The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-25

The following are the only names we
could learn who have been arrested
under the Ku Klux or Enforcement Acts.
since our last issue:
| Warren E. Davis*-this is the third
time he has been arrested-Cloueh
Bishop. arrested the second time, Thos.
Steen,* w. Brown, Jr., Robert Howell, X
w: Adds. Ambrose Adams,* James
Adams Ebenezer Bailey,* John Eos
ter, Thomas Hyatt, arrested in Alabama.
The following were arrested under
cnarges for violating the revenue law: J.
w. Duncan* and Samuel Howell.
Those marked thus (*) have been re-
leased under bonds.
Grants might riders" appear to be-
unoommonly busy in this County at this
time. Scarcely a night passes that one
or more United States marshals. with
one or more squads of soldiers, are not
securing Cur County in search of victims
to the Ku Klux and Enforcement Act.
One feature OF this night riding strikes
US as very suspicious. A number of
persons have been arrested and immedi-
ately turned loose, upon their own re-
cognizance, and told by the officials
you can go, and it is not probable you
will ever be called for again" Now, a
great majority of these self-builed men
are not worth more than the clothes thew
wear, consequently their bonds are
STRAW" If their crimes are so slight
as not to require any bond or imprison-
ment, we would like to know why the
Government Is put to the enormous ex-
pense OF arresting them? It looks to US
very much like great imposition, if not
swindle upon the Government.
There is strong suspicion that this
night riding has turned into an infamous
electioneering scheme, by which men
are arrested, and if they promise adhe-
sion to the Radical party, they are i'm
mediately released. We cannot saw that
there is any solid foundation for this
suspicion; but when we consider that
one or more of the marshals are talked
OF as being candidates for certain Offices.
at the fall election, we do not wonder at
the suspicion. If reports are true, about
every Northern man who has come to
this County, within the past two years.
will be candidate for Office next fall.
1t should also be remembered that nearly
every one OF them now holds an Office
either under the Federal or State Go
vernment. If the suspicion alluded to
is correct, it is profitable and effective
way Of elsotioneeripg.
For the information OF the Columbia
Oaion. which announced last week that
r. b. Lebanon, (Leonardl "the noto.
rious murderer of Union County" had
been arrested, we state that this ssnoto
rious murderer" has been released on
his own recognizance, and turned loose
as special deputy marshal to hunt up
and arrest his old Ku Klux associates.
From what we can learn, and the exul.
tant manner in which the Union heralded
his arrest, we are led to believe that the
authorities are in possession of much
positive evidence to convict Leonard of
being an active participant in number
of the very worst kind OF Ku Klux out
rages--even to murder-but by making
q confession of his crimes he has secured
his freedom, and is rewarded with a po-
sition that will enable the marshals to
make him tool for the Government. by
which to keep up this Internal hunt after
every man and boy suspected of having
ever belonged to the Ku Klux organizes
ton. 1t matters not whether the party
hunted has been guilty Of committing
any greater crime than simply being a
member-''all are fsh who get into the
meshes Of the United States Marshals'
nets. Every arrest put 80 much money
into their pockets, and they are gather
ing the most abundant harvest any one
OF them ever expects to reap again.
Union Times.
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