Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-07-19

"NEwBgRY, s. C.
July 2, 1872.
"W We hear scarcely anything else but Of ar
rests under the KuKlux law. A few days ago
II young man a son of one Of the most prom-
nent merchants Of Newbcry, left my mothers
house after dinner and was shot down before
night by Federal posse, in attempting to
escape arrest, on the charge Of being mem
Der of ku-Klux organization"
And SO the worlSsgoes on. About the mid
| die of A pril last, n squad Of Federal cavalry,
bunting Ku-Klux-as desperadoes on the
frontiers hunt wild Indians-shot and killed a
| poo- countryman while fishing in boat on
| Broad river, in York District, in the same
State. The excuse these soldiers subsequently
gnve was, that they did not intend to xiii him.
| They only shot to terrify him Again
About The same tune, and in the same county,
| two brothers BY the name Of CRAIG who were
suspected Of violating the Enforcement act,
while endeavoring to escape arrest were shot
| down by the Federal soldiers in pursuit. One
| brother was killed Instantly; the other was
MORALLY wounded and died the next day
| None Of these murdercrs--for murterers
| they are--so far MS we know, were ever put
under arrest They were probably reported to
headqHarers-if they were reported ut alias
having acted under sense of patriotic duty,
and, therefore, cxcnsabe.
Alabama, convicted Of Ka-kux outrages by
Il packed jury, and sentenced by partisan
judge to Imprisonment for term of years in
Albany Penitentiaty, were marched through
the strects Of Montgomery, guarded by file
of soldiers and handcufed. The people of
Columbia, South Carolina have often wit
messed similar spectacle, and now we learn
that writs Of arrest have been issued against
five hundred persons in North Carolina.
n aek he nj he NGrtl IN Tor
these things. The work of arrest of trial, of
deportation, and of murder, continues to he
prosecuted in the Southern States-the evident
purpose of the Radical faction being to hold
the negroes to their political allegiance By
these displays of despotic authority, and to
prevent the white people, by an atrocious sys-
lem of terrorism, from voting against GRANT.
If negro votes the Democratic ticket he is
beaten merciessly by men of his own color
belonging to one or other of the secret leagues.
and if white men Indignantly protest against
these and kindred outrages, they arc denounc-
ed as Ku-Klux and hunted down. The killing
of three reputable citizens of Pope county,
Arkansas, upon which We commented yestcr-
day, is but part and parcel Of this Radical con-
spiracy to break down, even by resorting to
murder, all opposition TO the reelection of
GRANT.
Senator BAYARD, whilst reviewing, in his
hdbeas corpus, took occasion TO say of the
atrocious outrages perpetrated the people
of the South
g Shooting to death by musketry is sharp,
severe, but it is mercy itself compared to trial
before unjust Judge. OF all sad sights, Mr.
President, of all sights to make men sicken
and despair, it is when the man who sits in
the high place of justice, among his fellow
men, shall turn trials into mockeres and JUS
tjpa int vim ipfi X |
declare that had as lief run my risk as an in
nocelt man before the bullets of Merill's cav
airy MS | would before Bond S Judgment in his
own court. Why what has been the result
1t is foreordained; the men are forcdoomed
trial means only conviction. 1t is an idle
ceremony that might as well be dispensed
with
And again:
"Sir, il the picture of these trials could be
brought before the American people, if they
could see how they conducted, they would
say thatthis is mockery of Justice they
would say that Bond seems to be emulaling
the fame Of Jcffreys; that the Bloody Assizes
that followed the rebellion Of the Duke of Mon
mouth are being re-enacted in these Southern
States; and let me say to him that history is
very apt to repeat ITSELF and if he will emulate
the example Of JeiIreys let him not forget his
fate'
1t is q warning that Judge BoSD will do
well to consider. Let us add also, that after
visiting the South as member of the Ku. Klux
Committee, Senator BAYARD has put it on re-
cord as his solemn conviction that these ku-
klux prosecutions, with their mockery OF JUS
;ice and their hideous murders, have their orr
gin in The determination OF the GRANT faction
10 secure control over the South "bv the over
throw of the opposition, call it Democratic
Conservative or what you will" Is it not
time, then, that all good men should combine
to put an end TO this state of things, by driv-
ing from place and power the man who is
'the head and front Of this offending" and
whose expulsion from the Presidency, 10
which he aSpires for second term, will put
an end TO the frauds and rascaities he has
tolerated and the atrocities he has deliberately
sanctioned ?-Buio. Gaz.
A SAD AsE,-Under the heading "Some of
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