Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-19

that they only visited punishment upon per
sons who had violated good order or com
mitted some ofense.
| have already said that the concurrent
testimony Of men Of all classes has been tha
the colored people of the South have nevel
shown any but the most orderly and law
abiding disposition. But if this were other
wise, all witnesses Of all parties agree thai
in all parts Of the South there has not been
the slightest difficulty in enforcing the laws
and Furnishing all ordinary oHenses against
the laws. There doubtless have been in
| stances where punishment was inflicted for
some real or supposed ofense Of the person
punished one or two instances Of that clast
have been paraded with a great noise by the
minority Of the committee, as if the many
thousands Of utterly unprovoked and wantor
acts proved were ali Of the same character.
The evidence of witnesses called by the
minority Of the committee had no tendency
TO contradict the vast mass of Outrages il
detail proved by the victims of them ani by
| other entirely credible witnesses. Their
/ witnesses were ex-mcmbers Of Congress, ex-
/ governors, ex-judges, men who generally
/ lived IN the cities and large towns, alooi
/ from the actual scenes of the Outrages, and
who probably swore truly when they stated
/ that they had never seen a ku Klux. But
some OF them had the hardihood to swear
/ they did not believe in their existence, and
/ believed 1t was all got up for effect by the
Republican papers in the North. Nv
charity Is not broad enough to enable me to
I believe that in this respect these men stated
the truth. That there was some excuse for
I ignorance Of facts which ordinarily would be
/ very notorious IS found IN the fact that the
Democratic press IN the South studiOusly
concealed ali facts of this character, or 50
distorted them az to give an entire false
appearance. Why, sir, We had repeated
Instances where a considerable number OF
persons were murdered and news Of the fact
never travelled beyond the immediate neigh
borhood
In New England, where | have spent my
whole life, if person is found murdered or
apparently killed by violence, no matter how
humble the person may be, It goes like a
shock thrOu yh the whole community every
newspaper throughout the entire region rings
with IT, but 10 the South. rs the evidence
abuudantly shows. the finding of "a colo red
man with his throat cut, or q bullet through
bis head produced no more sensation than
the finding OF d dead dog upon the street
| could substantiatc this statement by hun
dTcds Of instances from the testimony, but
my time viii not permit
Is il true. a. Mr. Pollard says, that there
Is no political $ signIGcancc in all these things
II not, there are certainly q great number OF
curious accidental condolences. The perpe-
traitors Of all these outrages happen by chance
to belong 70 one, and that the Democratic
party, Or If by chance any one not a DOmO-
crat became a member Of the order, 1t was
easily discovered that he had some special,
personal motive. | recollect an instance OF
this in the testimony. A very ign0rlnt but
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-ievc NOT a .ingle instance appeared where
si+ Lor or rEe-e gentlemen. Or anv one of
similar noIiticaI principles, ever lifted a
fnoer or took a step TO bring one Of these
,ee,, ,l,.rs ~ punishment
TbcIr den,irciations seemed to have verv
IittIc effect. Who believes, Mr.. Speaker,
that il the Democratic leaders IN the South
had really desired to put an end to this
terrible business they could not have done 1t
at any time in a single day The terrible
truth IS that 1t was too profitable to their
party to be broken up; machine by which
the Republican voters OF whole counties
could be deferred from voting could not be
spared. l.
An ,tbar nvouaqs f0r these unuTOVOkcd