The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-10-19
THE MILITIA ORDERED OUT IN
MISSOURI.
Serious Ku.Kl.x Depreaasso,.,

Elsewhere, says the Missouri Democrat O
the 18th, will be found the Governors pro
c!amation, issued with intent to suppress.
ku-kluxism in the counties of Stoddard and
Dunklin. His Excellency orders the enroll
ment and organization, for that purpose, OF
two State militia companies of one hundred
men each, in those counties. This step n
based upon the report, which We also pub
lish, of Captain Woog, Chief Clerk of the
State Adju,ant Generals Office, upon the
outrages in Sioddard, Dunklin, and New
Madrid counties These villainies have been
occurring for something like a twelvemonth,
and the statements of them made by the Re
publican press have been received by the
Democratic press with ridicule and denial.
They have been perpetrated by masked mis-
creants, organized, disguised, and deporting
themselves in the style of the well-known
Ku-Klux bands that have infested and still
infest extensive districts of the South-wlile
their existence is denied or made light of by
Democratic journals with few exceptions
These Missouri scoundrels, like their frater-
nifty elsewhere, announce themselves in their
missives of warning as *. X. KS" and
are known by the communities
which they disgrace, as the Ku-Klux
Khan. Like the same sort of dastarde
elsewhere, they have special hate of Repub
licans and especially of Republican colored
men and Of colored schools. Some months
ago, in Dunklin County, between Clarkton
and Kennett, they amused themselves by
first compelling negro to climb a tree. and
then shooting him down, leaving him .
corpse on the ground. At Allenville, Cape
Girardeau County, herd of these brutes
called at night to interview a colored man,
told him they had learned that a colored
school was about to be etarted there, and in.
formed him that such proceedings must be
stoppedl We have published repeated incl
dents ofassassinations, whippings and banish-
enacted in southeast counties, and in each
case the victim was Republican, or one who
had been Union soldier, or was q colored
person, although some speci6c ofense was
usually made the occasion Of the atrocity.
No one imagines that the we'll disposed
masses Of the Democratic party at the North
approve of such barbarian. But everybody
Of common sense knows that the rufianism
OF negro hate and of the ex-C onfederacy allies
itself with, and is actually encouraged and
virtually shielded by, Democratic journalism
and Democratic paryism.
in relation TO the suppression of this
organization in the other Southern States We |
clip from the Pittsburg Co~mzeid an article
upon the situation in Carolina:
"The bold and determined course of Hon.
Hugh L. Bond, the new Circuit Judge for /
the district comprising North Carolina and
other middle Southern States, says the Om-I
mevcsai, with respect to the Ku Klux miscre-
ants of tbas State, Is beginning to produce r.
fec4s beyond the mere arrest and puniahment
of the rufians, who compose these bloody
minded mobs The resolute and fearless
spirit which he has exhibited has, Il appears,
n last excited the alarm Of the aristocfacy oil
&AsC NsSAeN. " AoHA8 = ossAy sAscAA sOOD WC1S /
arrested and punished, these gentry either
boldly denied the exiaeance of such orRaniza-
lions, or declared them to b without politi-
al relation or significance; but - soon q
hey discovered that the comprehensive and
thorough sys.em of investigators ct On foot
By Judge Bond, woald, in all probability,
probe the conspiracy to its bosiom, thir
Iuilty consciences began 10 make them fear
ur their own necka Hence . numher of the |
NOT eminent Democrats Of North Chrulins
he Other day addrs.sd . Letter 10 lie JudeeI
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nd unlavlal osyani.afions, and cuaaaanine I
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