Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-01

most vigorous condition, but it is now through
all the South, with more efficient discipline
and effective direction than ever, reviving, il
preparation for the next Presidential cam
paign, when, as they told one OF their victim:
in Tennessee few weeks since, ..no ID
Radical voting is to be allowed in any South.
ern State, by black or white
3. That this Ku-Klux organization is the
premeditated and determined scheme for car
rying the South at the next election of Presi-
dent, 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 sep
arate bands,) are the leading and active Dem
ocratic politicians of the South.
5. That the scheme has the hearty good
will of large section Of the Democratic par
ty in all those States, and the acquiescencc of
nearly the entire party.
G. That the direct and chief purpose Of the
organization, as sworn by all the victims, as
| the assertion uniformly made to themby these
midnight assassins, and corroborated by the
universal testimony of the repentant and di-
| vulgng members Of the Order, is this The
putting down Of the Republican and the put
ting up of the Democratic party.
7. That while the Democratic and Ku- Klux
witnesses on their direct examination usually
deny the political purpose of the Order, as
serting that the Ku-Klux are social neces-
sity growing out of the abolition of the old
Patrol; that they have to ride the country to
''keep the Niggers in their places" that un-
der the influence of Radical Legislation and
Methodist preaching the Niggers are liable to
become saucy, and without an occasional Ku-
Klux visit would ''begin to think themselves
az good as white folks" and that these FREE
quent floggings, and an occasional murder,
are necessary to maintain such state of NOR
ais among the blacks as will permit the vice.
hating whites to live in their neighborhood;
yet on the cross-examination, these witnesses
also very generally, as well as reluctantly,
confess that the intimidation of Republican
voters is prominent and not to be regretted
result.
s. That to secure this purpose, the putting
down of the Republican and putting up of the
Democratic party, intimidation is the grand
measure-the intimidation of Republican vo-
tiers, black and white, but especially the hum
BILE and defenceless, by midnight raids; by
burning houses and stores, and the destruction
Of crops; by whippings of such extreme cru
city as often to end in death; by most indie
cent 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 Re-
publican vote from two or three thousand to
less than single dozen.
9. That "school-teachers," and preachers
OF the Methodist church North" seem to be
the especial adherence of Democratic assas-
sins; and hundreds of school-house and
Methodist churches have been given to the
fames and Christendom will stand aghast
when it is made known the scores of school
teachers and Methodist preachers, who, by
this Democratic agency, within these thres
years, have been whipped! shot! hung! ant
in some instances, it is believed, burned Al
the stake!
10. That in nearly one-half the States Of
this Union this work is now going on, night
by night every month extending the range
of its bloody operations, and fearfully multi
plying the number of its victims.
IL. That it is solely and Immediately in the
service of the Democratic party-a large por
ton of the party South heartily approving
large numbers of the party North attempting
it's palliation by excuse, and its shelter from
scorn by covering up or denying its crimes
as if COW ardly Assassination could be palliated
and brutal murder excused-and the Demo
cratic party throughout the land rejoicing il
its promise of help. So, either by open an,
acknowledged action, or by the no less Grim
inal and the more cowardly participation o
extenuatng and shielding the crime, tn
party, South and North, become before til
people and before God equal sharers in tn
responsibility.
Out of the mouths of more than two hun
dred Witnesses is every syllable of this estab
ished and more than ten thousand Of tn
shroudless Dead, from hidden places by way.
side, in swamp and mountain, and from tn,
sleepless ashes of fred homes, shout theil
CHASTITY AMEN!
A single instance of these thousand Out
RACES perpetrated upon an American citizel
on foreign soil, would be thought ample caus
Tor War; and our entire Navy would hastel
to enforce the Nations Indignation. And
such abuse as is daily melted out to thes,
humble Methodist Preachers, if offered on,
of our Missionaries on heather ground, woul,