Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02


Republican Executive Committee of Wash
ington publish the following digest Of the
facts established by the Ku-Klux investiga-
ton during the two months in which the
Congress Committee have been in session.
/. That in all the late Insurrectionary
States, and generally diffused, though not
found in every County, is an oath-bound
Secret Organization, working only at night,
and its members always in disguise, with
Officers, Signs, Signals. Passwords, Grips,
and all the necessary paraphernaha, with
the Pledged and Sworn purpose of putting
dotcn the Republican and putting up the Dem
Ocratic Party known in different localities
among the initiated by different names, but
everywhere recognized by the general cogno-
men "ku-klux.'
> That the organization came into being
few months previous to the last President
al Election, during which canvass it was in
its most vigorous condition, but is now
though all the South, with more efficient
discipline and effective direction than ever,
reYiying, in preparation for the next presl-
Dental campaign, when, as they told one OF
their victims in Tennessee a few weeks since,
..no Id Radical voting is to he al
lowed in any southern States by ID tex or
white
B That this Ku-Klux organization l. the
premeditated and determined scheme for car
rying the South at the next election OF Pres
ident and SO. by securing the entire elector-
al vote Of that section. make sure the cleo
ton of the Democratic nominee.
+ that the officers and establ;shers 81 these
"Dens" (as they appropriately call their
separate bandsl are the leading and active
Democratic politicians Of the South
). That the scheme has the hearty good
Will of large section OF the Democratic
Party in all those States, and the acquIcs
cence OF nearly the entire party
q. That the direct and chief purpose Of the
organization, as sworn by all the Victims,
as the assertion uniformly made 10 them by
these midnight assassins, and eorrDborated
10y the universal testimony Of the repeutant
and divulging members Of the Order, is tins .
The putting down of the Republican and
the putting up Of the Democratic Party
= That while tic Democratic and ku klux
Witnesses on their direct examination usu-
ally deny the p1iitoli purpose 1t the Order,
asserting that the ku-kiuZ are social
necessity growing out II tie abolition OF
the old Patrol that they have u ride the
country to keep the Nissers in their place !
that under the Influence OF Radical Legis-
lation and Methodist Preaching the Niggers
are liable TO become saury,, and without an
occasional ku-kluN visit would begin T.
think themselves as good as white folks -
and that these frequent l1gglng-, and an
occasional murder, are necessary to maintain
such a state of morals among the Blacks rs
viii permit the wee hating " hitcs u i've in
their ncighbIrhpoi vet. On tac crus,-ezani-
nation. these w Witness ALSO very generally,
as well az very reluctantly, confess that the
.HiiuId1li9R ot Republican t0fts j, /. Trpmi-
nent and not % De regretted result
:. That o secure this purpose. tile put
ting down of the Republican ana the put
ting up of the Democratic Party, f4fiHlaa-
tam Is the grand measure- the intimidation
Ut Republican voters. black and white, bat
especially the humble and deieuccloss, bv
Midnight Raids 10y Burning Houses and
Stores and ,Lc Destruction OF Crops by
Whipping # such extreme cruelty ms often
u end ia death 10y most Indecent lnd pain
tai Manning by Assassination aui Murder
IN such cjWariiy manner and with such hell
ISL device a. may strike terror into whole
counties, and bring down tie Republican
vote from tNo lr three Thousand T. les han
"a single daz.u
3 That .Setu1 teachers, and Preach
crs Of tie Methodist Church North seem
to be the special ahhorrcnce Of thee Dem-
ocratic Assas-iu- ami hundreds u school
houses and Methodist Churehcs have been
given To the lame. and Chrl-teu35m wlll
stand agha.t when il is male known the
scores oil Scho9l-tcac hers and N thoii5t
Preachers, who, by this Democratic agency.
within these three years, have been " hip
ped shot! Hung and. IN some instances.
il is believed Banned AT the stake
40 hat "a nearly one-halt the states Of
this Mon tine work of he'll Is now going
on, night by night-cvery month extending
the range OF II bloody operations and fear
fully multiTly wing tie number OF it. victims
IL. That It is solely and Immediately in
the service Of the Democratic Party
large portion OF the party South heartily
approving numbers Of the party
North attempting its palliatlon by excuse
and itr shelter from scorn by covering up or
denying its crimes, as if cowardly Assassin
alton could be palliated, and brutal Murder
excused and the Democratic Party through
out the lani rejoicing in its, promise of
help. So. either by open and acknowledged
action, OF by the no less criminal and the
more cowardly participation of extenHating
and shielding the crime, the Party, South
and North, becomes before the people and
before God equal sharers in the response
bility.