The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-02
Gremiisg State Su,armat.
LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PONDER
Ku-Klux. Diabolism.
Eleven Pregnant Facts Brought 10 Light by the
Congressional Investigating COMMITTEES.
IT'S DEMOCRATIC PATERNITY, HELLIsH
FEATURES, AND PARTY PURPOSES.

FEATURES, AND PARTY PURPOSES.
The Congressional Committee invest
eating the Ku-Klux yillainy-a sub-com
mittec in Washington, and another sub
committee in South Carolna-have nov
been IN daily session more than tw,
months, and have had before them man,
scores of witnesses from all sections of tn,
late insurrectionary Statesmen of botl
high and humble station--presiding elders
preachers, ex-members of the Fedora
Congress, and ex-members of the Confcde
rate Congress, ex-generals of both armies
governors, ex-governors, judges, solicitors
sheriffs, revenue officers, officers of the
army, postmasters, school teachers, repent.
ant and non-repentant members of the Ku-
klux Klans, and dozens of their manned
and suffering victims, black and white. aai
And what has this patient and thorough
Investigation established---and established
beyond all future caviI and question ?
These atrocious facts: ,'aa4,i har', ifs4
!. That in oil 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 paraphanalia, withthe
pledged and sworn purpose of a,aittiaq
dorm the Republican. and, putting up Me
Democratic party; known in different To-
calities among the initiated by. different
names, but everywhere recognized by the
general cognomen 'sKu-Klux."
2. That the organization came into being
few months previous to the last Presiden-
tial election, during which canvass it was
in its most vigorous condition, but is now
through all the South, with more efficient
discipline and effective direction than ever.
rev.ying, in preparation for the next Presi-
DENTAL campaign, when, as they told one of
their victims in Tennessee a few weeks
s nee, mo id Radical voting is to be
allowed in any Southern State by black or
white" 2''"Ts
3. That this Ku-Klux organization is the
premed'tated and 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. hnl
4. That the officers and establishers of
'hese ''dens" (as they appropriately call
heir separate bands are the leading and ac-
i've Democratic politicians of the South.
8. That the scheme has the hearty good
will of a large section of the Democratic
party in all those States, and the acquies-
,ence of nearly the entire party.
6. That the direct and chief purpose of
he orgar cations, as sworn by all the VIC
inns, as the assei Jon uniformly made 10
hem by these midnight assassins, and cor
'oborated by the universal testimony of the
epentant and dNulging members of the
rider, is this: The putting down of the
Republican and the putting up Of the DEM
'cratic party. ~ e%f .ae Afi@ /
Z. That while the Democratic and Ku-
llnx witnesses on their direct examination
lsually deny the pol,ti,ai purpose Of the
rider, asserting that the Ku-Klux are So
iM necessity growing out of the aboli-
ion of the old patrol; that they
ave to ride the country to s'keep
he niggers in their place :" that under the
influence Of Radical legislation and Metho-
ist preaching the niggers are liable to be-
ome saucy," and without All OCCASION
Ku-Klux visit would "begn to think ;;
as good as white folks ;'2and
nat these frequent foggings, and ap.ecea- I
onal murder, are necessary to maintain. {
lch state of morals among the blacks as !
ill permit vice-hating whites to live in their
yet, on the cross examina-
on, these witnesses also very generally, as
ell as very reluctantly, confess that the !
Of Republican soters is a prom J
ent and not TO be regretted result. I
s. That to secure this purpose, the put
ng downofi the Republican and putting a
Of the Democratic party, intimiaaioa is G
le grand measure-the int midation of s
epublican voters, black and White, but !
pecially the humble and defenceless. by Z
idnight raids !; by burning houses and
ores, and the destruction of crops; by,I !
hippings of such extreme cruelty as often i
end in death; by most indecent. and
linful manning; by assassination and !,
urder in such cowardly manner and with 4
ch hellish device as may strike terror into
hole counties, and bring down the Repub- !
AN vote from two or three thousand to I,
IS than a single dozen. 4ah AfhH ata I
0. That "school-teachers, !" and ''preach- il
Of the Methodist Church North, - seem {
be the especial adherence of these !,
emocratlc assassins; and hundreds of o
lighthouses and Methodist churches have p
'en given TO the flames and Christendom r. y
III stand aghast when it is made known I Z
e scores of school-teachers and Methodist z
eachers, who, by this Democratic agency, !
thin these three years, have been whip !
ID, shot, hung, and, in some instances, it a
believed, burned at the stake! II
10. That in nearly one-half the States Of Y
Is Union this work of bell is now going & 4
|, night by night-every month extending 4 4
G range of its bloody operations and II