The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-11

obtained. and which is full of stuff
absurd and high.fown. bnt we'll calou.
lated to,impress the negro . soul with ito,
terrors, aud it's mysteries. and'its sym
Pbols, and it's s,sred ares-obttned, we
sro told in asnote. by diasolving one
pound oi gum mytrh In half "A gallon of
alcoholl This. now. is the secret, mys-
terious oath-bound league. that in the
South obtained everywhere and brought
within its folds oarpet-baggers, native
re1egades aud negro voters aim oet to b
man.. to say nothing Of the.-.women..
This was the organization, that pre-,
vailed id this State fromf b4S end to the
other, and which reacied every farm
and plantation. This was the orgsniza-
ton that held the negro fast bound.
This was the Organization thai united
the negroes against the Southern whites,
and ipGressed their natural pfejudices
and antipathies. This was the organizs-
ton that was military. Religious social.
political and .inflaatsiAl ih its influences
and scopes. ThisSwas the organization
under the auspices of which. negro
churches have been carried on, negro
troops drilled and marched, negro social
balls held, negro politics regulated, and
negro labor strikes and labor unions
organized.
This aoas the loyal League.
This is the Loyal League.
This league existed in the up-country.
In the Counties now under military rule
and lorded over by Grant, officers. these
leagues existed, and often did their mis-
chief.
What then?. This: When Ku Klnxism
is denounced and magnifed. let it. be re-
membered that before the Ku kiur were
the Loyal Leagues. and Scott's negro
militia supplied with arms and ammuni-
tion, and in many cases marching and
counter marching-shouting "the battle
cry Of freedom"-oue line of which is
this:
"WeW hurt the rebel cre,o from the land Toe loue
the 6est'"
Now, we end this article thus. Let
the Loyal League he put side by side
With the Ku Ktur Kan.
Let this question ,bet asked: Why
should the United States Government
put its iron foot upon the one and let the
other go Scot free? We ask: Why pur-
sue tue Ku Kl1x Khan and leave un-
touched the Sute s,oindlers and the Loyal
Leaguers? Or, if we desired to plead for
the Ku Klux Klan. might we not sug-
gest that: .a:
.Thisves for their robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves"
Another point: In the battle. CRY OF
freedom the freedman is made to say by
the carpet-bagger that lie will hurl the
rebel crew lthat is the Southern whites)
from the land they love the best. Let us
here say-to carpet-bagger and freedman
alike that the quicker they change that
"battle-cry" the better for them. Tie
'ohite man of the South does mot intend
to surrender his part in the laud lie
loves. Here he stands, and. for one,
whilst we sinll ever do the coIored race
justice, and give them just such show
Ing as Heaven would approve. we de-
clare, distinctly, that it is the white
mans prerogative to give tone and d.
rection and coloring to the civilization of
this country. And he will do it in God 8
good time, whatever may be tho acci-
dents of the present.
If the soul OF John Brown has been
marching on, and marching on, it is time
for it to stop its maroh-at least at the
expense of the Southern white race. A
political ambassador. though we be Sin
bonds," we declare that there is another
soul that is marching on along the high
way, over the plains and the hill-tops of
this Southland. The ''soul of John
Brown" is the soul of dead man. We
care not whether history shall coll him
fanatic. criminal or martyr. The soul
that we feel in all the crimson of our
blood, and which every trne white man
must also thus feel, is the soul of the
living, the resolute, the working South.
marching on in faith, hope aud firm re-
solve to the patient endurance of the
present and the glorious victories OF the
future.
This is the flag we raise. and Heaven
and our friends help us to hold it ever
high and ever steady!
The MOUNT ZION ScHooL.-We take
much pleasure in calling attention to