The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-20
THE SECRET REBELLION.

The following article under the above
caption is from the Troy Times. 1t
brings out the issue between the two
great parties of the country so sharply,
forcibly and fairly that we take pleasure
In transferring it TO our own columns :
We can count onpur fingers the years
since gigantic rebellion ragged In the
land. Through years of terror, tumult
and blood was braveiy shed fair por-
lions of the country were wasted by
fire and sword while the desperate con-
flict went on. The men OF the North
fought for law and liberty and the
priceless privileges of social and polit-
zeal freedom. The men of the South
struggled to uphold an upstart oligar-
chy aud perpeIuate the damning insti-
tuition OF human slavery. Like foemen
worthy of each others steel, asking no
favors, face to face they met each other
ana sternly, steadily fought It out to the
end. So far as the manner of settling
the questions at issue was concerned
that was an honorable rebellion. 1t
was settled in the open field according
to the rules of modern warfare.
To-day We say the rebellion Is crush
ed the slaves are free. there Is peace
throughout the land. IL this truep Yes,
there is peace-in the North, and the
open, the abovebos I'd, the daylight re-.
bellion is crushed, but the secret rebell-
ion continues. Instead of the ringing
yell of the confederate soldiers we have
the midnight howl of the Ku-Klux
cut-throat. Instead of the long lines
of grey calamity rushing upon the
waiting lines of blue and joining bat
tie in the open day the soldiers of the
secret rebellion, masked and disguised,
with torch and knife and halter, skulk
under cover of the darkness to fall upon
their interpreting victims. In the dead
of night the sleeping and innocent
ones are awakened by the bowls of
Ku-Klux assassins, and while the roof
that sheltered them is wrapped in flames
the lash descends npon the shrinking
flesh of the women and children, and
the body of the father or brother dan
giles from the nearest tree. The confed-
crate soldiers fought openly under the
leadership of avowed traitors to the
Government. The ku-Klux demons
wage a midnight war with the appro-
val and encouragement of their Demo-
cratic leaders, who, secret traitors, with
lOud-mouthed professions of patriotism
work cautiously and silently in the
darkness, and aid, abet and urge on
their blood-stained tools in this war
for political power. When, where or
in what manner has Democrat, North
or South, ever been known to denounce
this secret rebellion! What Democrat
ic paper III all the broad land ever con-
tanned ono erpoSe of Ku-Klux deviltries
at the South, orspokc one word in con-
demnation of them? Day after day, in
the face Of all the CHASTITY evidence to
the contrary, they deny even the eXis-
tence of the white brotherhood" or
strive TO hide, to palliate or excuse the
atrocities of their Ku-Klux minions.
Arc all these thousands of Ku-Klux
banded together without leaders? Are
these continual outrages performed
withouta motive or object? Has the
secret rebellion no chiefs or directors?
1t has leaders /; they are Democrats in
the South, Tammany in the North. 1t
has a motive-hatred of the Govern
mont and desire for power. 1t has an
oiect-to defeat by force the reconstruc-
ton acts; to break up and dispense the
carpet bag governments" and to re-
gain political ascendency ut whatever
cost. In the Republican address to
the people OF Virginia it is truly said
that it is not the real perpetrators of
these barbarities who most deserve
punishment, but the more cautious in
cendiaries who, wealthy, educated,
skilled in the arts of treason, incite
those ignorant brutes to acts which
they themselves avoid. Who are these
iucendiaries2 Who are these murder
drs? They are the Democratic leaders
of the North and South; they are the
real and greatest offenders. They are
responsible for the condition of affairs
at the South. Were it not for these dis
appointed demagogues, these reckless
aspirants for power and authority, the
South would really be as quiet, as peace
able and prosperous as the Democrats
endeavor TO prove it to be to-day.
In the copperhead nest of Northern
Democracy this secret rebellion was
hatched, and the men who are really
responsible for the enormities practiced
at the South walk in our midst. The
leaders of the TammanY Democracy,
who in the North ride rough shod over
law and justice and rob the public
treasures of millions of dollars to carry
on their struggle to subvert the gov
eminent, obtain political power and
avenge past defeats, in the South en-
courage rebellion, organize Ku-Klux
and cut the Threats of Union men to
accomplish the same object. Let these
leaders accomplish their object, again
come into power and elect their Presi-
dent in 1872, and we must submit to
the loss of everything gained in our
long and bloody struggle, and the war
of the rebellion must be fought over
again. The nation must be vigilant.
These leaders are still strong. They
are reckless and unscrupulous to the
last degree. They will leave no stono
injured, no device untried, however
wild or wicked it may be, to accomplish
their obi acts, They pirate of duty and
patriotism, they take "new departures"
and profess to accept the results of the
war and bend in supmission to the law.
They do submit, they do bend, but it is
the shrinking of the beast that crouches
| 20 spring. Let the people unite to vote
down these ku-klux leaders, to reas-
sert the noble principles of the Reprb-
lican party and re-elect their President,
or they may look with dread to what
| the fnfnrn NAV haze in sfnra for them