The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-03-21
Nu- Nlux Jtlan
BY Robert L. Pre Washing ton, ID. G.
In February crate Veteran.

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|ublican ticket" showed it's sense of
hw and the Constitution. The States
lone, according to the Constitutin,
ave the right to determine the quail
cations of their celebrates, and
(othing but violence could deprive
hem of it. If one of its objects was
Ito paralyze the Freedmen's Bureau"
|urely so indictment can lie against
] for its efforts to crush what turned
|ut to be gigantic fraud and swim
lie. If it's purpose was "to run out
Fhe carpetbaggers," its mission was
most holy one. The carpetbag-
gers were the foulest birds of prey |
hat ever sank their talons into the
bodies of thir victims; human vul-
ures they were, sucking the last
drops of blood from a helpless and
Exhausted people. If Northern school
teachers were run out by the Ku-
kluX Klan, it was a good riddance
bf most undesirable and pernicious
Element, hostile to the white people
Pf the South and breeders of discord.
These teachers never affiliated with
the better classes of the South, be-
Eause they were their enemies. They
came as aliens and as aliens they re-
manned. Southern school teachers
had never invaded the North and stir
! red up strife in the industrial system
/ of New England or melted the
|ground-down mill workers to rise a
gainst those who were coming wealth
from them and their childrens over
worked bodies and brains. Why did
Northern school teachers undertake
| to undermine the social system of
+ the South?
Finally, it was charged that one Of
the purposes of the Ku-Klux Klan
was Gin general by terror to unsettle
the results of the war" What re
suits? AS already stated, the sole OBJ
ject of the war, as distinctly announ-
ced by Congress in the beginning, was
! the restoration of the Union. The
Union was restored. The South hao
absolutely surrendered and had put
its State government into operation
The Ku-Klux Klan left neither tn,
White Caps nor the Night Riders a.
it's successors, as the editorial charg
es, any more than it left the mil
strikers of New England or the Pitts
burg rioters or the Chicago anarch
lists as its successors. The Whit
Caps originated in Indiana thirt.
! years after the war, as did the Nigh
Riders in Kentucky ten years later
THE Ku-Klux Klan left no successor
re did tes4 yshare in freeing parts c
the South from tyrrany and degrads
rAHon, and to it and the white minor
tties in all the black districts of tn
ldiSouth that resisted that avalanche {
t. terror should be raised a monumel
w more enduring than bronze.
irl The Anglo-Saxon has frequent
Isubjected other races to his own civ
lie cation, but history records no
as stance in which any other race h,
to robbed him of his own. Utter
e. crushed as they were, the fierce fl
as of the race was not yet extinguish'
of in the Southern people.
leI The Ku-kluX Klan blazed up as Il
ar last fame from the embers of an e
NJ, piring people. The fate of a Nigh
n race hung in the balance. 1t was t
d.. last remnant of fast-failing streng
to that the South threw into the uneqr
I'd struggle, and it saved a nation.
ne occasional injustices marked the Gle
of it's career, they were few and
n between, such as are inevitable in
On cry civil convulsion. 1t sprang up
he the twinklnig of an eye as migl
he protest against a crime unspeakal
he hideous and disgusting and withou
le. Eparallel in the history of the wol
he OF it it may truly be said: "The c
n that men do lives after them;
nd good is oft inferred with their bone
he 1t did its share in keeping alive
RS torch of civilization already so dir
tie burning in that unhappy land, and
tie shielding its women and child
re- from a desolation worse than
ne pestilence that walketh in darkne
on or "the destruction that wasteth
]e. MONDAY"