Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-08

the Hon John Covode, deceased
The Register The Kind of Lunacy that
assesses the ku.kiuX klan-What the
Pittsburg Gazette says of the DOings Of
that Organization.
Last week the Register, in "hop skip
and jump article. under the head OF
The Sentinel Sold" attempted to arolo.
gize for the Outrages of the ku klux
klan. 1t hops out and notices one case
1t does not say that what the press gen.
orally published in regard to the shooting
If an engineer on the Greenville & 20
lumba railroad is not true, but it declares
tie fellow that committed the crime a
lunatic. Ten it takes a skip. which is
performance peculiar TO journals of the
Rgitr kind, wien writing of ku klux
klan ou;ragcs. 1t skips over hundreds
of authenticated cases of violence COM
mitted by this sworn organization of the
southern chivalry, and lands plump in the
declaration that The accounts of the
Soutbern outrages published, have little
.r no foundation in fact, but that "they
are manufactured at Washington and
cent out for political ctf'-ct." 1t now
jumps, and, oh ! fathers, what jump |!
right into the admission of what it
skipFed or denied. a moment ago it de-
clared that the accounts of outrag' 8.
were fabricated accounts, and have no cx-
istence in fact now it admits that law
lesness and outragcs are committed in the
Southern States, but it charges the Gov
errors of these States and their subordi-
mates W tn the crimes. This argument
is a good deal like TIE argument of the
Southern men. who in 1850 cried mo
war, no violence but all the while were
organizing armies, sciziug by force the
custom houses, forts, arsenals, and other
public property in the Southern States.
Charges, deuials and admissions, all in
Que aud the same article do not, however.
seem like Inconsistency in the Register
if the Democracy could blot out of ex-
istence the record of the Shareholders re-
lelliOn, il would soon thereafter declare
that the rebellion never existed in fact,
that all told about it was gotten up for
political effect Bat the Register does
admit that a man was shot in the cars,
but declares the fellow that committed
the murder a lunatic We believe he
was lunatic, but of the kind that rebel
led in heaven aud was hurled from its
shining and peaceful court down inio the
bottomless pit. We believe he was af-
fected with that kind of lunacy that Or
ganized the rebellion against the United
States. We believe his lunacy was of
that kind that declared that the North
should "smell Southern powder and feel
Southern STEEL His lunacy was of the
kind that on the 18th Of April, 1861,
fired on Sumpter, violated the laws of the
land, trampled under foot the emblem
of our nationality, and bid defiance to
the authority of the general government
His lunacy was of that kind that deluged
ha 10 -, G. tla l,eh, ot
a slave empire which in time would have
gathered up all the poor of whatsoever
race within the limit of its borders 1t
was that lunacy that gave us the draft,
and entailed upon us billions of nation
al debt. 1t was that same kind of lu-
macy that surrendered at Appomatox
Couse House in Virginia, April the 9th,
1865 and it is believed if number of
the chief lunatics had been sent to an asy-
lum for life, Or been hung or made to pay
the great portion of the cost of the war as
has France been made to pay to Prussia
the great portion of the war debt we would
have no Ku-klux outrages to record.
Not night passes but this organization
is at work, scarcel y 2 night passes but
some one is either put to death, or taken
out and whipped or driven from home by
the Ku-klux klan. A few weeks ago
we published an account of number of
outrages committed by that organization
in North Carolina Last week the Pitts.
burg Gazette, without citing any case or
cases, in an editorial, reviews the doings
Of the klan as follows:
The condition of things particularly in
North Carolina was perfect awful color
ed men nightly dragged from their beds,
murdered in cold blood, whilst the lurid
flames from their burning dwellings, sent
thrill OF horror through the negroes fol
miles around. Bodies of armed men
masked and otherwise disguised, nightly
paid demon visits to the cabins of the ig-
norant blacks, and by demonstrations
more demonical than otherwise so worked
upon the superstition of the Mortified
freedmen and their families, that promises
TO quit the country, or to abstain from
voting the Republican ticket. could be
easily be drawn from them. Should the
law, in an isolated case, take hold of one