The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-12
Let the American People Ponder.

Ku-KLCN DIABOLISM -- ELEVEN
PREGNANT FACTS BROUGHT To
LIGHT By THE COMPRESSION AL
iNVESTlGATING COMMITTEE
ITS DEMOCRATIC PATERNITY,
ITS RELISH FEATURES AND
PARTY PURPOSE.
The Union Republican Resi-.
dent Executive Committee, Wash
ington, d. c., put forth the fol-
lowing abstract Of facts as the
result Of the Investigations of
the Congressional Committee:
The Congressional Committee
investigating the ku-klnN vii
lainy-a subcommittee in South
CarOlina--have now been in daily
session more than two months,
and have had before them many
scores Of witnesses from all sec
tons OF the late insurrectionary
Statesmen of both high and
humble misunderstanding Elders,
Preachers, ex-Members Of the
Federal Congress- and ex-Mem-
bers of the Confederate Congress,
eZ-Generals of both Armies, Gov
ernors and ex-GOvernOrs, Judges,
Solicitors, Shcriffs, Revenue Off
GERS, Officers OF the Army, Post
masters, School Teachers, Re
pentant and Non-repentant men,
beers of Ku-Klux Klans, and dOZ-
ems of their manned and suffer-
ing victims, black and white.
And what has this patient and
thorough investigation establish
ed-and established beyond all
future cavil and question? These
| atrocious facts:
l. That in all the InsurrectiOn-
AIRY States, and generally dif,nsed,
though not found in every conn-
ty. is an Oath-bonnl secret organ
ization, working only ut night,
and it's members always in dis
eniSe, with officers, signs, signals,
pass words, grips, and all the
necessary paraphernalia, with the
pledged and sworn purpose OF
putting doun the Republican and
putting up The Democ:::.." parry;
known in different localities
among the initiated by different
names, but everywhere recog-
nized by the general c"enomeh
"Ku-lhnx.'
2. That the organization came
into being a few months previ-
Gus to the last Presidential cleo
ton, during which canvass it was
in IFS most vigorous condition,
but is now through: t3l t}1e-!Sse5sssii', h ;
with more efficient discipline and
effective direction than ever, re-
viving, in preparation Cor the
next Presidential campaign, when,
as they told one of their victims
in Tennessee a few weeks since,
ono id Radical voting is to
be allowed in any Southern State,
by black or white
! 3. That this ku-kluN orGaniza-
, ton is the premcditated and de-
termincd scheme for carrying the
South ut the next election of
! President, and SO, by securing
! tlc entire electoral vote of that
section, make sure the election Of
the Democratic nominee.
4. That the officers and estah-
q; fishers Of these "denS' las they
appropriately call their separate
bands) arc the leading and active
Democratic politicians Of the
South.
=. That the scheme has the
hearty goodwill of q large sec
ton Of the Democratic" party in
all those States, and the acGnics
cence of nearly the emit party.
6. That the direct and chief
purpose Of the organization, as
sworn by all the victims, as The
assertion uniformly made to them
! by these midnight assassins, and
corroborated by the universal tes-
timOnN Of the repentant and di-
, vulSin. members of the Order,
is this The putting down Of the
Republican and the putting up OF
the Democratic party.
!. That while the Democratic
and kn-klnX witnesses on their
! direct examination usually deny
the political purpose Of the Order,
asserting that the ku-klux are 4
social necessity growing out OF
the abolition of the old patrols
that they have t" ride the coun-
try 10 keep the Niggers in then
place :" that "unGcs the influence
Of Radical legislation and Meth
odist preaching, the Niggers are
liable to become saucy,' and
without occasional X u-kluN visits
would begin to think themselves
as good as white folks and that
these fremont flOTUinUS and an