The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-02-27

BLACK Kt KLux.-Tho majority re-
port Of the Ku Klux Committee con-
tains no mention of the best organized,
best disciplined, boldest and most blood
thirsty Ku Klux gang in the South-the
Lowreye, i'm North Carolina. Those
banditti have, for their numbers, COM
mitted more murders, burned more
houses, outraged more women. and
stolen more property than any other Ku
Klux horde in nll the Southern States.
The other Ku Kluxes have suspended
operations. We read no more Of noc-
turnal raids in Georgia, South Carolina
and Alabama by those spooks on horse
back. The committee have had to rnke
up events that took place months ago, in
order to find material for that labored
campaign document which they COLL u
report. But the Lowrey crowd were on
the war-path as late as Friday night last,
when they perpetrated one of the most
audacions crimes that has distinguished
their black career. They swooped down
on Lumberton, the County seat of Robe
son County, N. c., at night, broke into
carriage factories and stables, and helped
themselves, and then into the sheriff's
Office and one of the principal stores of
the place, whence they took two large
iron safes, one of which held $22, 900 in
money and other valuables. With this
lot, and any quantity of smaller game,
they started out of the town, and bore
OF everything III safety, except the She
riffs strong box, which tumbled off the
dray apparently unnoticed.
All Lumberton, and all North Caro-
lima, are wild with excitement over this
outrage, but they have been wild on the
same subject for two or three years, and
neither their frenzy nor the reward, now
reaching $35, 900, seems to be of any
avail against the Lowreys. Now, here
is well-known, unqucstioned, present
existing Ku Klux Klan-not ghosts, not
myths, but villains of flesh and blood
as much matter of fact and history as
the State of North Carolina herself. We
can understand why so powerful and
desperate an organization is difficult to
suppress But why-ah why-do the
Ku Klux Committee omit NIL reference
to it in their report? We leave the
committee to explain that tho best way
they can. But with most knowing read
ers, it may suffice us to observe that
these arc black Ku Klures. The Low.
reys and their followers are negroes ard
mulattoes. They are persecuting tho
whites on account of their color, and
committing, without horrible cxageera-
tions, every variety of atrocity which
any white klan in any part of the South
has inflicted on the blacks In oil re-
spects, they arc of the Ku Klux order,
only that the colors arc reversed, and it
is the whites who are robbed, tortured
and killed. To have pretended to in
vestigate Ku Klux affairs. and to have
excluded nj alinsions to this most noto.
rious of gangs-the only one now really
aourishing put tho committee in
the awkward position of seeming to ex-
tenuate the Lowrey murders, rapes,
burnings and depredations. Not that
the committee mean to do this, but such
is the actual effect of the omission or
oversight. About election time, rs we
all know, is the season for tricks and de-
vices to make political capital, and,
therefore. the appearance of the Ku
Klnx majority report is the most natural
thing in the world, and the non-mention
OF the Lowrey negroes precisely what
might have been expected
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