Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-11-08

Some very astounding disclosures
have just been developed in regard to
the movements and purposes of q
secret order in the South, named the
4" Invisible Empire" which is but
another name for Ku Klux rebels and
traitors. The Washington correspon-
dent Of the New York Herald, writ
ing under date Of November ?, says:
"Just st this moment it is q matter
OF great interest al to what the Presi-
dent knows or thinks he knows about
the Ku Klux. 1t is asserted by those
VINO ought to know something of the
character of the information cOmmu-
nicated from time to time to the Ex-
eeutive that he has mach more direct
knowledge on this subject than even
that possessed by the Congressional
Committee. Gentlemen of high char
acter, formerly officers in our army,
who were and are now living in the
South, having learned through their
supposed Democratic sympathies, i'm
portant facts relative to the secret pur-
poses Of this organization, have made
him acquainted with the danger TO
It's fullest extent. The officers Of the
United States Secret Service have
been and still are very active in fer
reting out the Khan. The danger to
which they are exposed in this service
renders it necessary that great caution
be exercised in making their opera
lions public. These officers are not
known to each other, and as a conse-
quence it often happens that the most
efficient mon are reported by others as
being Ku Klux Chiefs. 1t will be
shown, when the facts all come out,
that the Ku Klux in Snuth Carolina
have been largely furnished with arms
from northern sources. 1t is even
asserted that an examination of the
shipments from the arms manufacture
ing companies of the North, and espe-
eially from New York, for the last two
years, will show a great activity in the
Southern trade. IL Is the opinion of
the administration and those who
sustain its policy of repression, that
Il is the design Of the Invisible En-
pire to attempt the repOssession of
the old rebel element, first, Of the
several Southern States by the demon
aIization, through terror, outrage and
murder, of the party sustaining re-
construction and its results, and sec
ondly, BY similar means, but more
general and systematic in character,
to force every Southern State to vote
against the Republican presidential
nominee, and thus restore to them
control Of their local and State affairs
and the Inauguration Of their patty
associates in the government. A con-
tingeney for which they have I'M
dOubtedly worked, is, in the event of
Congress refusing to count electoral
votes obtained by such q palpable sys-
tenn of terror and violence as the Kq
Kinx will inaugurate, to at once raise
the standard Of revolution within the
Union, declaring that the refusal Is
only 8 step in 8 prearranged plan to
keep the power in the hands Of the
now dominant party. There is no
doubt in the minds of the best in
formed persons here who have inves-
tigatsd the character and purposes Of
this conspiracy that such q design as
that indicated Is seriously contem-
plated. Opinions like these have in
huenced the cOUrse Of the President
toward South Carcliza, and have led
also to the doom which is now ims
pending over GeoFEis,