The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-23

from the Louisville Commercial.

! HsW 60 Crush Ont Ku-kInxi.m.
I from the Louisville COMMERCIAL
/ 1t Is mistake and an injustice To put al
the blame for the recent and continualIy-~c
curing outrages IN the South upon tht
Southern Democrats. The great responsible
+ ity for them properly belongs 10 the Demo
cratic politicians of the North, and they
should be made to bear 1t before she country
, But for the attitude of Northern Democratic
politicians there would be no ku-klux out
RACES IN the South now, just As there wou'd
have been rebellion in 1861 but for the al
tittds of the Northern Democratic pai}ti-
clans of that day The murders Of Julia
Hayden, of the sixteen prisoners IN Ten
nesSee. of the county officers IN Louisiana.
are charged bic Just as much to the Democratic
politicians of the North to the ruff.ans " no
fired the fatal shots, and If the people want
justice done for those murders let them visit
the penalty upon the dcmagoEaes who IN
cited them. and whom their justice can reach,
by branding them with the marks OF their
intending dispieasure, Their tools and IN
struments. the actual murGererS. VIII never
be punished As they deserve, but these prin-
cipals are IN the power of the people and
should not be allowed to escape. This charge
we make against the Democratic politicians
OF the North Is serious one, tut the facts to
sustain it are patent to all who viii hook.
The sympathy and alliance between those
politicians and the ku-klux murferers who
do the actual slaughter are shown too plainly
to be disproyeG.
Whenever the Federal Government has
sought to suppress Ku-kluxism under the
authority of acts of Congress, Democratic
politicians in the North have set up fierce
outcry about interfering in the domestic con-
Germs of the State and the outcry was
not whit the less loud and prolonged al
though it Was apparent to'them as to,every-
body that no other authority was doing or
would or could do anything To sup
the South expected that prompt outcry by
Northern Democratic politicians against
Federal interference and the prompt sug-I
AZ soon as they began their OUT
RACES, by Northern Democratic journals
that the stories of their outrages were manu-
featured for political effect or were melted
by Southern Republicans to get sympathy,
would weaken the effect of their crimes on
Northern opinion SO much that their North
ern allies would not be seriously hurt by
them.
Indeed the scope of their present plans is
such that they must risk doing some injury
70 their Northern allies. trusting that it will
be but temporary. They would like TO have
a Democratic Congress elected this fall rs
ihat Congress will have to elect President
# by any contingency the people should fail
ia make a choice. and they propose to help /
that on by securing, by any amount of VIC
ence that may be necessary, solid Demo
cratic delegation from the South. But il Is
% tho next Presidential campaign that their
attention Is MANI directed. They con-
ident that if by terrorism and bloody muir |
iers, they can manage to carry the Southern
elections this fall, they will so demoralize |
he colored Republican vote that it cannot be
uccessfully rallied next year. and that
hey can consequently carry all the Southern
states in the Presidential election. With
he electoral vote of all the Southern /
state thus secured, they could, refrain from
ctual violence hereafter and leave to the t
ortkern Democratic politicians the task of
'crsuading the people Of some of the North
I'm States to trust them once more. To show
low dangerously easy this plan is, and why
Northern Democratic politicians wink at and
acliitate the method resorted 10 to caNy 1t out,
is only necessary to remind our reader. of
he figures which represent the vote of the
Electoral college. The total vote is 342
Secessary to q choice, Us. The total vote of
be old slave States is I3S. Add to this Ohioii
he necessary lIo, or add New York thirty
i've and Nevada three, and the total is Ito.
8 it wonder Northern Democratic poll
icians cry out against federal interference to Il
ut down ku Klux ontrages, or blame in
Md and eNcusatory phrase the Tennessee and
louisiana and Alabama murderers, when
hey expect so soon to reap the profit of those
rinaes2
be South and the Democratic politicians of
he North is formidable from the reckless
operation with which il IS being carried
ut, bur IT will fail To expose it is 30 defeat
> The patriotic people of the country will
Don see that the only hope for law and
rider in the South-the only hope for the
in life. liberty and property Of
hose IN the South who have dared 20 be true
, the Constitution and the Unions for the
eopie of this country to crush Ire Demo
ratic organization thoroughly and CON-
ietely that its return to national power viii
ecnrne an ImpossIbiirty.
The true and only way to crush the ku
lux of the South Is to crush beyond hone Of
.vival the allies from whom they derive all
ielr spirit and encouragenent-the Demo
ratio politicians of the North.