The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-20
WHO OUGHT TO KNOWS

on the Ku klux business in the South
(while lamentably ignorant of similar
outrages at its W door, through the
malicious falsehoods uttered by its
party friends in Congress, we should
like to ask it, in the language of the
Sacramento Reporter, who ought to
know whether Ku klux outrages are
being committed in the Southern
States, as alleged, or not-the plum
derers in Washington or the order
loving people of those States-the
carpet bag Senators and Representa-
lives who pass their time in Washing
ton or the people whom they pretend
to represent? Senator Ames, Ben.
Buffers son-in-law, voted, and we
have no doubt it gave him great pleas
ure so to vote, FOL the ku klux bill,
with the ultra Radical Senate amend
ments thereto. Now, Senator .Ames
has seen fit to accuse Governor Alcorn,
of Mississippi, himself a Radical, and
elected as such, of treachery to the
Republican party, because the Gov
ernOr, who is we'll acquainted with
affairs in Mississippi, does not join i'll
the Ku KluX howl. The following
resolution, passed by the Mississippi
Legislature, viii, show who occupies
'.the vantage ground of truth"-Gov-
ernor Acorn or Ames. These resolu-
tions were introduced into the Senate
by DIR. Dowd, a leading Republican,
and President pro tempore of that
body. They are are as follows:
Whereas, Senator Ames recently
presented and caused tn ,be read be-
fore the United States Senate a letter,
dated Legislative Department of Mis-
Sissippi, Senate Chamber, Jackson,
March ., 1871, declaratory of the fact
that school houses were being bu rned
throughout the State OF Mississippi,
and that the teachers of schools We're
being driven OFF; and whereas, charges
of this sweeping character tend to the
shame of our people and place the
brand of barbarism Oh the brow of
our State, and, if true, reflect dishonor
on the constituents of the legislative
body from which Senator Ames de-
rived his credentials under which he
holds his seat in the United States
Senate; and, whereas, we, the repre-
s%entatives of the people, conscious OF
the great wrong done the State i'll the
utterance of that Senator, whose duty
it is to shield us from ISLANDERS. have
thought proper TO reply TO the impu-
tatiOnS of the Senator; therefore.
Resolved by the Senate (the House
concurring), That the utterances of
anonymous correspondents, as IN
dorSed by our aid Senator, constitute
a libel upon h people of Mississippi,
which we now repel.
Is it no patent from the foregoing
that Senator AmeS, i'll voting for the
ku kluX iniquity, acted unte to the
expressed wishes of the people of his
State? But we must apologize at once
to the people of Mississippi for calling
that noble commonwealth his State.
The charges preferred by malicious
men against the people of several
Southern States were not more vile or
sweeping than those made by Senator
Ames against the people of Missis-
sippi. See how the latter are treated
by the Legislature of that State. They
are pronounced a libel upon the peo-
pie, and a leading Republican leads
of in repelling the false accusation.
Yet the charges against Mississippi by
one who ought to shield her from
persecution, are not more unfounded
than those preferred by other carpet
baggers against the people of other
States. They are all ~tabrications,
s.baseless as the fabric of a vision.'
All are parts of II ~stupendous whole,
Whose body 1alsehOod Is, and spite, the
soul.