The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-12
The Ku.klux Falsehoods.

Cnar9e llaI dll lI> iuoSo ee'ih'oS S'oNS
Ku.Klux violence have been shown to b.
untrue. We gave six prominent example,
of deliberate falsifcagrn, on the part OF tn
Union, or its correspondents, to which cate
gorical statement the following answer i
made:
~. Ben Hare aoas diabolicaly murdered II
NeTberry County, In August last, by part
: of might riders." as stated In this journal
How does The NEWS know that the men or
rested Tor the crime are guilty? They nav
not yet been tried. Did we say they Wer'
to state the fact that the murder was commit
ted, aud even this fact THE NEWS does no
dare deny.
%. Bird Sims alias Mcclure ,oas murdered
in Chester, as slated by us. but we never men
toned the name of Ku-KluX as connected
with the affair, and challenge The News Il
prove to the contrary. Whether McClures
iather in-law was guilty oil the offence remains
to be seen.
s3. Lewis Thompson, colored preacher
was most foully murdered near Jeters planta
tion, on Tiger River, his body being lelt oy
the villains 10 decompose Ia lhe oroaa snangn;
with the brother of the murdered man, and,
from other evidences In our possession, are
| satisfied that the story OF The NEWS aoout an
| "lnyestigation," In which 1t was found thai
the colored men murdered Mr.. Thompson. is
a sheer fabrication, gotten up doubtless IN IHE
NEWS Office. The Cvlored friends Of Thomp-
son were prevented, by Ku-Klux terrorism,
from according his body d Christian burial,
and The CHARLESTON NEWS Is the journal that
lifts up Its voice in defence OF such devils IN
carnate as those who committed this coWardly
and inhuman deed.
~. 1t was charged that the Ku-Klux were
/ iv Cuyr
said charge has never been Glsproved, al.
though the Winnsboro' Ne,oS has made several
| Intellectual attempts to do 30. The most That
| journal could say was that it had never heard
of such riding. However, this Is the kind oil
proof necessary to establish point win InE
News. We expect the truth or ialslty Oh tne
charge that Ku KluX wee riding IN FAIRFIELD
County will be established 10 the satisfaction
OF even The NEWS before many more months
pass.
"The rest of the cases enumerated are Of
| the same nature as the foregoing, except tney
| are of still less importance. We also publish.
| ed the fact of the several raids upon the jail
In Union County, when nearly score OF COL
ored victims were sacrificed by these bosom
friends of THE NEWS. The attack upon Sim
con Young-the murder Of the Melton family
and the Outrages In SParlanburg-all have
appeared in this journal, and at re time ol
their publication none doubted their veraciiy
more ttlan The NEWS"
The reioinder to these barefaced endeav-
ors to browbeat this paper may be made as
conclusive as the original charge.
l. Three negroes, named Ed. Gaines.
Dave Whitmore and Dolph Kinard, lie in
Newberry Jail, awaiting their trial for the
murder Of Ben Hare. We do not prejudge
them. The evidence was strong enough to
justify their arrest, and, until these Radical
negroes are proved to be innocent, the as
sertions OF the Union that Hare was killed
by Ku-Klux are only fresh evidence OF the
malignity with which it attacks the white
Democrats Of the State.
2. For the statement that Mcclure was
murdered by his wile's father, now lying in
Chester Jail, we have the authority OF the
Chester Reporter. The colums OF the Union
ara proof enough that the responsibility of
the crime was placed upon the Ku-Klux.
8. For the statement that Lewis Thomp-
son was murdered by the colored people, for
social reasons, we have the authority Of the
Union Times. That is sufficient.
1. Against the statement OF the Winns-
boro' Neacs, that there are 70 Ku.Klux in
Fairfield County, the Union sets the word
of its anonymous correspondent, whom the
Winnsboro' Ne,rs has publicly branded as q
wilful liar.
The 'reSt OF ~. ~. cases enumerated" d"-says
the T. I.son--are OF "the same nature" as the
foregoing "except that they are OF less i'm
.'portance." Now it happens that the other
cases named by us were two, viz: 1.) the
alleged attempt of band OF ku-Rlux to
murder colored Republican in Edgeheld,
and ~ the whipping by the Ku-klu1 OF a
white man named Rytenburger in Sumter
County. We gave ~ the affidavits OF twenty
citizens OF Edgeield County declaring that
no such outrage was committed. Besides
this, we gave the affidavit OF the colored
man who was said to have been attacked, in
which he swears that no such attack was
made, ans, that he had heard OF no lawlesS
act in his neighborhood. We gave ~ the
Sumter Meas and the Sumter Watchnaan as
our authority for the statement that Rytenour-
ger vas neither whipped nor threatened to
he whipped. In these two cases, as in the
four preceding, we convicted the Union, or
its ANONYMOUS correspondents, Of down
right falsehood. They are, as the Union
says, ''of tie same nature" as all its ku-
Klux yarns; and as they are only t'co fabri-
cations, while hose which it vainly attempts
to explain are tou, in number, it naturally
speaks oil its deformed twins as OF "less
importance"
AS a last blow the Union quotes 'the
"murder of the Melton family" as vera
cious Ku-Klux crime. We think that the
f1llowing card, which appears in the Union
of Tuesday, disposes OF this last outrage:
CHERAw, S. C.ISeptember IA, 1871.
Nr. L. {. Carpenter, Editor Of Daily Union,
| Columbia, S. c.:
DEAR SIR-We have to day seen copy of
your paper OF the 2lst of July last. in which
we notice communication signed Gil" and
dated Chesterfield County, s. c., July IL,
lS1l."
I'VE do not propose to notice the many false
statements contained In that article, Tor there
is scarcely a single word Of truth in the whole
| of 1t: but there is one statement which, as
pcod citizens, having the welfare Of The who'll