The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-08-24
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Eleven Pregnant Facts Rro,t.
to Light By the Congressi6H-
a InVestigating Committee.
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@ He1lish Features and Party
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. The Congressional Committee in
Ve5tigating the Ku KIux villainyA
2 a sub-cOmmitteein Washington, and
another subcommittee in South
Carolina, have now been in daily
session more than two months, and
have had before them many scores
Of witnesses from alt sections Of the
Insdffaet i0nary states2men of both
humble and high stations-Presid
T ing Elders, Preachers, ez-M Members
oftbe Federal Congress ana ex- Mem
bers of the Confederate Congress, ex-
Generals of both Armies, Govern
, ors and ex,GOvornors, Judges, Solic-
itors, Sherifs, Revenue Officers, Of
ficers Of the Army, Post Masters,
School Teachers, Repentant and
Nonrepentant members of Ku Klux
Klans, and dozens of their maimed
and suffering victims, black and
white.
And what has this patient and
thorough Investigation established
land established beyond all future
eavil and question ? Theselatrooious
facts
/ 1. That in all the late InsuFrec-
tionary States, and generally dffus-
ed, though not found in every coun-
ty, is an oath-bound Secret organi-
Eationo working only at night, and
] its members always in disguise with
officers, signs, signals, passwords,
igriPs and all the necessary para
IPhernalia, with the pledge and
sworn purpose of putting d0wR the
/ Republican party and putting up the
Democratic party ) known in differ
ent localities among the initiated by
different names, but everywhere
lrecogn lied by the general cognomen
I''Ku Klux." -r- -
2. That the organization came
into being a few months previous
to the last Presidential Elecliony
during which canvass it was in it's
most vigorous condition, but is now
through all the South, with more
efficient discipline and effective direc-
ton than ever, reviving, in prepa.
ration for the next Presidential cam
Paign, when, as they told one of
their victims in Tennessee a few
weeks since, "no id Radical
voting is to be allowed in any
Southern State, by black or white"
2. That this Ku KIux organiza-
ton is the premeditated and deter.
mined scheme for carrying the
South at the next election of Presi-
dent, and so, by securing the entire
electoral vote Of that section, make
sure the election of the Democratic
nominee.
4. That the officers and establish
ers of these "Dens" Gas they appro-
priately call their separate bands) !
are the leading and active politicians
of the South.
D. That the scheme has the hearty |
good will Of large section of the
Democratic Party in all those States, /
and the acquiescenoe of nearly the
whole party.
6. That the direct and chief pur-
pose of the organization, as sworn
by all the victims, as the assertion
uniformly made to them by those
midnight assassins, and corroborat-
ed by the universal testimony of the
repentant and divuIging members
of the Order, is this: The putting
down of the Republican and the
putting up Of the Democratic party.
Z. That while the Democratic and
the Ku-KIux witnesses or, their di
rect examination usually deny the
political purpose of the Order, as
serting that the Ku-Klux are a so
cut necessity growing out of the
abolition of the old Patrol that
the organization is necessary in
the country to keep the "niggers
in their place y that under the iufu-
ence Of Radical legislation and
Methodist preaching the uiggers are
liable to become saucy, and without
Ku KIux visits would be-
gin to think themselves as good as
white folks and that these frequent
and occasional murders,
are necessary to maintain such a
state Of morals among the Blacks as
will permit the vice hating Whites
to live in their neighborhood yet :
on the cross examination these wit
nesses also very generally, as we'll
as very reluctantly, confess that the
Of Republican Uoters is
a prominent and not to be regretted {
result.
s. That to secure this purpose,
he putting down Of the Republican
md the putting up Of the Democrat
c party, Intimidation is the grand :
measure - the intimidation OF Re-
publican voters, black or white, but
the humble and defense =.
ess, by midnight raids by burning !,
louses and stores, and the destruc- :,
ion Of crops by whippings Of such