Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-08
Stop the Outrages.

There is at Washington official
Information of new Ku.Klux or
ganizatioa in Virginia, that oper.
ates by means of horrid DISCUSSES,
warnings, whippings, and murders.
1t is understood to be q revisal of
the political methods hitherto prao
ticed in the South. The first at.
tempt at holding a Republican
meeting 10 the south since the NOM
ination, was at Montgomery, AIaba-
ma, and it was promptly sqaclohed
by mob, There is in the South
an under current threatening to
break violently against the lords
who have dominated there, and if O
break is once made there will be No
such thing as stopping it. IN
Virginia it is showing itself in inJi.
cations Of d split IN the dominoering
party. Those in power are aware
that it is necessary for them to pre-.
vent 10, or before, It's incipiency,
every attempt at throwing eft the
yoke. Because of the withdrawal
oi Government troops, because Of
The refusal of Congress to make
appropriations fer maintaining or
der and securing obedience TO the
law, in the South, She murderous
people there think they can with
immunity commit any outrages they
choose. They believe there is no
United states law that can reach
them, and they know the admins
traitors OF their own laws will not
reach them. But we lift our feeble
voice to the administration at
Washington, and if their ears are
deaf, to the people of tho North,
and call on them to crush these
barbarians. we arc not crying out
for the sake of an election in view.
The more outrsges perpetrated in
the South between now and No.
vember, the more certain will BIO
the Republican majorities, Republ-
can victories and a solid North.
But, for the sake of mortal humans
ty, for the sake of country, the
brutal acts Of whose people must
soon make it sheer and a by.word
in The estimation of the rest of The
Civilized world, let the Government
or the people bring the Rssassius
promptly to punishment and end
their deeds During the most Of
fifteen years that have succeeded q
successful war, deeds have been
perpetrated, by the thousands in
number, in half the territory of this
boosted land of liberty, that have, on
record, no parallel for brutality in
this age anywhere in the world,
either among civilized or savagee.
And yet, enlightened as we boast we
are, we hioa behind the excuse that
there IS no law TO stop them For
shame! With the Government it.
self in the hands of the party that
has been outraged, the crimes have
gone on, The greater the shame.
Again we say, let there be an end.
Let It be a0l0. If there is no law,
lei the administration make law. But
we know there is law. A govern
ment cannot exist without such law.
1t is the law of Nature-self preser.
vation-it nothing better defined ~
wish TO speak for the millions Of all
political parties, and in their name to
declare that the Republic must lie
strong enough, and shall be strong
enough to protect the weakest of its
citizens in all their rights" Blaine
said, and he might have said, it is
strong enough or it is no Govern
mont at all. We know the people,
the perpetrators of these outrages
well enough to know that three
weeks OF hot, determined work
among them will end their horrors.
There may be Republican dema.
gogues as we'll as Democratic fiends
who don't want it done but we are
sure the Hayes administration does.
and they should do it. We haye
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