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s&’ttMg gjUro #ra. ATLANTA,«E0E0Li7Ai>KlL28^1870. THE SOUTH. Speech of Senator Horton Against the Bingham Amendment HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL, TROUBLES OF GEORGIA. All the Members of the Ku-Klux Klan Democrats. An Organized Conspiracy to Defeat the i Party hy Force. with remarkable hospitality, mud the reating them would aay, “All these states about rebel outrages are falie; the men who hare been punished are scalawags; they am Unarm; but gentlemen like yon, gentlemen of high position in the depublican party ooming to the South aro received as yon an; we hare no ob- jeettar wtotoolr to n^nhWiwhs as roch; but tis only the theirea and the scalawags that hare been riaited with punishment." But, Hr. President, it turns out thst etery prominent Republican in Georgia who stands fast by the GoTenunentiseoramdwiththerilsst Jsndem. Every invention that devilish ingenuity can put afloat is started in regard to those men; and whenever a man is murdered down there they seek to palliate the orirse by covering his name with the vilest slanders. I can appeal to .very Southern Senator hem today far the troth of what I say; and I am very “ FRANTIC EFFORTS OF THE EX-REBELS TO CET RID OF COV. BULLOCK. it Hesitate or Go Backward When Beeooatrnetlon Is Almost Completed. Frau the WaaUoctao Chronicle. 18th.] As the moment for deciding the fate of Georgia by the vote to be taken in Ufa Senate on the bill to admit that State approaches, all that relates to this vitally important question will doubtless be mad with intense interest The debate in the Senate on Thursday and Friday last developed so much valuable infor mation in relation to Georgia and the recon structed States that we have ooncluded to pre sent it to our readers in a comprehensive farm. The following speech, by Senator O. P. Mor ion, of Indiana, delivered in the Senate on 'Atunday, faithfully presents the merits of this great question, and deserves a careful and tbonahtfal perusal: Ur. President, this is the anniversary of the OMWieinatian of Hr. linooln. Five yearn ago to-day be fell by the hands of an asnamnn, per haps the original Kn-klnx, whose evil example is now being imitated in various States In the South, producing a condition of things whieh imperatively demands the consideration of the Senate and the oountry. But, Hr. President, there are some preliminary matters which I must find dispose of before proceeding to the discussion of the mein subject The main issue upon the Georgia bill now ill'what is called Ufa Bingham amendment— a provision, the principal feature of which is to require that the election for members of the Legislature in Georgia shall take place this coming fitIL The other provisions in the hill were contained in the bills for the admis sion of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, end I had supposed were not racily iu discussion until the distinguished Senator from Wiscon sin (Ha Carpenter) tbs other day abase argue the question all over. This Bingham amendment requiring an election next fill], is favored upon several grounds, which are in direct conflict with each other. The find ground is that the Georgia Constitution requires that the election shall take {dace next taiL Those who support toe amendment upon that ground seem to be un conscious that they are advocating a power in Congress more dangerous to whet are called State rights than those who claim to support the other provisions of toe bill under what is called the guarantee clause. They assume that Congress has s right in advance to give a construction to the Constitution of a State, and to provide in advance that the Legisla ture of a State, alter it shall have been ad mitted, after the Stats Government shall be in full operation, shall not do a particular act This position assumes, on the part of Con gress, a supreme judicial character to construe in advance a Shde Constitution, and to pro vide by law that the State Government, after the full admission of the State, shall not give tluit Constitution a different construction. I am somewhat surprised that toe leaders of the Democratic party sustain this constitution al position. Inasmuch as It IS more destructive to State rights than any other; but it only proves that the ultra advocates of State rights arc willing to tolerate an aggression on the jwrt of Congress when thst aggression threat ens to he in favor of the Democratic party in stead of being in favor of toe Union party. Now, Mr. Ihesident, there are those who as sume that under the Georgia Constitution the Legislature has a right to put off the election one, two, or three years, and that in conse quence of that, it is the duty, and Congress has toe power to interfere to prevent the Leg islature of Georgia from exercising a power which the; concede it possesses; but they in volve themselves in this contradiction; they insist that Congress has the power to overrule the Constitution of Goorci* so far as to require the election to be belu next tail, and thnw promptly put the State into the hands of the rebels, but has no power to require an election to be held two years beoce, to give a loyal Hfatc Government in the meantime the power to reorganize and regenerate the Rtate, and secure protection to toe loyal men of that State. I will not, upon this occasion, go over the argument I have made heretofore on the Geor gia question. I have argued heretofore that there was no legal Legislature until the ent one was organized in toe month of Janua ry last, and that, consequently, the legislative term began from the time of the first legal or ganization, and toe members had two years from that time. I have signed farther, that whether this was so or not, Congress in the ex ercise of its supreme power of reconstruction had the right, u view of the public necessities, nr of general convenience, to fix toe time when the term of the State officers should begin, or, in other muds, to fix the date when the new State government should take its start. I want to say right here that the Bingham amendment, so-called, (and it bean the name ■■fa distinguished and honored Republican, hut that does not change its character), is in the interest of the Democratic party, is against toe interest of tbs Union party in the Sooth and throughout toe oountry, and that it is so universally understood by toe Union men in Georgia and by toe rebels in Gaoraia. The Dcmoeratia party in the entire South, and so far as I know in the entire oountry, support Bingham unanimously. The Republican party in Geatwia, otherwise celled the Union party, the loyal party, oppose the Bingham amendment unanimously. I be lieve toe entire Republican party of the South, who understand Ufa situation better than we do in the North, oppose the Bingham amend ment It may be said this is not a very good argu ment I think there is something in it I think it is worth a good many of the fine drawn, very technical, constitutional scruples that have been brought forward in this case; and I most say that those fine constitutional scruples, somewhat remarkably and unfortu nately, all result in favor at toe Den party of toe South,- and against toe Union men of the Sooth. In a doubtfhl question, if there were doubts hanging around it, those doubts ought to be resolved in favor of the unanimous opinion of toe Union party of toe South. Mr. President, there have been two or three men here from Georgia claiming to be Repub licans, who have been favoring and engineer ing what is called the Bingham amendment; bnt upon investigation I find that no) one of them » in harmony with the Republican party of toe South, but every one of them is acting in conceit with the Democratic party of the South. Then w» have bad soma letters, and we have bad some teetimouy referred to by one Senator on the other side, to the effect that there was peace sod good fading down there. Uen. Thomas, in hie dispatch from Tsmwwsn, explains thst when he says tost some mm have gone there fines the North who, for the purpose of purchasing social position, for the purpose of purchasing peace and quiet, have consented to surrender their principles, and have given what may be regarded as tabs testi mony, and otherwise have abandoned toe en tire loyal and Union party of the South. Mr. President, the Union men Of Georgia have been, as I regard it, grossly slandered ai|d abased. Every sort of statement has I teen made against Governor BuBoek and against Foster Blodgett and against marry others. I want to slate one thing farther, that some of our Republicans who have gone South have been misled by the testimony they received down there sad the treatment they received. Pruninet gentlemen of the Repub lican party hawagone South, and have been met by toe rabeneadera with their carriage at the depot, they been dined and wined, and Union men of Georgia, against toe have stood up there through danger and ■ ■ mid assault, find Bepubli- • a • • • I want to say, in reference to the argument of toe Senator from Wisconsin, (Mr. Carpen ter,) sad tost of some others, in inimoAlw with what was said by toe Senator from Ore- ) yesterday, that if Con- tha newer to sav that on election __ placeSoeiagfaSxt fall, it has the to say that it shall not take plane for two years. Thera can be and has been no dis tinction made] and to require it to take piece next fall is simply to provide for potting the State promptly into toe hands of the retell. To provide that it shall take place two years oe, is to provide for the benefit of the loyal t of that State, giving the State government two years' time m which to operate and she provision far the protection of toe loyal I am willing, and I think that is toe better plan, far Coagreae to strike out the Bingham amendment and stop three. Be silent Leave to the Ligliilstnre and the courts of Georgia the construction of their Constitution. But if gentlemen are not wilting to do that; if they oast that Congress shall intervene, I beg of them, I implore them in the name of human ity, that tots intervention shall be in behalf of The reconstruction policy of the Radical* win be com- plctebcfore the next election; the State* *o excluded will have been admitted, negro suffrage established, and the MgteMMAdtatlMtrantolabothbtaiichM SSJSSSSSSS& mm and ^majority of the HBUion by Congressional ; the Senate will continue a bar to its repeal, we submit to it? How can it be overthrown ? only be overthrown by the authority of the Ex- C. Who is sworn to maintain tho Constitution, kho will fail to do his duty if he allows Iconatitution to perish under a scries of which are in palpable viola- rtftlmPresidcntclccSn>y the Democracy enforces Wk permits others to emfaroe these reconstruction acts, the Radicals. by the accession of twenty spurious Sen ators and fifty Representatives, will control both branches of Congress, and his administration will be declare these.acts null sad void; compel the army to — at the South; disperse the carpet- its; allow the white people to ro tten of its t not of disloyally; that it shall be which will give protection to the loyal men, end will not deliver them over bound hand and foot into the bands of their of God intervene on the rigbtride. Do not intervene in behalf of your enemies. Mr. President, we ham.had a great deal of law preesnted to the issofas of Ibedfaensrion these various WB*-,- v(e Jt»ve had a greet deal of nice legal learning; bat what we need in iljsaOssInas aagntasHstm the aolid law-in their breadth, and depth, "and grandeur, . not' the technical learning of law. Technicalities of the law ore the mere husks and shells that should be care fully screened out to all eminent. The celebrated firm of mou & Snap, who did such a fine business upon the technicalities of toe law fifty years ago, are not doing nearly so well now. The Courts have been greatly improved in this re spect, and I trust that that style of learning will not be introduced into the Congress of the United States in disenasions of great questions which albet the Uvea and fortunes of thousands and hundreds of thousands. A ease lawyer iu court, instead of reasoning up on the principles of toe lew is always looking back, alter an old ease, and it sometimes hap- in politics tost statesmen instead of con ing toe situation before them and seeing what is required ore loooking back for a rusty precodent to find what somebody else has said under other circumstances, and in different times. Mr. President, it is sod, in a time like this, to be met by a plea in abatement, or by a apodal demurrer, to be compelled to chop e and split hairs with our friends, come now, Hr. President, to the main sub ject, and I refer here to same remarks mode by toe Senator from Ohio (Hr. Thurman) a few days ago. In speaking of this bill he said that toe charge of murder and violence in toe South was the regular “ rub-a-dub-dub " of the party whenever it was about to commit anything particularly wicked or mean. The Senator, by his remarks, intended to cast a doubt upon the truth of these things; to im ply that they were wicked inventions for polit ical paiposes. Ho seemed to deny too existence of the Kn Klax Klan, or secret organizations in toe South, and he said that in the city of New York there was perhaps a murder committed every day, and that was not in a reconstructed State. Well. Mr. President, it may be possi ble that iu a city which gives 50,000 Demo cratic majority like too city of New York, and the Kind of majority it gives, there may be a murder committed every day; but that docs not meet the grave facts in reference to toe Southern States as I shall try to present them. The Senator from Ohio says that our recon struction policy is a failure. I deny that state ment. It is not a complete success; but it is a great success; and I want to say to him and to toe whole country that if onr reconstruction policy is a failure it is because the Demo cratic party have tried to moke it a failure; everything has been done on their part that could be done to make it a failure; every ob stacle lias been cast in it* way from first to last, and if it is a success it is a success in de fiance at and in despite of the Democratic party. And now, Hr. President, I come to the question, who are chiefly responsible for the innumerable murder* and outrages and name- leas crime* that are continually taking place in many of the Southern States? Who arc chiefly responsible? I answer that question by saying toe Democratic party of toe North. Through their newspapers, through their con ventions, through their teachings, through their influence upon the people of the South, have contributed more than all other causes to bring about this state of things. Why, sir, the platforms of the Dem ocratic conventions in the various North ern State* all united in declaring that oar reconstruction acts were unconstitutional and void, and by the mast violent and inflammatory resolutions stimulated the Southern people to resistance. Not to back beyond the time of the passage of first Reconstruction measures, I will present a specimen of the advice, of the instruction given to the Southern people by the Demo cratic party in their State Conventions in the North. I have some seventeen or eighteen of them here, but I hare not the time to read them aO. I will, however, read two or three as specimens. First, toe Democratic State Convention at Indiana, in 1868, passed this twaSea oFm&S^E!m*W at the Pntoa rad <<"de struction to lh* Unloo itself—a policy that tefdr in- n*m«efa»»llnw « pdlcy that raunlroi a tarxesUsd- tae array, which adds marly cae handled millions or rtone—ansmaBy h> the expenses of the Government, whfie it hs«ara the people. I now read a raeolntion passed by toe Dem ocratic State Convention of Ohio in 1868: 15. Thst the numerous palpable and high-ha uanroafian* of ths party hi power, their many public nod private acts of tyranny, trampling under foot the ctvii law and the fuurantec* of thaCooatKatiou; their coo analog to deprive sovereign States of represru tlon in Congress, and to govern said States by milin rale, show them to be the party of despotism and t worthy tho confidence and auppret of a free people. I will next read a resolution passed by the Democratic State Convention of New Hamp shire in 1M8; and these ore fair specimen* of all their resolutions: the principle* of republican government And the civili sation of tbs af~ —* * “ A “ * ■" Representatives. t»« House of Bcpweatatives will contain a majori ty of Democrat* from tho North, and they will admit ntatives elected hy the white people of the with the co-operation of the President, it win not bsdfflteatt to comps! the ~ * more to the c»>u« " not tie able to tinetty invoked and dearly ____ mental issue, and It la the sore way to avoid all future strife to put the issue plainly to tho country. Hie declared that if then was a Democratic President elected it would be bis duty to dis perse these new State governments at the point of the baronet, to overturn, by force and violence what had been done, to establish a revolution, and to restore, as be said, the white men to power. The canvass of 1868 on the part of the Democratic party was made upon revolutionary basis. These documents ore all incendiary documents. They are all pleas for revolution. They all sound like Mexican pro- nunciamentos. They breathe the ferocity of a Spanish manifesto. The party went into the canvass upon the strength of that platform— this letter and all these State platforms—and now I call your attention to it What was the result? I call your attention to the practical results of this teaching upon the port of the Democratic party. This instruction took root, it boro fruit sixty and a hundred fold, and it is now blossoming for a fresh crop of murders and nameless villainies. Why, Mr. President, one of the first results ter the Convention of the 4th of July, 1868, is the expulsion of the colored men from the Georgia Legislature. Was the performance of that revolutionary act in exact accordance with the plAtfonn adopted in New York? If I advise a man to go and kill my neighbor, and he proceeds from my presence and kilh my neighbor, am I not responsible before God and man?. And when the Democratic party in the city of New York advised Southern people to resistance and to revolution, and the mat act was to revolutionize the Legislature of Georgia and expel the colored men from that body, was not the party in its Convention re sponsible for the act as if it hail been present aiding and abetting? Democratic politicians pretended to be in credulous about the existence of secret socie ties in the Northern States daring the war. We had a vile conspiracy, known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, in Indiana, es tablished in 1861, and under various names sml forms continued until 1864. I was the Governor of the State at that time, and watching its progress through the war, and was denouncing it upon the stump and in every way, and yet the Democratic newspapers of Indiana solemnly asserted that my dodara- tious were false, and they charged from 1861 to 1864 that the whole story of .secret societies in Indiana and conspiracies was a wicked in vention for political effect. Again we find the same thing in regard to the Ku Klnx of the South. Gentlemen profess to be incredulous; they do not believe a word of it The Senator from Delaware (Mr. Saulsbury) the other day said he hoped to live long enough on this earth to see a living Ku Klux. Well, Mr. President, I have here the ritual of the Ku Klux Order. It was dug up in tho State of Tennessee during some of the recent troubles they had down there. I should like to read oue extract from it I will read the titles of the officers, which will give the ghostly and di abolical character of the society: The officer* of thi* * shall consist of m Grand Wizard of the Empire and his ten Genii; a Grand Dragon of the Realm and his eight Hydras; a Grand Titan of the Dominion and his six Furies; a Grand Giant of the Providence mad his four Goblins; a Grand Cyclops of the Den sod his two XighUiawk; a Grand Magi; a Grand Monk; a Grand Exchequer; a Grand Turk. These titles are intended to portray and do pretty well, the murderous and diabolical character of this organization as I shall show hereafter. And now, Mr. President, I call your atten tion to the fact, that while the war was pro gressing, and our prisoners were being starvec and tortured and murdered iu Libby and Sal faburyimd other prisons iu the South, the Democratic party of the North were utterly in credulous upon that subject We could not make them believe it They professed to be lieve that these were Radical inventions for the purpose of having political effect; but when the war w:ts over and we went down there and counted the graves alongside of those rebel S ri sou-pens, we fouud the visible physical evi- ence of the truth of all we have said and more. Now, sir, talking about a living Ku Klnx, I have laid the fortune or the luLsfortuno to see one of them since the progress of this Georgia debate. Oue of them has been in this city, and I believe is here now, u man of talents and edneution, who called upon me, to argue out of my convictions upon the Georgia ques tion— a man who, iu different places in this city, declared himself to be a member of the Ku Klux organization and gloried in it I presume he called upon many otlior Senators. This Kn Klux, openly avowed, has named his child, very properly, “John Wilkes Booth," the original kn Klnx. The Senator from Alaltama (Mr. Warner) presents me with one of their letters, one of their warnings, with the inscriptions and out lines upon.it for the purpose of conveying evi dence of their bloody intentions. I now state what I shall attempt to prove, that there is an organized conspiracy iu all the Southern States for the purpose of break ing down the Republican party or the Union party by deeds of blood and violence, by crea ting a reign of terror that shall induce Union men either to abandon the country or to aban don their principles and purchase their peace and safety by silence; and that—I say it with profound regret—there are men of position and character in the Democratic party in the South who connive at this conspiracy, conceal it where they can, palliate its crimes, and in all coses protect the members of it from pun ishment Not one of them has been brought to punishment throughout the South. Notwith standing they are covered with blood and crime as no other organization has ever been, yet their friends are so numerous and strong that not one of them has been brought to pun ishment. The Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sum ner) has just presented a letter to me, sent to him from the other House, with the name cut out. It would not do to give the name of any one who writes a letter on this subject. It would undoubtedly forfeit his life. I should like to have this letter read, but I have not the time. I have hundreds of them here, which have been received within the post four or five weeks by members of Congress. I can bnt refer to them. Mr. EDMUNDS. Cau you give us the name of the member of the Ku Klux to whom you refer ? It would be safe to let us havo his Mr. MQRTOX. I think it is good evidence. Sir,' this organization is indeed “a league with hdl and a covenant with the deviL” It is the fermentation of the very dregs and set tlings of the war. into a vile miasma to poison and corrupt the whole moral and political at mosphere of these Southern States. Now, Mr. President, I do not say that all the Southern Democrats are Ku Klux; far from it; but I do say, from the evidence, that all the Ku Klux are Democrats; that it is an organization inside of the Democratic party in the Southern States; working for its benefit; its labor accepted, and its members protected from punishment That is my proposition. Why, sir, we had the Kn Klax partially justi fied upon this floor. It was said the other day that the Ku Klux organization was the natural result of our reconstruction laws. It was said the other day, in justification of them, that human nature could not be crushed without rising up. Tho declaration was made here in our hearing, that onr reconstruction laws are so tyrannical, so unconstitutional and oppress ive, that they crashed human nature, and that they result, natur ally, in the rising up of this most bloody and villainous organization. Sir, the Democratic politicians of the South may not enter this order; they know of its ex istence, and they willing to receive the ben efit of its operation in driving Republicans out of the State, in banishing them from their The Kn Klux organization, as I have reason to believe, first started in the State of Tennes see, and I will here refer to a report that was made by the Freedmen’s Bureau iu 1868: At the close of the jeer 1867 the organization of the icret society known as the Ku Klnx Klan took place. General Carlin, assistant commissioner, early called the attention of the Governor of the State and the mil itary authorities to the danger of permitting this so ciety to continue its operations. The number of out- — * y this band, or by desperadoes ap- to it, has been very great. The in- cdoced people aeemed to be its ob ject, to effect which colored men are freqently taken from their beds at night and flogged unmercifully, and occasionally killed. These outrages, and occasional efforts ofthe a colored men to resist them, have givi several counties the character of lawlessness and dis orderly communities Since the ■—rmhlinc of the Legislature the fear that the militia would be called out to preserve the peace of the State has had a great effect in restoring quiet, and for a few mouths past the number of outrages has greatly decreased. Now, Mr. President, I present, in connec tion with that, a memorial presented by a joint committee of the Legislature of Tennessee to President Johnson, from which I will read an extract. I refer to it to show the establish ment of this order in fall force early in 1868: That there is aach an organization as the “Knklnx Klan’* is now beyond question or peradveuture. In rroent publication made by authority, or with the isent of a general officer of the so-called Confederate States, it is stated that there are forty thousand mem bers of this association in Tennessee. As to the object and purpose of tho organization, they can only be known by their acta and sayiugn while in their masks and ghostly nnifonuH. While thus engaged, they take out citizen* and kill them— some by hanging, some by shooting, and some by the slower and more barbarona plan of whipping; while others are whipped, not until death, but severely aud disgracefully. In same parts of the Stall they are traveling at night as often as twice a week, and visit ing the housed of Union men and Federal soldi era, some of whom they kill, others they whip and order from ths oountry 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 carrtaToa by greater or less numbers, according as the objects to be effected on the partienhu night are of greater or less magnitude. They rarely appear in their masks and uniforms in daylight. It is in the night when they mostlytravcl and perpetrate their acts of violence and bloodshed. The most peaceable, orderly, quiet, and we may aay even the most exempla ry members of the Church are nut exempt from their midnight visits, and are abject* of their personal vio lence. Instances are known where the most orderly and pious men of a neighborhood have been waked from their slumber* and beaten by them, for no other reason than their political sentiments. Murders are common, particularly among the colored people, against whom the Klan seem to havo peculiar and mortal ha tred. Many colored people have been whipped, some of them badly, and some until they havo died irorn its effects, and many of them have been murdered for no other reason or offense than their political opinions and sentiments. Many colored people who had hired for ths year, or engaged to work for a portion of the have been compelled to leave their homes for personal safety, and fly for their lives, leaving their employers or their crops; and unless something is done for their relief they can not go home, aud will. Many of them declare that the State Government of enneaaee is illegal, and they have legally a right to re sist and even to overturn it This is not confined to tho masses, but finds advocates in distinguished men, high in the estimation of those forming the late so ber Legislature since the war, is, in the opinion of the committee, as criminal aa to attempt to overthrow or resist the government and laws of the State of New York, or any of-? r State of the Union. I call tlie . rention of tlie Senate to the dec laration cl the port of this committee that the Kn Klax oa* Tennessee were taking the ground. Uiat the State government of Tennessee was illegal and unauthorized, and they had a right to overturn it; and that that was the instruc tion that they received from Democratic Con ventions in the North. I will now read an extract from the report of the joint committee of the Legislature of Teunessee: committee regret that the limited time at their disposal has prevented them from giving to the sub ject-matter referred to them a more complete and thorough examination. The murders and outrages which have been perpetrated in many counties of Mid dle and West Tennessee, during the past few months, have been so numerous and of such an aggravated character as almost baffles investigation. In these counties a reign of terror exists, which is so absolute in its nature that the best of citizens are nuable or un willing to give free expression to their opinions. The terror inspired by the secret organization known as the Kn Klux Klan is so great that the officers of the law- are powerless to execute 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 night, and tftider masks aud disguises, which ton dor their identification difficult, if not impossible. To add to the aecresy which envelops their oxieraiions is the fyet that no information of their murderous acts can be obtained without the greatest difficulty and dan ger in the localities where they are committed. No one dares to inform upon them or take any measure to bring them to punishment; because no one can tel but that he may be the next victim of their hcstilib or animosity. The members of this organization, with their frienha. aiders and abettors, take especial pains to conceal all their operations. The moving priciple by which they are actuated would appear to be hostility to the State and national authorities; and in the minds of these men to have voted for 44 Pro widow ” or the 44 Re publican ticket,” or to be a •• Radical.” is the greatest of crimes. Your committee believe that, during the past six^ months, the murders, to say nothing of of these cases they have been perpetrated by the Ku Klux altove referred to; aud a few, any, have been brought to punishment, number of the counties of this State are entirely at the mercy of this organization, and roving bands of night ly marauders bid defiance to the civil authorities, and threaten to drive out every man. white or black, who does not submit to their arbitrary dictation. To add to the general lawlessness of these communities, bad men of every description take advantage of the cireitm stances surrounding them, and perpetrate acts of vio lence, from personal or pecuniary motives, uuder the pica of political necessity. Now, XL:. President, I come down Liter i__ point of time. I desire to read an extract from the message of Governor Senter, elected Gov- ernor of Tennessee last foil, this mcesage being sent to the Legislature of Tennessee in tlie month of February last: It is with profound regret I realize the necessity of directing your attention to the alarmingly frequent violence to the peace and dignity of the State, in the maltreatment and even atrocious murders of her citi zens, by persons generally reported in disgnise or un known. Many of t e State's citizens have been out raged in their privileges and persons by cruel indigni ties; not a few slain outright, without charge of having in anywise offended the laws, while others, under criminal charges, have been forcibly wrested from the custody of the law, and their blood deliberately shed by bodies of men without the least shadow of authority. tutional Convention. There were seventy-five members to be elected. There were 63,630 votes cast The Union men did not vote ex cept in small numbers; they could not. The votes were cast chiefly by rebels; and of the seventy-five men elected to that Convention, sixty-eight of them had. been rebels. This is the condition of things brought about by this organization, by this reign of terror in the State of Tennessee. If you force an elec tion iu Georgia next foil—I call my Republi can friends to bear this in mind—you will* have just such a result as you bad in Tennes see lust fall and last winter. Sir, the Union meq of Tennessee ore to-day virtually dis franchised by the reign of blood and terror that lias been inaugurated, while those who perpetrated these villainies go un- whipped of justice; and the Governor of the State, anxioos as he is to enforce the law, is powerless to do it, and is calling now upon the l government of the United States for protection : or his people. I cannot dwell very long on tho condition of affairs in Tennessee, bnt I may say that General Forrest himself claims that there arc 40,000 Ka Klax in the State of Tennessee; and I noticed a very significant bit of evidence on the part of Governor Senter, published in one of' the newspapers here. I will read an extract from his testimony, given only a few days ago, before tho Reconstruction Committee, for it is very significant in one re spect The following question was asked by a member of the committee: By Fernando Wood. What proportion of the entire population of the State have participated in these Ku Klux outrages ? Answer. The only statement we have had that was looked upon as authentic, was made by General Forrest, that there were 40,000 Ku Klnx in Tennessee. Question. General Forrest is not generally looked upon as a reliable man in his statements, is he? An swer. He is a si looting man, and I reckon I had better not say much about that; bnt my conclusion is. reason ing upon the subject, that there must be a very strin gent organization, not only well organized, but well officered, from the fact that they have committed these outrages, and neither money nor law has been able to ich them. There are two points in that to which I call the attention of the Senate: First, that, ac cording to General Forrest, there are 40,000 ir Tennessee ; and then to the jierieet illnstra tion that is given of the effect of the terror cre ated there, which has followed Governor Sen ter to this city in his testimony before the com mittee, for he says he reckons he had better not speak very freely iu regard to General Forrest, because lie is a shooting man. When the Governor of the State can not speak freely be cause the terror of this organization follows him to the capital of the United States, what skill be said of the people of that State who ■live in the midst of these enemies who are without official power and protection. They can not speak freely, aud they dare not testify to tlie nameless outrages that are committed from day to day iu tlieir neighborhood and in their very presence. * Now, Sir. President, I come to speak very briefly of the State af Kentucky, and I am very sorry that I have any ground to speak in regard to that State at all. I shall refer to the report of the Freedmeu’s Bureau iu regard to the State of Kentucky. In the report of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Kentucky, in 1868—1 read from the oflicial document—it is said: More than 1,100 colored soldiers iu Kentucky have ceived their bounty through the bureau duritig. the year. Ia many cases delay in payment has boeu una voidable. It has been difficult to reach claimants in ranote and mountainous districts. Having served iu e Union army, they have been the especial objects of persecution, aud in hundreds of instances have been driven from their homes. The outrages peiqtctrated by Ue Ku Klnx Klsu have caused a great exodus into oth- r States. The report goes on to state that - The number of outrages reported as committed 1»3' whites upon colored people iu the State of Keutucky during the year is; murders. 2G: rapes, shootiugs, 00; otherwise maltreated, Total, Gil. I can only say that the course pursued to- ward Union men in Kentucky is one, as I be lieve of unrelenting proscription; not, perhaps, bloody, as in some other States, and not ex tending in this particular over every part of the State. In the land of Clay and Crittenden, the Legislature recently distinguished itself by refusing to let tho people of Cincinnati, with their own money, bnild a railroad across the Staie. The stupidity of that operation in a State where r.ulroads are so much needed can not have justice done to it by any terms that are found in the English language. Now, sir, I come to the State ot Louisiana. Mr. FOWLER. I should like to make a word of oxidation before the Senate proceeds - further. Mr. MORTON. Certainly. Mr. FOWLER. It is in reference to the re marks of Governor Senter before the Com mittee on Reconstruction, as reported in the paper from which the Senator read Governor Senter in going on to say that General Forrest, being a shooting man, he had better say noth ing about that, meant simply to say that he d^tl not want to discuss General Forrest’s char acter before tho Committee, as he was not there; not that he was afraid of him or any thing oi that kind, or tliat there was auy din ger about it. Mr. MORTON. Now, Mr. President, I come to sjieak of the State of Louisiana ; and this furnishes one of the strongest illnstm- I of every true American citizen. This is s foir expression of the action of the Democratic party of the North from the time that the reconstruction measnies were first passed np to this time; and I have only to say that if the Southern people believe what then: Northern friends say in regard to the uncah- stitutioofittty of these acts and the terrible oppression that they axe laboring under, the Southern people are bound by every principle, human arid divine, to resist the Government oT the United Stst«n. Mr. President, this whole policy culminated and waa sinned up in the platform adopted by the Democratic party in National Conven tion, in New York, in 1868, and I beg leave to read from that platform. I will not read the whole of it, bat I will read so much as ■bows its character. That platform declares, in its arraignment af the Republican party: Instead of restoring tb« Union, it has. ao for aa In its power, dissolved it, sod subjected Wfitatr* la tiw* of profound peace to military despotism sixl nejpo sn- •cts (ao-^aUed) And then further on it ssya: Oongrat. aa aoch. aa hosU revolutionary, an ttomh This was the declaration of the New York Convention. I will now refer to the letter written by General Blair before the Conven tion met, and which gave him the nomination for the Yioe Presidency npon the Democratic ticket In his letter he said: name. Mr. MORTON. I can. I will give it to the Senator. I do not care abont mentioning it here, bnt I can give the Senator the name ol the Kn Klux. Mr. EDMUNDS. I do not doubt your statement I only wish to now the name. Mr. MORTON. He Is well knowu to many gentlemen on this floor. Mr. EDMUNDS. He ought to be publicly known. Mr. MORTON. Perhaps that fa true, bnt I am not here in the character of an informer. I state the fact Mr. CASSERLY. If the Senator from In diana will allow me, I can not find that this extraordinary person, of whom he has spoken, has colled upon a single member of the oppo sition, and I trust the Senator will mention Us name if be knows it. Mr. MORTON. That is perhaps true. When the Senator mjs he has not c&Ilcd on him, that establishes the fact with me. He has called, probably, on Republicans. I know he has colled upon me, and I know that he bos called upon others here. Mr. CASSERLY. If the Senator will allow me, I do not doubt that a person called on the Senator who so represented himself. Mr. MORTON. He did not so represent himself to me. He would not hare talked to me for a moment if he had. Mr. CASSERLY. I am only surprised that some gentleman of the Republican party among whom he has railed have not taken steps to band him over to the proper authori ties for punishment Hr. MORTON. The; could prove Urat he belong* to thi. order by hi* own confession, bnt toey might not be able to prove hi* Ur. CASSERLY. If he .late, so that ia pretty good evidence. That these enormities can be iu our midst without the perpetrator*, in * single instance, being even attested to answer for their lawless and criminal acts, demon strates the existeoce of organizations on their part, not only dangerous to the individual citizen and adverse to the public dignity, hut formidable even to the public peace and safety, While the law lately enacted for suppression of these outrages oust do honor to ths purposes of your hon orable body, I trust it will not be accepted aa an im propriety on my part to respectfully suggest doubts of Its sufficiency to reach and remhdy the evils aimed at, sa not a single arrest has yet been made for the grossest violations of already existing laws, although such vio lations have been frequent; and the largest rewards al lowed have been often, if not invariably, offered to bring the offenders to justice, it may be fairly con cluded that they are protected by organizations ade quate, by terrorism, the force of numbers, or other meaua, to effect security against the ordinary civil pro seas and officers of the law. The public misfortune seems not so much a want of lawaa lack of power to enforce that vre have. The condition of things in Tennessee could scarcely be worse Qian it fa. There fa a reign of terror prevailing in almost every county in that State. A free election coujtl not now be held in that State, unless perhaps in some por tions of East Tennessee. I will not refer par ticularly to the Memphis massacre in 1666, where some fifty men were killed, some seventy or eighty wounded, some ninety-one dwellings destroyed, and twelve school-houses and a great deal of other property. I am speaking now of what lias been done under the Reconstruction laws, and since the Dem ocratic party have advised them that those laws are null and void, and that they are not bound to obey them. To show the orient of tho revolution that has been effected in Tennessee since last year, I refer to the election returns. General Grant in 18G8 received 56,757 votes, and Seymour received 26,311. Grant’s majority was over 30,000. That was in November, 1868. In August, 1869, some nine months afterward, Senter received 119,835 votes, Stokes 55,196 votes, being within a very few votes of the number that Grant received in 1868. Here was an increase of 91,763 votes in nine months, showing a complete revolution, that the laws of Tennessee had been broken down, and that the men disfranchised by the laws of Tennes see all voted. Foot months after that, in December, 1869, an election was held for members of a Consfi- tions of the effect of Democratic teachings and instructions, for what I um going to speak of chiefly occurred after the Democratic Conven tion in New York and within sixty days before tlie November election iu 1868. I have here the report ot tlie committee appointed by Congress to investigate the riots and murders aud violence committed in Louisiana prece ding tho Presidential election of 1868. ft is a large volume. It contains the testimony of 178 witnesses. An examination of this vol ume will show that there were 859 murders committed in the State of Louisiana within about sixty days before tlie Presidential elec tion. Mr. CASSERLY. How many Mr. MORTON. Eight hundred and fifty- nine. Mr, CASSERLY. Within sixty days ? Mr. MORTON. Just before the electiou, and it fa generally put within that time, I will not be certain, however, on that point They were murders of a political character, and springing from the organization to which I have referred. This evidence discloses the organization of a secret society in the State of Louisiana, sometimes called by one name and sometimes by auother. As I before stated, the whole number of murders was 859; gun shot wounds in addition, 85; otherwise whipped and maltreated, 3G5; and I will state that there fa evidence outside of this volume, outside of the examination of the -committee, f oing to show* that the whole number of filed and wounded there was over 1,800. The committee state distinctly that their evidence does not extend to the whole State, and they do not pretend that they have gathered up evidence of all the out rages committed in that State. There is reason to believe from the report itself that the number of murders comqiitted in Lou isiana before the Presidential election in 1868 were at least 2,500. I might read the declara tion npon the part of this secret society. It does not call itself the Ku Klnx in Louisiana; bat the witnesses declare that it was the Ku Klux—the same society that existed in other States; that the men killed were Union men, Republicans, black and white; the murders were of a political charactether; the society was of a political character; and wc* all know what was the result of the election iu Lou isiana in 1868. Sir, if yon want to hold on election in Georgia under the same circum stances, you will have the same results, and it will be accompanied with the same blood. I do not speak in this connection of the New Orleans riot which occulted in 1866, where there were some three hundred persons killed, including those who died subsequently of their wounds. I come now to the State of Texas. I will read an extract from the report of the Freed meu’s Bureau for the State of Texas in 1868: styling themselves Ku Klux, &c.. have practiced bar barous cruelties upon the freedmen. Murders by tho desperadoes who havo long disgraced this State are of comiunu occurrence. The civil authorities have been overawed, and, in many cases, even ths bureau and military forces have been powerless to prevent the commission of theso crimes. From information ob the office of the assistant commissioner, it *p- , - --- - =^ r -treed. men murdered was 21; of white men, 15; the number got her Senators and her Representative* in Congress, there will a development of all these devilish nnd murderous elements that have made Texas so famous for the last three or four years. That society exists all through Texas. The State is honey-combed with* its lodges. They are not dead; they are only sus pended, and they will develop into full and mnrderoos life unless the Government shall extend, its protecting power to the Uiiiou men of that State. I have not the time to dwell upon the condition of Texas. I come now to the State of North Carolina, which has been regarded, X believe, as the soundest and most reliable of all the Southern States; and what is the fact there? Why, s the evidence fa furnished to me, and it strong and overwhelming, that within tho lost few weeks the Kn Klux have developed in va rious counties in North Carolina—I am told in some twenty counties—and to show that it is a political organization, for political affect, the counties in which it appears are the doubtful counties, which it fa necessary for them to carry in order to control tho State government I have the authority of the Senators from that State for this statement Numer- murders have been committed; men are whipped from time to time; and tho same reign of terror fa now being established in North Carolina that already exists in other States. I have not time to dwell upon the condition of affairs in North Carolina, but I state the general situation; and if I do not state it correctly, the two Senators from that State are amply able to set me right Now 1 come to Alabama: Alabama, too, lias had a forge Union major ity; but, sir, that majority is to be overcome, it fa to be destroyed in the ramc way that it was in Georgia. The plan fa to destroy the Union majority in every State in the Sonth by this reign of terror, to make men afraid to go to the polls and express their sentiments, to make them understand that their lives are at hazard,and their property is at stake if they dare to express themselves on tlie side of ilie Govern ment A small minority can do this. Why, sir, they paralyze the courts. They officiate as sheriffs and bailiffs; they enter tho jury- box; they are the ready witnesses; aud pun ishment canuot lie administered in the com mon courts of those States. How is it now in tlie State of Alabama, which has hitherto been comparatively peace able? Within tho last few weeks a number of most diabolical murders have been com mitted iu that State. I was this morning vis ited by Major Hayes, who, I believe, repre sents the 4th district of that State in the other end of the Capitol, a native of Alabama, a man of unquestioned character, and he laid before me the condition of things in that State. He says the bloody epidemic is advancing rapidly. Recently a number of atrocious murders have lieen committed, aud he submitted a state ment that made my blood curdle. In the county of Greene, in which lie lives, he says there have been nine murders committed in the last two weeks, in the county of Sumter there have been three murders committed in the Lost two weeks, and in the county of Tus caloosa four murders have been committed in the last two weeks. Nino murders have been committed in the county in which he lives in fourteen days, aud he lias been notified by this infernal organization that ho must not re turn to the State. If lie does, it is at tlie risk of hfa life. He says that a court officer, known as the circuit clerk, ot his county lias been notified to leave the State within fifteen days npon the peril of hfa life; and within a few days, I believe, the prosecu ting attorney iu that county was murdered; aud I think a Judge Charlton was murdered only a few days ago. I forget tlie name of the town where he was murdered. Here, sir, iu this one Congressional district, tlie strongest Republican district iu the State, for Major Hayes received 1C,000 majority, fifteen mur ders have been committed within two weeks in four counties, and still the bloody work goes on. The collector of customs at Mobile has been notified by the Ku Klux that he must not visit the county of Greene, where he pro posed to go upon business, as I am informed. While this has been the number of murders, the number of whippings, ot outrages of vari ous kinds fa almost innumerable, showing that the Ku Klux in Alabama are spreading rapidly. I have here a report made by a joint com mittee of the. Legislature of Alabama showing the existence of Ku Klux outrages in that Stale, from which 1 will read an extract: Your committee have examined a large number witucssaa, from many part* of the State, of iutclligoi and unquestionable veracity, whose testimony abun dantly establishes the fact that there exists, at lfiist iu many portions of Alalisma. a secret organization i men, who disgnise themselves with masks and oth< costume for the purpose of committing crimes ar outrages upon peaceable law-abiding citizens, aud thereby escape detection and the punishment which their vUlaiuies so justly merit. The organization is cotuuiouly known aft the Ku Klux Klan. They generally make the.ir appearance iu the still hours or the night, mounted on horses, also disguised in like manner, and armed and equipped for their murderous work with guns, revolvers, knives, and ropes. Under the covert of their hideous dis guises, and the darkness of the night, they go forth from their secret haunts to perpetuate the most inhu man aud brutal outrages upon those whose only fanlt is that they have ever been true to their country and loyal to its government. Your committee beg leave to aay that they have the best cvideuce to believe that this organization is purely political in its character. None but those of one particular party are knowu to belong to it, w hile Union men and Republicans are made the special objects of their fiendish abuse and violence. Almost the only charge they bring upon their victims in that they arc Radicals, or tiiat they liave voted f< the Republican candidates, or that they hold some oflh under the reconstructed government of the State. It is a remarkable fact that no Democrat or Conservative, so far as it has came to the knowledge of your commit tee. has ever fallen hy their murderous hands, or been interfered with in the enjoyment of his rights and lil>er- ties. 527 votes; Gordon, tho Democratic candiatc, received 76,356. Bullock’s majority was over 7,000. In the month of November following, some seven months afterword, Seymour receiv ed 102,828, and Grant received 56,386. Sey mour’s majority was over 46,000; making a change of over 53,000 votes in Georgia in sev en mouths. How was that change brought about? Was it a change of opinion'? It was brought about by the terror that had been in- iuauguiuted; and I will present you some figures that go to show it I refer to a document print ed by the House of Representatives; and this will show how this great change of 53,000 votes in seven months had been made. I have a list here in this document of nineteen coun ties and oue city—the city of Savannah. In the city of Savannah the number of white votes registered was 3,000; colored, 3,900. Of that number Bullock received 2,854, and Grant re ceived 400. The terror did its work pretty well in Savannah. I come now to Jones county. The number of white votes registered in Jones county was 486; colored, 1,073. Of that number Bullock received 718; Grant re ceived not one. The terror did its work pretty well in that county. I come to Columbia county. Iu that county the white votes reg istered was 669; colored, 1,854. Bullock re ceived 1,122 votes, and General Grant received one. I conic to Randolph county. The white vote registered was 954; colored, 1,193. Bul- fack received 687; General Grant received one. I come to Baker county, where the wholo num ber of colored votes was 1,053. Bullock re ceived 255 of that number. Tho terror did its work pretty well there, as Grant received only pear* that in' the month of March the number of fl men murdered «r*s 21; of white men. 15; the nui of freedmen assaulted with intent to kill, 11; white mens 7. Iu July the nuxnt>cr of freedmen murdered was 32. white men. 7. It has been estimated by relia ble authority that in August, 18C8, there wore probably solitary case (that of a freed man who was hung at Houston.) ban punishment to the full extent of tho law been awarded. Mr. President, I have the authority of the Senator from Texas (Mr. Hamilton)—I did not speak with the other Senator—for the state ment, that from the best evidence he lias been able to collect, there have been since the war more Ilian three thousand murders committed in tlie State of Texas. I will stute what I be lieve to be the condition of Texas. Owing to the fact that Congress required that before she should come in she should ratify the fifteenth amendment both parties in Texas were corn* pelled to place themselves on that basis. Tho result was that the rebels in great part took no part in that election. They wanted Texas to come in, and they were willing that the Re publicans should carry tho election for that purpose; and it was a contest between two good Republicans for Governor. But when the next election comes, the State, having now Now I come to the State of Georgia, the Staie we liave iu hand, and I call the attention of the Senate to the terrible condition of things iu that State. To show how far back the Ku- Klnx were established in tho State of Georgia, I will refer to a letter from General Meade to General Grant in 1868. This letter fa dated Atlanta, Georgia, April 4, 1868, and it begin thus; There are unmistakable signs of disorder in this State aud AlalMuna from secrcct organizations, such as Usve dixtnrbed Tennessee. I am about iHsuing a very stringent order, and shall take very summary meas ures tu check this evil, if practicable, but the force un der my commahd is insufficient to control all parts of tlicue States, and in view of the approaching elections I wovld be mnch relieved if the forces hero could lie temporarily increased; say, an additional regiment for two months. I refer to that letter to show that as early as April, 1808, General Meade believed in the ex istence of the Ku Klux organization in the State of Georgia, and asked for military force. I now come to the evidence in regard to what took place in Georgia iu 1868, after the Demo cratic convention iu the city of New York, have already shown that the revolution that took place in the Legislature of Georgia could perhaps be directly traced to tho influence and the teachings of the Democratic convention in the city of New York. I now refer to a report made by the Judiciary Committee in 1869. Iu that report they give a statement from the re port made by the Freedmen’s Bureau. I have not been able to find the report, bnt I find an extract from it in the report of the Judiciary Committtce. It is as follows: It certainly furnishes a strong reason why Congress should not at this time overlook the irregularities iu the organization of the Legislature of Georgia, aud ad mit her Senators to representation. And this is not all. Your committee have examined the official reports of the various officers connected with the Freedmen'n Bureau iu Georgia, and find reported 336 cases of mur ders and assanlts with intent to murder upon colored persons by tlie whites, from January 1, 18G8, to No vember 15 of the same year. For all of which there has been no legal redress, aud scarcely any effort what ever on ths part of the authorities to punish the crirni- in&ls. And ft ia stated by these officers that they are unable to report fully as to the number and character of these outrages, on account of intimidation of wit nesses, which is practiced by the perpetrators of crime. Three hundred and thirty-six murders and assaults with intent to commit murder in Georgia, from the 1st of April to the 1st of November, 1868 ; and, as I am advised, nearly all of them occurred after the 4th of July, 1868; another item to set down to the credit of the National Democratic Convention. Now, Mr. President, I will read an extract from the report of General Terry, made on the 5th of August, 1869: In many parts of the State there is practically government. The worst of crimes aro committed, and no attempt is made to punish those who commit them. Murders have been and aro frequent; the abnsc, in va rious ways, of the Macks is too common to excite no tice. There can be no doubt of the existence of nu merous insurrectionary organizations known os Ku Klux Rians, who, shielded by their disguise, by tho of their movements, and by the terror which they inspire, perpetrate crime with impunity. There is great reasou to believe that in somo cases local mag istrates are In sympathy with the members of these orgaatnations. In many places they are overawed by them, and dare not attempt to punish them. To punish such offenders by civil proceedings would bo a difficult task, even were magistrates in all rases dis posed. and had they the courage to do their duty, for “ influences which govern them equally affect juries and witnesses. A conversation which I have had with a wealthy plauter. a gentleman of intelligence and education, and a political opponent of the present national administration, will illustrate this difficulf While deploring the lamentable condition of affairs the county in which he lives, he frankly admitted to me that, were the moot worthless vagabond in the country to l»c charged with a crime against the person of a Republican, or a negro, neither he nor any other person of property within the. county would kuowledgoof his guilt. I propose now to present some evidence to show the progress of terrorism in Georgia from the 1st of April until the election on the first Tuesday in November, 1868; and to havo my statements understood, I will first premise that the white vote registered in Georgia was 102,- 411; the colored vote registered was 98,507.— In April, Bullock, as Governor, received 83,- 33. Then, running down through these uiuctecu counties and this one city, we find over 22,000 voters who were prevented from going to the polls, or were compelled to vote the Demo cratic ticket Here was a revolution brought about in seven months in the State of Georgia resulting in a chang of 53,000 votes, our dis tinguished President, in some counties, not being permitted to receive oue vote. This will give you, sir, a foretaste of what are to l>e the re sults of an election forced in that State next fall. Iu the city of Augusta, in 1868, there were registered 1,867 colored voters. Iu Decem ber, 1869, some four months ago, they held a municipal election, and tho whole number of colored voters registered was 57. All the rest were deterred from even puttiug down their names upon the registry. Sir, the Ku Klux are spreading in :vll the Southern States, and the idea is not original There was such a society iu Europe in tho sixteenth century, to which the death of many noble and good men is accredited by history; and I find on looking over tlie ritual of the Ku Klux Klan that many things are borrowed from that celebrated assassination society. And now, Mr. President, for I do not wish to detain the Senate, allow me to consider very briefly what should be done. In the first place, there must be a law of Congress authorizing the President of the United States to extend the power and protection of this Government into all the States, and that law should lie so framed as to euable him to do it where there may be a weak or a disloyal Governor who re fuses to cal! upon him, or where there may be a disloyal legislature that refuses to act with the Governor, as in the State of Tennessee. There must be some such law put upon the statute l»ook to protect the lives of loyal men in the late rebel States. I will now stop to discuss the features of that measure. They will, per haps, come up for discussion on the amend ment proposed by the Senator from Mis souri, (Mr. Drake;) but I state that as lic ing oue of the measures which must lie passed by this Congress if it intends to do its duty toward the loyal men of the South and the pence of the whole nation. Ami, sir, I would not now refer Georgia tack to military authority and keep her iu her present condition. I do not think that is the best way. 1 think that she should be admit ted ; her Senators should Iks allowed to take their seats, aud she should be authorized to organize her militia, aud that militia, organ ized l»y the present zealous, bold aud active Governor of Georgia, would lie an omnipres ent force existing in every comity, existing in every township, while the military force of the United States uuder the present law would on ly be established at a few points --would not have that omnipresent character which fa necessary to afford complete protection. I might refer to the result in the State of Arkan sas, where the militia organized under Gover nor Clayton has proved most efficient in pro tecting that State from Ku Klnx outrages. To remand Georgia to a military' gov ernment, I think, would not now accom plish it It would be a repudiation of the loyal men of that Stub'. All we ask is that they shall be allowed through their own action, or, if you please, by tlie ex press action of Congress, to continue tlie pres ent loyal State government during the term for which they were elected. The Legislature elected for two years was cheated out of the first two years very nearly. It was revolution ized. They have but just come into power; indeed, hardly’ yet, a loyal organization hav ing even effected for the first time in the month of January. What we ask is that they shall bo allowed to serve out tlie two years for which they were elec ted, that these men shall not lie allowed to lake advantage of their own wrong. That is what they are asking; to be allowed to take advan tage of their own wrong. First, by usurpa tion they kept the loyal men in Georgia out of authority for two years; and now I say they should not be driven to count that usurpation npon their term. There fa no justice and there is no Law in that, Mr. President, the Union n >4 *u of the South are everywhere falling silently in most cases - their fall noted only by their Father in Heaven. Their bones may yet lie found, like those of the murdered traveler, but there will be no epitaph to give their names or to tell by whose liauds they have fallen. The time has come to he done with trifling- Away with all trifling. The time for action luis come. There Is the smell of blood in the air; it is sprinkled all along the pathway through which we are march ing. Why, sir, the commission of one mur der by a secret organization will terrify a whole county, a whole district When men go to bed at night apprehensive that before moniing they will l»c aroused by the smell of tire or be summoned to the door by tho hoarse voice of the Ku Klnx Klan, all resistance, all endurance give way; the father trembles for hfa family; he will abandon hfa principles; he will surrender his property, perhaps, and fly T he advantages we enjoy as the result of a long established and successful business enables us to offer inducements that makes this announcement worthy of ATTENTION. Importing our foreign goods di rect, controlling many leading styles of American iabnes, employing the best artistic talent in the production of our goods, and -constant progress'" our motto, wo claim to load the mar ket in TfeADY-MADE CLOTHING, of which we keep full lines of all grades, for Men and Boys. In CUSTOM WORK our products are unsurpassed for qual ity. workmanship and elegance. In * GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS our stock is constantly large and seasonable. We aro the cole manu facturers of the to a more hospitable clime. No one has been punished yet; no not ono; not for treason, not for murder, not for all the nameless crimes committed by the rebellion—no one punished yet Oh, what weakness! Can yon find in all history snch weakness as has been shown in reference to this matter. Mercy to the criminal hi is l>oen cruelty and death to the iunoceut If there fa one duty resting npon this Congress more sa cred aud more solemn than every other, it is to protect the Union, the loyal ineu of the South. From the Washington Chronicle, 19th.] Tlie Charge of Bribery. For acvoral days past we have noticed tho correspondence from Washington to the Baltimore Gazette, Richmond Dispatch, and other papers of similar political proclivities, loose charges that money, bonds, Jtc., were being freely distributed among Senators for the purpose of effecting tho defeat ot what fa known as the Bingham amendment to the Georgia bill. These charges, coming from tho sources to which we have referred, are not new, and were, of course, not heeded by Republicans. Bnt the time for voting on the Georgia bill hiiviug been fixed for six o’clock to-day, the supporters of the rebel side of the question seem not to liave been content to roly upon the slanders of the Democratic organs, but must needs attempt to give dignity to the slan der by having it noticed in tho Senate. To this end Mr. Edmunds seems to have been moved, though the purpose to affect the vou. by this charge fa so apparent that no Senator can fail to understand it Why a charge which lias been floating through the Democratic journals for several days should now be vitalized by resolutions to send for persons and papers, and be investi gated before a^ committee, of whieh the mover of the resolution is a member, we are unable to determine, unless it bo to affect a vote which was fixed to take place at an early honr. If there was time to investigate and report upon the resolution before the vote npon the Bingham amendment fa taken, there would be stronger reasons for believing that the resolu tion though moved by an ardent supporter of that obnoxious amendment—was not in tended to aid the vote in support of R. More at the Irrepressible “Dr. J. Morti mer,” die. We publish this morning tho story of the career in Tennessee of a scamp Raiimg from Brooklyn. 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Ga.; Virgil Powers, Esq. Superintendent 8. W. R. B.; Daniel Bullard, Bullard’s Station, Macon A Brunswick R. R., Twiggs, county, Ga.; TJreenville Wood, Wood’s Factory. Macon. Ga.: Bev. E. F. Easterling. P. B. Flor ida Conference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston. Oa.; Iditor Macon Telegraph. For Sale by all Druggists. benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased, pe tition having been filed for said purpose. This, April 4U>. 1870. WILLIAM F. RAT. Adm’r. aplO-wlm - . *B5f county, Georgia, at the tost regular term after the expiration of four week* from this no tice, for leave to sell tho lands belonging to the estate of L. D. Rogers, deceased, late of Towns county, for the benefit of the heirs of said accessed, petition hav ing been filed for said purpose. This April 4th, 1870. aplO-wlm J. VT. HOLMES, Adm’r.