The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-11-23
CAMDEN S. c., NOVEMBER ..
C;,.ntcr from the Tribune.

4 correspondent OF the New YORK 1'1-
huue, writing from Yorkviile. S. G., makes
the remarkable statement:
think it was Wendell Phillips wto said
"Scratch Southern gentleman anu 20" II
End ku Klux" In this up-country "i
south Carolina scratch u white man and
,,on,ll find Ku Klax" wunld be better par
aphrase. | doubt if there are one h"Ho'Go
able. bodied white Omen in this county VINO
have not bc"n initiated into the order. 1t
embraces bows cf IL and gray boards Ct 0o'
I have seen grandfather, father and s"n
come together to avow themselves members
al classes were included. The land pro-
pretor and the poor ''crackers on Ills o.
tate rode together in the mldh'%he r"'us;
Doctors. lawyers, merchants. teachers an anu
,ro,cbers nut on the white shrona-lES
larns and the horrid red horned hoods and
os,aslS nf the Elan. and went out by nl@ht 10
.ara nrorocs from their cabins and beat
thnm With clubs and cowhides untl! the lac,
or.tod Aesh was cut to the t'ndons ana
LnnoS and for no other of1cnse than daring
to.vote the Radical ticket: or keeping shot-
gun. or not taking off their hat to W'lIte men,
These chivalrous gentlemen pulled negro
rromen from their beds and made them dance
n,Ied for the amusement of the spectators
Ls,ting the victims with ramrods to quicken
their steps, and forcing tEen to submit 10
other ontraces too revolving for description
These brave and honorable south 0arcll,
mans thought it daring and manly I" 90 ~
stronr to attack one negro in his lonely cao-
IN in The woods. and to hang him to tree
in s;obt Of his wife and chldren-cSultns'
os they returned from this nightly exploit
in the fact s.the damned scoundre would neV-
or make any more Radical speeches"
This sample of the kind of letters which
go to the Northern press for publication to
be read bv their thousands of subscribers and
readers. 1t gives picture$oO horrible and
revolving to be believed by any sane Great
urc who knows the Southern people. Aet
many men at the North will take it as plrest
truth and imagine that we are very demons
and savages. Yet how different will be the
nicture when these men who have been ar
rested, are tried before the tribunals OF JUS
tice Then it will be seen how this people
has been slandered, how innocent men have
been cast into prison, their families depen-
dent upon their earnings for bread LETT in
destitute and starving condition. IT ever
there was time in the history of this Gov
crnment. when men should blush tn be call
cd citizens of the United States, that time
is the, ,psssas. + Ass sAs aggsnssts& & sf kis
-pupncansform Of government desireE spectF-
Gle whichgRss i=--vr001 or orF""sSeTs
accompanying the gift tof I;4'lmitcd power to
an IRRESPONSIBLE n.au Ike Grant, that specta-
Gle is furnished now, in South Carolina.
It is doubtful, in our estimation, ifmany
of tine alleged Ku KuA will be tr,et at the
approaching term of the Court. The object
of Grant is not to bring the parties to justice,
but to further his rc-eloction by causing
false notion of the condition of things at the
South, to get abroad.
Ifwhat this correspondent says is true
about white citizens Of the up-country, then
it is remarkably strange thing that among
those arrested for Ku kluXism, IN York,
there are no less than eleven colorcd men.
This gives the direct lie to the Gribd"c man,
and shows that his capacity for scrlbbllng is
exceeded by that for lying. Time will vim
dicate us.
We have ever condemned these Ku klux
operations and will continue to do so, but we
prefer to await the developments that we
hope will be made before the courts, rather
than to trust to the prejudiced pennngs OF
men whose pens are dipped in gall, whose
bosoms rankle with hatred and whose souls
have been bought by the father OF lies, by
the aid of the almighty dollar.
What arc you Going TO do About IL.
From most of the New York papers, We
CLEAN accounts of proceedings going to show
large increase of The State debt. There
are various suspicious circumstances attend
ing the discovery fthis seeming fraudulent
increase of debt, which seem to us to demon
stratc that the Radical Ring has been on the
lookout for some time and arc not surprised
that it should be now discovered. At the
time of the session of the Taxpayers Con-
vention, Gov Scott reported the debt of the
State to be about SS, 600, 900. Some time later,
writing to Senator Scott, he reported it to be
s9,5oS,564. Now, however, it is admitted
by Scott L. Co., that there have been printed
of bonds S20,040,O00. Of which there have
not been issued S900O,O0O. Leaving a to-
tai issue of s11, ,O40,0 eco Scott says that
three and a half millions Of sterling bonds
1, 49,. boo, ;ssuoJ which will lc,yn ont nf