Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-11

A friend OF mine bought real
estate in one of the Carolinas
and went on to improve it, en-
ploying many laborers and
bringing much money into the
country. He prospered very
well for a while, but finally at
tempted to establish a school
for the education of the poorer
children of the neighborhood.
The schoolhouse was burned
down, some of his hands warned
to leave, and operations had to
be suspended while things cool
ed off-all because his "moraP'
Democratic neighbors objected
to schoolhouses. All this is
"giving to every man his due p
But your friend says further !:
at is doing unto others as we
would have them do unto us.
If you will send me the name
of your friend [ will send him
the report of that Congressional
Committee commonly called the
Kuklux Committee. It is
crowded with accounts of the
most barbarous inhumanities
ever perpetrated by human be-
ings. The fables of the fortunes
of Catholic inquisitions pales
beside the barbarities commit
ted by the disguised and prowl-
ing Democrats upon defense
less men, women, and children.
Murders, whippings, maimings,
outrages, and indignities worse
than death itself, make up the
catalogue of crimes-exemplify
the golden rule of Democracy.
Men taken out of bed at night
and whipped to death for exer.
cising their legal right as free
men and voting their honest
sentiments at the ballot box ;
women stripped and dashed and
burned because their husbands
are Republicans : whole fami-
lies forced to leave the country
because they entertained and
expressed an honest political
opinion. These are facts which
there is no questioning; facts
so damning and so devilish that
that great Democrat, Reverdy
johnson of Maryland, when he
arose to defend the kukluz
criminals who had employed
him as counsel, was compelled
to declare his adherence of this
democratic criminality in the
following emphatic language
II haze listened aoith sickening
horror to the recital of those
dreadful crimes I cannot justi-
N. I aooetld not try to pazHatt
them. They uiolate eoery IN
st'act Of nature, religion, hunaa's-
ity, and manhood. The men
ooho perpetrated them eoere act
ing uoder impulses that deaden-
ed equally their judgment ana
their moral sense. What viii
your friendsay of such language
as this from a lawyer about hi;
client after listening to the evi
, dence adduced on the trial, ev
idence which he and his Glen
had every opportunity, bu
were unable, to controvert, anC
this lawyer a democrat, if pos
sible prejudiced in favor of hi.
client? The evidence before
the national courts and before
this Congressional committee
to which | have alluded devel
OPP the fact that in seven o
these United States this kuklu,
organization and it's atrocitie
form a large part of the polite
, al organization and machiner,
of the democratic party. No
all democrats belong to thes
2 organizations, but all democrat
| of the country, SO far as [ know
! either try to palliate and cove
: up and excuse these infamou
i atrocities, or else try to rende
: null the laws passed by Con
r gress for the protection of cit.
: zens of the United States i
: their commonest rights an
n privileges.
e | do not suppose these thing
e are known in Vermont, or
/ known, they arenot believed {
It realized. | wish the facts coul
n be known and appreciated.
It do believe there are few of tt
It Vermont democrats who woul
/ consent to sustain and suppo
ID such infamy. But they do su
S, tain and support it when the
y give their votes for the dem
Of cratic party, Just as it was b
1T fore the war, not knowing VIII
lg they did hundreds Of thousan