The New York herald., 1872-12-14

said to me- "we all got drunk with Kimball and
are Just now getting sober. There are plenty OF
| people In this town who are now foremost In ex-
ecrating Klmbal, who would cover their faces II
he should come back here and oIen his books"
The organization called the Ku klux. which some
have accredited to General Forrest and some to
Wade Hampton, was the Joint product OF political
lerment and or the instability Of field labor. The
southern landholder, undertaking to keep all his
was met ut the outstart with the want OF money,
indinerent business abilities and the unsteadiness
two or three months at a time, would finally
get discouraged and knock on, and the planter
wouid nnd ms whele crop in danger OF destruction
II ne maoe a crop and his profits were consumed by
some unwonted circumstances, or he squandered
the profits and did not pay his negroes their
wages, they would lily to the squire and get judg
ment upon him.
THE ORIGINAL KU KLUx
conspiracy was an insane attempt to substitute
secret magistracy OF master over slave again, so
that the laborer should be compelled to keep their
contract until the crop was gathered and be de-
Mr. Belts at Montgomery, who Is now sort OF
sergeant-at-arns for Senator Spencer, and Is a
he had been Grand Cyclops OF the Ku Klux, and
that its original design was to stop negroes from
sueing ana make them work out the season. But
such conspiracy was availed OF b. politicians.
poor whites, assassinS and groggery lOaferS, SO
thai society was brutallzed every direction, the
country became unsafe for man. woman or child,
and when the United States had to interfere the
carpet -bagger's grip was frightened. the negro
hated the white man, and the consequences In
The track OF the fugitive Ku Klux can be followed
from the swamps OF the Carollnas TO Arkansas.
The late war In Pope county was participated In by
men who had hunted down the Lowerys in North
Carolina.
NATURAL WEALTH.
Everything exists In the South which was on the
spot when 1t claimed to be the richest portion of
the earth. lf that section possess tithe OF the
craftsmanship which it always claimed to have 1t
should be able to harmOnize existing conditions !;
but this cannot be done by the Ku Klux Order, by
spirit BY purDd politics Or Sy u
blind devotion to garruous and whimsical old fos-
ss like A. II. Stephens. The principle of justice
the qualities required In Southern craftsmanship.
This generation must be content to be poor In order
e re
ern man, the age and the general government Is
merely to
THROW AWAY A NOBLE OPPORTUNITY
to prove the true greatness Of Southern manhood
and wOmanhOod. Many generations OF negroes
have worn the harness OF slavery with patience,
and there Is no righteousness IN holding this poor
subject to be the cause of the disadvantages which
now prevail. To teach the negro how to be citi-
zen Will be nOber business than to asSeverate
that he never ought to have been. Perhaps the
North made mistake In precipitatng the negro
cessity demanded, and its inconveniences are only
temporary. The meaner class OF carpet-baggers
20 se oa
public affairs to protect his property and make q
career is not q carpet-bagger. There have been
old rebel officers honored with positions and no
body scandalized them; for the plain fact must
be said that the freedom OF speech and
travel in the North had catholicized our So
ciety while the South and especially the ladies
thereof grew provincial under the rigid police con-
ditons OF the slave period. We have In the North
an enormous population Of people who would be
glad to escape from our rigorous climate and settle
IN pleasant Southern towns like Huntsville,
Augusta, Shreveport and Columbia They have a
perfect right to take their part in politics and dis
cussOn, but the social code must relax before that
land will ever be inviting to Northern men. The
enormous number OF people who 90 every Winter
along the shores of the Gulf stream in Georgia and
Florida complain that the hotel rates are out OF all
proportion to the comfort bestowed. ~
FREE LABOR.
The substitution OF free for slave labor may have
an injurious effect on the sugar CROP owing to the
fact That heavy work must be done when the cane
comes to q certain stage OF sap; but apprehend
that this fear, like many others, will vanish when
put TO the test of free labor