The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-07
THE NEVADA Ku.KLux KL.N.

The Enterprise of Yesterday fully
Endorses the acts of the Vigilance Com
mittee of Virginia City in abridging
the freedom of speech, by ~characterlz-
ing our structures of the same as
..slanderous and Impairment" Can
the Enterprise point to a sentence in
which We have misrepresented the
Committee? Or will it have the hardi-
hood to say that our remarks were not
pertinent? When an organized band
of armed men threaten law abiding
citizens for denouncing ~lawlessness,
they defy law, and order, and decen-
cy, and place themselves in a worse
light before the world than the loafers
whom they have eXpatriated. As 10
our cotemporary's remark that the
people of that city ''will manage their
own affairs in their own way" we beg
leave to say that this is a new and
strange doctrine for the Enterprise to
advocate. 1t has always denied that
right to the people and even to the
local and lawful governments OF the
Southern States. The Virginia Nigi-
lance Committee lit was underStOod)
v organized for the same purposes
as the XII KIuX klans of the South: to
see that offenders were brought TO jus
lice and punished by the law, or
where insurmountable obstacles were
thrown i'll the way of justice in the
courts, to deal out such punishment
for crime as the law would in all prob
ability have inflicted had no such OBJ
structions interfcred. Vet the Enter
prise depouIiceS the and etendS
the other. But further: The South
ern Ku-kluX everywhere tolerate op-
position. and even denunciation: the
Virginia City ku-klux do not. let
The Enterprise denounces in the bitter
est terms the most righteous deeds Of
the former and applauds the most in
tolerant and intolerable deeds of the
latter.
\ Republican statesman from New
England. run out of Boston for burg
larry. finds congenial companions
among the negroes employed by an
old platter in Gilmore county. Ala
lama, and s~trdightway sets about poi>-
oning the minds of the simple blacks
against their kind and indulgent en-
plover, who. OH learning the facts
proceeds to the negro quarter to order
the hummer TO leave, when the assa>
sin attacks him with 4 knife, and IL
turn Is knocked down and thraShed by
the old @ray-beard. This is laid be
fore Congress and telegraphed al
over the country as n terrible ku-
klux outrage. The Enterprise take:
up the cry and demands the distran
chisement or hanging of every proper
ty holder or native white man OF II
more county. or at least that the PEG
pie shall be placed under the rule o.
. bayoltets. Quiet, law-abiding
property-holding. tax payln@,honoreG
and long resident citizens-LAw oFFI
GERS tNtlI-tA NIISlli NY AK NO'
fed by Grand Cyclops G0l of the Ne,
vada X. X. X, that if they express
eheir Interpretation of the lawlcss
deeds or attempt 10 enforce the law
against the will of the X. h, they vii
be exEutria;ed or hanged. THAT /,
what the warning amounts to- Anc
the Enterprise is in ecstacies orei
Operations of the Committee of Safe
ty," and c!laracterizes disapprobatioI
of such understandable and incXcusa
BILE corporations" as 'Slanaerous and
impertincnt!" Verify, the editor o
the Enterprise must be terribly fright
ened, 10 Ego back on his own doc
trines thus!
SAN DOMINGo.-The Commissioners,
Il. +. Wade. \. u. White and ). q
Howe, appointed by Grant TO reior
tavOrab!y on the resources. climate
. establishments IF SDn bnIlInDn