The Sun. — 1868-09-30 (London, England)

THE SOUTHERN STATES.  (From the Anglo-American Times.)  The irrepressible correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has had an interview with General Forrest, in which that celebrate I Confederate officer went through his facings at the correspondent's word of command. The Ku-Klux Klan, Forrest avers to be a genuine organization ramifying over the South. In Tennessee alone there are 40,000 men enrolled,  and the total number amounts to half a million combatants. They await Brownlow's action with the militia when it is ordered out. If the slightest outrage is attempted, every white Radical in Tennessee, all of whom are marked, would be killed without mercy. It is vain for the "carpet-baggers" and the " scallawags" (the difference, it appears, being that the former are Northern adventurers, and the latter Southern renegades), to hope that they may raise the storm and leave the negroes and the Southerners to fight it out, for arrangements have been so made that the first victims would be the Radicals themselves. Such a contest is abhorrent to himself and his brethren of the South, but they cannot avoid it if forced upon them. They are heartily sick of war, and desire, if allowed, to cultivate their lands in peace. Forrest spoke out, and if he did say what the correspondent alleges there can be little doubt that he means it, for he is not a dog that only barks, as the bloody annals of Fort Pillow can testify. The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a law empowering the Governor to send troops to any county, when ten loyal freeholders residing therein, backed by a Judge, member of Legislature, Sheriff, or Attorney-General, request it. The county in which the troops are used shall pay the expenses. In South Carolina the Legislature has passed a law, under the apprehension of a civil war preceding the November elections, clothing Governor Scott in such case with the powers of a dictator. A reply has been published to the appeal of the whites to the President for protection, denying that the blacks desire to inaugurate a civil war, though they are prepared to resist aggression. They assert that the whites are themselves to blame by their opposition to the Congressional plan of Reconstruction. Their words are :—" But we cannot surrender the great pilladium of our liberties—the ballot-box—for any consideration whatever. And if we are to be massacred because we ref use to vote the Democratic ticket; if we are to be murdered in cold blood because we will not sell our manhood, then let it come—we can die but once ; and if, as you state, thirty millions of white men are going to fall upon four millions because they are black, and will not vote for H. Seymour and F. P. Blair for President and Vice-President of the United States, both of whom have declared that the negroes have no right to vote, then we are prepared to die, but not to vote to be killed. With a strong faith in God and eternal justice, we wait the decision of high Heaven. If our cause be just God will not suffer us to fail with a firm faith in the right. We ask nothing at the hands of our fellowman but a fair chance in the race of life, and equal opportunities for ourselves, our wives, and our children. We ask no more." On the Lower Shanty, where the cultivation of rice prevails, and the negroes are most ignorant and numerous, there has been rioting, and some disgraceful stories arc told of negro outrages there and elsewhere throughout the South. The Social Equality Bill, announced some weeks ago, has been passed, but in a very modified form. In Georgia the principal event is the action of the Legislature against the negro members, which has astonished the North, as the Senate will follow the example set them in the Lower douse. Considering that the new State Constitution adopted by the State declares all persons, born or naturalized in the United States, and resident in the State, citizens of the State, while it prohibits the passage of any law abridging these privileges or immunities, the negroes, uot without reason, consider that the carpet-baggers have sacrificed them to make peace with the Secessionists. Bradley, the negro lawyer, who was expelled