Klux visit would sbegin
to think themselves as good as white
folks" and that these frequent fog
gings, and an occasional murder, are nee
essary to maintain such state of morals
among the blacks as will permit the vice
hating Whites to live in their neighbor
hood; yet on the cross examination, these
Witnesses also very generally, as well as
very reluctantly, confess that the int,mi
t1ation Of Republican roters is proh,i
nent and not to be regretted result.
s. That to secure this purpose, the
putting down of the Republican aud the
putting up of the Democratic Party,
Intimidation il the grand measurc-the
intimidation of Republican voters, black
and white, but especially the humble and
defenccless, by midnight raids; by burn
ing Houses and Stores, and the Destruc-
ton of Crops; by Whippings of such
extreme cruelty as often to end in Death;
by most indecent and painful Manning
bv Assassination and Murder in such
cowardly manner and with such heIlish
device as may strike terror intn whole
counties, and bring down the Republican
vote from two or three thousand to less
than single dozen.
81. That s.School teachars,' and
..Preachers of the Methodist Church
North,' seem to be the especial abhor>
renee of these Democratic Assassins
and hundreds of School-houses and Meth
odist Churches have been given to the
flames; and Christendom will stand
agIast when it is made known the scores
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