The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-04-12
The Radicals and the Ku-Klu2.

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providing a law for catching the XVI
Klux. Of course, it is an emanation
from Radical brains. 1t is strange
there should be any respectable por-
ton ola large party that would believe
the ghostly stories told of an ~organiza-
ton that has no existence. Those
who believe such stuff. must be, in
deed, very credulous. 1t it not sur
prising that children should believe
ghost stories, but it is surprising that
men should believe the ridiculous
things that are told of the Ku-Klux.
The one is just about as sensible as
the other.
Now, the truth is, the Radical mem
bers of Congress believe no such stuff.
They have made the myth of the Ku-
KIux Khan the staple of their politi-
cal stock in trade. With ignorant
constituencies, they use these hallu-
cinations to arouse the stupid minds OF
the lower order of Yankees against
their political opponents. They keep
up the war-cry of treason! treason
TREASON! like the thief who steals
and cries thief! theft THIEF! They
themselves are the traitors and the
thieves. They set up a loud yell of
traitors and thieves in order to divert
the public mind North from their own
r~ascality. In this way these fellows
keep in officn, keep the country divid
ed and plumber the public treasury.
For this purpose, and for this purpose
alone. do the Radicals keep up the cry
of Ku-Klux.
Well, who are the Ku-Klux? We
do not see any of them. No outrage,
of the Ku-Klux style, has been com :
mitted in this vicinity, nor in a hun
dred miles Of it. If four thousand
such outrages have been committed in
the South since the war, more than
four to every county, why is it that
not one has been committed in Troup?
Why none in the adjoining counties '?
We hear nothing of Ku-Klux outra-
ges in this Congressional District
We know of none in the Stale. We
hear, occasionally, of a murder by dis
guised persons but it invariably turns
out that the disguised are members or
camp-followers of the Republican par
ty, and mostly negroes. These are
the only outrages that We hear that
seem to bear anything like the char
acter given to Ku-Kluxism.
No, no, no; there is no such organ
ization as the Ku-Klux Khan in exis-
tence, nor has there been in several
years; and when they did exist, they
were organized for a more noble pur-
pose than to practice murder, rapine
and plumber. The mere name of the
Khan has been caught up by the Re
publican party with whichto scare their
ignorant constituencies, and thereby
form an excuse so create laws whereby
Republican office-holders may keep in
place by having conferred upon them
selves extraordinary powers to -beGevii
and worry the Southern people whom
they hate because they will not sustain
the Republican party.
The Republican party has fed and
thrived for years upon hate and NAL
ice and revenge. No other food would
sustain its diabolical existence. With.
out principle and without common
honesty, it is compelled to resort to
every sort OF strategem, however dis.
honorable, 10 perpetuate its power and
existence. The pending Ku-kIux
bill is the last hope of the party. Cor
rupt and ~profiigate, usurpative and
oppressive, it has no truly republican
democratic principles to recommend
it to the honest voters of the country
upon its own merits, and it must needs
therefore resort to buffoonery, strata
gem, delusion, and all that is mean
and contemplate in order to keep it
together. BY appeals to sectional
and animosities; by mlsrep-
resentation of disloyalty as pictured
in Ku-Klux stories, the Republican
party seems to be able to deceive the
ignorant masses of the North into its
support.
This is the object of the ku-Klux
bill. 1t is in perfect keeping with the
deceitiul practices of the party. 1t is
but an abstract of the general princi-
piles which govern the operations of
that pa ty. 1t is intended to throttle
public opinion in the South as the
highwayman meets the wayfaring trav-
eler and robs him of his money The
bill is dishonorable. 1t is political as
sassination. 1t is blood and rapine.
1t is intended to produce disorder to
be placed to the discredit of the Dem
party in the next Presidential
election.
Such legislation is a disgrace to the
people and an outrage upon
Christian civilization.-La Grange Ala
Rpnnrter.