New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-08
trrem the New York TinesI
The Revival Of the KU.KIux.

| No sensible man, who has read the news
papers OF the day. doubts that the Ku-Klu
were reality less than year ago. The
were an organization formed to prevent tn
negroes voting the Republican ticket, and t.
this end they burned, whipped, mutlated
and murdered numberless victims. In sup
port OF this assertion we quote Horace Gree
lcy's speech, made in June, 1871, in which h,
said:
81 have been asked, arc there any Ku
Klux down South: Yes, gentlemen, Their,
arc. l am moved will
profound disgust when think of these mel
covering themselves up with second-rats cal
leo, masking their faces, arminS themselves
| to the teeth, and riding around TO the cabini
OF poor, harmless negroes, dragging then
from their beds, and whippin: and manning
them till they are compelled to swear they
will never again vote the Republican ticket
| After this, no man-especially no man now
supportin: Greeley--will deny The existence
of tho Ku-Klux year ago.
But, says the Democratic press, "the Ku
| klux arc entirely disbanded." Then why is
Gov. Walker, down in North Carolina, apollo.
giving for them, and ''hoping to God" that
they Will continue their internal work? Heal
him, As reported in a Greeley paper:
"A party styling itself Republican has fol
and has dragged North Carolina down from
| the high position she once occupied among
the free commonwealth of the world, until
! her hitherto untarnished name became by
word and = disgrace. The outragcs of the
| Radicals had been so great that the people
| were driven into taking the power into their
own hands, and exercising the God-given
right of self-protection. These outrages,
| combined with an inefficient Administration,
gave rise to Ku-KluXism. He was not here
to defend tho Ku-KluX or violence of any
kind; but he did not hesitate to say, as tho
Chief Magistrate of the grandcst old State in
tho Union, that when tho men whom they
have placed in power fail so utterly to do
their duty, he hoped to God the people would
take the Government into their hands,"
This is a palpable confession and defiant
approval of the existence of tho Ku-Klux.
But no ono needed Walkers impudent adj
missions to believe in that. Within a fort
night two distinct cases of Ku-Kluxism have
been announced in North Carolina. Doubt
less more have occurred. Both the parties
have motives for suppressinS reports of
them-the Democrats because they arc
afraid Northern Liberals will DO disguised,
and Republicans because they fear that the
alarm of tho negroes at tho renewal Of per-
secutiOn will keep voters from tho polls.
But the truth escapes. Here is what one of
the 7ribme's own correspondents was COM
PEELED to listen to, and is impudcnt enough
to report:
"Thc Democrats Of tho South, if Horace
Greeley is elected, will be the worst disap-
pointed set of men you ever saw. | don't
believe MIR. Greeley has sold out to them as
they think he has, and there's sure to be
fight unless these secessionists down here are
allowed to manage him. You don't and
can't know them ~ we do; but mind what l
tell you, this whole country will be overrun
with Ku-Klux within three months after Mr..
Greeley's Inauguration. Then if he under
takes to suppress disorder there'l be such a
howl as this country never heard"
Some Of the Democratic papers take
another tack. They would have us believe
that the negroes are all at fault, though it
is curious how this offensive people always
get the worst oft. A dispatch to the Asso-
ciatcd Press, which is usually unfair enough,
thus describes an occurrence in Savannah
SAVANNAH, July 29.-Thc attempt of the
negroes to ride on strcct-cars eliminated in
a quarrel tonight, during which two whites
and several negroes were wounded There
is much excitement.
This, obviously colorcd as it is, is not say
age enough for tho Tribune, which publishes a
special account as follows:
SAVANNAH, July 29.-Thc political Bit
terness which has been rapidly intcnsifying
during the past few weeks, eliminated in
riot, this afternoon, in the streets, between
blacks and whites, melted by Custom-housc
employees.
A few months ago, before the 7,ibune's
guns had been spiked by the treachcry of
its chief, it would have denounced an out
rage Of this kind as it deserved. 1t would
have asked if an attempt TO ride in street
cars was a capital Oilense in Savannah, and
it would have promptly stamped as lie the
statement about Custom-hOuse EMPLOYEES.
Now it employs the tone and tactics of the
old prO-slavery, Ku-klux Democratic PAPERS
Does it suppose that all its readers are as
lost to sense of decency, or are as incapa-
Die OF honest Indignation against cruelty and
outrage as itself?
Still another portion of the Democratic
press. would have it, we suppose, that the
Administration speakers have been stirring
up strife. The Herald raves about "the seed
sown by Secretary Boutwell, and those who
have united with him in the attempt to excite
the passions and hatreds of the negroes of
North Carolina against the whites, and closes
with the following brutal threat and more
brutal falsehood:
1T must be peace or war between the
black and white citizens of the Southern
States, and Boutwell, and his friends are do
ing their best to make it war"
There is not, in anything Mr.. boutwell, or
any other Republican speaker has said, the
shadow Of foundation for this statement of
the HyaiPs. Senator Doolittle, in his o,en-
ing of the campaign, warned negroes that if
they did not divide their votes their liberties
would be in danger, and Walker, as we have
seen, sustained the Ku-Klux Outragcs. But
no Republican has followed these evil cx-
amples.
The simple truth slipped from the pen of a
Tribune writer when he declared, yesterday:
There is no part Of the Union where in
timidatiOn is so easy as it is in North Caro-
lima, or where little money will buy so
many votes"
This is the secret of all These twistings and
turnings on the question of the treatment of
the negroes. Whether the Ku-Klux are
boldly declared to have been called into be-
ing by the measures adopted to suppress
them, or whether the negroes are charged
with violently getting themselves killed and
beaten, or whether all violence is sturdily
denied, or even when the Republicans are ac-
eused Of getting up riots to kill off their own
rioters-the object Of the lying and soulrminc