Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-22
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1He oiSdu VI WI. NtccieJ, tHe NeW
York Tribune, assails the administration
because Of the law to prevent Ku.Kluxism
IN the South. One of the leading features |
Of the party to which he belongs is de-
nunciation of that measure. The fourth |
resolution of the Cincinnati and Baltimore
platform is aimed at the Ku-Klux act. 1t
will be quoted at the South to prove that
Mr.. Greeley and his party are opposed to
the act, in order to conciliate and draw to
his support the ruffians and murderers
which make up the Ku-Klux organization.
The liberal republicans profess to be-
lieve that Mr.. Greeley in accepting the
democratic nomination and platform has
made no change bnt is still a republican.
He himself says he is no less republi-
can than before his nomination. We do
not care here to discuss that question, but
we should like to have some liberal re-
publican tell us how the man who wrote
the following article in the Tribune one
year ago, can now consistently abuse the
and defame President Grant
on account of the ku-Klux act and its
enforcement, so truthfully say that
he is no less republican nor as the
champion and candidate of the Ku-klux
and democracy than he was Then rs the
advocate Of the duty of the govern
ment to extend its protecting power over
the republicans of the South. He might
as well try to prove that black is white.
The Tribune now sees the ku-klux as
the World and other democratic papers
did one year ago. Mr.. Greeley agrees
with Mr.. Seymour, and still say the lib
eral republicans, there has been no change
in Uncle Horace" he is just as good a
republican as ever. Read the following
article and then see if there has been nc
change. It is from the New York Tri
bune of March IA, 1871:
seThe State Of the South.
| A government which is unable to afford sub.
stantial protection to its loyal citizens against
those who waylay, assault. main, and kill
them under the instigation of hostility to and
hatred of that government, is hardly worthy
of the name. A government which might af-
ford such protection, but neglects or refuses
to do so, ought to be Kissed off the face OF
the earth And it is too soon to affirm its in
ability until after it shall have put forth its
best exertions.
That men are daily killed throughout most
publicans, is just as sure as the fact that those
States were lately the arena of great civil
war. There have been not less than five thou
sand negroes killed, because of their color and
their politics, those States since Gen. Grants
election; and not one White Southron has
been punished for such murder. Nay the
brutal murderer of a White military officer al
Vicksburg, Miss, walks the streets of that
city as freely and proudly as though he were
the hero of some great Confederate victory
| The White man who wantonly murdered 9
negro near Frankfort, Kentucky, and was
arrested therefor was taken out of Jail by 9
w IlLe TlUD, III tHc luihCuldtS PiSsShNC vi t'is
State Legislature; and, though Judge Pryor
| Ca democrat), Numbered %gainst the law
breakers, as it was his duty to do, and the
, Louisville journal pronounced the state Of
things disclosed by this and kindred outrsgea
utterly disgraceful to Kentucky, not only has
no reform been effected, but the democratic
organs, North and South, have suppressed the
facts, and still keep them from the knowledge
of their public. The World-which loudly
vaunts its excellence as newspaper-syste-
automatically ignores the proofs of rebel out
RACES and murders now rife at the South, and
hounds on the democratic members of Con.
gress to oppose any preventive legislation
by such appeals as the following:
THE Ku-Klux programme has been mapped
out Satisfied with the report Of the Senate
Committee, the President will send no special
message on the subject to Congress. The
Radical Joint Committee of the Senate and
House caucuses, with Morton and Butler at
its head, will meet this morning to prepare q
bill to be presented in both branches of Con-
gress this afternoon, ostensibly ito protect
loyal citizens in the full enjoyment Of their
rights, persons, liberty, and property, against
Ku-Klux outrages.' Although nothing has
yet been done, it is supposed thata bill will be
presented authorizing the appointment of nj
ted States Commissioners to take cognizance of
such offenses, and to bring theoffenders for
trial into the United States courts and before
Jurors that can take the iron-clad oath. The
President will be empowered to employ the
land and naval forces Of the United States,
at all times and places, in carrying into effect
this new reconstruction scheme, and he is
made virtually military dictator of the South
Mr.. Sumner called the attention of the eau
Gus to the fact that people in the Northern
States, too, were deprived of their rights, and
gave notice of bis intention to introduce a
supplementary Civil Rights bill to remedy this
defect. The Radical caucus decided to iegis-
late upon the Ku-Klux alone. The democrats
are preparing to resist by all the means in
their power this new bill of denominations.
All absentees have been recalled to their
places, and the coming week promises to be
an exciting one at Washington
Gentlemen opposite! we respectfully warn
you that you are making up a record that will
expose you to fearful judgment in the next
Presidential Election. The people of the
L niteJ States do not believe in wholesale
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