The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-09

oite the popular mind Of the North by
Pool and those of his stamp, by resur.
reoting the cry of 'Ku Klux." A fee.
BILE attempt to invent Ku Klux sensa.
tion out Of few questions propounded
to Judge Settle. at Yanoeyville, and the
cheers of the friends of Horace Greeley
who were present, has proved an igno.
minious failure. But not word do we
hear from these conveniently horror.
stricken rasoals when the Lowrey swamp
angels murder inoffensive citizens in the
broad glare of day and in cold blood
when these loyal Ku Klux commit de.
predations upon the. surrounding coun.
try for months and years. No infantry,
cavalry and artillery are sent to the
swamps of Robson County to capture
or kill theao murderers and robbers.
They are of the party, and deserve to
be let severely alone as recompeuse for
their brutal killing of disloyal Demo-
Gratis. What will the Administration
party organs say of the brutal and cow
ardiy attempt to murder Captain Biggs,
OF the Tarboro Southerner, who was in
attendance upon Radical pow-wow at
Tarboro, N. c., on the 4th of July, as q
reporter for his journal? He was as.
sailed by large number of negroes,
and barely escaped with his life. The
attack is supposed to have been the re-.
suit of previous plan. Here is ge.
nuine Ku Klux outrage, in community
where the Radicals are in the majority.
This outrage, like all others in the inter-
est of the ruling regime. will either be
kept as silent as the grave, or will be so
misrepresented as to show the assailed
party to be an interloper, who had pro-
voked the ire of the mob, and had re-
ceived his Just deserts; in other words,
he is Democrat, and has no rights
which the Radicals are bound to respect.
AS above stated, the opposition will
bring to bear upon this election all the
power at their command. The State
will be hotly and closely contested, and
the contest will grow hotter after the
Baltimore Convention, which meets to-
day. endorses Greeley and Brown. Meet
ings are now being held in all parts of
the State. and the time, generally, is
divided between the opposing elements.
A grand mass meeting al Weldon, on
next Friday, is to be addressed by many
able men. Schurz, Trumbull, Ransom,
Blair. Thurman, Doolittle, Vance. Walk
er, of Virginia, Gordon. of Georgia,
and other distinguished speakers, will
be there and at other points during the
campaign. They will create an enthusi-
asm among the people that will know no
limit this side of a glorious conservative
victory. Reform is sadly needed, aud
now is the day and the hour for deliver
apce. The conservatives of the Old
North State must buckle on their armor,
and go boldly into the fight. They can
not afford to be indifferent. They are
unwillingly, governed by carpet-baggery
and scallawagery. They must not, they
will not. prove recreant to their duty in
this momentous issue; but will rise in
their might, and "with long pull,
strong pull, and pull altogether" pull
the State out of the mire of Radical COR
ruption and fraud, and place her upon
the enduring rock OF honesty and reform.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,os writes as follows of o speech made
by D. T. Corbin, at Greenville, on the
4th of July:
After advocating Grants reelection,
&c:, he attacked the ring in Columbia.
had heard Carpenter and Butler in
their indictments OF Scott & Co., at the
last election. I thought they Lad ex-
hausted the vocabulary of abuse against
that ring; but obi if you had heard Cor
bin, you would say thiers was musketry,
and Corbin's artillery Columbiads. He
named SCOTT, Parker, Chamberlain, Nea-
gle, f. j. Moses, Jr. He pronounced
them all scoundrels, thieves, villains, the
very worst and meanest of men; insisted
that they must be driven out of the
party; that they had deceived and be-
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