The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-09-26

lie appeared Tor the defense, did all he
could TO clear the culprits on technical
grounds, yet read what he said after he
had heard the evidence submitted:
II have listened with unmixed horror to
some of the testimony which has been
brought before you. The cutrages proved
are st ocking to humanity; they admit of
neither excuse nor justification they VIC
late every obligation which law and ma.
ture impose upon men; they show that
the parties engaged were brutes, insensi-
bic to the obligations of humanity and re-
Iigion. The day will come, however, if
it has not already arrived, when they will
deeply lament it. Even if justice shall
not overtake them, there is one tribunal
from which there is no hope. It is their
own judgment - that tribunal that
sits in the breast of every living man
that small, still voice that thrills throue b
the heart-the soul of the mind, and as it.
speaks gives happiness or torture-ths
voice Of conscience, the voice of God. If
it has not already spoken to them in tones
which have startled them to the enormity
of their conduct, I trust, in the mercy of
heaven, that that voice will speak before
they shall be called above to account fer
the transactions of this world that it will
so speak as to make them penitent, and
that, trusting in the dispensation of heay-
en-, whose justice is dispensed with mercy,
when they shall be brought before the bar
of their great tribunal, so to speak, that
incomprehensible tribunal, there will be
found in the act of their penitence, or in
their previous lives, some grounds upon
which God may say PARDON"-Speech
Of Hon. Re0crdy johnson IN Kuklur trials,
December 10.
But If any of Mr. Greeley's friends in
tie South refuse to accept the testimony
We have offered, we refer them to the tes-
timony of their present candidate.
Ii they believe that Horace Greeley is an
honest man, and their sincere friend, thew
ought to accept his views of this Kuklux
business as proof positive that the Kuklux
did exist, and that the law which thew
now condemn was both called for and
just. Here is what their candidate and
friend Mr.. Greeley, said of the order in
the Tribune of March II, 1871:
"fhe present Kuklux demonstrations
at the South are simply mere cowardlv
phase of the rebellion. They are a fulfill
ment of the rebel menace that the civil
war could and should be presented for
twenty years after the overthrow and dis
persion oil the rebel armies. It's object is
to let the niger know his place. which,
now as ever, in the rebel conception, is
under the heel of the white man.
Until this skulking warfare with masks
instead of banners, and torches in place
of grenades, shall have been somehow
terminated, the Republican party can not
change its attitude, nor can it give that
attention and emphasis to questions OF
political economy and finance which the
public good imperatively requires. Pledg-
ed by all its glorious past to infexibIe
and paramount fidelity to the rights Of
man, 1t can not while these are assailed
and inperiled devote much attention to
the policy of raising or lowering the i'm
posts now payable on the importation OF
iron, or fabrics, or sugar. And In the alb
sence of such attention, there ia great dan
ger that unwise and injurious changes in
the tariff may be made which, if their ma.
ture and bearings were fully understood
would be condemned and defeated
Again, on the 18th of March, 1871, Mr.
Greeley said, through the columns of the
! Tribune:
"that men are daily killed throughout
most of the Southern States because they
are Republicans, is just as sure as the fact
that those States were lately the arena OF
great civil war. There has been not
less than five thousand negroes killed be-
cause of their color and their politics in
these States since General Grants elections
and not one white Southron has been pan
ished for such murder. Nay, the brutal
murderer of a white military officer at
Vicksburg, Miss, walks the streets of that
city as freely and proudly as though he
were the hero of some great Confederate
victory.
Gentlemen opposite we respectfully
warn you that you are making up record
that will expose you to fearful judg'
ment in the next Presidential election. The
people of the United States do not believe
in wholesale assassination as q political
maneuver, and will uphold no party that
resorts to it, You may carry most Of the
intervening election, when the issue is
not distinctly and vigorously pressed
home upon the masses; but when we come
to 1879 you will assuredly be beaten 10y
the votes OF men whoare not politicians
and are now not voting at all. We shall
only have to drive home the facts which
prove your completely in the crimes now