Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-17
EC.KLCX DIADOLISM.
Eleven Pregnant Facts brought to
Light by the Congressional In.
vestigating Committee.
is Democratic Paternity, its Relish vea.
lures and Party Purpose.

The Congressional Committee in
vestigating the ku-Klux villlany-
a committee in Washington, and
another subcommittee IN South Car
olina-have now been in daily ses-
sion more than two months, and have
had before them many score OF wit
nesses from all sections of the late
discretionary Statesmen of both
high and humble misunderstanding
Elders, Preachers, ex-Members OF
the Federal Congress aud ex-Mem-
bers of the Confederate Congress,
ex-Generas of both armies, Govern
ors and ex Governors, Judges, Solic-
itors, Sheriffs, Revenue officers, Off
GERS of the Army, Postmasters,
School Teachers, Repentant and I'm
repentant members OF the Ku Klux
Klans, and dozens OF their manned
and suffering victims, black and
white.
And what has this patient and
thorough investigation established
and established beyond all future
cavil and question? These atrocious
Facts:
1. That in all the late insurrec-
tionary States, and generally ditfnsed,
though not found in every county, is
an oath-bound Secret Organization,
working only at night, and its mem.
bers always in disguise, with Off
GERS, Signs, Signals, Pass words,
Grips, and all the necessary para.
phernalia, with the Pledged and
Sworn purpose of putting domn the
Republican and putting up the Democrat
,e Party; known in the different To-
calitles among the initiated by diff
ierent names, but everywhere recog-
nized by the general cognomen "Ku
Klux."
?. That the organization came in
to being a few months previous to
the last Presidential election, during
which canvass it was III its most Wig
orous condition, but is now through
all the South, with more efficient
discipline and effective direction than
ever, reviving, in preparation for the
next Presidential campaign, when,
as they told one of their victims IN
Tennessee d few weeks since, ''no
ID Radical voting is TO be allow.
ed in any Southern State, by black
or white"
3. That this Ku-Klux organlza-
ton IS the premeditated and deter
mined scheme for carrying the South
at the next election of President, and
SO, by securing the entire electoral
vote Of that section, make sure the
election Of the Democratic Nomlnce,
4. That the officers and cstab-
liskers of these "Dens"-(as they APP
propriately call their separate bands)
are the leading and active Democrat
lc politicians OF the South.
5. That the scheme has the hearty
good will OF a large section of the
Democratic Party IN all those States
and the acquiescence of nearly the
entire party.
6. That the direction and chief
purpose Of the organization, as sworn
by all the victims, as the assertion
uniformly made to them by these
midnight assasslns, and corroborated
by the universal testimony of the re
pentant and divulping members OF
the Order, is this The putting down
Of the Republican and the putting up
OF the Democratic PARTY,
Z. That while the Democratic
and Ku Klux witnesses on their di
rect examination usually deny the
political purpose ofthe Order, assert
ing that the Ku Klnx are a social ne
ccssity growing out Of the abolition
of the old Patrol; that they have to
ride the country to keep the niggers
IN their places" that under the infu.
ence Of Radical Legislation and
Methodist Preaching the Niggers are
liable to become saucy," and without