The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-23
COLUMBIA. rs. e:
Tuesday Morning, May %. 1871.
About Hanging, E,o.

Wendell Philips, the ablest. most de-
termined, and most. consistent of Radi-
Gals, was prominent>in ameeting, of the
reform League" held in New York
few days ago. Strong minded women,
weak minded men, (of whom Phillips is
not one.) Red Republicans, aud all sorts
Of theorists and revolutionists we're there.
A series OF. resolutions were offered, of
which the first two were as follows: r
''Resolped. That we recognize in the
Ku Klux Klans that rising of the rebel
lion Of 1861, which advised staying with
in the Union, and fighting nationality
there, and while the. other, which ad-
vised open secession, has been defeated
and destroyed, the fellow rebel still lives
defiant and full of hate and hopes as
ever and hence this new form Of rebel
lion-is,th be metin the sameIwey that its
comrade Was, by unrelenting martial law.
executed with impartial rigor, but visit
ing its first and heaviest penalty not on
the rank and file Of poor and disrePuta-
Bile men, who are pushed with coward
cunning into prominence, but on The OK.
Governors and generals; and e1.Senators
and living millionaires, who skuik behind
them, uph6ldiDg the treason and plan
ming to reap all its real fruits. Let it's
frst fruit to them be the drum. head con-
viction and the gibbet.
ssBesalprd. That, in DUR Judgment,
unless the President, now fully author
lied by Congress. strangles this rebellion
Of assassins during the present SUM mer,
there is little doubt that the Democratic
party Of rebels, North and South, will
take possession Of the Government, and
that means the repudiation of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments, and
the refusal to pay the interest on our
national debt. and the pensions Of our
soldiers, until the Southern debt is reoog-
nized and the Confederate soldiers are
pensioned."
), The other resolutions were denuncia
tory Of moneyed computations. into1ioat-
ing liquors and San Domingo, and in
approval of woman's rights. Charles
Sumner: Grants: Indian, policy, and
morality and Intelligence in general.
Phillips made two or three speeches.
We quote from the report Of one Of
them: 't.T''
..NIr. Phillips eaid that in 1851 the
South appealed to the sword and was
vanGuishsd, but the South has now re-
nawsi ths Gght in enE own ranks, end 90
strong had they become that, had Con-
gress not given Gen. Grant the power
they had by the passage OF che Ku Klux
bill, there would never be Republican
successor in the White House. While
the speaker was in Washington lately, O
gentleman told him that 80 perfect was
tbe;Ku Klux organized, thatif the Go
vernment depended on the action of
juries for the. .vindication Of the law, the
Ku Kiux would never be suppressed, rs
they could pack the ilries, and thus
escape punishment Of their comrades,
and he, the speaker. was insured that
the Southern STAKES could be swayed in
defiance of the Governments. Unless
dfetit bad made pp his MUD TO stretch
out the strong arm OF the law and
Gtrengle the assnssins, lie would never
have Republican to succeed him. The
speaker referred to the quarrel with Mr.
Sumner as fhe grayest mistake OF Giants
political career, and under the diHmny Of
The popular rebuke which followed it,
Gnnt was forced to gYe his consent to
she Ku Kiux measure, and SO strive in
Some way to repair the mischief he had
dolia The murderers and assassins in.
the South must now be taught that
thore is force strong enough to punish
them, aud the lesson that Butler taught
in New Orleans in the execution of
Mumford must he repeated. He wanted
Grant to GO to Carolina and arrest some
Of the ex-Generals, who number their
wealth by millions; to track the assassins
to their dens, arrest them by midnight
and hang them by daylight, end SO
teach these murderers that they have u
master. II this is done, thore would be
no Ku Klux in ninety days. If the
South rise again, the North will go down
to the Gulf, and hold the South under
the heel Of military law, until every line
OF. distinction is swept away, and the lust
white man over twenty years OF age lies
in his grave. The speaker then reviewed
at great length the new issues that we're
starting up, and especially the danger
Gus condition of the relations between
labor and capital, and concluded By say-
ing we have not an hour to lose. II YOU
want Grant to remain in the White.
House, you must crush The Ku Klnx
with one hand the great oonspirators
With the other.''
We hayo mofe respect for Phillips
than for moet of his party. Ho is an
honest rnfian-a fanatic, not bypo-