The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-05-19
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SOUTHERN OUTnAGEs.

Ine facility with which Radicalism
can manufacture and invent false
hoods against the South would be
astonishing, had we not become ac-
customed to them. These falsehoods
and inventions are Multiplying with
the greatest rapidly as the time for
another Presidential contest ap-
proaches, and will be made the pre-
text for such additional Legislation
and Presidential interference az will
secure the election to the Republican
party.
Already the Outrage Committee, or /.
moro properly, the Outrageous Com
mittee, of Congress has made q re-
port to that august body, in which
the existence of Ku-Klux Organize
ton in the South is asserted with a
boldness and assurance almost won
derfnl. Everybody who lives in the
South, or who has lived here since
the close Of the war, knows that this
is an unmitigated lie if our readers
will pardon US the expression, for we
know of no other term By which to
characterize the report. There is
not now, nor has there been. since
the close of the war, any organized
secret body of men In the Southern
States, combined for tho purpose of
enforcing or resisting the laws, of
molesting any so-ealled loyal citizens,
or Of interfering with the rights and
privileges of any citizens or class of
citizens. IL such q body existed, it
was among the Radicals, and was or
ganized. AID sustained By them for
tho defeat of the Democratic party
and for their own sustenance. We
make this assertion in the face of the
false and malicious report of the Out
rageous Committee, and it csn be sus-
tanned by the best and truest men
and women OF the South.
1t is true that there may have been,
and were in lawless localities, parties
who have taken the law into their
own hands; outrages may have been
committed here and there; Radical
thieves and scalawags may have been
denounced in no measured terms,
wherever their acts made them
known; but these things were the
spontaneous acts OF individuals, act
ing for themselses-acts which were
not confined TO the South, but COM
mitted as we'll in the loyal North,
East. aud West. as well Us in the reb-
el South. .a.s
And for these things we are to be
denounced and punished-simply be-
cause the miserable farce of Radical
Government in tho South has been
played OUTFITS own respectable
members being among the foremost.
in denunciation of the wicked schemes
of their party leaders. Upon the
ruins Of Radicalism is arising the edi-
fee of good government and general
prosperity; but the principle of
Republicanism is: Perish govern
ment, peace, prosperity-everything,
but our party and the spoils Of Of
fee. ee e s.ss6ii9 ss1Fss
! Against the lying charges of the
majority report. we have the minori-
ty report of Messrs, F.. p. Blair and
E. p. Salisbury, gentlemen whose
charcter and veracity are above re-
proach, and far above the petty SLAM
derers of . noble-heartedi and gener-i
GUS people. They have put the is
sue in its true light, aud little faith
as we have in the Northern people
for justice and patriotism, We still in-I
dulgs the hope that they will come
to the rescue of their injured and in-
suited brethren--that they will de-
nounce the mean and contemptibie
legislation which has characterized
their last congress. and bids fair to-
mark the sessions of the present; and
that, when the time comes, they will !.
at The ballot-box, give such verdict
in favor Of justice and peace as will
settle the question of Congressional
and Presidential interference in State
Governments forever All u laain s