New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-05
ONT OF THEIR MOUTHS.

II there could only be some concert of false
hood among the people who deny the Ku-Klux
outraees, it would be better for their cause.
Tho Northern apologists of these ruffians, as
| q oenerol thing agree in the statement that
| tho south is as tranquil and law-abiding
community az exists anywhere in the world;
| that the Ku-Klux is O pure creation OF the
brain of Gen. Grant, invented for the purpose
of making himself Dictator There would
no some homo of making their readers believe
tbis II they did not occasionally commit the
| ;ndiscretion of allowing some Outspoken Dru-
tally of these criminals to hnd place IN
| their columns. For instance, Democratic
paper of this city, which editorially denies the
| existence of any abnormal condition OF sehu-
mept at the South, published on SAT
urday last with commendatory mead
ings. long and very explicit letter
from Georgia, which confirms all that
has been said in regard to the numerous
ntents and acts of the ex-Rebels Oh that
State. The communication Is very singular
one in its apparent innocence and earnestness,
which seems incapable of understanding why
onv ono should object to tho barbarous ana
brutal feeling it acknowledges and vaunts. In
fact. the writer begins by denOunclng as u
poltical SANDER the statement sometimes maoe
| in the North that there is in the SCUM
hostile feeling against Northern men, lie says
| there is none whatever-with the exception Oh
the very proper and reasonable hate when all
| true Southerners bear to Northern men VINO
| were in favor Of the late war and OF recent
legislation. These, he admits, VIII never DC
" able TO huckster their nefarious schemes Ill
" orr down -trodden and oppressed country"
He proceeds with the same winning franknesS
at is our belief that no member Oh the
class we have described is safe IN the
South, save while clinging to some Federal
garrison. and Heaven forbid public sentl-
ment should so change that danger should
" cease TO exist. We hate despise,
"and loathe them, and rather than suffer
forced fellowship, in default of better pro-
d" lection. in every neighborhood in the South
" there are restless spirits who will remorse-
"lessly haunt them, and, cruel as the work
may be, a silent community will defy detec-
tom But lest lie should be suspected OF
closing the door of hope and mercy on the
North, he concludes by stating his profound
conviction that if Northern men will come
South, adopt Southern views and principles
do in all things az their native neghbors re-
Qulre, ana give up all lneH TIcc DtaVo nun
sense, their lives and persons will be spared.
This style of emigration is even invited if
the milk -nosed sympathizers bring plenty of
money with them.
There seems to be no sense Of shame or de-
cency left in those Northern papers which
sympathzed with the Rebellion and now de-
fend its mean and cOwardly ghost which still
baunts the rural districts of the South. They
knowingly utter, day after day, their false de-
mails of the outrages which are patent to the
world, and they suppress the proceedings of
Southern Courts, the messages of Southern
Governors, and the independent statements of
Southern Democratic newspapers, in which
these infamies are acknowledged and de-
nounccd. But in their hearts these craven
apOlogists for crime approve of 1t. They see
10 harm in the murder of innocent men
by their Southern accOmplices. And what
proves this, is the publication from time to
time in these very newspapers of atrocious
letters from their Southern correspondents ex-
pounding the fendish gospel of hate and
violence, which they adopt and glory in. The
moral sense of these journals is 80 blunted by
constant falsehOod, that they have ceased to
care for their own consistency. In one column
they say "There Is no Ku Klux," and i'll the
adjoining one Georgia contributor says, We
will kill any hell-deserving Yankee who says
"the XVIII Amendment is part Of the Con-
"stitutiOn.'
SONE or THE RUIN OF PROTECTION