The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-05-27
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ganisation whose namc is expressed in
3 the caption of this article. We have
4 been under the impression that the least
said about it would he the best. To.
day, however, another impulse strikes
us, IAN impulse that prompts us to raise
our voice, in common with all peace
Il loving citizens, in condemnation of the
rcowardly workings of the Ku Klux
2 iKlan. And it is time that this organ.
Sation should find a rcbukc and re-
pronch for it in the mouth OF every man.
i Democrat and Republican alike 1t is
1stime that every citizen of this common
wealth should bring to bear al the in
fiuence he may possess, against Klan
that threatens our entire country with an
avalanche of troubles and disasters 1t is
oitime tina; the man whose soul has one
spark of chivalry in it, whose nature is
not so bascly ignoblc as to sanction mid
night assassination, whose life is roun
.ded by the affections of wife and chill
dren, made smooth by the felcitous
Joys Ct home, should begin to think, and
think seriously, what is to become of all
these if the das.ard Ku Klux klan
should continue and grow in such pro-
portions as to nccossitate the getting up
Of universal counter organizations, such
as are formed in North Carolina. snd.
we understand, in Beat ri aud Charles
ton Counties in our own State? We
ask, what is to become of these? Is
athis not pertinent question? Perhaps
If our readers had moro perfect reai-
zation of the danger that threatens our
. country, they would answer, 1t is.
Il. In North Carolina the colorcd people
have been whipped, shot, killed and so
soften inhumanly treated by this Kan
That for the prescrva,ion-c7 their own
lives, hundreds them have banded
together, aud retired to the swa,nps, there
to find security from the violences of the
,KuoKlux. And what is the consequen-
scos? Perfectly plain. They have to
live. How do they get it? The question
will answer itself. Olcoarsc they have
no mercy, and make no discrimination
between any Of the white citizens, and
whoseycr house is the most convenient
@ to them, when they set out Of provis,
ions, why, as matter of course, raid
is made upon it, and its contents
taken off to their camps Their raids
are made upon the innocent and unsus
1pechng as we'll as the guilty. They
seem determined not to starvc.
A few nights ago large band of ne
groess that were driven into tho swamps of
of North Carolina, from fear of the Ku
hlux, visited house occupied hy
family innocent, perhaps, of all com
plicity with this Klan, and very likely
opposed to their deeds of violence and
blood, aud demanded that supper be
prepared Tor the crowd. The husband
dof the house was away, and his poor
iwIfe and Mortified children were alone
alone with crowd whose fury was al
most demonacal because of the many
wrongs inflicted upon them This much
to-be-pitied and frightened woman, obey
led the command given her, prepared
supper for tbs is,:uri;,tei, AID I.u,gry
band, after which she was told that if
any information OF their visit was given
to the community, they should all per-
ish Before leaving they took four hun.
dred pounds of bacon, half barrel of four,
and such other things as they could
find, leaving this unfortunate family, in
all probability, entirely destitute
Now grand, brave and dauntless Cy-
-oclops of North Carolina, where were you
owhsn all this work was being done
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