The Nation's Peril.: Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation.Anonymous
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The Nation's Peril.: Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation.
Anonymous
Campaign literature, 1872 -- Republican; Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
The data upon which this truthful narration of the murder of Brinton
Porter is founded, is a matter of record in the archives of the
Government. The facts can neither be gainsaid nor palliated. It is to be
hoped that the firm policy of the present administration may bring the
people of the community in which Porter lived to such a sense of the great
injustice done among them, that they will rally to aid the Government, in
bursting the bands thrown about them by the subtletry of their own
unprincipled leaders, and stand shoulder to shoulder with those who are
doing all that human wisdom can devise to restore order and harmony, and
promote prosperity and happiness among the people.
EXTERMINATING THE NEGRO RACE.
_Fiendish Designs of the Ku Klux of Wilkinson County._
THE EMASCULATION OF HENRY LOWTHER.
In some parts of Wilkinson County, there seemed to be a disposition to
destroy every member of the colored race who should be found voting the
radical ticket.
It was contended that scourgings and general maltreatment had not produced
satisfactory results; and, on the other hand, blood was accumulating on
the heads of the Klan, too fast even for their blunted consciences. Still
the war must go on in some way, and something must be done to destroy the
little leaven that bid fair to "leaven the whole lump." The subject was
discussed in the conclave of the Camp, and it was finally decided that a
more effectual way could be devised to accomplish the extermination of the
colored race than either by whipping or murder. This was the fiendish
resolve to castrate every negro who was guilty of radical proclivities,
and who voted the radical ticket, a design worthy alone of the men who
originated it.
In that county, and at that particular time, there were many colored men
known as Republicans; and an opportunity was speedily afforded the Klan,
to carry out this terrible species of cruelty; a greater crime against
nature than all the others since it looked to the entire destruction of
the species.
There had been, for sometime previous to September, 1871, a colored man in
Wilkinson County, by the name of Henry Lowther. This person was favorably
known among the negroes of the county, and expended a good deal of his
leisure time in going from place to place, and talking Republican
sentiments to members of his race, and urging them to vote the Republican
ticket, as the only means of maintaining their right to freedom.
Previous to the dreadful visitation which subsequently came upon him, he
had voted the Republican ticket upon two occasions, and had expressed his
intentions to continue on in his political course in the future.
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