The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-29
Kentucky Ku.KIux.

CFrom the Louisville Courler-J ournAll
We present 10 our readers this morning
another detailed and appalling report OF
Ku.Klux outrages in Owen and the sur.
rounding counties, from our special cor
respondent, who was selected Tor his cour.
age and capacity, and sent to the dis.
turbed section, with instructions 10 gain
full and accurate Information In regard to
the outrages Of the assassins.: It will be
seen that peaceable citizens living within
five miles Of our State capital dare not
leave their homes after dark, and are sub.
iecled to constant apprehension and dan
ger at their own fresides. The State
government is virtually bearded In ils
stronghold. The proclamatiOns OF the
Governor are laughed at, as were the iul-
limitations Of the ancient monarch against
the waves Of an angry sea, the civil au-
thorities are stricken with the palsy oil
fear, courts Of Justice have becomGa mere
mOCkery, and their eDginGry affords no
pFotection TO the victim whose life Is i'm
perIled, and whose house Is plundered and
converted into ashes. Hooded Villainy
almost invades the grounds OF the capital;
and # little mUie courage is acquired on
It's part, and little more pusillanimity Is
BETRAYED on the part Of the officers Of the
law, VIC shall expect the representatives Of
the State government 10 be driven IRON
tho capital should they ever offend the
august body Of outlaws.
Astounding as may be the declaration,
It Is nevertheless true that brood oil ban
ditti and midnight assasSins have been
allowed for, years to perpetrate the
most devilish Outrages upon the very snb.
urbs oil Frankfort. Citizens living In the
surrounding country have been driven
from their homes, and forced TO sell their
property Of a great sacrifice. Women and
children have been ingulted and frightened
without mercy, and almost the entire sec.
ton Of country about the State capital has
been given up TO the control Of depreda-
tors and murderers. Could there. exist q
state OF affairs more humlliadngf II the
outlaws infested remote mountain recesses
III they lived In caves and retreated
from the pursuit Of the law ofacers-there
would be at least some apology for the
imbecile apathy and criminal indifference
which have been betrayed by those whose
duty It is 10 drag this cowled band to the
light, and inlict upon them the
penalties Of their crimes; but no such
plea can be made. The most thickly set.
tied portion Of the State-a point within
sight Of the State capital-has been select.
ed as their headquarters from whenceth they
make their nocturnalraids. Officers Of the
law do not dare to arrest or pursue them.
The chief efforts to vindicate the law
have consisted in the proClamatiOns Of
the Governor and q single visit to some
point In the county of the Adlutant Gen.
eral, who, we are told, assured thepeOple
that they had the sympathy Of the Gov.
ernor, and whose presence struck about
as much terror 10 the hearts Of the ku'
Klux as would have been inspired by a
wrathiul dove or kitten trying 10 look for
midable.
Our correspondent sufficiently exposes
the paltry plea that the ku.Klux cannot
be detected. he gives the names oil scv'
eral II the courts were not utterly
worthless the entire gang could be dragged
TO the bar oil justice.
To the report which we publish we in
Vite the attention Of the people Of Ken.
lucky. They must see what a shameful
and bitter disgrace has been brought
upon their State by the depravily and
brutality Of q small band Of cowardly
Wretches; how the laws have been in
suited, and how the officers charged with
their faithful execution have looked on
In iudolent Indifference or unmanly terror.
Il Is q picture for them 10 contemplate,
and one which can excite no other feel
iugs than those Of shame and disgust.