The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-09-17
AFLOAT AGAIN.
The Same old Pirate AflOat
Again -. The "Whitc Mans
League: and What Il Indi.
cafes.

4 di10. VI iit hu-hiuA uHtitT ttit new
name OF a "White Mans League
indicates one of those dangers tc
which our free institutions are We!
exposed. There can be no doubt
that a disunion faction has always
since the fall of Richmond prevailed
/ at the South, that men like Toombs.
who proclaim openly that they hate
the national government, are numer-
Gus i'll every Southern State, and
that nothing but the fear OF a united
North, East, and West has held in
outward subsection to the law the
bands of marauders who have pledged
| themselves 10 each other for secret
aim. Heretofore they have content
ed themselves with assassinatiny OF
driving from their midst all white
Republicans who have venturad Ia
settle among them, have prosecuted
Northern immigrants as ''carpet bag
gers have whipped aud branded
innocent school-teachers. and inflicted
horrible outrages in the negro cabin.
The lenient North has looked on pa
tiently 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 already free. In Georgia
white Republicans and colored voters
have been shot down at the polls,
and the White Mans League is grad
ually driving from the State all who
resist its reasonable policy II is far
the wiser part to look upon the actual
truth of our political condition, aud il
is safe to say that the desperate fac
tion which now overawes the loyal
citizens of Georgia has fairly brought
it into direct hostility to the laws of
the Mon.
But the Georgians, it seems, are
not content with establishing their
own independence. They have re-
Gently invaded South Carolina with
a military force. South Carolina has
always 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 lnilictiug fearful outrages
upon them, had apparently been
wholly suppressed. Life and prop
erty ltave until recently been safe in
the State. The strongest Union
man, who across the Savannah River
would have been treated as an out
law. has been secure under the
friendly rule of the colored popula-
tion of South Carolina. But this
condition OF affairs exists no longer.
4 white mans party has been formed
in the State. It's members pi oclaim
their determination 10 seize upon the
control of the government, and SET
South Carolina free from the rule OF
the "infamous" administration at
Washington. At Ridge Spring re-
Gently troops from Georgia aided the
South Carolinian ku-klux in a fierce
foray upon the white and colored
Republicans. Augusta sent its mil
itia across the Savannah to massacre
if necessary the people. No mercy,
we 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 Geor-
gians, who, in the heat of victory.
proclaimed South Carolina free.
Murder and riot follow every where
the track of the white mans party.
and no Union man in South Carolina
can any longer feel secure from the
Georgia assassins.
In Alabama we are assured from
private 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 desperate faction who rule by
terror and bloodshed From one
private source we are told that ''Clark
county has been in state of rebell-
ion since the war, and is no more in
the Union to-day than it 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 hundred Republicans have
been murdered by the Democrats
since the war. And recently Walter
=. Billings, rising politician, who
was born in New York, and has,
while resident of Alabama, never
concealed his Republicanism and his
LOYALTY to the Union, was shot down
BY the concealed assassins of the
white mans party. He had been at
tending Republican meeting, and
had spoken. The negroes 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 road
side, 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, how
ever, that it was the noise Of hunters
in pursuit of game. In Alabama II
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 Camcllia, and
various other chivalric titles, the ku-
klax began their outrages in that
State soon after the war. White
Republicans were beaten or murder.
ed, teachers driven from their schools
the colored population treated with
such indignities as no part ofthe civ
ihzed world can parallel; and at last
the series of outrages ended in the
massacre of Grant Parish, where six
ty or seventy Republicans, who hac
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