The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-25

compelled to swear they will never sgair
vote the Republican ticket. hold that tc
oe . very cowardly procedure as well as
very base one; and hold it TO be tho duty
OF the Government of the Union to oppose
with all its power and all its force eYery
sueh exectable outage 80 this. Do you tel
me that those men arc liable 10 Stcte lawt
fer the assaults Sand Batteries thcy shayt
committed? l don't doubt it.; but say
they are also, in substance and in purpose
traitors to the Government, rebels against
its authority, and the most cowardly, skuIk.
ing rebels ever known in this or any other
country. GApplause. .-rs..7
hold our Government bound, by it.
duty ofprotecting our citizens in their funda.
mental rights, to pass and enforce laws fol
the extirpation of the execrable Ku-Klux
conspiracy and i it has not power to do it
then say our Government is no govern
ment, but sham. therefore, on eveav oc-
casion. advocated and justified the Ku-Klux
act. hold it especially desirable for the
south and if it does not prove strong enough
to effect its purpose, hopo it will be made
stronger and stronger. [Applause.]
Why, fellow-citizeps, these very men
that asked mo If saw any Ku- Klux have
themselves read the returns of the last Pres
idental election in Louisiana, when that
State, with 10000 black msjority on its
registers, was made to vote for Seymour and
Blair BY more tksn 80 900 majority counties
which had 5000 negro voters alone giving
three, two, one, and in several instances no
vote at all, for Grant and Colfax. Now,
friends, you and they know perfectly we'll
that this result was secured by terror and
violence; by telling them You shall vote
for Seymour and Blair, the enemies of your
fundamental rights, or you shall net vote at
all, or you shall be killed. That was the
way Louisiana was made Democratic in 1868,
and that is the way that l trust she will
never be made to vote again. Therefore l
uphold and justify the Ku-Klux law.
Fellow citizens, the Ku-Klux arc no
myth, although they shroud themselves in
darkness. They are not fitting ghosts; they
are baneful reality. They have paralyzed
the right of suffrage in many counties
throughout the South, and they have car
ried States that they ought not to have car
ried." a. ..
The evidence taken before the Congressional
Investigating Committee, who made their re-
port in February last, shows every form OF
outrage, torture, and murder.
"1n fourteen scountics Of North Carolina
eighteen murders were done, and 3l5 whip
pings occurred in nine counties in South
Carolina, forty murders and over 1000 other
outrages; in twenty-nine counties ofGeorgia,
seventy-two murders and l28 whippings; in
twenty-six counties of Alabama, 2l5 muir
7ders and 1iS other eutrsges in twenty
counties Of Mississippi, tsenty-three muir
ders and seventy-six other outrages; and in
a single county of Florida, 153 murders.
ain these ninety-nine counties 426 mur-
ders were done, 299 other sets Of violence" )"
Yet, of all this history written in blood,
Gov. Brown seems utterly eblivious, and
endeavors 70 conceal this black mountain Of
crime and horror by blowing up before the
public-eye the bladder Of secret negro organi-
zation. which never hurt anybody, never
threatened 10, which no sensible man was
ever afraid OF, and which was long ago dis
solved in all the disturbed districts OF the
South. The man who conceals the Ku- Klux
becomes, in the judgment OF the world, q
party TO their organisation and Gov.
Brown, while not recognizing their existence,
endeavors to frame excuses and apologies
for them which are frivolous as we'll as un-
founded.
WHITE PREJUDICE AGAINST TIE BLACK.
But running all through the two spoechc-
of Gov. Brown, while formally profess
ing . regard for the political and civil rights
of the colorcd people, is a very manifest and
persistent appeal TO the old prejudice of the
white man against the negro.
Dispairing of getting any portion of the
colored vote, he attempts to excite the hatred
and jcaiousy of the white race against the
colored by pretending that there is deep
laid scheme to make the vi hite man subordi-
nate to the negro, 10 humiliate the white
race by the elevation Of the black to power,
and so on ad nauseam. Leaving out Of these
speeches few formal phrases intended to
protect them from the charge Of Brick-Pome-
roy Bourbonism, they are such speeches as
might have been made by Mr.. Hendricks
and Mr.. Voorhees, a year or two ago, and
are direct appeals to the hatred and to the
lowest passions of the white against the
black race. (" To this complexion has il
come at iast"-the candidate for the Vice
Presidency invokes that spirit Of hate, cast,
and bigotry which places inscriptions over
wagons loaded with young ladies: " Fathers.
save us from negro husbands :" Brothers,
protect us from negro equality" which
burned negro orphan asylums and hung
negro women 10 lamp posts, which has de-
strOyed negro school houses all through the
South, and is the breath of life in the hos
trils Of the demons Of tho Ku-Klux.
cARrEr-BAGGERs.
Again, Gov. Brown asssils the recon
structed State Government as having been
organized by carpet-baggers, plunderers,
and sdventurers, who went down thero to
steal, and remained only until they were
gorged, then 10 return to the North with
their Stolen goods. In all this thorc is but
small element of truth, and for that element
nobody is responsible tut the friends o.
Gov. Brown, North and South. When
the work of reconstruction began under the
laws of Congress, nearly all those who had
been engaged in the rebellion refused to take
part in It, stood aloof, declared the action o
Congress unconstitutional, and proiessed tt
wash their hands of the whole business, II
some Btstes refusing even to vote one way
or the other, but in all unanimously oppos-
ing reconstruction. This necessarily threw
tho work of reconstruction into the hands o
the colored men, the few white men OF tne
South called "scalawogs," and those who
emigrated from tho North to the South
called :" carpet-baggers." II the poiiticinn ns
of the South had not with stupid malice re-
fused to take part in reconsturuction. the
so called "carret-baggers" Of the North
would have had but Iittle to do with 1t, and
the State Governments of the South would
from the 6rst have been in the hands of the
late rebels, the friends now oil Gov
Brown. But when they steod afar OH, and
did everything in their power TO oppose, tht
work of reconstruction had TO be done by
tbose In 10 whose hands il fell, or not be done
at all. Doubtless some OF the so-caliec
carpct- baggers" were not proper persons
were adventures seeking their own for
time. but others, and the majority Of them
were true emigrsnts, and would have re-
msined in theSentb and becoees Der mos
valuable citizens, as many or them nave
done anyh9w, had they not besn psr,ecu.eGd ScunG
at every sPbyth9Lssbel % enemies, nSu1a stnao,
of the Union have generally been fllee
With carpet -bsggers; and even Gov.
Brown Is ssid to have ctrpet-bagged from
Kentucky to Missouri. Our country be
longs 70 each citizen his rights are not cir
cumscribed by State, and the howl agains
carpet-baggers is craven cry which ough
never to pass the lips ofan American states
man. g,'si tf,EffIr r7Ef