The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-29

believed Them. l am .nOC auViseu tudt auy
effort was made to fulfil those promises. Ger
talnly they effected nothing. Having exhaust
ed all the civil power under my control TO sup,
press this ipsurrectiOn against the constituted
authorities, made application, In accordance
with the Constitution Of the United States, TO
the National Government 10 protect Inc state
"agalnst domestic violence
The magnitude of this organized system Of
crime was made apparent to Congress, the
evidence in the possession Of the government
showing that the Ku-Klux bands, In South
Carolina, were 'tbut parts of stupendous
whole" having broader scope than the re-
dress OF mere local grievance. Congress,
''by appropriate legislation" having granted
the necessary powers, his Exceileney inc Pres,
October, 1871, suspended the writ oil habeas
corpus In the Counties of Spartanburg, York,
Marion, Chester, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield,
Lancaster and Chesterfield.
The County of Marion was subsequently ex.
cepted FROM this list, and the Couaty OF Union
very properly substituted therefor-Marion
having been originally embraced, instead OF
Union, In the first proclamation Oh Inc Presl-
dent, through clerical error.
An ADEQUATE force OF United States troops is
now in the State, and, under the direction OF
an energetic and discreet commanding oheer,
they are actively engaged in arresting the ku-
Klux criminals wherever legal testimony OF
Many persons OF the suspected class have
fled from the upper counties, while at the
same time protestingtheir innocence OF crime.
Flight from arrest by officers OF the law Is not
generally regarded as furnishing very strong
legal presumption of innocence. 1t would oe
far better, however, for the STATE, tnat an ..
this class should abandon 1t forever, than tnat
even one industrious laborer should be mur-
dered or driven away from the pursuits OF
useful industry. The former are usually
drOnes In the human hive, while upon the
products Of the toliDg mass repose the Wnoie
| wealth and prosperity OF the State.
I am officially informed that thus far ABOUT
six hundred arrests have been made In THIS
State, under the act of Congress. The per-
sons arrested, and now, for the most part,
held tor trial, represent almost every class In
| society, from the humble laDorer ana small
| farmer to the wealthy planter and pracuclnS
physician and lawyer.
have eHdeavored to be historlcaliy exact
in recording what must pass into history as
reproach to American civilization. and Is now
known of all men as the shame OF the stale.
1t presents the most extraordinary spectacle OF
complete collapse from civilization into
barbarlsm known IL the annals OIL mankind;
| SURPRISING in its actr0city the "ThuSsm' Oh
India, for The Thug spares woman anu Inc
aged, but the Ku KluX exempls none from MS
vengeance, in his effort to strange Eepuoll-
| canism fany impartial man, Jealous OF the
honor of his kind, hesitates 10 believe sucn
things possible In a civilized community, let
him 1i Visit s the Jail II in this city lie win there
| find scores of The veritabe actors ID tIese
deeds of blood, many of whom have VoIun,
tarily confessed their crimes a. Ku-klux, ihese
last being puor, deluded men, to whom trust
the utmost clemency of the Natona u EAsEutps sS;ads
will be extended, for they are put the oilnueo
victims Of their cultivated leaders.
Some of them, but recently, showed or Of
fered to show, their SCARED backs to distln-
guished United States senator from Rhode
Island, (Mr. Sprague,) they having been lash
ed by order of officers of their own KAN, be-