The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-03-23

lH moro 10 NO JuotlnCAta00 WhAt0v.
or for for the downright murders ia
Union county committed BY the dis,
guised desperadoes who call them.
selves Ku Klax. They are neither
moro or less than murdersrs; and il
il demanded that they be brought at
once to the bar Of justice, or sCourg.
ed beyond the limits oi the 6tste.-
Their oondact il ~ foolish a. IL ID ia.
trinsically wrong. They are play.
ing directly into the hands Of our
bitter political foes. y We have had
already long years Of tyranny and
oppression, brought about by the
violence or stupidity of misguided
men, who would redress ali their
wrongs BY the bludgeon Of the bully
or the rifle Of the assassin. Unless
We would 60 back TO tho inohoate
condition with which reconsideration
made the State familiar, tho recur.
renee of the Union outEagss must 81
once be made impoasible. q T.
ITO send negro militia into the
up-oountry, excited - the people are,
is to hurry them to destraction. a
detachment o. United States troops
could, however, prevent Ku Ktux
outrages, and would have the moral
support Of all good citizens.i AZ il
ID, . gang Of deperadoes and reckless
boys strike . terrible blow ct the
ipeaoe and prosperity of tho State. |"
Tho Shelby county (Alab.ma)
Gsids, . Democratic paper, recently
said % egidsll's ~ c&}
"The latest Ku Klux outraQes arc
Of horrible character, and were
perpetrated upon the persons Of two
negroes in jackson county, in this
State, The battle cry of the Demoo-
racy in the late canvass was law
and order, and against the fools and
thieves in power. Governor Lind
sey has been installed In his Office
now nearly two months, within which
time number Of these cold blooded
murders have been committed, and
oil tho victims, except perhaps one,
were Aegroes; yet mot In one single
instance, except the murder Of the
white man, Amos G. Harris, in the
city Of Montgomery, right under the
nose Of the Governor, has there been
. single reward offered BY his Excel
lency for the perpetrators Of these
dlabolioal deeds. In our own county.
In the enlightened community Of
Montevallo, where Lindsey and
reform received 412 out Of Az votes
cast, ct least 100 of them negroes,
ono of these horrible murders has
been committed and no notice taken
OF 1t, except BY the employer of the
negro, who offered . reward of $500,
through the columns Of the Selma
Times, for testimony sufficient to
convict the parties engaged in the
affair; and exoept this advertise
ment and . six-line editorial in the
Times, calling attention to the adver-
tisement, this horrible affair received
no notice ct the hands of the press
OF the State except through tho
columns of the Selma Argus and
Montgomery Advertiser. g Z
"Onr opinion is that q few thou.
sand dollars in rewards for those
murderers would bring some Of them
up dangling ct tho end Of q rope, and
would have 4 tendency to stop their
outragss and, perhaps, put an end to
Parsons's reconstruction. But,
strange to say, some of tho Demo
cratic press Of Alabama, instead of
these crimes, encourage
them either BY silence or innuendo,
and even to-day some OF Thorn are,
in an indirect manner, pointing Par
sons out as q good subject for one Of
these outrages.
"If the Democratic party mean
peace and iaw and order lot them
begin ut once to bring it about
Governor Lindsey by offering suit
able rewards for tho perpetrators of
these crimes, and tho press denoun-
cling them in the soyerost terms"
Tho OoMrisr-Jowrnal, of Louisville,
Kentucky, the ablest Democratic
paper Of the South, only last week
boldly and periodically said, in
speaking Of the Ku Klux:
"They have usurped the powers
II government; mado murder their
psstime and terrorism their scspter;