The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-01
The Ku Klux Ou.rsass.

The Union speaks often and with much
seeming horror of thedi sstSrriblei out.
ragesi which have been cqmmitted by
the Kd Kldx. There is no tsllihg Where
the Union would stopif its wild imagi-
nation werelnot stayed now and then by
its :.Ku Klux friand.'" Some timesince,
while in one oftfs manufacturing moods
for the Union is great manufacturer
aHdSmiltary proseutipuist-it alluded,
With; great. pathosil to thee. .thonsands Of
victims who 6il bloody graves. This
was q pretty rapid stride. even for the
Union. and we began to suspect, right
away, that onr Ku Klux martyr had been
adding to his outrage manufacturing
machinery, in anticipation of heavy
press of business during the Presidential
campaign. So we set about to ascertain,
il possible, what genuine and original
materials these thousands of victimu'
had been made from. We had been told
by q reliable gentleman, WHO had taken
the troubleto 60 4hrough the yoluminous
testimony \. takani han9 in in thai Kn Kiux oases.
and printed by the Union, that fourteen
was the oq2tde number OF homiicides
referred to by Any and all the witnesses.
We called Apeh: the Union then to name
twenty hopicIaes. which hadubee1 com-
nittsd by -theaK1. Klux as adch, except
the men who were taken from the Jail
at Union and executed by Lynch law.
Two or three days shereafter. The, Union
replies with a list chastity thrown to-
gether from memory" comprising just
even twenty names, aud challenges Us to
deny aAih9le one los them. Here, is the
list:
Mao Bobo. Union County, February,
1871; shot. disembowelled, his body
filed With stDhes and thrown into Broad
River.
Alfred Owens, Trial Justice in Union
County. M9Eehhy 1Szl; taken from his bed
at nigRtI4S satally murdered in his
TiSsn AWsfa. Union County. about
the same time.si-5 ....
Lewis Thompson. a oolored preacher;
shot. dfsen1bowqaled and otherwise
shamef6lty >hdtilatsA id manner which
deoenoy .forbids Us to describe. June,
1871. q g. .:nia'g
Strap yeffers. Union County, January,
1871; Wallace Fowler 10 hion% County,
May. 1871; Thomas Roundtree. York
County. December. 1870; Matthew
Boyos, York County, March, 1871; Lot
Campheil. York County. April, 1871;
Anderson Brown. York County. Febru-
ary, 1871; Harry Miller. York County.
March. 1871; Jim Williams, York Ooun-
y. March, 1871; Alexander Leech. York
County. March. 1871; Charles Good.
York County. Maroh, 1871; Sam. Soaife,
York County. March. 1871; Eli MoOol.
lnm. York County, March, 1871; Isaac
Coles. ,Lancaater County. April. 1871;
ibis wife.) Chesterfield County. April.
March, 1871.
Thisi s4yd the Qaiop. "i1slqdes none
Of your pretended Lynch law excep-
tions."' II il does not. it comes ne1t
door to IL The list includes oneS at
least, who should be excluded on tie
same gronpsdls as the exceptions which
we,made. E'>.tYfl 4 + T., ..4
Since this list was published, ,weihave
been told by a gentleman from Unipp
that Mac Bobo, who heads il, made his
escape from Union Jail the night that
the Mat. Stevens murderers were shot
or hung, and that he was afterwards
caught and killed on, Broad River. He
was about as fit a subject for Lynch law
as the Stevens murderars, !, he had
burned the dwelling house. smoke-house
and all the tout-houses oi . Mr. Estes,
leaving him. land his family without q
shelter; had acknowledged his crime,
and boasted that he couldn't be punished
for It. So much for Mac Bobo. Surely
his death. Mr. Union. was not Ku
Klux outrage, in the sense in which you
would have Them interpreted, which is
wilful al malicious murdei. With poll
sical animosity as the motive. g
AS to the balance Of the list, We reoog-
nise the greater part OF the names as
those upon which ptoascgtiopa have
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