Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-05-03
aTuE REAL KU-KLIrx KLAN

The Rev. John Cain, negro, who is q
tried and trusted leader in the Radical
party, and the editor of the Charleston
Missionary Record, says of the Radicsl
party in South Carolina: "Good men
have been thrust aside to make room for
plunderers. There never was q party that
had better chance to do good than ours,
never; never was one that did worse"
The New York Nation, one of the ablest
Radical papers in the North, admits that
South Carolina has been 30 thoroughly
robbed by it's Radical and carpet bag
rulers, that it will be difficult for the PEG
pie TO pay their taxes, and asserts that
those who sustain these rulers only sus-
tain q pack Of great knsves in the enjoy
ment of their plumber. Every word OF
the sweeping denunciatioH by these two
Radical organs of the party they repre-
sent, is true not only SIS 10 South Carolina,
but of every other Southern State. The
New York Sun is another prominent
Radical journal that boldly condemns the
manner in which the Southern States have
been oyeTun and despoiled by set Of
desperate political sdVenturers. 1t holds
I'D to deserved execrstion the real Ku-
Klux Khan as follows:
''CongTess is busy deVising a plan for
represslng the alleged outrages in the
Southern States of the celebrated Ku-Klux
Khan. The object is q prsiseworthy one,
but The efforts by which it is sought to
| be attained are misdirected. The real
Ku- Huxes who ought 10 be put down by
national legislation are not the ruflans,
real or imaginary, whose exploits are
made SO much of, but the living, flesh
and blood scoundrels in official station,
who are doing their best to impoverish
and destroy the whole fabric of society in
the South.
Since the close of the war every
| Southern State has been cursed with
swarm of sdventurers from the North,
who, having failed 10 gain q living at
home, by either honest or dishonest labor,
and having no reputation except bad
one to leave behind them, have sought
this new and untried field wherein to re-
trieve their fortunes. Some have been
hangers on IN the wake of our armies,
but more prudently waited till all the
fighting was over, and then descended on
their prey. Taking advantage of the
| Acknowledgement of the native born citi-
zens, or avsiling Themselves of Federal
patronage, they have foisted themselves
into places of power and profit which
they have fearfully abused TO their own
advantage and the ruin of their helpless
| victims.
tFron one end of the South to the
other there comes up q universal cry
against the corruption, the extravaganza,
and the general INSTRUMENTATION of
these adventures. They have increase d
taxes tenfold; they have added enOr-
mously to the funded debt of the States,
counties, cities, and towns; they are
sQuandering the resources of the country,
and afford no adequate protection for
either property or life.
t'The State Government of Florida be-
| fore the war used to cost the people
about forty Thousand dollars year; 1t
now costs nearly double that amount. In
| COulU ObotC NoANSiSh bAAAS
year will be nearly three millions, or
about seven times as much as 1t used 10
be under the old order of things, while
the total taxes will be ten times as much.
The debt of North Carolina was lately
increased at q single session of the Leg
islature by the sum Of thirtY-six millions.
In Arkansas the annual expenditure has
been increased from three hundred thOus-
and dollars to nineteen hundred thousand,
besides adding eight millions for railroad
purposes TO the permanent debt. In Lou
isiana The State debt has been increased
from thiIteen millions TO twenty-five mil
lions, and the local debt of New Orleans
AID other towns has been swollen in the
same proportion. $500,
These evils are palpsble and unmistak-
able, and their baleful influence is wide
reaching and universal What is an oc-
casionaI deed of violence in some remote
country place, compared with this grind
jng oppression of the tax-gsiherer which
cgusl!ls all classes and all kinds of industry
to the earth.
'If, therefore, Congress really wishes,
TO tranouillze the South, and restore
Older, tnen let il restore 10 the people the
privilege Of self-government. Let the
American doctrine of no taxation without
representation be enforced, and LEI stop
he nut to the tyrannical exaction OF the
carpet Dagger fraternity. When this shall
have been done, there will be no need of
legislation against Ku-Klux outrsges. The
Southern people will themselves take care
OF that matter snd maintain peace and
good order without the aid of United
States troops or money"