The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-26
Radical ISLANDERS against our
People.

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In all countries, spies, or detectives,
are held in just adherence as the base
tools Of infamous rulers. Their calling
involves hateful and degrading service
1t requires them to wear false garb and
to play the hypocrite. They are per-
petual lie, as well as a libel on humanity.
They sneak about, pretending to be what
they are not. prying into other peoples
affairs and working up cases to furnish a
pretext for the execution of the ven
geance of the tyrants who employ them.
The South swarms with these pests. 1t
/ is incumbent upon them to stir up strife
in order that the Administration may
have an excuse for employing United
States troops against unofendiDg citizens,
and also to manufacture "outrages" for
partisan uses. The Department of JUS
tice, as it is miscalled under the present
| regime, has regular trainbands engaged
| in the Kuklux business. They manu-
| facture reports from the Southern States
regularly, which are at once circulated IN
sensational style in the Administration
newspapers,
Recently the following telegram was
sent to the leading journals:
Reports from the officers detailed by At
| torney General Williams to investigate tile
workings of the Kuklux Khan in the South
ern State, received at the department of
| Justice, gives the details of series OF out
| RACES perpetrated by that infamous organi-
cation in South Carolina, Georgia, kentucky
ana Mississippi, that leage no further doubt
of the necessity for the continuance III pow
er of the present administrations gentle
man who occupies high position in Missis-
sippi. writes that the malice aad hatred to-
| ward the North is still harbored in nearly
every Southern breast, and almost daily such
ex pressions as this are used by those whom
the GreelevitS claim are ready and anxious
to bury the past: IF Grant is only defeated
We can rid tine South of every l ankee
| here"
Who ''this gentleman that occupies a
high position in Mississippi is, we have
no means of knowing. He may be a
myth, or he may be ''Mournful Fact
one of the vulture tribe that feed on the
vitals Of the State while her people are
pinioned to the earth by federal bayonets.
Another of these Outrage" fabrica-
tions, is in these words:
THE KHAN TO BE REoRGANIzED AND VOTE
FOR GREELEY.
! Under date of June 80, 1872 iJ is reported
| that there is some change going forward in
| the ku-kluX organization that VIII render
| it an entirely new order having different
signs, grips and passwords, but based upon
| similar principles, and having the same Oh
| jects in view as those entertained by the
| old organization. In Marshall and Tlppah
counties the rebel sympathiZers boast that
! they have things all right there for the COM
ing Presidential election; that every Radi-
| cal, black or white, would be notified d
month before election to vote only for Gree
ley, and that there would be men enough at
| the polls in all the counties watching these
| parties to see that they do as they are told.
OF course this is deliberate falsehood
without a syllable of truth to give it
color.
Among other raw-head and bloody
bones inventions is the case of Il ''ped-
der at Deer creek, Calhoun county, Miss
name not given, who, at first, was Gas
good rebel as any one" but who after
wards changed his views and voted the
Republican ticket" For this he was
shot at and whipped by three young men
who were not disguised. They were ar
rested, but released on 500 bail. The
peddler stated that he would sell out and
return to Missouri (another Kuklux
State as no man could live and do bu-
siness in the vicinity unless he was a
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Democrat and Kuklux sympathizer."
cat Holly Springs, Mississippi" says
one of these reports, "the Kuklux out
RACES are not so frequent as formerly, but
it is the general opinion of the loyal and
law-abiding portion of the community
that the withdrawal of the United States
troops from their midst would be a signal
for the renewal of these outrages."
This is simply an intimation that troops
will be poured into Mississippi to aid the
"'Mournful Facts" in carrying the State
for Grant.
The foregoing are cited merely as ex-
amples of the ISLANDERS that the Admin
istration tools who are quartered on the
taxpayers whom they are robbing, in or
der that they may subsist-are putting
into circulation. The shamelessness of
these calumnies are all the more apparent
when it is remembered that the BULLY
Boy who represents the Executive De
partment of the State Government, tes-
tilted to the Legislature this present year
that the people are peaceable and law
abiding, and that no troops are needed
to preserve the peace and to enforce or
der. (Tnue, he was detected at the same
time in the little game with the military
officer at New Orleans, but that was
back-stairs negotiation which was not de-
signed to meet the public eye.)
If the exposure of these calumnies and
the plots of which they constitute part,
no not afford sufficient reasons for an ac-
tive effort in Mississippi to overthrow
their authors in November, there is no APP
peal which will avail.
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