The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-01
VINO arc our Enem,e.,

The Columbia Union, Of tho Goth, in
long article. attempts to prove that the
loss to the Democrats of California and
other States and Territories wherein
elections have recently been held, was
caused by "the diabolioal and atrocious
Ku Klux ontrages in the Southern
States, and not from the s'New Depart
ure," started by ValIandigham in Ohio.
The article is written in the usual Ku
Klux sensational style, charging every
Southern Democrat with completely in
the disorders and outrages that have
been committed since the war closed, It
says:
1.-The popular heart has been touched.
and the public mind las been filed with
indignation and resentment at tho terri
BILE outrages which have been deveIoped
through the committees and in courts of
justice against the rights, The liberties
and the lives OF American citizens. by
the disguised bands of infuriated demons
that are even now holding their high
carnival of blood in this very State.
Neither concession nor conciliation can
mollify or arrest this great wrong. In
our own State it has been asserted that
o change of local officers and the ap.
point,nent Of Democrats to such posi-
tions would be m antidote for this dis
order. An Executive, ever ready and
anxious to promote tue pence of the com
munity, and to protect the lives and the
liberties of the citizen, adopted the ex-
pertinent. What was the result? In
those very Counties where such changes
we're made, the consequences are found
in tho lamentations of the widowed
wives, and children orphaned. in the
hoolro 0f I, 40 a..
DISSOLUTION of once happy homes. And
it is these that have found n lodgment in
the minds and hearts of the American
people, which are being reprobnted ut
the ballot-box, and which will, in the
coming elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York, be condemned in tones
that will send dismay even into the clans
and camps of these midnight assassins. I"
In every County in the upper part OF
this State the Columbia Union has one
or two correspondents, drilled and, we
suppose, paid to write sensational Ku
Klux letters; and If no outrage has been
committed for some time, they draw on
their Imagination to form one, without
the least particle OF truth to base it upon,
and forthwith it goes into the Union and
sent to Washington or Radical member
OF the Ku Klux Committee, ms truth
The Democratic people and their press
may prove it lie, base and malicious
lie, but the refntntion seldom, if ever,
appears in the Union, and is never seen
ut headquarters in Washington. Or, if
our State becomes too quiet and peacea-
BILE to suit the wishes Of their party,
these correspondents are given the cue,
and Immediately they again fill the co
lumns OF the Union with rehashes Of old
excitements, done up in more horrifying
sentences and expletives. They 60 buck
months and years and exhume outrages
and disorders that have been long for
gotten; aud although the people Of the
State have persistently and honestly de-
nounced those crimes, aud are success.
fully doing all in their power to prevent
occurrences of them, they are held up
again to the Northern people, as evi-
dences of the still terrible condition of
the whole society Of the State. One
single new outrage. however tri1ing its
inhiction may be, is sufficient material
Tor these partisan tools to fill column
IN the Union, recounting diabolical
outrage. And thus the Northern mind
is kept excited and prejudiced against
u.s., by these disorganizing and lying
jackals. One day they pretend great
ueS!Te 1or Ine prosperity OF the Stnte,
the next day they will deliberately sit
down and give the lie to their own pre-
tensions, by sending out to the world
false and libelous statements against the
people, and in the most malicious man
ner depict our State as little better than
o charnel-house; wherein the bodies OF
all tloyal" citizens are deposited if they
dare exercise the rights of freelnen.
South Carolina presents as cleur record
from crime, for the past three years, as
any. State in the Union, and yet the Ra-
dical organ ut Columbia would make all
strangers believe that ut every cross
road the Ku Klux, (by which the Union
means all the Democratic native aud
white people in the. State. have made a
grave.y yard to bury their Republican vic
Tins in.
The Union and its correspondents have
done more to retard the general prospo.
rity of this State than all other persons
and means combined the aots of the
Ka Kiux inolnded. They have magni.
fed personal and private difficulties into
political outrages, and charged the whole
white population of the Counties in
which they occurred with encouraging
and participating in them. They have
reported that the lives and property of
Republicans are unsnfe here. which is n