The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-08-10
Its Democratic Pdternity,its Helltst
Features and Party Purpose.

eating tie Ku- Klux villainy-a sub, CON-
mittee IN Washington, and another SUBJ
committee in South Carolina-haye now
been in daily session more than two months,
and have had before them many scores of
witnesses from all sections of the late
lnsurrectionary Statesmen of both high
and humble misunderstanding Elders,
Preachers, ex-Members of the Federal
Congress and ex- Members of the Con-
federate Congress, ex Generals of both
Armies, Governors and ex Governors,
Judges, Solicitors, Sherif's, Revenue
Officers of the Army, Postmasters, School
Teachers, Repentant and Nonrepentant
members of Ku-Klux Klans, and dozens
of their MANNED and suffering victims,
black and white.
And what has this patient and thorough
Investigation established-and established
beyond all future cavil and question ?
These atrocious Facts:
l. That in all the late Insurrectionary
States, and generally difused, though not
found in, every county, is as oath bound
Secret Organization, working only at night,
and its members always in disguise, with
Officers, Signs, Signals, Pass. words, Grips,
and all the necessary paraphernalia, with
the Pledged and Sworn purpose putting
dozen the Republican and putting up the
Democratic Partg known in different
localities among the inflated by different
names, but everywhere recognized by the
general cognomen "Ku Klux."
2. That the organization came into be-
ipo, fou p,Optbc +ho 1oet
Presidential Election, during which
canvass it was in its most vigorous condi-
ton, but is now through all the South,
with more efficient discipline and effective
direction than ever, reviving, in prepa-
ration for the next Presidential campaign,
when, as they told one of their victims in
Tennessee few weeks since, ono id
Radical voting is to be allowed in any
Southern State, by black or white"
5. That this Ku-Klux organization is
the premeditated and determined scheme
for carrying the South at the next elec-
tion of President, and so, by securing the
entire electoral vote of that section, 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 leading and
active Democratic politicians of the South
5. That the scheme has the hearty
good-wi Of large section of the Demo
cratic Party in all those States, and the
acquiescence of nearly the entire Party.
u. That the direct chief purpose Of the
organization, as sworn by all the Victims,
as the assertion uniformly made to them
by these midnight asSassins, and cor
roborated by the universal testimony of
the repentant and divulging 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 examina-
ton usually deny the political purpose of
the Order, asserting that the Ku uKlux
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 Radical Legislation and Methodist
Preaching the Niggers are liable to be-
come saucy," and without an occasional
Ku Klux visit would "begin to think
themselves as good as white folks )" and
that these frequent foggings, and an oc-
casional murder, are necessary to main
tain such state of merals among the
Blacks as will permit the vice hating
Whites to live in their eighborhood yet,
on the cross examination, the Witnesses
also very generally, as we'll as very reluc-
tantly, confess that the Intimidation Of
Republican vOters is a prominent and not
to be regretted result.
8. That to secure this purpose, the put
ting down Of the Republican and the put
ting up of the Democratic Party, Htinai.
ddtion is the grand measure-the intimi-
dation of Republican voters, black and
white, but especially the humble and de-
fenceless, by Midnight Raids by Burn
ing Houses and Stores, and the destruc-
ton of Crops by Whippings of such ex
treme cruelty as often to end in Death !;
by most indecent and painful Manning;
by Assassination and Murder in such
cowardly manner and with such hellish
device as may strike terror into whole
counties, and bring down the Republican
vote from two or three thousand to less
than single dozen.
9. That School teachers, and Preach
ers of the Methodist Church North seem
to be the especial adherence of these
Democratic Assassins and hundreds Of
School houses and Methodist Churches
have been given to the flames and Chris
tendon will stand aghast when it is made
known the scores of School teachers and
Methodist Preachers, who, by this Demo
tratic agency, within these three years,
have been Whipped Shot Hung and,
in some instances, it is believed, Burned
at the Stake
10. That in nearly one half the States
of this Union this work of hell is now go
inor ,ixLt LIZ ON th o