Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-08

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facts:
|. That in all the late insurrection-
airy States, and generally diffused,
though not found in every County, is
an oath-bOund secret organization.
working only at night, and its mem
bers always in disguise, with officers,
signs, signals, pass words, grips, and
all the necessary paraphernalia, with
pledged and sworn purpose of putting
doion the Republican and putting up
the Democratic party known in dit.
ierent localities among the initiated
by different names, but every where
recognized by the general cognomen
"KU-KLUX."
z. That the organization came into
being few months previous to the
last Presidential Election, during
which eonvass it was in its most
vigorous condition, but is now
through all the South, with more ef-
ficient discipline and effective direc-
ton than ever, reviving, in prepare
ton for the next Presidential cam
paign, when, as they told one of
their victims in Tennessee a few
weeks since, mo id Radical yot-
ing is to be allowed in any Southern
State, by black ? white"
3 That this KusKlux organiza-
tion is the premeditated scheme for
carrying the South at the next cleo
ton of President, and so, by securing
the entire electoral vote of that sec-
ton, make sure the election of the
Democratic nominee.
f. That tho officers and establish
ers of these "Dens" Gas they appro-
priately call their separate bands)
are the leading and active Democrat
ic politicians OF the South.
B. That TIE scheme has the hearty
goodwill Of large section of the
Democratic party in all those States,
and the acquiescence Of nearly the
entire party.
6. That the direct and chief pur-
pose of the organization, as sworn
by all the victims, as the assertion
uniformly made to them by these
midnight assassins, and corroborated
by the universal testimony 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 direct
examination usually deny the polite
al purpose of tie order, asserting
that the Ku-K lux are a social neces-
sity growing out of the abolition OF
the old patrol; that they have to
ride the country to keep the Mig
gers in their place )" that under the
influence Of radical legislation and
Methodist preaching the niggers are
liable to become saucy and without
an occasional Ku-Klux visit would
"begin to think themselves as good
as white folks )" and that these fire.
quent foggings, and an occasional
murder, are necessary to maintain
such state of morals among the
blacks as will permit the NEGOTIATING
whites to live in their neighborhood
yet, on the cross-examination, these
witnesses also very generally, as
well as very reluctantly, confess that
the intimidation Of Republican UOters
is a prominent and not TO be regret
ted result
s. That to secure this purpose, the
putting down Of the Republican and
the putting up of the Democratic
party, Intimidation is the grand meas
ure-the intimidation of Republican
voters, black and white, by midnight
raids by burning houses and stores,
and the destruction of crops by
whippings of such extreme cruelty
as often to end in death by most in
decent and painful manning; by as,
sassination and murder in such cow
ardly manner and with such hellish
device as may strike terror into
whole counties, and bring down the
Republican vote from two or three
thousand to less than single dozen.
8. That school teachers" and
preachers of the Methodist Church
North" seem to be the especial abb
horrence Of these Democratic assass.
sins and hundreds of school houses
and Methodist churches have been
given to the flames and Christendom
will stand aghast when is made
known the scores of school teachers
and Methodist preachers, who by
this Democratic agency, within these
three years, have tsen Whipped
Shot Hung and, in some instances.
it is believed, Burned at the Stake /
10. That in nearly one-half the
States of this Union this work Of
hell is now going on, night by night
every month extending the range
of its bloody operations, and fear
fully multiplying the number of its
victims
IL. That it is sorely and immedi-
ately in the service of the Democrat
ic party-a large portion OF the par
ty South heartily approving-large
numbers of the North attempting ifs
palliating by excuse, and its shelter
from scorn by covering up or deny
ing its crimes, as if cowardly assas-
sination could be palliated, and brut-
al murder expesed-and the Demo-
cratic party throughout the land re-
ioicing in its promise of help So,
either by open and acknowledged ac-
ton, or by the no less criminal and
the more cowardly participating of
extenuating and shielding the crime.
the party, North and South, become
before the people and before the peo-
pie and before God equal sharers in
the responsibility.
Out of the mouths Of more than
two hundred witnesses is every syl-
liable of this established and more
than ten thousand of the shroudless
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