The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-06-13
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Ku-KIux PrOteetOr-H. G.

| From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Ku-KIux PrOteefOr-H. G.
Mr.. Horace Greeley takes the un-
necessary trouble to epitomize the
Cincinnati platform in his letter ac-
cepting the Dolly Warden nomina-
ton for the Presidency nor was it
necessary for the great farmer to
write this letter to show US that the
lust of ambition has worked in him
the same ruin and disgrace it has SO
often worked in its victims. Every
word of that letter is a cheat. Not
one gives the heartfelt expression to
the deep-rooted principles of it's au-
thor.
He declares first that fall poliLi-
cal rights and franchises which
have been acquired through our
late bloody convulsion must and
shall bo guaranteed, maintained,
enjoyed, and respected evermore."
In the same breath he insists that
"the writ Of ha6eas corpus should be
jealously upheld as the safeguard of
personal freedom, X x
and that there shall be no Federal
subversion of the internal policy of
the several States and municipali-
ties, but each shall be left free," of
course from Federal interference.
We have compressed in this short
extract from the candidate, accept
ing the nomination for the highest
office in our land, plain admission
that any Federal interference which
aims to permit a Republican, of
whatever col,r, to vote in Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, or other intensly
negro-hating rebel States; any Fed
eral force that attempts to prevent
the shameful frauds annually prac-
tised in New York in the interest of
the "Democratic" party, shall be
stricken down. Greeley's worst en-
emy could not wish for more COM
plete surrender, for a baser submis-
sion, or for an act so utterly ruinous
to the man performing it.
The Tribune Almanac teens with
election returns from Southern
States, in 1868, wherein some coun-
ties did not cast hundred Repub-
lican votes, some not ten, some not
one! Tho New York Tribune bris-
ties with proofs that Republican vo-
ters there were prevented by arm
ed Ku-Klux, by whippings, by tor
ture, and by assassination, from
casting their votes for Grant and
Colfax in that year. And the same
paper is full of splendid philippics,
pleadingS, arguments and beseech-
ings that the Federal authority
should extend protection to these
whipped, fayed and prosecuted peo-
pie, that they might onjcy rights
denied and subverted by the very
villains he now says shall alone
have authority in the premises. No
proof exists anywhere, out of Dem
ocratic newspapers, that the ban
ditti who enacted these horrors and
suppressed these liberties in
blood is disbanded. Not one partI-
Gle of evidence can be found that
the Ku-Klux is impaired in the
least degree in its effective organi-
zation. No truthful man believes
that it intends to permit quiet, or
der, and fair elections hereafter,
until that very Federal force
which Mr.. Greeley says shall not
molest them if he be elected-shall
tramp it out of existence. And no
man of sound mind and unperverted
heart pretends that any force but
the Federal power can cope with
this formidable and pitiless associa~
ton of blood-thirsty rufians; so
that from his own mouth alone is
Greeley condemned. To satisfy an
insane ambition, or worse, an insane
revenge, he pledges himself in ad,
vance that the balIot-box suffers
and false counters of New York,
and the bloody assassins of the
South, shall ply their horrid work
safely should he be made the power
to administer punishment to them
for their nameless crimes. Such a
bid for votes, from such Q source, is
the most alarming feature our polit'
ical affairs have yet developed. And
, it will be we'll for all lovers or order
: justice, and decency to pause before
, they think of such a President al
Greeley pledges himself to be.