Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-06-15
N. o. WALLACE,
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He Relates the Horrors Of the Ku
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CARPET BAG CeRNER, n. c., May 6, 1871.
SENATOR MORTON TO you, q.
the mouth-piece of the Republi
can party, aud author of the Ku
Klux policy, is due the gratitude
of ell us Northern men who ART
in the South a pursuln' life, liber
Ity and Offices. AS missionaries
in the moral cause of teachin' the
unconstructed Southerners how tc
run the government on the free
and neral plan, we have suffered
horrors like unto the martyrs in
Fox's illustrated pictorial, ex.
ceptin' that we amt been perse.
cuted in our religious belief, of
which We never had any to speak
of. -.
For a while we got on first rate
in our pursuits. By a promisiu'
the niggers forty acres of land
and a mule, and takin' their spare
change to pay for certificates, we
got 'em to vote US into Office, and
had things all our own way. The
uneOnstructed Southerners didn't
have nothing to say, because they
thought it wasn't any of their
government, and it wasn't their
put in. But when we got TO
maxim 'em pay big taxes for con-
Structin' them, they began to think
it was a good deal their funeral
after all, and commenced howlin'.
AS the niggers didn't get any
land or mule to speak of, they un-
gratefully refused to vote for US
any longer, and wouldn't be sat-
isfied until we divided the Offices
and profits with them. Since
then things haven't been SO peace
ful as they was, an the South is a
borderin On q revolution, which
compels US to arrest the fellows
that grumble and make trouble.
Peace and our Offices must be pre-
served at all hazards.
Then came bloody assassins,
the Ku-Klux, and throwd the
country into terror and confusion
and blocked the wheels of con-
struction, and scared all the little
children aud old women OF the
North into conniption fits. When
| think of a band of secret as
sassins a ridin' through the coun-
try ill the dead hour of night with
a pint of whisky in their stomachs
and a flaming cigar between their
teeth, ! inyoluntarily cover my
head with the bed clothes. The
fact that such conspira tors is al
lowed to roam the land and dis
turb the peace is proof in my mind
that the South hain't yet been.
constructed enough, and ought to
have q regiment of troops sta
toned in every house, that the
majesty Of the President may be
establi'hed throughout the land.
To tell all the outrages them
Ku-Klux has perpetrated would
make a list as long as the tariff
law, and furnish material for a
dozen investigatin' committees at
Sl2 a day and oil expenses paid.
20 show the enormity of the
crimes perpetrated by them bloody
midnight assassins, the Ku-Klux,
l give the following incidents
which have fallen under my per-
sonal and official observation:
Only few nights ago one of
them Ku-Klux found a niger rob
bin his hen roost, and in cold
blood he deliberately kicked that
poor defenceless and down-trodden
African over a seven rail fence,
thus ruthlessly violatin' the fif-
teenth amendment to the. censti.
tuition of the United States. Is
this the land of liberty and equal
rights, when such outrages are
allowed to pass unrebuked?
Only ten days ago a band Of
these midnight asAassins, in the
dead hours of night, dragged one
of our most esteemed citizens of
African descent from the bosom
of his family and whipped him
with cat of Dinety.nine tails, on
the trivial charge of HAHN out
ragged an old woman of eighty-twol
years old! Is this a land Of so.
cial equality, when such acts are
perpetrated in our very midst?
A few evenings ago one of these
uncOnstructed Southern conspira-
tors deliberately and In cold blood
shot at a Northern missionary,
who was innocently ridin' off one
of his best horsesl Where areI
our laws that guarantee every
man in pursuit of happiness?
In Scallawag township Gov.
ernment officer was brutally tarredl