Year: 1869

noFe Murders-HoE Long, o Lord, How


The "a XIX lends are zzzin st their
bloody work N Orange county. TIE county
ofieers seem 10 Be poxeriess tp prevent
shese deeds u riolence. and j i zaors man
hinted that they have ne desire te doso- Of
the truth Of this latter supposition We know
nothing, but it seems very strange that with
bands of Ku Klux out two or three times
every week, nothing is done towards dis,
covering the identity of any of the murder
es. There are now two more murders to
add to the long iist OF those which already
dishOnOr Orange, and cry 20 Con for ven
geance
Here arcthc latest gentleman from this
city, travelling through Orange county.
heard a moaning noise short distance from
the read He turned his herse and rode in
the direction of the sound, where, to his hor-
ror, he found two colored men hanging BY
their necks, dealA Beneath were their
families crying in great agony. On the
clothes Of the dead men were found bits of
paper, bearing the names Of the victims and
the crimes they were alleged to have COM
mitted: Barn burners and robbers xxx"


This was the work Of the Ku Klux Khan,
and was accomplished on the 14th Of the
present aonth, and the bodies had been
hanging for one or two days. without any
one daring to cutthem down.


How long is this bloody work to be
allowed to go ont .rr


How long will men consent to meekly
wait, hike sheep in the shambles, for the
butchers to do their bloody work


Do they think that the hearts Of the mnr-
derous Ku Klux will be scftened because of
the helnlessness of their victims Fools
lispiess victims kre the only ones,the cow
ardly Ku KIux dare face


Why do not the authorities of Orange
county call for protection against the Ku
Klhxl


Why do they not call for the services of
the militia? They are unable TO stop the
murders of these cowardly assassihs they
are uEdUs to prevent peaceful citizens being
brutally murdered. OF course they are una
be, or why do they not do it? They have
not taken one step to ferret out the mur
dereIs. ...-..-,


And yet they viii not appeal to the Gov
ernor to enable them to do so, -.


We tell those officers who by their inac-
tivity practically consent to these murders,
that no small part of the guilt attaches to
themselves and that the blood shed by the
Ku Klux spatters upon their own garments.


In the hands of these Democratic officers
the law is rendered powerless and the Ku
Klux are safe from molestation--but there is
another way in they can be reached


They arc traitors to the gorennieHt.


They arc sworn to resist the authority of
the United States by force of arms, if neces-
sary, and that is levying warupon the Uni
ted States, and that is TREASON. Al7-'.. p.


We call upon President GRANT to do now
as he has done before, to crush ont treason
and this time TO HANG THE TRAITORS.


Beaten at the ballot box, these men, always
bitter enemies of the government, have
taken murder as the means OF obtaining
control of the South that they may again
assume an attitude hostile TO the gov
ernment. If they are not crushed now, be-
fore their end is attained, as sure as there
is God in Heaven, there will be another
war within five years. =


The indifference with which the govern
ment has witnessed the murders daily COM
mitted in the South is incomprebensible,
Does it know that there has been many
famous battle Tough. in which, the killed
would not amount to half the number killed
by the Ku Klux since the warl 2.


Does it know that none but men loyal to
the government are the victims


Does it know that its own inactivity has
been the cause of many of these murders
by rendering the murderers bold and by
discouraging loyal men?


We tell the government that unless it
means to allow all that was accomplished
by the war to be undone, that it must crush
out the Ku Klux and those who aid them.
or hell will be a place CT rest and peace COM
pared with the South.


We call upon the government to act, and
to act speedily Let it send officers in plain
clothes through the South to inspect its
condition, and let them be men who will
tcork, and it will know more of the condi-
ton Of the South than it can ever learn in
any other way. -. .-s


In the meantime We call upon the North
ern press to aid us in informing the people
of the condition of the South, that the
force of the nation may be brought to bear
upon the government. What we say is not
inspired by partizan feeling 1t is truth,
nothing but the truth, but far, very far, from
the whole truth-thdt can never be known
until that day when the waters and the
land shall give up their dead and the muir
derers and their victims shall stand before