Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-09-16

after inAicting fearful outrages uron them
had apparently been wholly suppressed
Life and property have until recently beel
safe 10 theState. The strongest UaioD man
who crosses the Savannah River woul,
have been treated as outlaw, has been Sc
cure under the friendly rule oftbe colore,
population Of South Carolina. But thi
condition Of affairs exists no longer. 4
white mans party has been formed in III,
State. Its members proclaim their de
termination to seize upon the control o
the government, and set South Caroin,
free from the rule of the ''infamous" ad
ministration at Washington. At Ridg'
Spring recently troops from Georgia aid
ed the South Carollnian Ku .Klux IN ,
fierce foray upon the white and colorec
Republicans. Augusta sent its militl,
across the Savannah to massacre if neces
sary the people, No mercy. we may b.
sure, was to be shown to the Uuonlsts
The Georgia Tigers" we're chiefly anx
ious to capture the white political lead
ers, but they had escaped. Every where
we are told, the colored population fed
terrified ard cowed, from the valorou,
Gcorgians, who. in the heat of victory
proclaimed South Carolina free. Murde,
and riot follow every where the track Of
the white mans party, an no Union mar
in South Caroliua can any longer feel Sc
cured from the Georgia assassins.
In Alabama we are assured from pri.
vate and public sources that the Ku.Klux
have never been suppressed. In many
counties since the close Of the war Unlo1
men have been afraid to venture. their
property has been :orn from them, and
their lives threatened. No Northern man
dares to enter these Democratic strong.
holds unless he is ready TO sacrifice his
conscience and his manhood to the desper.
ate faction who rule by terror and blood.
shed From one private source we are
told that "Clark County has been in a
state of rebellion since the war, and is
no more in the Union to-day than it was
10 1862" Republicans are warned by
the Ku-Klux to leave the State: and death
is the penalty of disobedlcnce. Iu Sum.
ter County it is publicly stated that one
hundred Republicans have been murdered
by the Democrats since the war. And
recently Walter p Billings, rising poll.
tician, who was born in New York, and
has, while a resident of Alabama, never
concealed his Republicanism and his 10y.
ality to the Union. was shot down by the
concealed assassins Of the white mans
party. He had been attending Repub-
lican meeting, and had spoken. The ne
groes warned him that the democrats
meant to kill him. But he set out in the
night for his home, and the next morning
his body was found lying at the roadside,
pierced by fifteen buckshot.. His horse lay
dead beside him. He was only quarter
of mile from his home. The report Of
the guns was heard by his family, and
even his last dying wall. They thought,
however, that it was the noise Of hunters
in pursuit Of game. 10 ALBANIA it seems
the sportsmen are Democrats, and their
game Northern men and Republicans,
Louisiana too boasts its white mans
party. Under the name of the Knights
Of the White Camelia, and various other
chivalrlc titles, the Ku.Klux began their
outrages in that State soon after the war
White Republicans we're beaten or mur-
dered, teachers driven from their schools,
the colored population treated with such
indignities as no part Of the civilized
world can parallel; and at last the series
of outrages ended in the massacre o.
Grant Parish, where sixty or seventy Re-
pabIicsns, who had done no wrong. we're
burned to death in the courthouse by the
Louisiana Democrats. Tho general in.
digration excited throughout the country
by this terrible deed seems for a time to
have checked the ardor of the white mans
party. The assassins were not even threat.
ened with punishment, some of them were
arrested, but whether they have suffered
the proper penalty Of their crime we do
not know. The white mems party has
revived the Ku-Klux outrages are re.
newed; ; bus they are no longer hidden
under the shades Of night, with masks
and secret passwords. Armed pat'ols,i il
seems, ride over the country to prevent
the negroes from attending political meet
ings or exercising their rights as citizens.
When colored politician is discovered,
the "Leaguers' shoot him in the open day.
Two Of Them" we are told, ''wers 60.
ing home from church, and third was
riding in wagon with other men, when
he was taken out aud shot" The three
were murdered together, and their COM
panions forbidden to tell who the assasios
we're, under o threat Of certain death
should they do SO. 1t is plain that Louis
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