The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-08-10
Eleven Pregnant Facts Brought tt
Light By the Congressional In
vestlgatlBg Committee.

vcs'igating the Ku.Klux villainy-a
subcommittee in Washington, aud
another sub committee in South Car
olina--have now been 10 daily session
more than two months, and have had
before them many scores Of witnesses
from all sections Of the late Insurrec-
uonsry Statesmen OF both high and
humble sta,ion-Presiding Elders,
Preachers, ex- Members Of the Fedora
Congress and ex-Mombcrs Of tho Con-
fedrate Congress, ox-Generals Of both
Armies, Governors and ex-Governors,
Judges, Solicitors, Sherifs, Revenue
Officers, Officers of the Army, Post.
masters, School Teachers, Repentaut
and Non-repcntant members of Ku-
kIux klaus, aud dozens Of their
manned and suffering victims, black
and white.
And what has this patient and
thorough investigation established
aud established beyond all future ca
vii and question These astrocious
Facts:
!. That 10 all the late Insurrection.
ary States, and generally diflused.
though not found iu every County. is
an 40 oatb-bound Secret Organization
working only at night, and its men,
bers always 10 disguise, with Officers,
Signs, Signals, Passwords, Grips, and
all necessary paraphernalia. with the
pledged and sworn purpose Of putting
dozen he Republican and putting M
he Democratic Party; know in dii-
ferent localities among the initiated BY
different names, but everywhere rec
osn'zed by the general cognomen "KU.
KLUx.'
:. That the organization came into
being few months previous to the
last Presidential Election, during
which canvas it was in it's most vigor-
ous condition, but It is now all through
the South, with more efficient disci
pline and effective direction than ever
rcviving, in preparation for the next
Presidential campaign, when, as they
told one Of their victims iu Tennes.
see a few weeks since, "no Id
Radical voting is to be allowed 10 ANY
Southern State. by black or white
3. That this Ku-Klux organization
10 the premeditatcd aud determined
scheme for carrying the South at the
next election 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 establsher.
OF these Deus' Gas they appropri.
atcly call their separate bands) arc
the leading and active Democratic pol
iticians Of the South.
3. That tho scheme has thciheart,
goodwill of large section OF the
Democratic Party in oil those States
and the ncqniescence Of nearly the en-
tire Party.
6 That the direct and chief pur.
pose OF the organization, as sworn BY
all tho Victims, rs the assertion uni.
form'y. made to them BY these mid
night assassins, and corroboratcd b,
the universal testimony oflho repent
ant and divulgipg members OF tn,
Order, is this: The putting down o
tho Republican and the putting up o
the Democratic Party.
I. That whilc tho Democratic anC
Ku.Klnx witnesses on their direc
examination usually deny the politiea
purpose Of the Order, asserting tha
the ku.klux are a social necessit,
growing out Of the abolition of the olt
Patrolj that they have to ride tn,
country to keep the Niger in thei
place !" that under the influence o
Radical Legislation and Methods
Preaching tho Niegers are liable I,
become saucy," aud without an occa
sionsional Ku-Kluk visit would "begi,
10 think themselves as good as whit,
folks;" and that these frequent fog
gings, and aa occasional murder, or,
necessary to maintain such q state 0
morals among the Blacks as will per
nit tho vice hating Whites to 1.-Two il
their neighborhood ye, on the cIoss
examination, these Witnesses also yer,
generally, as well a. very reluctantly
confess that the naturalization of Re
nntiicaa rofers is prominent aud no
49, .~greted result.
= 3. Thst 10 secure this purpose, th,
putting down Of the Rspssliesu sut
the putiiog up Of the Depocrati,
Party, Intimidation is the grant
measure--ths intimidation of Repub
licss voters, black and white, but ss
pecislly the humble and dsfeuos lsse
BY Aidnight Raids; by Buroisl
Houses end Stores. and the Des,ruc.
ton OF Crops; By Whippings Of such
! e=.sems cruelty as ohsn 10 end ID
Death; by most Indecent and painful
Nainisgj BY Assassinatioa cod Mur.
der y ogeb eowsrdly msoosr and With
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