The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-06

the Rebel grey are now at night I'm the camp OF the
reconstruction acts and dsfranchsing the negro. |
and cannot shut our eyes to the fact that II the
strike There is the testimony of a witness on the
stand who says that the subject has been discussed
will strike us In the back. This was the language
of Willeford. There is the intent And II we
believe t. il we believe that the coiled serpent is
there ready to strike, the heel OF power must be
sufficiently shod to bruise its head when It comes to
light.
Now word as to the evidence of the facts,
rather than to the veterinary or smithy pro-
cess which is to be applied to the heels of our
tramping President. This great conspiracy,
looking so far forward to a distant Mur, is
proved by one witness-a vagabond Journey
man carpenter who had run away from Ca
barrus county, North Carolina who drinks
bad whisky on his way to Sabbath-school,
and after helping to whip negroes peaches"
on his associates and Is rewarded by being
honored by Governor Holden and paid mile
age by Senator Scott This is simple state
ment of his history as given by himself. The
mode of examination by his friends on the
committee-chiefy by Nye-is delicious. We
venture on one specimen-the narrative of
frustrated attempt to drown a government
detective whose moral tone, judging from
the places he visited, was at least questiona-
BILE. He says
Munroe was to get him out at one of these bad
houses just on the river. Munroe said he had drank
with Myers two or three times, and he could get him
out: he would never think nothing of it, and then
the other men was to go there and XIII him and
throw him into the river. But there was an awful
rain come up that night, and they didn't go. Perry
saw me the next day or SO, and said tom. the cat
fish haint eat that fellow, it raned too hard"
This was hardly specific enough for the
anxious, scrutinizing Nye-for non c0,astGt
but that the river might be tenanted by perch
or herring-and we read:-
@. Is that the kind of fish that are found in the
river there? A. Yes, sir
And thus in "water haul" the story
ends:-.
@. Did Myers go away from Kinston then? A.
No, sir he did lot; he went backward and forWard
from Kinston to Newbern, and they couldn't get
him Off.
him? A No, sir; and then he catched some of
them.
Nor were the Vaccinations of these Thugs
directed only at human life-the toppling of
detectives in the Tar or Neuse. AS nearloyal
Philadelphia and disloyal Brooklyn, whisky
made from what Nye calls with lovely allite-
ration 'clandestine corn" seems to be dear
to the Ku-klux heart.
But the grd0dme1o of Senator SCOTS charge,
'the coiling of his serpent" is the 10000
Rebel soldiers who are organizing to renew
the war and extending through the whole
South; and thus the ex-negro whipper and
smuggler proves it, winding up his testimony
with pleasant jest-the farce after the ira
gedy:-
O. Did you learn from your commander, or other
wise, that the order existed throughout the South
ern States? A. Yes, sir heard him tell me them
very words out OF his mouth-that it existed plumb
through the Southern States; said they had COM
20 o. or what kind of people was the Ku-klux Klan
composed? Was it made up Of men who were in
the Rebel army? A. Yes, sir; don't believe there
was one that belonged to it but what had been in
the army. There was one little fellow, with one leg
shorter than the other. don't think he was in the
army.
Nor is 'treason domestic" enough. We
have foreign levy" too:-
@. Was anything said about foreign war? A. Yes
| sir; heard them say If there was foreign war
started up and the United States should take hand
in it, they could jump in on their backs and lick em
| out.
@ Lick the United States out? A. Yes, sir.
O. They said If the United States took hand in 1t?
| A. Then they could jump in on her back and wool
| her out.
| Nor it is hardly credible, but strictly true,
that Senator SCOTS venomous rhetoric and
| the projected legislation by which the iron
heel of executive power is to be more heavily
planted have no other earthly foundation in
the testimony than this, and for the aggrega-
tion of such stuff Congress has already spent
! $500 On such evidence as this is the
habeas corpus act to be suspended, martial
| law to be proclaimed, and the President ac-
cording to his expressed wish, is to have
military possession of the States south of the
Roanoke, with their ffty-two electoral votes.
| till ''the end OF the next session OF Congress
i. e., till the very verge. of the Presidential
election!
'If," said General Blair, interrupting this
Pennsylvania TRADE with an emphasis that
must, as did Colonel Newcome's objurgation
of the lying Barnes, have made more than
one cheek tingle-''if the Senator makes
statements as reckless as these, leave it to
the country to judge of man who is so
utterly reckless as to make such statements
about things as to which he knows and can
know nothing"
On one point of SUrtbern wrong doing the
Senatorial solicitor of the Pennsylvania com
pany was at home-the use of the State
credit in buying up distant railroad bonds.
"All our money" said one of the witnesses
with piteous wall that sounded like Harris
burg-''all our money has gone into the
Florida Railroad, SO that we have got nothing,
while they have got road in Florida which
is covered with mortgages, and we cannot
reach 1t"
This, however, is branch of Ku-kluxism
which we cannot now pursue.
THE BORDER CLAIM FOR RELIEF.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
For vet another time the people of the