The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-10-01
From Harper's Weekly
The Same Old Pirate Afloat Again.
BY EUGENE LAWRENCE.

:"W hite Mans League" indicates one oi
| those dangers to which our free institu
| tions are yet exposed. There can be nc
| doubt that disunion faction has always
since the fall of Richmond prevailed at
the South that men like Toombs, who
proclaim openly that they hate the ma
| tional government, are numerous IN
| every Southern State, and that nothing
but the fear of united North, East and
West has held in outward subj ugatlon to
! the law the bands of marauders who
have pledged themselves to each other
| for a secret aim. Heretofore they have
contented themselves with assassinatlng
or driving from their midst all white Re
publicans who have ventured to settle
among them, have prosecuted Northern
immigrants as carpet ba ggers, have
whipped and branded innocent school
teachers, and inflicted horrible outrages
in the negro cabin. The lenient North
has looked on patiently while its citizens
have been denied in Georgia, Alabama, or
Texas the security of life and property
promised them by the Constitution, and
are robbed and murdered at will Georgia,
the rebel leader Toombs declares, is al
ready free In Georgia white Republicans
and colored voters have been shot down
at the polls, and the White Mans League
is gradually driving from the State all
who resist its reasonable policy. 1t is
far the wiser part to look upon the actual
truth of our political condition, and it is
safe to say that the desperate faction
which now overawes the loyal citizens of
Georgia has fairly brought it into direct
hostility to the. laws of the Union.
But the Georgians, it seems, are not
content with establishing their own indie
pendence They have recently invaded
South Carolina with a military force.
South Carolina has lSays since 1865 been
a stronghold OF loyalty in the South.
Its colored population have clung to the
Union as their only source of safety. The
White Mans League and the Ku-KluX,
after inf1icting fearful outrages upon
them, and apparently been wholly sup
pressed Life and property have until
recently been safe. in the State. The
strongest Union man, who across
the Savannah River would have
been treated as an outlaw. has been Sc
cure under the friendly rule of the col
ored population of South Carolina. But
this condition of affairs exists no longer.
A white mans party has been formed in
the State. Its members proclaim their
determination to seize upon the control
of the government, and set South Caro-
lima free from the rule of the "infamous"
administration at Washington. At Ridge
Spring recently troops from Georgia aided
the South Carolina Ku-Klux in a fierce
foray upon the white and colored Repub-
licans Augusta sent its militia across
the Savannah to massacre if necessary
the people. No mercy, we may be sure,
was to be shown to the Unionists. The
Georgia Tigers" were chiefly anxious to
capture the white political leaders, but
they had escaped. Every where, we are
told, the colored population fled, terrified
and cowed, from the valorous Georgians,
who, in the heat of victory, proclaimed
South Carolina free. Murder and riot
follow every where in the track of the
white mans party, and no Union man IN
South { a o ina can any longer feel secure
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 Union
men have been afraid to venture, their
property has been torn 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 des-
perate faction who rule by terror and
bloodshed. 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 1t was
in 1862" Republicans are warned by the
Ku-Klux to leave the State, and death Is
the penalty of disobedience. In Sumter
county it is publicly stated that one hun
dred Republicans have been murdered by
the Democrats since the war. And re-
Gently Walter P. Billings, rising polItl-
clan, who was born in New York, and
has, while resident of Alabama, never
concealed his Republicanism and his 10y
atty to the Union, was shot down by the
concealed assassins of the white mans
party He had been attending a 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 morn
ing his body was found lying at the road-
side, pierced by fifteen buckshot. His
horse lay dead beside him. H was only
a quarter of a mile from his home. The
report of the guns was heard by his fam
lily, and even his last dying wall. They
thought, however. that it was the noise
of hunters in pursuit of game. In Alaba-
ma it seems the sportsmen are Demo
Gratis, and the game Northern men and
Republicans.
Louisiana too boasts its white mans
party. Under the name of the Knigh
of the White Camellia, and various other
chivalric titles, the Ku-Klux began their
outrages in that State soon after the war.
White Republicans were beaten or MUIR
dered, teachers driven from their schools,
the colored population treated with such
indignities as no part of the civilized
world can parallel; and the last series of
III 1a Of MT
Parish, were sixty or seventy Republi-
cans, who had done no wrong, were burn
ed to death in the courthouse by the
Louisiana Democrats. The general in
dignation excited throughout the country
by this terrible deed seems for time to
have checked the ardor of the white
mans party The assassins were even
threatened with punishment, some of
them were arrested, but whether they
have suffered the proper penalty of their
crime we do not know. The white mans
party has revived; the Ku-Klux outrages
are renewed; but they are no longer
hidden under the shades of night, with
masks and secret passwards. Armed
patrols, it seems, ride over the country to
prevent the negroes from attending po-
litical meetings or exercising their rights
as citizens. When colored politician is
discovered, the "Leaguers" shoot him in
the open day. 1.-TWO of them" we are
told, ''were going home from church, and
a third was riding in wagon with other
men, when he was taken out and shot"
The three were murdered together, and
their companions forbidden to tell who
the assassins were, under threat of GER
tain death should they do so. 1t is plain
that the Louisiana Democrats have
spe. dy means OF decreasing the Republi-
Va et;ll ,,,ora horrible iS tho