Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-17

OF the Government of the Union to oppos
| with all its power and all its force eyer
such execrable outrage as this. Do you tel
me that those men are liable to State law
for the assaults and batteries they hav
committed? l don't doubt it; but l sa,
they are also, in substance and in purpose
traitors to the Government, rebels sgains
its authority, and the most cowardly, skulk
ing rebels ever known in this or any othe1
country. [Applause.]
hold our Government bound, by i'll
duty ofprotecting our citizens in their funda
mental rights, to pass and enforce laws fol
| the extlrpation of the execrab Bile Kp-Klu5
| conspiracy and it has not power to do it
then say our Government is no govern
ment, but sham. l therefore, on eveay &C.
caslon, advocated and justified the Ku-Klux
act. hold it especially desirable for the
South; and if it does not prove strong enough
to effect its purpose, l hope it will be made
stronger and stronger. [Applause.]
Why, fellow-citizens, these very men
that asked me if saw any Ku-Klux have
themselves read the returns of the last Pres
identat election in Louisiana, when that
State, with 10000 black majority on its
registers, was made to vote for Seymour and
Blair by more tkan 80 900 majority counties
which had 5000 negro voters alone giving
three, two, one, and in several instances no
vote at all, for Grant and Colfax. Now,
friends, you and they know perfectly well
that this result was secured by terror and
violence; by telling them You shall vote
for Seymour and Blair, the enemies of your
fundamental rights, or you shall not vote at
all, or you shall be killed. That was the
way Louisiana was made Democratic in 1868,
and that is the way that trust she will
never be made to vote again. Therefore
uphold and justify the Ku-Klux law.
Fellow citizens, the Ku-Klux are no
myth, although they shroud themselves in
darkness. They are not fitting ghosts; they
are baneful reality. They have paralyzed
the right of suffrage in many counties
throughout the South, and they have oar
ried States that they ought not to have car
ried"
The evidence taken before the Congressional
investigating Committee, who made their re-
port IN February last, shows every form of
outrage, torture, and murder.
:" In fourteen counties of North Carolina
eighteen murders were done, and BIS whip
pings occurred in nine counties in South
Carolina, forty murders and over 1000 other
outrages; in twenty-nine counties ofGeorsia,
seventy-two murders and l26 whippings in
twenty-six counties of Alabama, 2l5 muir
ders and ll6 other outrages in twenty
counties OF Mississippi, twenty-three muir
ders and seventy-six other outrsges; and in
single county of Florida, l5S murders.
" In these nlnetynine counties 426 muir
ders were done, 299 other acts of violence :"
Yet, Of all this history written in blood
Gov. Brown seems utterly eblivious, and
endeavors to conceal this black mountain of
crime and horror by blowing up before the
public eye the bladder of secret negro organi-
cation, which never hurt ANYBODY, never
threatened to, which no sensible man was
ever afraid of, and which was long ago dis
solved in all the disturbed districts of the
South. The man who conceals the Ku-Klux
becomes, in the judgment of the world, a
party to their organization ; and Gov
Brown, while not recognizing their existence,
endeayors 20 frame excuses ana apologies
for them which are frivolous as well as I'M
founded.
WHITE PREJUDICE AGAINST TIE BLACK.
But running all through the two speeche-
of Gov. Brown, while formally professs
ing regard for the political and civil rights
OF the colored people, is very manifest and
persistent appeal to the old prejudice of the
white man against the negro.
Dispairing of getting any portion of the
colored vote, he attempts to excite the hatred
and Jealousy of the white race sgainst the
colored by pretending that there is deep
laid scheme to make the white man subordi-
nate to the negro, to humiliate the white
race by the elevation of the black to power,
and so on Gd nGuSean.. Leaving out or these
speeches few formal phrases intended to
protect them from the charge of Brick ome-
roy Bourbonism, they are such speeches as
might have been made by Mr. Hendricks
and Mr.. Voorhees, year or two ago, and
are direct appeals to the hatred and to the
lowest passions OF the white against the
black race. "TO this complexion has it
at aci ba
Prealdency invokes that spirit of hate, cast,
and bigotry which places inscriptions over
wagons loaded with young ladies j." Fathers,
save us from negro husbands y Brothers,
protect US from negro equality;" which
burned negro orphan asylums and hung
negro women to lamp posts, which has de-
stroyed negro school houses all through the
South, and is the breath of life in the nos
trils OF the demons of the Ku-Klux.
cARPET-BAGGERs.
Again, Gov. Brown assails the recon
structed State Government as having been
organized by carpet-baggers, plunderers,
and adventures, who went down there to
steal, and remained only until they were
gorged, 1nen to return to the North with
their stolen goods. In all this there is but a
small element of truth, and for that element
nobody is responsible hut the friends of
the work of reconstruction began under the
Jaws OF Congress, nearly all those who had
been engaged in the rebellion refused to take
part in it, stood aloof, declared the action of
congress unconstitutional, and professed to
wash their hands of the whole business, in
some States refusing even to vote one way
or the other, but in all unanimously oppos-
Ing reconstruction. This necessarily threw
the work of reconstruction into the hands of
the colored men, the few white men of the
South called scalawags," and those who
emigrated from the North to the South,
called carpet-baggers." If the politicians
OF the South had not with stupid malice re-
fused to take part in reconstruction, the
so-called carpet-baggers" of the North
would have had but little to do with it, and
the State Governments of the South would
from the first have been in the hands of the
late rebels, the friends now of Gov.
brown. But when they stood afar of, and
did everything in their power to oppose. the
WORK OF reconstruction had to be done by
those into whose hands it fell or not be done
at all. Doubtless some of the so-called
/" carpet baggers" were not proper persons
were adventurers seeking their own for
tunes but others, and the majority of them.
were true emigrants, and would have re-
NAMED in the South and become her most
valuable citizens, as many of them have
done any how, had they not been persacut,d
at every step by their rebel enemies. hound
ed on by Northern allies. The new States
OF the Union have generally been filled
with carpet bagsers and even Gov.
brown Is said to have c&rpet-bagged from
kentucky to Missouri. Our country he
longs to each citizen. his riphts O ra "a - -.