The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-01-11
= r7T,74 - WEEKLY REGISTER
The Ku-Klux organization---W What IT is
K and What 1t is Not.

The Ku-K lux Organization Wnat " ID
and What it is Not.
A correspondent Of the N. Y. Tribune,
wiring from YorkviIle 5. G., says;
Since the surrender Of Robert \, Lee at
Appomatiox Courthouse. / have never
beard Of Que finger being raised against
The United States government u neTer
heard but one man say that be desired tie
negroes back 10 bondage, aud that man
was, 1.-THE time be made the declaration, aud
is today. a supporter q the internal r, i,
which Is ruining-no, has ruined the
State Of South Carolina The people OF
South Carolina are taxed, literally, to
death. Do you ask for what? Why, sir,
to make this famous ring rich. The point
which | desire to make Is simply this
The Ku- organization is not and
never was, conspiracy against the United
States government; it was "a blow aimed at
The State government
Under peculiar circumstances what could
the people Of South Caroliua do but resort
to Ku-Kluxing? Do you say rely upon
the civil authorities? This was an impos.
sibili,y. A judge and jury might send o
man to the peuteu'iary and the Hon
Robert X Scott Governor Of the State,
would pardon him and turn him loose up
on the community to steal or plumber as
before. No one has any desire to prevent
the negro from voting in the abstract; but
every man who has grain Of sense and
principle desires the negro and white man.
too, to vote for honest men and not OF
rognes
Would you-I ask yon the plain ques-
tion-let Robert X Scott, or Niles g.
Parker have charge Of the monetary affairs
Of the Tribune? Iknow you would not.
They would reduce you to begsary in less
than year, and your noble paper would
90 the way that South CAROLINA has gone.
Jas, think Of the investments that Robert
X. Scott the leading spirit Of the South
Carolina carpet,baggers, has made. ! tell
you, aud | tell you with no other motives
than simply to make the truth known that
we are robbed and swindled as no people
ever we're. The great majority Of those
who hold Office in South Carolina do not
care one farhing for her, any further than
that they may get rich BY plunderiug her
treasury. 8s.
In conclusion, am no advocate for
Ku.Kluziug know i, morally wrong,
Permit me TO tell you, however, plainly and
honestly. that so long as the present State
government Of South Carolina exists there
will be Ku.Kluxing. This is not said
boastingly, neither is it a threat. It is a
simple declaration Of truth. The United
States can no more crush it than
George iii could crush the patriots that
threw the tea overheard, The name may
be changed and the mode Of procedure Diff
fcrent, but rogues and their tools will die.
Why does not the United States institute
q search for the house-burners! The civil
authorities Of South Carolina are lnsullcl-
ent for the task.
The Union League is the mother. Of all
the house.burniug that took place in York
county. Why not ferret out the inccndla,
ries? Why not pass law that will meet
the case? Lam no politician; | never ex-
pect to be; Itcll you that tue people Of
South Carolina are run to desperation, not
BY Democrats, not by 'hepoor negroes, not
BY Republicans, butby . set Of thleving
Adventures and uuprncipled natives, who
prowl, as the poet Burns says, like "hell
hounds" around the treasury oftbe State.