Evansville Journal, Volume 21, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 25 April 1870 — Page 2

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rcr.t.i ;uan r.v tu EYANSYILLtt JOIT.XAL. COMPANY, No, ieunt Ktrwt, r-viwllle. M0NUAY."Ai'lllL21, 1S:0. Insults to Dead Herors! Will soUilfTH mhI tut lr Memls read ibe following paragraphs. "For the duration of 'the war, for Its ost aa v.ell lorts commencement, the Republican partv t alone rinponsinle. Hut for inhere wiinlil Uavo tocu no war, and " but for 11 hiuurul Incapacity and mismanagement, H wiuld not have lasted a y-r. 11 was curried on appailentiy to tut-fH thlevlou contractor. If tliesourc of hleallnK bad not dried tip. It would probably have been In existence now Cincinnati wpiircr. The regain of Oen. Tlmmw are now twliig carud Iron the Pacillo to lhe Allant i,. u. ..iri.inw. and overv day Itu utshe us with twentv ro'umnaof telegraph M to ins whereabout. W bono lie tuy ly planted hou. Aranitt''e C'etinVr, .' 7H1SNATOU BlOliXON. Scecli AgDinst lli Uingln.m Amendment Democratic Conspiracy to lUconstruotioii. JDtfrat The following ablo speech was delivered by Senator Morton in tbo United States Senate, on tho 11th inst: Mr. I'resiJent.this is tho anniversary of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Viva vcars acO to- by ho fell by tho hand of an assasii , perhaps, tho orig-i inal Kuklux, whoso ovil exasoplo is now tipintr imitated in various States in thit Snut.li. nroducinsr a condition of things which imperatively demand deration of the Senate and tho aountry. But, Mr. President, there are aoine preliminary matccrs which I must first dispose of, before Tirnccedinz to tha discusjion of tho main subject. Tha main issuo upon tho Georgia bill now is what is called tho ilingham amendment a provision, tho rrtnclral feature of which ia to re quire that tho election for members ofthd Legislature in Georgia shall tako placo this coming fall. Tho other provision in tho bill were contained in the bill.- for the admissiou of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, and 1'had supposed were not really m discussion until tho distinguished Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Carpen tor) tho other day choso to arsruo tho question all over. This 1'ineham amendment, rcquir in an election next fall, is favored unon Bcvcral grounds, which aro direct conflict with each other.' Tho first around is that tho Georgia con stitution requires that the election shall tako place next fall. Thoso who support the amendment upon that crouodsectn to be unconscious that they aro advocating a power in ; Con grcss more dangerous to wnat aro called Stalo rights than thoso who claim to sv.rport the other provisions of tho bill under what is called tho jruarantoo clausoV They assume that Congress has a right in , advance to give a construction to the constitution of a State, and to provide in advance that the Legislature of, a State, alter it shall ha"ve been admitted, after tho Stats government shall.' bo in full operation, shall not; do a particular act. . This, position assumos, on the part of Congress, a supremo judicial character to coustruo in advance a State constitution, and to provido by law that tho Siate government, after tha fall admission of tho State, shall not giva that constitution a different construction. .... i - ; f i am Bomewhat surprised that the leaders of the Democratic party sustain thid constitutional position, inasmuch as it ta , more destructive to State rights than aay other but it proves that tho 'ultra advocates of State rights are willing to tolerate an aggression on the part of Congress when that aggression threatens to be in fjvor of tho Democratic party-in-Btqad of bing jn favor of tho: union party. " z Now, Mr. President, there are those who assume that under the Georgia constitution the Legislature have a right to put off tho election one, two, or three years, and 1 that ' in consequence , of that, it ia . the duty, and Congress has the power -to interfere to prevent tho Legislature of Georgia from .exorcising a power which they concede it possesses : but they involve themselves in' this.contradiction; thev insist that Congress baa tho pow er to overrule the constitution of Georgia so far as to require tho eleo tion to bo held next Fall, and thu3 promptly put the State into the hands of tho rcbelj,. but" ha3 . no, power to require, an election to be- held two years henoe, to give a loyal Stato gov ernment in the meantime toe power to . reorganize and regenerate the State, and setruro protection to the loyal men of that Stato. : 1 will not, upon tni9 occasion, ko over tho argument I havemsde here toforo on the Georgia question. I have argued heretofore that there was no legal Legislature until the present one was organized in the month of January last, and that, consequently, the legislative term began from the time of the, first legal organ ization and tne members had two years from that timo. I have argued lurtt.ir, taat wnetner tnts was so or not. Congress in the exerciso of its supreme power pt reconstruction had the right, in" view of the public necessities, or of general convenience, to fix the time when tha terra, of tho State officers should begin, or, in oth er words, to fix tbo date when tho new State government should take its start. I want to esy right here that the Bingham Amendment, so called, (and it bears the name of a distinguished and honored llepublican, but that does not change its charaoter,) it is in the interest 'of ' the ' Democratic party, is cgainst. the Union party in the South and : throughout the country, and that it it is bo universally understood by the Union men in Georgia and by the rebels in Georgia. The Democratio party in the entire South, and so far as I know in the entire country, support tho Bingham amendment unanimously The Bepublican party in Georgia, otherwise called the Union party, the loyal party, -oppoae- theBinghaTfl amendment unanimously.- ; 1 belicvo the entire Republican-party of the South, who understand' tho situation better than we do in the North, oppose the Bingham amendment. ' It may be said thb is not a very good i argument. I think there is something in it. ' I think it is worth a good many of the line-drawn, very technical, constitutional scruples that have been- brought forward in this case; and I must say that these fine constitutional scruples, somewhat remarkably and unfortunately, all result in favor of tho Democratic party of the South, and against the Union men of the South. In a doubtful question, if there were doubts hanging around it, thoso doubts ought to be resolved in favor of the unanimous opinion 01 the Union party of . the outb.

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Mr., President, there have been two or thrco men hero from Georgia chim ing to bo Republicans, who havo been favoring and engineering what is called tho Bingham amendment; but upon investigation I Cad that cot one of them is in harmony with the 1 1 o mi bl ton n r.nrtv nf tho South." but every ouo of tlieni is acting in union and concert with thft Pcruocratio party oi 11.0 oouia. wu had some lettera sent hore, -andwe have had some testimony referred to by cne Senator on the other side, to the effect that thcro was -peace and r,.,! iVr-linir down there. General Thomas, in his dispatch from Tennessee, explains that when he eays that Homo men have gone there from the North who, for the purpose of purchasing Focial position, lor the purpose of purchoping- pcaca and quiet, have consented to surrender their principles, ana Dave given wnat may bo regarded as false testimony, and otherwise nave auanaoncu uio entire loyal and Union party of tho South.' ' ' Mr. President, tho Union -men ot Geor2ia have been, as 1 regard it, grossly slandered and abused. Every sort of statement has ueen mauo against Governor Bullcck, and agajn3t Knster IS OJirstt. ana against many others. I want to state one thing further, that some or our iicpubli cans who have gone Sauth have been mirilcd bv the testimony they received down there nod the treatment they rKPf'ivpA. Prominent eentlcmcn ci the Republican party havo gone Smith, and have been met by thereo cl leaders with their carriage at the ilonnf thr-tf have boon dined and win ed: and treated with remarkable hospitality, and the gentlemen treat ing them would say, "All thtso sto rip about rebel outrages aro fal-;c: tha men who havo beon punished arc Hnalawacs:" they are thieves : but fi-entlemen like you. gentlemen of high position . in . the Republican party coming to the South, are received a you are; wo ; Jiave no obiectiou whatever to Republicans as such : but it is only the thieves and the scalbwags that have been visited with punishment." But. Mr. Presi dent., it turns out that every, promi nent Republican in Georgia who stands fast by tho Government is cov ered with the vilost alanderj.- Lvery invention that devilish ingenuity C3n put afloat is started in recird to thoso men; and whenever a mao is mur derod down there, they seek to palli ate the crime bv covering bis came with tho vilest slanders. 1 can ap peal to every Southern Senator hert to day for the truth of what I say and 1 am very sorry to find that these rebel slanders against leading Union men of Georgia, against tho men who havo havo stood up there through danger and through contumely and assault, find Republican echoes. I want to say io reference to the argument of the Senator from Wis consin. (Mr. Carpenter,) and that o sooio others, in connection with what was said, by the Senator from Ore gon, (Mr. Williams,) yesterday, that if Congress has the power to say that an election shall take placo in Geor gia next fall, it has the power to say that it shall not take placo for two years. There Can bo and has been no distinction made; and to require it to tako place next fall is simply to provide lor putting the .State promptly in the hand of tho rebels. To provido that it shall tako place two yars hence, is to provide for the benefit of the loyal men of that Stato giving the Stato government two years' timo in which to operate and mako provisions for the. protection of the loyal men. . I am willing, and I think that is tho better plan, for Congress to strike out the. Bingham amendment and stop there. Bo silent. - Leave to the Legislature and.tho courts of Georgia the construction of their constitution. Bu if gentlemen i.ro not willing to do that; if they insist that ; Congress shall intervene, I. beg of them, 1 :imploro'thcm in the name of humanity. that this intervention shall ba in bohalf of loyalty and not of disloyalty; that it shall bo of that character which will give protection, to the loy al men, and will not daliv tfeewr-over bound hand and foot into tno nanus of their enemies. If they must intervene, in the name of God intervene on tho right side.. ,Do not-intervene in behalf cf your enemies. I ,Mt. President, we have had a creat deal of law presented in tho course of tho discussion on these various bills; wo have bad a great deal ot nico legal learning; but what we need in discus sions on government are the solid, substantial prinoiples of law in their breadth, and - depth, and grandeur, not thtt technical learning ot tho law. Technicalities of the law are tho mere husks aird shells that should be carcfullyisarqened'ontMn all discua sioBs- "upoaf 'government. Tho cele braced, firov of Quirk.i-Gammon & Snap, who did such a fine business upon , the ' technicalities of tho law fifty years ago, ar not doing nearly so well now. --.1 he., courts nave been greatly improved in this respect,' and I trust that, that stylo of learning will not be introduced into the Congress of the United States in discussions of great questions which affect 'the lives and fortunes of thousands and hundreds of thousands. A case law yer in court, instead -or reasoning upon tho principles of the law is always looking- back ajter an old case, and"ir sometimes happens in politics that statesmen instead of confronting tho situation before them and scciog what is required, are looking back tor a rusty preoedent to find what somebody else has said under other circumstances, and is different times. XUr. l'resbient. it is end. in a timn like this, to be met by a plea in'abatdmenr, or Dy a special demurrer, to be compelled to chop logic and split nairs wun our menus. "I come now, Mr. President, to the main subjjet, and I refer hero to some 'remarks made by the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Thurman) a few days ago. In speaking of this bill h said that the charge of murder and vio lence m tha couth was tho regular "rub a-dub-dub" of the Republican party whenever it was about to commit anything particularly wicked or mean. The Senator, by cis remarks, intended to cast a doubt upon the truth of these things; to imply that they were wicked inventions for political purposes. He seemed to deny the existence of tho Kuklux Klan, or secret organizations jjbouth. and he said that in the city ol New York thcro was, perhaps, a murder committed every day, and that was hot in a reconstructed otate. wen, lur. President, it may bo possible that, in a city which gives 50,000 Democratic majority like the city of New York, and xho kind of majority it gives, there may be a murder committed ev ery day; but that does not meet tho grave facts in reference to the (Southern States, as I . 6hall try to present them. The Senator from Ohio says that our reconstruction policy is a failure. deny that statement, it is not complete success, but it is great success; and I want to say to him and the whole coun'ry that if our reconstruction policy ia a failure it is because the

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if n fin n re- rvorv mine nus uutu V. Cl w,. d uono on uieir pari mat mum uu : to make it a failure? every obstacle ! has been cast in its way irom ursc to . hfcfe, and if it is a success it is a suc- ! cess in defiance of and in despite of And now, Mr. President, I come to the question, wha aro chiefly responsible for the innumerable murders and nanvlcss crimes that r.re continually taking place in many of the Southern -States? Who arc chiefly responsible? 1 answer that question by saying tho Democratic party ot tne North. Through their newspapers, through their conventions, through their teachings, through their inna enco upoa the people ot me oouiu. lave contributed more than all other nausea to brinz about tnis staio oi thing-u Why, Bir, tho platforms of the Democratic Conventions in the various Northern States all united in declaring that qur reconstruction acts were unconstitutional 'and void, acu by the most violent and inflammatory resolutions stimulated the Southern noocle to resistance. Not to go back beyond tue time oi tne passage in mo f . 1 . - L' A 1 first reconstruction moasurea. I will present a specimen of . the advice, of the instruction given to the southern rjooDla -bv the Democrauo party in their State Conventions ia the North. I have some seventeen or eighteen of them here, but I have net the time to read them all. I will, however, read two or three aa specimens. First, the Democratic State Convention ot In diana, in 18G8, passed thia resolution: . , Jicsaloed. That language is made quate to express our abhorrence and condemnation of the lladical reconstruction policy of Congress a poliey condemned bv over? consideration of iustice and constitutional obligation a Dolicv fraucht with the most alarniiog: apprehension' of .evil to ten States ot the Union ana ot cestruo tion to the Union itself a policy that largely increases taxation a policy that requires a: large standing army, whioh adds nearly, one i hundred mil lions of dollars ) annually to the ex penses of the; Government, 'while il bepuara the peoDle. i li s I now road a; resolution passed by the Democratic State Convention of Ohio, in 18G8: ' : - r . L That tha numerous palpable and hih-handed usurpations of tho party in power, their many publio and pnvato acts of tyranny, tramp ling under foot tba civil law and the guarantees of the Constitution; their continuing to deprive , sovereign States of representation in Congress, and to trovcrn said States by military rule, sbow.tbcm to bo the party of despotism and unworthy the conn denco and support of a free people . .,..., . , .1 will next read a resolution passed by the' Democratio State Convention of Now Hampshire in lfc&S; and these are fair specimens ot all their rcso litions: ...n . I i A. - ; ; That the Congressional plan of re construction, as confessed by its framers, wholly outside the Constitution, is a revolutionary , usurpation ;iaad that the attempt by Congress io es tablish the practical supremacy of tho neero race, is a most atrocious crime against tho principles of republican government and the ; civilization of the age,, and deserves, the severe and indignant denunciation of every true American citizen. . ,, - . ; , v , . "; " ., -: That is a fair expression of the' action of the. Djmocratic parly of tho North from tho timo that tho reconstruction measures were fijrst. passed up to this time ; and I have obIy to say that, if tho Southern people believo what their Northern friends say in regard to the unconstitutionality of. these acts and tho terrible oppression that they .are laboring under, the Southern people aro bound by every principal, human and divine, to resist the Government of the United States. I Mr. President, this whole policy culminated and was summed, up . in tho platform adopted by the D.jwmm craticnartv in V.;ul Convention in Maw orfc, in 1803, and I beg leava to read " from that platform. ,1 will not read the whole, of it, but-1 will read bo much as sbow3 1 its character. That ; platform ' declares, in ita ar ratgnment, of the, liepubUcan, party : Instead of restoring, the Union, it has. so far as in its power, dissolved it, and 'subjected ten States in time of profound peace, to mmtary despotism and negro supremacy. .And then further on. it eays: 'And that wo regard tho veeonstrue-tion-aota (so -called) Of Congress, as such, as usurpations, and unconstitu tional, revolutionary, and void Thin wH the 'declaration of the New York-Convention. ,.I will now refCT totho letter written' by Geicral Blair beforo th Convention met. and whioh gave Jhim the" nomination for the Vice Presidency upon the Demo cratio tieket. ' In hia letter ho said; ' The' reconstruction policy of the lwadicals will be complete before tho next election; tho States so excluded will have' been admitted, negro suffrage established,' and tho carpet baggers-installed it their seats 4o both' branches of Gongrcss.' There is no possibility of changing the political character of the Senate, even if the Democrats should elect their President and a majority cf the popular branch 'of Congress.' Wc ' can not therefore undo the Radical plan of reconstruction by Congressional action; the Senate wiU, continuo a bar to .its-repeal.- Must wo submit to it? Ho if can it" bo overthrown? It can only be overthrown by the authority of tho Kxecutive, who is. sworn to maintain the Constitution, and who will fail to do his .duty if he allows the Constitution to perish under a series of Congressional enactments, which are in palpable violation of its fundamental principles. , If the President elected by the Do raocracy enforces or permits others to enforce these reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by the accession of twenty spurious Senators and fifty Representatives, will control both branches of Congress, and .his administration will bo as powerless as the present one of Mr. Johnson. , :. ' . There id but one wav to restore the Government and the Constitutionand that is for tbo President elect to declare theso aets null and jf oid ; compel tha army to undo its usurpations at the South; disperse the carpet bag State Governments; allow the white people to reorganize.. their own Governments and elect Senators and Representatives. "?Tho House of Representatives will contain a majority of Democrats from the North, and they', will .'admit the Representatives elected bv th whlfn people of the South, and with th. opcration ot the President it will rnt. a ' PI K . l . ' Do aimouit to compel tho ecnata in submit once more to the obligations of the Constitution. It will cot be able to withatand the public judgment if distinctly invoked and clearlw expressed on this fundamental issue, and it is the sure way to avoid all future strife to put the issue plainly to the country.. He declared that if there was a Democratio President elected it

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these I new State governments at the point of the bayonet, to overturn by force and violence what had been done, to establish a revolution, and to restore, as he said, the white men to power. The canvass of 1SGS on tho part of the Democratic party was made upon a revolutionary basis. These docu ments are all incendiary. documents. They all sound like Mexican pronunciamcntos. They breathe the ferocity of a Spanish manifesto, lhe. party went into the canvass upon tne strength of that platform this letter and all these Stato platforms and now I call your attention to it. What was the result? I call your attention to tho practical results of this teaching upon tho part cf the Democratio party. Ihia instruction took root, it bore fruit sixty and a hundred fold, and it is now blossom ing for a fresh crop of murders and. nameless villainies. Whv. Mr. President, one of tho first results after tha Convention of the 4th of July, 1SU8, was the cxpul sion of tho colored men from the Georgia Legislature. Was the per formance ot that revolutionary act in exact accordance with the platform adopted in New' York? If I advise a man to go and kill my neignDor, and ; be proceeds from my presence and kills mv neighbor, am I not re sponsible before God and man? And when the Democratio party in the city of New York advised , Southern pconle to resistance and to revolu tion, and the hrst aet was to revolu tionize the Legislature of Georgia and expel the colored men from that bodv. was not the party in us Con vention responsible lor the'aot a3 if it had been present aiding and abettine? Democratic politicians pretended to be incredulous about the existence of secret societies in the Northern States during tho war.' Wo had a vile conspiracy, known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, in Indiana, established in looi, and under various names ana forms continued until loot. 1 was the Governor of the State at that time, and was watching its progress through the war, and was denouncing it upon tho stump and in every way, and yet the Democratio newspapers of Indiana solemnly asserted that my declarations, were false, and they charged from 1861 to 1801 that tho whole story of secret societies in Indiana and conspiracies was a wicked invention for political effect. Again we find tho same thing in regard to the Ivuklux or the fooutb. Gentle men profess to be incredulous; they do not believe a word of it. Tho Senator from Delaware (Mr,. Sauls bury) the other day eaid he hoped to live long enough on this earth to see a livtDK Kuklux. Well. Mr. rresi dent.I have here the ritual of the Ku klux Order. . It was dug up in the State of Tennessee daring some of the recent troubles they had down there. ' I should like to read one extract' from it. I will read tho titles of the offioers, which will give the ghostly and diabolical character of the society. .The officers of this shall oonist of o Grand Wizard of the Empire and his ten Genu; a grand Dragon of the Realm and his eight Hydras ; a Grand Titan oi tno uomimon and his six Furies; a Grand Giant of the Prov inco and his four Goblins; a Grand Cvclona of the Den and bis two Nicht hawks; n a Grand Magi; a Grand Monk; a Grand Exchequer; a Grand Turk. . .:- ' Theso titles aro intended to portray and do pretty well, the murderou3and diabolical character of this orj?amza tion. as I shall show hereafter. And now,' Mr. President,! call your attention to the fact, that while the war was progressing, and our prison erswero being starved and tortured and murdered in Libby and Salisbury and other prisons in tho South, the Democratio party of tho North were utterly incredulous upon that subject. Vvo could not make them believo it They professed to believe fb tic8C wrr ltiri;i iiKns lor tho purloso of J having political effect; but when the war was over and we went down. thcro and connted the craves alongside ot thoso rebel prison pons wc. found the visible physical evidenco ot tho truth ot all wo have said and more. Now, sir, talking about a living Kuklux, I havo had the fortune or the misiortune to see one ot them sinco tho progress -of this Georgia debate One of.therai has been in this city. and I believe is here now, a man o talents and education, who called upon me, to argue me out of my con yietions upon the Georgia question a man who, in dinercnt places in this city, declared himself to be a member Of tho Kuklux, organization andcloried in it., I prcsumo , he called upon many o'ther Senators. This Kuklux, openly avowed, has named his child, very properly, "John Wilkes Booth,'' the original Xvuklux. , t ' Tho ..Senator from Alabama('Mr Warner) presents . mo with . one of their letters, one of their warnings. with the: inscriptions and outlines. upon it for tbo purpose of conveying evidence pf their bloody intentions, , I now state what I shall attempt to prove, that tbero is an organized coa-! spiraey in all the Southern States for tbo purposo of breaking down the Re publican party or the Union party by deeds ot uiood and violence, by creatin? a reign of terror that shall induce Union men either to abandon: the country or to abandon their principles aud, purchase their peace and safety by silence; and that I say it with profound regret there, aro : men of position and character in the Democratic party in the South who connive at this conspiracy, conceal it where they can palliato its crimes, and in all cases protect the members of it from punishment. Not- one of them has been brought to punishment throughout the South. Notwithstanding they are covered with blood and crime as ho other organization has ever been. yet their friends are so numerous and strong that not one of has Been brought to punishment. The Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) has just presented a letter to me, sent to him from tho other House, with the name cut out. it would not do to give the . nanio of anyone who writes a letter on thia subject. It would undoubtedly for feit his hie. I should like to h this letter read, bnt I have not the time. I havo hundreds of them here, which have been received within the past four or five weeks by members of Congress. I can but refer to them. Mr. l'jdmunds Can you irivoua the name of the member of the Kuklux to whom you refer? .It would bo safe to let us have his name. Mr Morton I can. I will eivc it to the Senator. I do not care about mentionicg it here, but I can giye the Senator the name of the Kuklax. JUr. xjdmunds 1 do not doubt your statement., I only wish to know the name. '- . Mr. Morton He is well known to many gentlemen on this floor. Mr. Edmunds Ho "ought to be publicly known. Mr. 5lorton Perhaps that is true; tut I am not here in the character of an informer. ,1 state the fact. Mr. Casscrly If the Senator from

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that this extraordinary person, of whom he has (pokcD, has calied upon a single member of tho opposition, and I trust the Senator will mention his name if ho knows it.' - Mr. Morton That is Derbies true. When the Senator says he has not called on him, that establishes tho fact with mo. lie has called, probably, cn Republicans. I know he las caned upon me, and I .know he has called upon others here. . Mr. Casserlv If the Senator will ' allow me, I do not doubt that a person called on the Senator who so rep..11- l n reseuceri nimseir. Mr. Morton He did not so repre sent himself to me. Ho would not havo talked to me for a moment if he had. Mr. Casserlv I am only surprised mat some gentlemen ot the iicPr.Wi;"i can pariy among wnom nc na3 caiiea have not taken steps to hand not taken steps to hand him over to the proper authorities lor punishment. " t'j;, '1 ; . iIr. Morton Thev could prove that he belongs to this order by his own confession, but they might not be able to prove hia crimes. : Mr.Casserly If he states so, that is protty good evidence. ' Mr. Morton I think it 13 good evi dence. ' ; ' ' t Sir, this organization i3 indeed k a league with hell and a covenant with the devil. ' It is the fermentatioo of the very dregs and settlings of the war into a vile miasma to poison and corrupt the whole moral and political atmosphero ot these southern btates. Now, Mr- President.' I do not say that all the Southern Democrats are Kuklux; far from it; but I do say. from the evidence, that all tho Ku klux are Democrats; that it 13 an or ganization inside , of the Democratio party in the Southern atatcs; working for its benefit; its labor accepted. and its members protected from pun jshment. -. Ihat .11? my proposition. Why. sir. we bad the Kuklux partially justified upon this floor. It was said the other day that the Kuklux orgim zatlon was tho natural result' or our reconstruction laws. It was said the other day, in-justification of them, that . human--nature : could - not bo crushed without rising np,' The deo laration was made here, in our hear' iog, that our reconstruction laws are bo tyrranical, so unconstitutional and oppressive, that they crushed human nature, and that they result, natural ly. in . the rising up of. this most bloody and villainous organization. Sir, the Democratio politicians of the South may not enter thia order; they know of its existence, and they are willing to receive tho benefit of its operation in driving Republicans out of tho State, in banishing them from their midst -.- . s Tho Kuklux organization, as have reason to believe, first started io the . State of Tennessee, and ' I will hero refer to a report that was made by the Freedmen'a Bureau: in 1803: At tho close of the year 18G7 the organization of the 6ecrct BOciety known aa the Kuklux Klan took place. ' General Carlin, Assistant Commissioner, early called the atten tion of the Governor of the State and the military authorities to the danger of permitting this society to continue its ODerations. I he number ot out rages perpetrated by this band, or by desperadoes apparently belonging to it. has been very great. I ho intimida tion of the colored men seemed to be its only object, to effect which colored men are frequently taken from their bods at night and flogged unmerci fully, and occasionally killed. Theso outrages, and occasional efforts of the colored men to resist them, have giv cn to several counties the character of lawless and disorderly communi ties. Since tho assembling of the Legislature the fear that the militia would be.called out to preserve the nnncB of thft S.ita h.ns hid i cl effect in restoring ,ais od for a few nntiispMttbo number of outrages has greatly decreased. ; i.Now, iur. x resident, a present, in connection with that - a memorial presented by a joint' committee of the Legislature of Tennesseo to Presi dent Johnson, from which I will read an extract. I refer to it to show the establishment of this order in full forco early in 18t8: That t., ere is such aa' Organization as tho '.'Kuklux Klan", is now beyond question or perad venture. J n a rc cent publication made by. authority: or with the assent of a general officer or tho so-called Confederate States, it is stated tnattnere are lorty thousand merobeid ot this association in Ten nessee, -- .; -'i - ; w.. As to the object and purposes of tho organization, they can . only bo known by their acts and Bayings while in their masss and ghostly uniforms While thus engaged, they take out citizens and kill themr some by hang ing, some, by shooting, andTsome by the slower : and more barbarous plan of whipping; while others are wbm pod, not until death, but severely and difgracefully. ; ,In . somo parts of tho State they arc traveling at night as often as twiea a week, and visiting tho houses-of. Uaioa-men and hcderal soldiers, some of - whom . they kill, others they whip and jorder :from the country on pain of being killed if they do not leave, while others are ordered away under promise-of violence if they remain after thus being ordered to depart; this is carried on by greater or leas numbers, according as tho ob jects to be effected on tuc rarliealar night are ot greater or less magnitude. They rarely appear ia their masks and uniforms in daylight.- It is in the night, when they .mostly, travel and crpetrato their acts of violence. and loodshed- lhe most peaceable- or derly, quiet and we may say even the most, exemplary members of .: tho cbureh are notexemptfrom their mid night visits, and are objects of their personal violence. , - instances are known where tho most orderly and pious men of a neighborhood have been .waked Irom their slumbers and beaten by them for no other reason than their political sentiments.. Mur ders aro common, particularly among the colored people, against whom the Klan seem to have-peculiar and mortal hatred. Many colored people have been whipped, some of them badly, and some until they have died from its effects, and many of them have been murdered for no other rea1 IT it . . son or ouense man tueir political opinions and sentiments. Many col ored people who had hired for the year, or engaged to work for a portion ot the crop, uave Deen compelled to eave their homes for iLeir personal safety and ny for their lives, leaving their employers or their crops: and unless something ia done for their rcief they can not go home, and will. of course, loose their earnings, with tarvation in the gloomy future for themselves 8nd families. . w Many of them declare that the State jyavcrnment of Tennessee is illezal. and they have legally a right to resist and even to overturn it. I bis is not confined to the masses, but finds advo catcs in distinguished men, high in the estimation of those forming the late so calied Confederate States government. Resistance to tho government of Tennessee, and tho laws

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war, is, in the opinion of tho committee, as criminal as to attempt to overthrow or resist tbo government and laws of tho State of New York, or auy other State of the Union. ' 1 call the 'attention of tho Senate to the declaration on tho part of this committee that tho Kuklux of Tennessee were taking "the ground that the State government of Tennessee wa3 illegal and unauthorized, and they had a right to overturn it ; and that that was the instruction mat tney received from Democratio conventions in tho North.' I will now read an extract from the report of the joint committed of the Legislature of Tennessee: Your committeo regret, that tbo limited timo at their disposal has I prevented them from giving to the b!ect matter rcfCrred tubject matter rcierreu to tuem a more complete and thorough examin " rtmif ation. The murders- and outrages which have been perpetrated in many counties of Middle and West len-. nessce, during tho past few months, have been so numerous and of such an aggravated character os almost baffles investigation .In these coun ties a reien of terror exists, which is so absolute in its nature that the best of citizens are unable or unwilling to Eive free expression to their opinions. The terror inspired by the secret or ganization known as the Kuklux Klan is so great that tho officers of the law are powerless to ex ecute its provisions, to discharge their ' duties, or to bring, the guilty perpetrators Of these outrages to the punishment' they deserve. Their stealthy movements are generally made under cover of nighty and under masks and "disguises, which render their identification difficult, if not impossible. To add to the secrecy which envelopes their operations is the fact that no information of their murderous aots can be obtained with out the greatest difficulty and daoger in tho localities where they are com mitted. 'No ono dares to inform upon them or take any measures to bring them to punishment; because no ono can tell but that he may be the next victim of their hostility or animosity I be; members' of this organization. -withttbeir friends', aider and nbet tors, take especial pains to conceal all Ann;. 'PL- : MiVIl KjyVl ftUUUO. AUG U4UV1U JI1Uciplo by which they. are actuated would, appear to be hostility to the State and national authorities; and in the minds ot these ' men to have voted for Brownlow," or tho '! ltepublieaa tickft-."ror to I be a "Radical," is the greatest of crimes. Your committee believe , that, during the past six months, tbo murders, to say nothing of other outrages, would average one a day or one for every .twenty-four hours; that in the. great majority of these cases they have been porpatrated by the Kuklux above referred to; and fcw if any, havo been brought to punishment, A number! of the counties of thia State are entirely at the mercy of this . organization,' and . roving ' bands of nightly marauders' bid defiance to. the civil authorities, and threaten ta drivo oat every man,, white or black, who does not submit to their;' arbitrary dictation. To add to tho general lawless pees of theso communities,, bad men of every description take advantage of the circumstances surrounding them, and perpetrate acts of violence, from personal or pecuniary motives, under tho plea of political necessity. s - CONCLUDED TO-MORROW. ' GRQCB&IBS. CHARLES VIELE & CO.. it 'koj.i-xa.me: O 12 0:C fi3 lt KoirruwKNr 'ou.i:n nrzi aud Sycamore Streets, KVAMMV1LL.K, IWA. au'J dtf iAVin ii mm, mm. i. 5i i;:u'EJMAjKw,'-:i Wliulosale Dealers In - l: R O O K IX I E S, Foreign and Domestic IAquori, . ' HAJ1VJ, WrKim YARNS, ULABSWAKif : . . O.O., AO., - , -t :..' : i '. "PIBST 1 STBEET. ' ; . : ; Uf-iTIONALfJlLOCJC,)- 6 J " '. '. i V 4. VAK8VlUt,. 1KB.. ' l s-4:; "FISH DEFOT. k -. ' i . 1 ovw dir . ; :il A T Til EW DALZKLL, AVholoKale Dealer ta QroctiriG3, KiiLj, ;WMte Lead, ldm :'o.''18 'fTater Street.-.".'." ' Irt.-lnrllv Rviwmi.t.. i n. Public Sale. .... ftJOTICJB IN 11EKX1IY CJIVES, that X tbe UDdersigne.! will otlur for sule. at uiin auction, s ine uoor or the Court iuh. in tne city or h.rannviire. on , . SATURDAY. MAY 7th. 1K7(I. : i Tho following described real estate.' kiln ate In Yacderbarga County, Indiana, lowlt: Lot Ko. elrht (S). and tbe adlolnlns one. nan oi i. iso. nine iilocK.eiK'it (3), r.nhiern xiDiarKementui tue eity oi c.vansyiHo. ' TV- . -i : . : The said rjremi.ses are situated on Oak Street, between Third and Fourth 8treet, wltn cellar, cistern, el able, &c., and telnu that part of the real, estate of Jouepa Wark. deceased, ordered to be sold by tbe terms of his last will and testament. Bale to commence al two o'clock l'. v. Terms ot sale One-third cash, the resi due la one and two years, tbe purchasers giving sotes, secured by mortgage ou the premises, witn ten per cent, interest, and waiving relief fiom valnatlon or appraisement las. . , Til 03. WARIC, apzdlw . Kxecutor. (Demokrat please copy. CHILDREN'S CABBIACES. A laree stock of Cini,nREVs i. HIAUI.N at ereatly reduced prices. Home new styles, rar.alna In' price from S3 tn 80 each. Coma and see before burln elsewhere. : VICKEBY HRO'S, apia 73 and 7o Main Btreet.. FAU3I Deautliui. weU-lmproved hiraT: KW acres, aJ beaming apple trees (choioi Irull), three rolles wess ot ElUabethtawu Illinois. Can be had at atiarusin bveuii! iuiiou WAKUEN MA'TTIfsON, AUor ueys. Third Btieot. between Main am r,.

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Dr. Jas. C. Blcrbower, 1 Between ifain and Locust, Return his tbftrjts for the liberal pat;ojik) received daring the pawt ovo ytsaie, aud tio;ii by air dealing to nt'iil a contlmiHnce of the aaiuu. Chloroform administered wiiaii (laired. - foc2S dly 1 i ii.iiii ii iiiw imi a Tn C5 O . C5 , & 27 I.ocusl Street. OHborno, . SIGN PAINTER. OHlor,jno,N Show Oiirtls. Jnnl'idtf - JOHN IL SCOTT, Kt okel I ev9H t u ti cm r s k w h i k a l i; n; So. M JiAl.V STB2T, cor., Second, auiidly ' EVAKSVU.!.. Isu. Wholesale" Boofcsellara A Statloaera. SCHOOL HOOKS. . llhANK, IWOKi-i, . .. MISCELLAMtiOVS :iOOA, ' '"''. , .'' " . ' " ; , i 'No. tMnIn 8ti'Mut, lv9lr NOTIONS. ETC. Cleisi mt, W Ii it CTo. WUOLUSALK DRY GOODS and NOTIONS . -1- - 23 mid U FIUST HT., WVANWVrr.T.P!. TNI. i iitsxjkancie:. . ' NEXSEIM & BAKER, cJeneral Insnranca Agents, - xxa. ... . '' " ADJUSTERS OF LOSSES, Ko. 10 ''Main street, Up-Sta!rs, : . i . KVAN8VILLK, INU. Uwelllnx Houses Insured for a term of i you in at greatl r.duood ?aLi. , Three Yean at the Price cf Two, Five Yeart at the lice of; 2'Aroe, Life In.urunce u. Neclulty; t ."i . i. ' ' ! ! ..Total Cash Afwets Kenreiiented - ' Qt or Tweaty-Soyen Million Dollars ' Tha following ar tmotg tbs Companies !XTNA Inaurance Co. of Hartford. Conn. ChkIi Aa-et g3,ttOO,(40. PIKF.MX Ina Co. of ilarlford, Cona. Ciwdl AmioLh .........Vl.OO.UOO. COXTISfENTAI' tnaCo. of New York. ,H...;.M,S30,00d AMKHK'AN IriHUrance Coo. - ' Hartford, Conn. Cash AeU ...... 500.O0O. MERCHANTH'IniCo. of Hartford, Ot. ' NOaxjI ASlEKfCASf laaurau Co. of ' Caan AweU 8SOO,00Q. IMKEXIX Ius. Co. of Brooklyn n. Y. CatsU AW)U..m.,,..m.. H..il,SOO OOP. TOJIIiritS N. YORK Tire Ina. Co. C'atU ABt,eU.......w.............VU0(,OOU.OO 3?TNA LIVE lna. Co. Of Hartford, Conn. Ca.uAa.eU ..-...13,OOU,OOi. ; NEXSEN & BAKER, Agents, ' 10 MAI STRKiCT, Evansvllle, Ind. Jan30 dly ! CAUMODY & NELSON, FIpKsts'1 and jursyryman,; 'xiiii: Global gem: JiUt'VMT NTRKKr, lieu Becond and Third. Garden and UreenhotiKe on Oakley AvoUe, adj. rt.Ulfeiice of Wru. JJ eilman. Udr Dcsurljiiive Catalogue of Plants, Flowers, Trees, Meeds, Flowering liulbH. Horticultural and Ornamental Cioodx. 4c. cun be had on application,' and will be sent free to all wliu will Head us their ad dress.- Addrefcg , CAKMODY A NELSON. tf 2 c!3m ' KvnHKvi;ie. Ind. DR. I.-iL-Vs5 ( - Over rtr.1 National Bank. . . Corner Main and Flrit Street., . ; to 1..: JCvwvUie, Jnu; eus Ulim Work. Uuid. Silver Vnl. canlte, Coral ite, and Amber i'laU. Ca.-veo ADMIN ISTltATOK of Nitrous' Oxui. (an excellent and safe anaesthetic), Cnii reform, Kther, and also several local nan ' lyjtera. 7: ,, j v .-. , ' NKnKALaiCAireetious treated. - ' Y1AL,1L1T11'J are as Kood and m establishment as-large (oonalbtlni: of i ' rooms) aa any in the Uultud HUUs. I RB.TDK5J UY THAN KB for the e. erecelvaa during tn.pa. ARCHITECTS. O A. JLL JU. UOBXHT BOYD. BOYD I WOOD OOD. ' & vv AROH I TEOTS, 'No. 1 Chandler's IJlock, Comer Kir -t and lAcnst Htreeis. , , . , EVANSVlLiii, TNli Plans am' Speclflcitions prepared on short nolle and reasonable terms lanlSutf . . , . - EVANSVILLE GROCERY, No. l30 "Ulll Htroot, lias .as on hand, aud Is eonfttantly reelvlnif a Lamps butter. maul, r.Kirs. &c. A. i.i.,. b., Ac., for .ale low. To Contractors "and BnildaiN First Cuality Iluiiai Kaiia at Teasonab.e ratesGOOD WOOD Constantly on hand Also, one new frame dwelling f,, -n linker Aveniu., between hJJmu llDg, ilUhtto Ktreets, at a K,eat b "re2ealU aud on Kl:l

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L. HOWKS. J, AMcx. wooj.ni; HOWES 2c VVOOLDRlOGE COTTCH PACTCSn, i'i"ii ci: AM ; '283 l'It(.T fiTi:i:!;T, 1 MKM1MIIH, Tl-.NN. UlMTal p l'rcwiaoe. tasij Ad ancos on Cotton nu,l i'UU (Vim HOWARD a PRESTO Coin mission ln'WiH IJOWUNA. tttlS lO.X IlltUt. WILL 31 A H H cafch advance ipoa consignments of PORK,-CORN, F LOU li, TORACCO, Aa. &C, to th above hoiwe, aud als;o fui ulHli gnnnles to Bblppera. nov2dtf SAMUEL h. ken:idy. juj.ius vaijun , l-AUJU .. MOHTIM Kit. 1 S. ir.'Kls.VNEUY C: CO., 1011 ' HJ AI.K (V FJonr. Provisions, CcrD, 7h!.v And VVeatfcru i'rodnco gt-nerally, " 53 nod 57 1'OTIHtAN NTIIKKT. . NfcWWU.U.Ni,lA. ., Oonaifcnmentd B'lllcltod, and U,il catlvancDH made on shlpi-hh ti tno abuvu house, ly W. W. AKi oc21 dKitt EvAsyyiLLK, 1 h J FOSTE E & GWYN, COMMISSION HERCHAIT3, or ii ag axis s: utiuzht, ... ,.. 2MW ORLEANS. sY.i . AniiMittN v.wrrx r . 14'iMwoi'roktce. ii Consign menta ot Klonr, Corn, Porte IllOO NOllCitftd. and all klndH of fcKtern l'roduen hi Lluoral chmu advanirf nindo on all n.Mp. ruentfl, either for ale lu New Orleans or antpinent to New. York. ! lOSTEK, GWYN & CO., CoinmiHlon Sl.iT-rIi.iitM 41 wa'ikh niki;i:t, novl-dJru NEW YOKIC. B. K. DtrnKKiincN J. K. uakkis." II. K. DUimSKSON A CO. Forwarding & CommiK'iioi. " j . t Mcrclinntn, . AND U E N 12 H A Li A U K N t4 . V FAST FREIGHT LINE, ' OVKH Til X TICK UK 1IAITK i I.VDIAXAFOI IS " Lute saomc .s ki:ik lailkoad ; FVAKSV1LLE, IND. " iJbnral CMh advances InontH. . , ma o-i conn!; a- ; in ' i i f DUSODCliLT & tiiLBEUT, OtNKHAL commission ji ?:j:c;.inx. Wo. 81 roydrits fclcc?, Orders and conn! z JySdtf Phelps, McJulloch & ' FKODUCF, FJIOY2XIOIJ, 1 Ahl OKlfMAL muv nil Mir.v r . ---- V--1-.J t: ANN. vvm. .w.'uaoww uy., Forwarding and Coiaiaissioa . WHARFE0A1 PK0PKIET0R8, Railroad and Fast AjcDla, EVANNVILLK, liVIi. JanU dly Zm M. BAIU1......., U pi 13 1 .4 ii r frerwardini iitii i 'n.V... ,....;.' -! cuanta, KvansviTle liuJl nn , .Mt ' U. Whaler. t'rZu't ' I1?'1'.'?: . ltHt V& i.-,; audHam'i Orr. vio-i PrZii-i, .,t,.'a NatlonalEank!. sldont Kvvtj,, ro' Mason City Bait Co. il-i WM"1 "INI, V U are on KiTwT At it i' v lro"!t that w r l,ti!ov. HtlOll. KM . FLOIIlf. h-. J' se them. ' iihrtiu,! .... 1 V .- K. -O. fl. I. AI.1AH KECTIFlKim. and WholJ ..' U(iU0E3,'L0lli:,'&: Fin ST JSTXjr 0aoorbelowvintoL.1J.)tii Jajjldtf. vaiwvilh, j . A. S. UYHUItSr, PROOVVK, coxxim uu - WARDING MKZVZAXT. No. ... ..m,v.......,-;(jntlj M'aLttr Hi Dealer In Mid Ouunlry I'rouaoeT "y.vl. Oct; , r li.,... ii .. .. . S. M. BARTON, Cr:niulsHlon Jio rohunt, Wo. 85 Webt Kt:coad Street, CINCINNAfi, Liberal advao.iea mad a on connl-nmiinu M. UUMHIREY, OKO. J. I.KWIS KEIiXEY.

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