The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-23

| by their party, that this party refuse
| to permit the colored child to enter
school which that child's father i
taxed equally with the white man Il
support, refuses him seat in the car
on roads made in exercise of the com
mon domain of all the people, refuses
him access to the hotels and places o
public amusements, and turns him, 81
an inferior and ,despised race, from al
these, and this in defiance and defeat
of the solid vote of the Republican
party to secure them. And Mr.
Sumner and hisparty go to the Amer.
icsn and colored citizen and demand
that the Democratic party shall bt
made the guardians OF the equal rights
Of all these people before the law, and
that for their enstallment the Repub
licsn party shall be overthrown and
destroyed forever
But did 1 pause here, this recital
of things admonishing the colored
ifaee@sd66nishia ee@s6s 1911 as -sIi=lte.s shi.
avowal, by them at Baltimore, o
conversion to Republican principle:
in favor of your equal rights, Is 8
stimulation, cheat, a wooden horse,
by which they mean to allure youinto
intrusting to them the control of you,
liberties that they may destroy them,
would be inexcusably incomplete.
Indeed the most conclusive and
appalling proof of the conspiracy and
its designs would be left out. /
allude to that political organization
and its character upon which they
rely, who made this platform at Bal
timore, for success in the coming
election, the Ku-Klux.
I refer to it with a feeling OF re-
luctance and loathing which you can
not realize who have not 50 long or
much been forced to listen to recitals
of its deeds and proofs of its aims as
/ have in Congress. And were this
horrid thing indeed a thing of the
past, and did they who, to-day, give
it existence and readiness for its fell
purposes, indeed assent that it and
the objects for which they made and
still keep it, should be by-gones, then
would and every Republican cover
il, if we could, with an oblivion as
profound as the infamy with which it
covers its authors and the American
name. But since they will not-since
this goblin DAMNED still glares upon
Us, its members, apologists and de- |
tenders being part of the very body
which made this Baltimore Conven-
tion-since at Memphis and in
Georgia they have have smeared all
over with the blood of their recent
murders the platform they made at |
Baltimore, dare you forget its presence
in your midst Or the appalling dan
gers it portends to your Liberties
Look at it, then, as it thrusts its |
threatening presence upon you to-day. |
l challenge them who best know the |
past to show me in any age or country
a political conspiracy like this one in |
Its stupendous enormity.
In its numbers it exceeds the best |
armies of the nations, and is estima-
ted by its chief officer, Forrest, at
five hundred thousand. In military |
it is complete, and |
armed from head to foot, trained and |
expert in war by the teachings of a
hundred rebel battlefields, skilled in
assassina'ions by the learning ac-
luired under its chief officer, Forest,
1t huadred Fort Pillows and Ander-
to rescue each other
when in danger, by perjuries and
murder, extending throughout ten of
our States, moving 10 their slaught-
srs under cover OF mask and night,
and upon selected victims, innocent,
1efenseless, and asleep, sparing
neither age, infirmIty, nor childhood,
scattering over the South the dead or
bodies OF their victims, until
heir numbers in but ninety-nine coun-
les, and which are disclosed by
proofs filling thousands of pages,
reached 1885, and the entire aggre-
gate, disclosed and undisclosed, was
, year ago, estimated at $4,000, pro-
,racting this frightful work through
,ut line of years and doing it now
the elections in State after
State, election after election; defying
he power of your government to put
hem down and the acts Of Congress
made ea lhen .h pssttb sauss,pg
, up the courts so that, in those o.