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)
"We've got the right thing now to fix all the niggers and Yankees with
that don't go as we want them to; we don't care a d---- for the general
government. It can go to ----, where it ought to. They may pass an hundred
more Ku Klux bills, and it won't do them a bit of good. The Ku Klux are
resting just now; but they are not asleep. They have got the niggers and
radicals in pretty good train, so they don't dare say anything. All we
want is a Democratic President, and that must come sure the next election,
and then we can run things to suit ourselves."
If Mr. Moore ever sees this faithful transcript of his disloyal speech,
delivered upon his own plantation, on the 12th of September, 1871, he may
begin to get some idea that the farm hands by whom he was surrounded were
not all as badly poisoned with hatred to the radicals as he was, and that
one of them at least had the temerity to treasure up and repeat the above
conversation. It is here produced as an evidence of the sentiments that
pervaded the minds of the leaders; and to set all doubt at rest as to its
authenticity, it may be added that it is a matter of record, to be seen
and read of all men.
OUTRAGE UPON PERSONS IN TEXAS.
As an evidence that neither color or nationality formed any protection
against the evil machinations of the Ku Klux Klan, the case of Henry
Kaufmann, a well-to-do German residing in Bell County, Texas, may be
cited.
Kaufmann had come to this country after the war of the Rebellion, and,
having some means and an extensive knowledge as a stock raiser, made his
way South, finally locating in Texas, as the place best adapted for the
business of raising stock, which was one he intended to pursue. His family
consisted of his wife and two children, a boy and girl, aged respectively
nine and eleven years.
Texas at this time was the scene of many outrages, but the good-natured
German was for a long time unable to comprehend their significance. Like
most of his countrymen, he entertained republican sentiments; they were
the sentiments of his heart, while at home, in the land of his fathers,
and he had supposed, that in America, the asylum of the oppressed of all
nations, he would find them in all their purity, upheld and expressed
without fear, and honored by all.
In this respect, he was doomed to bitter disappointment. The nearest
neighbor to Kaufmann, was a man named McPherson, originally from the
North, but who had for some years resided in Texas, and was a
thorough-going Unionist. He did not hesitate, even among all the tumult
and disorder, by which he was surrounded, to express his union sentiments,
and had been repeatedly warned by the Ku Klux that he must change his
course.
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