The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-21
THE kU.kLGX


Hon jaime, y. Beck Of the congress- .ionai
kU-kluX committee has ju,t finished li.
labor- in Aiahuuu, and return, home half
amused, and thoroughly di,gu-ted, over
the final Of the silly ku-hIuX storic,
which he Wa, sent there To "Iuycstigatc.
The administration Wa, bent on extract
ing all possible aid and comfort from these
faUlicutlon~ 90 behalf ,f the Radical. in
the late elections. What better plan than
to send ,uu-yommittoc south whose in-
vc.tigations should be pro.racted until
after the canvass IN Ouip ard PcLn.ylva-
MIA. OF course the ku-k lux wiud-Lag
would be- puuctured AM its terrible pre-
tensions vanish into thIn air, hut ;he NOR
ale at the investigation would be worth
something to the "truly Loyal, u present
.. poe ", uld be ,uJscryeI
The authorize, shrcw4ly argued that,
let the labor, of the subcommittee result
"a thfYiy y, nigh ju.t 20 th"y wers pro'ragt.
b, we'll Here was the very cheapest kind
of political thunder. If II resulted that
tn s.. ov"rrru w.rh ho e.llius
and spirits damned" all right; if the in
vustlg. .-n7 .,su.,ru 80 q ,aIN farce all.
right -tIll; for the chief end and aim Of u
majority Of the commiltc, would have
been just a, etlrctually served 1t wa, the
old game of heads / win. tails YOU lose.
which the party IN power know so well
how TO play.
Mr.. Beck was in the city yesterday on
his way home 'om his duties "a commit.
tcemau. He represents the condition Of
thing in Alabama perfectly quict. the
people temperate, law-abiding, peaceful
in other words, thoroughly reconstructed.
With the respectable portion Of the COM
munity there wa iiN,d purpose not only
themselves to obey the law, bat to see
that Others DO So. order prevails through.
out the state, social, political, municipal
While there the committee examined the
United state. district attorney, the United
Siate- commissioner, beside, other leading
/ men Of both parties, and all concur that
no state in the Union exhibits moro sat.
isfuctory condition. ~ in all the states,
and AT all tlmc., there were few i,g-
lated cases of disorder, and it is yielding
more than the premises would Justify in
granting that even these We're established.
for they were only vouched for by class
Of men who would swear to anything as
long u they received the Stipulated sum
Of two dollar, per day for % doing.
Gen. Crawford, in command at Hunts.
Vile. assured Mr.. Beck that he found
everything quiet and orderly; that Lc wa
most ugrecably surprised at the perfect or
der he found there. And 20 said all good
| nited States officers democrats, rcpub.
l,can', all who Were not paid, directly or
indirectly, for saying the reverse. Gen.
G. -uid that -undry afiidavits were filed !
before him when be- fret went there. /
charging outrarcs, dire and duJolIcul. bu, .
that upon investigation hc found they /
were made by unreliable and rrcspcn,ibla ,
persons, In truth. Gen Crawford took
pains To- LIT the evidence, which, Tor hi.
honesty and candur would have gone into
the northern pres and pulpit a. outrage.
second only to those of "A Dick 1urpin ora
Robin Hood. No complaint, Ind been
made hy any respectable man,
50, whatever The effect OF rhi, inQui,i-
tion, or whatever its aim and object the
result has been complete vindcatinn of
from the false charge. hroush.
against her 10y her cnemir,.