The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-06
THE DESPOT'S HEEL.
GRiyr FIRES THE RADICAL HERR
Wild Tales from the South-The "New
RebelIion''-Georgia Comes Next.

a Washington telegram to the New York
Herald, under date OF the I'd. toreshadows the
excuses to be given by the Radical leaders for
the desperate game played in the South. The
correspondent says:
Attorney y-General Alderman had long con.
| ference to-day with the Secretary of State and
afterward with the President. The subject of
| the interviews was, of course, the everlasting
Ku.Klux question, involving the punishment
| of the persons recently arrested In South Caro-
| lima, and perhaps the PRONUNCIATION Of new
proclamation. 1t was the original Intention OF
the government to follow up the suspension OF
the habeaS corpus In the nine counties OF
South Carolina with similar movement upon
northern Georgia, and as most OF the young
men suspected of ku-klux aff1nitles who ran
away from the former State took up their
abode In the latter, 1t Is not improbable that
they will be soon on the move once more. Aker-
man is not a man of sufficient calibre to engage
the attention fthe President for Two hours IN
one day unless important matters are to be de-
cided in which the Executive needs oil the
information his law adviser can afford MIN.
Just at this moment 1t is matter OF great In
terest as to what the President knows or
thinks he knows about the ku.Klux. ills as
serted by those who ought to know something
OF the character Of the Information communl-
Gated from time 10 time to the Executive that
he has much more direct knowledge on this
subject than even that possessed by the Con-
gressional committee Gentlemen Of high
character, formerly officers in our army, who
were and are even now living In the south,
having learned, through their supposed Demo-
cratic sympathies, important facts relative TO
to the secret purposes of this organization,
have made him acquainted with the DANGER 10
Its fullest extent The officers of the United
States secret service have been and still are
very active in ferreting out the Ku.Klux. The
danger 10 which they are exposed IN this ser
vice renders it necessary that great caution be
exercised in making their operations public.
These officers are not known TO eacn other,
and as consequence 1t often happens that tne
most efficient men are reported by others as
being Ku-Kux chiefs 1t will be shown. when
the facts all come out, that the Ku.RluX IN
South Carolina have been largely turnished
with arms from Northern sources. II Is even
asserted that an examination Of the shipments
from the arms manufacturing companies OF
the North and especially of New York, TOR the
last two years, will show great activity IN the
Southern trade. 1t Is the opinion Of the ad.
ministration and those who sustain its policy
of repression that 1t Is the design OF the Invisi-
Bile Empire to attempt the repossesslon by the
old rebel element, first, ofthe several Southern
States by the decentralization, through terror,
outrage and murder, OF the party sustaining
reconstruction and its results, and secondly,
Oy Similar ueHus, UlL mOIc SCucidl auu oyo'
tematic in character, to force every South rn
State to vote against the Republican
Presidential nominee, and thus restore
10 them control of their local and
State affairs and the Inauguration Of their
party associates in the government. A con-
tingency for which they have undoubtedly
worked, Is, in the event of Congress refusing
to count electoral votes gained BY such pal
pable system of terror and violence as the Ku-
klux will inaugurate, to at once raise the
standard of revolution within the Union, de-
claring that the refusal Is only step In pre-
arranged plan to keep the power In the hands
1 of the now dominant party. There Is no doubt
In the minds of the best informed persons here
who have investigated the character and pur
poses of this conspiracy that such a design as
that Indicated Is seriously contemplated.
Opinions like these have influenced the course
of the President toward South Carolina, and
have led also TO the doom which Is now i'm
pending over Georgia. There Is no doubt
that the prediction In the Herald some days
ago that Georgia was the next State 10 order
will be verified in O day or two, and other sec
tions will be treated In the same way as the
President thinks the occasion may require.
Senator Scott is now here and at work, and
he is as sternly in favor OF strong measures as
ever.