Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-19
The Issues OF the Day.

~ tHe turnoll OF OuslnesB anu money -HclunR
winch prevails throughout the nation, we almost
uuoonsciousy lose sight Of the great social ques-
| tlons which are arising both in the Northern aud
Southern portions ofthis Republic as disturbing
elements to the social compact.
In the North II is seriously apparent in the con-
dict between capital and labor, as illustrated by
the recent strike Of miners, in the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania, and in the South 1t reveals itself
in the dangerous combinations Of the sangunarv
Ku-Klux. To say that these disturbing elc-
ments have originated without cause, is simply
absurd. Thsir thorough aud systematic organi-
zatiUn, aud the melhod by which they accom-
plish their ends demonstrate rather more than
ordinary sngaci,y, aud urge the ado tion Of
prompt and decisive measures 10 correct the i'm.
pending evils.
At a recent meeting Of the Reform League
held in the city of Naw York, WENDsLL PniL-
LIPS gave utlcrance to his views on these mat
ters, in words OF thrilling eloquence, and offered
resolutions which should receive the considsrate
attention ofevery good citizen both North and
South. Mr.. PHILLIPS resolutions and remarks
were reported aud published as follows
On rising to speak, MIR, PHILLIPS said he should
not have been there had he not believed the time
to be as critical as any moment during the re-
| belliOn. He then read series uf resolutions
| The first recognized in the Ku Klux Klans the
rising nf the rebellion IN 1851 that while open
secession had been defeated, the fellow rebel
still lived defiant and full Of fate, and unreent-
! ing martial law, executed with impartial rgor,
must visit with its first and heaviest penalty not
| the rank and file, but ex-Governors, Generals
| and mlionairas who skulk behind them, up
holding the treason aud planning to reap its real
| fruits. Let its first fruit to them be the drum
! head conv ton the gibbet.
The second declared that unless rebellion was
fully stranged during the coning summer the
Democracy would got into power aud repudiate
! the l4h aud 9Th Amendments. the public debt
and soldiers PENSIONS unless the rebel soldiers
were also penSi0ned.
The third asserted that through the discontent
ofthe laboring classes the scenes now going ON
! in Paris would be re enacted, unless the Just re-
lations of capital and labor were equitably ad-
justed.
The fourth declared moneyed corporations the
| chief source Of danger.
The fifth advocated the abolition OF such corr
porations as soon as it can be hnnorably effected.
The sixth rejriced in the success OF Summers
| policy in regard to San Domingo, thus saving
| the nation from an act which, in its method
would have disgraced the nation aud gravely
periled the future of the cOlOred race"
The seventh indorscd women's rights.
The eighth favored a national system Of edu
cation and the prohibition of the sale of liquor.
The ninth dorsed the present Indian policy
of tire administration.
Mr.. Phillips then said /:
II battles can decide it, that heresy of seces-
sion, in the home Of State rights, was forever
trampled out.
say, if battle could decide it but the states
mauship of the South never meant that battle
should decide it. They had two ST Jugs to their
bow. They meant first to try what remedy
Al. Al H.. Al
deuce had permitted us Abraham Lincoln's life,
or an honest man to succeed him, we shoHd
have cut both strings OF their bow when we cut
the one of open rebellion. The continuance OF
four or eight years of an honest Executive would
have placed this question beyond resurrection.
But with the advent of Andrew johnson there
was opened door of which the South imme-
diately availed itself. 1t tried the other side
the other method Of continuing the fight inside
the ranks.
The soldier that fights you in your own uniform
is an infinitely more dangerous foe than the sol
dier marshalled under separate colors on the
other side Of the field. And that is the reason
why this renewed rebellion Of assassins is likely
to prove wholly as hard to manage as the open
rebellion of 1861. Because in the first place
Northern sentiment tolerate Democratic
rebel in New York. who is the sworn assistant
of the ku-klux. He is neither mobbed 10 his
house, nor in his editorial quarters, nor hunted
out of the city. But the public in 1851 would
not bear Democratic cOmrade of Jefferson
) Davis. Then he stood out in his own cOors and
the enthusiasm aud hot frenzy of q nation at war
trampled ont that whole class OF Northern SYM
patlizers with actual rebels in arms. But you
cannot count on any such feelings to-day to
;rample out the organized rebellion in ten States
When | was in Washington about two months
ago, had IL from an authority inside The hu-
klux klan-one who had right to speak-that
| their organization was so perfect, there could
not be one crime committed in any single South
, | ern State, wherS, il the government trusted to
| its punishment by the tribunal OF jury, that
organization, a secret association, was not pow
! erful enough to pack the jury and secure an ac'
qutal. So that this largely-spread and deeply
rooted secret organization (like the Masons OF
thirty years ago. utterly defeat aud DEFY
civil law. And the moral which these repentan'
lips drew for me, from his own actual experience
was "lt you can do nothing with US except by
Judge bench and twelve jurymen in a
box, the sffnrt is absolutely coutemptbs. We
can sweep the States in utter defiance of the
State government, If that is the aim of your
t method"
d Now believe that you will find that the evi-
o dence before the Senate committee amply sup
\ ports these statements, and that unless Presiden
Grant has made up his mind to stretch the long
s. arm Of his power into the center of the rebe
II States, and s,rangle this rebellion of assassns
he will never have success and when sa,
that am only repeating the utterances of tn,
counselor who stands nearest to the right hanC
J. of the President am only repeating what tn
man says whose opportunities are the largest +
investigate the facts whose political insight i
the keenest TO discover them that il Congress
u mad adjourned without giving Gen. Grant evel
re the limited power which he has to-day, and ha
4, left US to meet the st day of December as W
stood on the Ist of March, there never coul
e have been Republican successor to Gen. Gran
c. in the White House. And here, gentlemen,
L. where think that the labor question and rebe
20 lion question run into each other. The gref
> corporation of Pennsylvania aud the West mea
W to have a President, and that President is NJ
ID Ulysses s. Grant. Here the speaker reviewed
+ in general way, the effect of the removal o
Senator Sumner from the craftsmanship of tn
'e committee on foreign affairs, as il was visib
N amnng the people. That rebuke forced froi
the President this KuKlux message. bellev
that the nation stands to-day just where Gel
Butler stood in New Orleans when he arreste
Mumford.
4 Now. l want General Grant to go down int
10 Georgia and South Carona, and not arrest tw
men, such as the telegraph told US were arreste
D the other day, Of disreputabe character. l wal
D. him to 60 down and arrest some ex-Genera
of who connts his acres by thousands, numbers h
= wealth bv millions, and stands possessed OF tt
y loving admiration Of half the South. wal
ct him to tract him to his lair in this nest OF ASA
" sins. and arrest him at midnight, try him beto
id daylight, and hang him before the sun Is an hot
high. When this is done you will never hear
E the Ku-Klux again--except in the nursery !
gend
But il this is not done tha. power will ent
. the v hte House. That will cause you to ha'
oi the war to fight over again, and even, in Il
~ first session of Congress afterward, if there is
q. actual legislation on the subject of repudiatio
q, the very discussion of it will send the nation
credit down so per cent. When that is dol
c. you can't fight again because you cant borro
ny money. This is only the rebellion fighting yr
- in your own uniform. | don't know wheth
Gen. Grant will follow the course oi the able
&c man who stands nearest to him in Congress
and that is the man who hung MumfOrd in Ne
, Orlaons | think Charles sumner never said