The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-20
What Mr.. Greeley Says, of the
Ku-KlHI.

his recent south. western Journey, en-
deayored to enlarge his knowledge and |
correct his preconCeptlOns with regard To
the people'Oi the States he visited, their
political differences, their industry, and
their social condition. To this end he
conversed with White and Black, loyal
and rebel, high and low, rich and pool,
so far as opportunity afforded him, The
fruits of his inquiries were embodied IN
his letters which from time to time ap'
peared in these columns and in his speech
on his return in response to the address oil
welcome by Mr.. Fancher on behalf Of the
Union Republican General Committee
An these having been founded on the OBJ
seryations of some three or four weeks,
NAV have had little merit or value; nut
they were at least the conclusions Of one
who had earnestly sought the truth, luliy
resolved to proclaim it without lear OF
favor, 80
Two topics, whercon little had been
said in his letters, were briefly discussed
in his Union Square speech. They were,
/. The alleged land henied) Ku. klux out.
RACES; and g The asserted rapacity and
yGnalily of those stigmatiZed US carpet.
baggers' Is, men Of Northern birth
: and breeding who had migrated during
or since the war to the South, apd there
taken an active part in the organization
OF tile Republican party and the legisla'
ton and rule OF the reconstructed States.
I Thousands ut the North were earnestly
and properly asking; "Are the alleged
: Ku RlnX outrages sober realities or par.
Q tisan ialsthOOds and gross eXAggerauons:
c II is true that u part of the 'carpet-bag
gers arc rapaCious rascals, intent mainly
on filling their own pOCkCtsS
He answered both these questions IN
II the affirmative. There have been many
g Ku.Klux Outrages at the South, though
d, all the Democrats are not kukluX; there
are rapaciOus hypocrites and swindIing
II obberS among the "Carpet.baggers,
though many petbaggers" so'call-
ed) arc upright, worthy, true men, who
10 are hated and maligned mainly because o
g their Republican convictions and eiticl
y enCy. ,,,,
Is OF course, there were men of this or
k, that party, more especially at the South
&c whom these answers did not please, AM
1t who, in the interest OF their party or @
III their own regulations, demurrcd to them
This was to be expected And those VIII
~ had roundly denied the alleged Ku'klu'
outrAges, or insisted that they were few
as insignificant, and melted by the bad con
~ duct OF their victims, attributed the test
n mouy thus borne to one.sided inlormatio
IN and partisan prejudice.
', Now, this Editor, in the speech Aiort
III said, has based his conviction that III
ms Klux Oulrdges were not only pcrpetrate
10 but were melted by hate and dread
n. Republican ascendenCy, not by personi
" or private considerations, upon the oilicl'
Ss returns OF tho registration Of voters in SUI
ral cessiye elections In Louisiana. These r
zen turns inContCstablY show -,
In |. That very large majority OF u
Nv voters Of that State, rs officially regl
ny tered in 1907, were COlored;
ny 9. That the State Elections, held Jul
,rs before and since the Presidential conte
% Of 1868, resulted in large Republican mi
W. j0rities; ,oo
'as 3. That the vote for President in lsO
nevertheless, resulted exceptionally in
very large majority for Seymour al
lrc Blair over Grant and COllaX
all. 4. That, in half the Counties OF I
the State, wherein at least Fifty ThOusaI
div COlorcd mon are registered as leg
net voters, and which at each Shiie EleCtl
I'm. under the present Constitution have CIV
on. an aggregate Republican vote Of Abo
Il u Forty Thousand, there were less IN
lit ItrO Thousand votes in all cast for Ora
test and COlhx, many Counties which usua
hat cast from One Thousand to TwCnty.ti
Of Hundred Republican votes caCh havi
tier given Grant and COlIaX but y, 2,Or VO
,ter. and several not one.
urc Is Unnecessary To explain such figure
,,a The Republicans uniformly testify IL
ISL there was nm organized and armed &C
ave spiracy whereby they, and especially I
ltly Blacks, were deferred from vOtlng-tl
lila Offering 10 vote wOnld have cost tht
- =, their liVes-that the Democrats were
I''"' termincd to carry the State for Seymo
IXa' and did carry II, by systematic terrorls
ally against which the poor and humble du
rail. not contend.
Ifyou affect to disbclieve this, what
~ YOU believe? Whydid these forty til,
au- sand Republicans abandon the polls
Did that one occasion and on no Otht
Iufn OhU Juu SlJ Ntt"tHu IT..
o Now, the Ku.Klux organization II
AIRY be active in this locality and dormant
bout tllat-may seem dead TO day and be
Guild viVed tO.mOrrow-but the Ku.K
Tin, spiTtstill lives at the South, and Is Y,
, formidable. 1t Is grounded In conN
u III ton that the blacks are unfit and not
ihcn ally entitled to vOte-that reconstruct
pose Is usurpation---that "this Is VIII
,,r,. Mans GOvernment"-and that the bl
'O , vote Is somehow to be nulliied; by
Scel' means, II practicable; but by S0nle me
ratio anyhow.
II Is against this spirit and It's my
'ople an!S " sH' i I.o IN n,r r.
Ihat ment most righteously and properly
Ihed. Congress he not empowered TO pro
egis. the right Of the People to choose 4
/, ,ho President and Vlce.President aga
=. ~ such conspiracy as that which ialsi
10 ue the verdict Of Louisiana IN 1868, then
! this Constitution Is sham and the Rlgl
r we Suffrage mOckery.
ma so much for Ku.Klux. We
- 80 ~ overhaul the thieving carpet.bagger
Vo'e our next.
WHAT A RAILROAD DOEs.-The j
Iev. son farm, Of one hundred and forty