Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-08-10

Its democratic Paternity, its Heinsl
Features anb Party Purposes.
The Congressional Committee investi
eating the KI-Klux villainy-a sub com
mittee in Washington, and another sub
committee in South Carolina-have nov
been~in daily session more than tw,
months, and have had before them man,
scores Of witne sses from all sections of til,
late Insurreetionary Statesmen of boil
high and humble station-Presiding Ell
ders. Preachers, ex-aIenibers of the Fed
eral Congress and ex-Members of the
Confederate Congress, ex-Generalsof boil
Armies, Governors and ex-Governors,
Judges, Solicitors. Sherifis, Revenue Off
GERS, Officers of the Army, Postmasters,
School Teachers, Repentant and Nonre-
pentant members of Ku-Klux Klans, and
dozens of their manned and suffering vic.
Tins, black and white.
And what has this patient and thoro-
ugh investigation established-and estab-
lished beyond all future cavil and ques-
ton? These atrocious Facts:
l.. That in all the discretionary
States, and generally difused, though not
found In every County, is an o~ath-bound
Secret Organization, working only at
night, and its members always in dis
guise, with Officers, Signs, Signals, Pass
words, Grips. and all the necessary para
phernalia, with the Pledged and sworn
purpose of putting down the Republican
and putting up the Democratic Party !;
known in different localities among the
initiated by different names. but every
where recognized by the general eogno-
men 'Ku-Klux."
2. That the organization came into be-
ing a few months previous to the last
Presidential Election, during which can
vass it was in its most vigorous condition,
but is now through all the South, with
more efficient discipline and effective di-
rection than ever, reviving, in preparation
for the next Presidential campaign, when,
as they told one Of their victims in Ten
nessee a few weeks since, "no i Ra.
dical voting is to be allowed in any South
ern State, by black or white"
8. That this Ku-Klux organization is
the premeditated and determined scheme
for carrying the South at the next cleo
ton of President, and so, by securing the
entire electoral vote of that section, make
sure the election of the Democratic nomi-
nee.
4. That the officers and establishers of
these "Dens" (as they appropriately call
their separate bands) are the leading and
active Democratic politicians of the
South.
5, That the scheme has the hearty good
will of a large section of the Democratic
Party in those States, and the acquics-
cence of nearly the entire Party.
6. That the direct and chief purpose
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 repentant and Givulging members
of the Order. is this: The putting down
of the Republican ard the putting up of
the Democratic Party.
Z. That while the Democratic and Ku-
Klux Witnesses on their direct examina-
ton usually deny the political purpose of
the Order. asserting that the Ku-Klux
are a social necessity growing out of the
abolition of-the old Patrol that they
have to ride the countryt to keep the Mig
gers in their place :" that under the in
fuence of Radical Legislation and Metho-
dist Preaching the Niggers are liable to
saucy;" and without an occasion
al Ku-Klux visit would begin to think
themselves as good as white folks :" AID
that these frequent ~ioggings, and an oc-
murder, are necessary to maintain
such q state of morals among the Blacks
as viii permit the NEGOTIATING Whites to
live in their neighborhood +; yet, on the
cross-examination, these witnesses also
very generally, as we'll as very reluctantly,
confess that the intimidation Of RepubIi-
can voters is Z prominent and not to be
regretted result c.
s. That to secure this purpose, the put
ling down of the Republican and the put
ing up of the Democratic Party, Intimi-
lation is the grand measure-the intimi-
lation Of Republican voters, black and
white, but especially the humble and de-
'~enceless. by midnight raids /; by barning
louses and stores, and the destruction of
;rops; by whipping of such extreme cru
,lty as often to end in death by most in
decent and painful manning by a~ssassi-
nation and murder in such cowardly man
Ter and with such bellish device as may |
terror into whole counties, and
bring down the Republican vote from two
,r three thousand to less than a single
su
0. That School teachers" aud Preach
RS of the Methodist Church North" seem
be the especial adherence of these De-
n~ocratic assassions; and hundreds of
school houses and Methodist Churches
lave been given to the flames and Chris
endom will stand aghast when it is made
Known the scores of School-teachers and
Methodist Preachers, who. by this Demo
ratio agency, within these three years,
ave been whipped ! shot hung! and, in
,ome instances, it is believed, burned at
he Stakei
10. That in nearly one.haif the States
If this Union this work of hell is now &C.
ng on, night by night-every month ex-
the range of its bloody operations,
md fearfully multiplying the number of
is victims!
IL. That it is solely and Immediately
n the service of the Democratic party-a
portion of the party South heartily
lpproving-large numbers of the party
North attempting its palliation by excuse,
nd its shelter from scorn by covering up
n denying its crimes, as il cowardly assas-
,~ination could BE palliated, and brutal
murder sexcnsedAand the y Democratic
party throughout the lard rejoicing in its
of help. So, either by open and
acknowledged action, CIR by the no less
criminal and the mcre, cowardly participa-
ton of extenuating and shielding the
the party, South and North, become
the people and before God equal
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