The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-04


should be Short sharp and decisive. The
citizens oan depend upon the police in such an
emergency. They have already been tried
and have not been found wanting. Al to the
now application for mandamus. II must DO
regarded moro In tho light Of FARGO than as q
serious matter. IF any improper persons have
been placed upon the list Of inspectors tho
Mayor 10 responsible to the people for their
appointment and should they be found guilty
Of any illegal acts, he will one day DO
called upon to render IN account to those
office he now alls. The inspectors themselves
Will be closely watched, and Il il not likely
that any frauds upon the ballot viii pass un-
discovered ct this time or DO suffered to 60
unpunished. But we are living under Law,
and u Is not the province Of the Supreme
Court to set that law aside. We have chief
executive ofacer at tho head Of the municipal
government and SO long as he complies with
tho law his appointments are to be made BY
him, and not by Judge Barnard, John Foley,
the Committee Of Seventy. Jenny OBrien, the
Apollo Hallers, or any clique, faction or ward
club from Mackerelville to Fifth avenue. !.
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The Breaking Up 81 the South Caroline
Ku KIax Klans.
II appears from tho Columbia Union that
General Grants military raid upon the South
Carolina Ku Klux Klans has been great
success; that two hundred Ku Klux have
voluntarily confessed their connection with
the Klsns and, totally Disguised with 1t, have
surrendered themselves to the authorities
that thirty came In on Monday afternoon and
made confession in writing; that three hundred
have fed to escape the hazards of arrest and
punishment for their crimes; that two hundred
aud two are In the jail ct Yorkville, under
charge of Captain Ogden, United States Army,
and that the preliminary examination Of these
prisoners will be made ~ soon as tho confess
sions OF the other members Of the order
referred to can be recorded. 1t having been
shown that Marion county is exempt from the
Ku Klux combinations recited In the Presi-
dents Proclamation, he has promptly revoked
the proclamation 80 far as 1t affected that
county and given tho required FIVE days
notice to the Ku Kiux in Union county, which
It is plain to DO seen was intended originally
In place Of Marion. Further, It is shown by
our dispatches this morning that startling
Ku Klux band has been uncovered In the
mountain counties Of North Carolina.
These are very interesting facts. They
show that the Southern Ku Klux Khan, or tho
sOrder Of the Invisible Empire" is not q
myth, but an extensive reality; that In the
western counties OF South Carolina 1t had
enrolled among its members q very large pro-
and that in the section most
VIGOROUSLY disaffected by these invisible moss
troopers General Grants short military CAM
paign among them has pretty thoroughly de-
broken up and dispersed the
mysterious organization. Doubtless, too, the
confessions made BY the members Of the moe
turnal brotherhood will embrace their signs,
passwords, DISCUSSES, constitution and by
laws, and an explanation OF their nightly ad-
ventures and outrages upon obnoxious no
groes, "scalawags" and ''carpet- baggers," all
Of whom, with scarcely an exception, turn out
to be republicans.
And here we have it broadly intimated from
Washington that while it has been discovered
that these Ku Klux Klans west and south of
Virginia exist in all the Southern States, the
grand object Of the organization ID nothing
less than the control Of the next Presidential
election in the States concerned, from the Caro-
linas to Texas, By system Of terrorism
which will constrain the negroes, for their per-
sonal safety, to vote the democratic ticket or
keep away from the polls. Hence, 1t Is said,
the extensive and numerous Ku Klux Klans In
South Carolina. The population Of that State
is three hundred thousand whites against four
hundred thousand blacks. The blacks on
masse are republicans, and the whites are
democrats, with few exceptions. OF course,
under the fifteenth amendment, the blacks rule
tho Slate, and II half that we hear of their
mongrel government and it's outrageous COR
ruptions Is true It Is not whit better, but In
many respects worse, than the Tammany
ssring."
All other means Of redress, then, against
this mongrel negro government having failed,
the whites OF South Carolina have been trying
against the blacks the terrorism Of the Ku
Klux Khan. Tho order in South Carolina,
however. and in the other Southern States, as
1t appears, has the Same common object in
view of-creating, among the blacks, such q
general fear Of the mysterious and terrible Ku
Klux as to keep the superstitious negro from
the polls, or to compel him to join the democracy
in the Presidential election. 1t is to this Ku
Klux terrorism, We are told, that the demo-
Gratis are indebted for their overwhelming ma
jorities In Georgia and Louisiana In the last
Presidential election. How else, It Is asked,
~ouId 9avmour hava secured fortv-