Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-21
A .CoURIER.souRNAL SENSATION

OOORAE<h-SWO8NAL SENSAIION.
The Louisville Couriey-J osnnGl publishes
big sensation in the shape of letter from
jackson, Mississippi, bearing date Nov. "a,
1871. The writer processes 10 have receiv-
ed information of serious and influential
organization, /" which appears to exist
throughout various Southern States, es-
pecially those bordering upon the Mississip-
pi river" The pith of this startling revela-
ton is that this organization, strong in
numbers and wealth, has for its object the
''ridding the South Of the vicious, Idle and
worthless negroes who have eongregated in
the towns, villages and Cities" by sending
them into States North of the Ohio river.
The writer says: afEsafl1 vl
GAN the philanthropy of the North has
been bubbling up in sympathy with the dis
taRt African citizen, so gloriously invested
with all American rights; and it is pro-
posed to let them mingle more nreserved-
" with the smen and brethren of the Rad
ical camp. A systematic organization will
encourage their emigration and solicit
everywhere subscriptions for paying the
railroad fare aud. a reasonable amount
to provide them with support for a few
days after their arrival in Northern local
tiles. 1t may be ultimately extended to
sending them into States, where they can
settle farms, and acquire them from the
United States by five years residence. Ger
tainly we shall thus be rid of very many bad
subjects, who marsud and rob at all times,
even if they refrain from murder. The
leaders in this movement are law-abiding
citizens who entirely disapprove of Ka-
Klux organizations. Such plan is per-
fectly legal, and can not be opposed with
propriety by any State or city. Some I'M
doubleday urge it on in a bitter spirit,
deeming it a fitting 4method of re-
taliation by letting loose these black
dregs of society upon Radical communities.
But the great mass are actuated, trust,
by nobler feelings, and considerable it may
be the means of infusing some spirit of
usefulness into now comparatively useless
human beings. That they may be taken
by the hand indOctrinated with thrift and
industry. On the other hand it may be
apprehended that, in larger fields, these
ignorant and unbridled creatures may seek
out the worst elements of society with
which to band themselves, and to earn their
living by rapine and violence. That is the
only argument which could be used against
it in the North"
1t is upon just such stuff as this that Rad
ical hate is fed and kept alive in the North.
1t is curious if such an organization as this
exists that the keen-scented Radical spies
who have been hunting up Ku-Klux and
other evidences of disloyalty in the South,
have not stumbled upon this formidable and
dangerous society. 1t was reserved for the
correspondent of the COUier-JOurndl to
make the astounding discovery, and that
paper to publish it that the disciples of hate
might have an additional incentive to per-
secute and annoy the people of the South.
That the Radicals regard this sensation as a
''sweet morsel" is already painfully evident.
The Cincinnati Gazette characteristics it as
"a society worse than the Ku-Klux," and
the reporter for the Associated Press tele-
graphs to the Northern papers as follows:
LOUISVILLE, Nov: 1.-THE Courier
Journal, tomorrow, publishes a startling
letter from the South, which sets forth that
society, strong in numbers and wealth,
has been organized, having for its object the
importation of negro ruffans into the
Northern States. The letter in question is
very positive and specific. 1t says the plan
is to furnish such negroes as are dangerous
in every community, with means of getting
away, requiring them to go north Of the
Ohio river. The society is opposed to the
Ku-Klux. 1t claims it has a right, in
the absence of local justice denied by the
General Government, to get rid of its muir
derers by money. 1t is alleged that the in
crease of negro criminals in the North
during the last three months is the result of
the operations of this society.
SIN a double loaded leader the Courier
Journal discourages the movement as re-
vengeful and dangerous, and advises in its
stead education and kindness TO the ne
grOes."