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We had scarcely
finished reading the neat sentences of Senator Hendricks of Indiana, one
of the innumerable candidates for the Democratic nomination, to the effect
that the stories of disorder in the Southern States were vile inventions
of the Radicals, intended to overthrow the Constitution of the United
States, when we found the Charleston News, one of the Senator’s
party-papers, speaking of the murder of a Republican member of the next
South Carolina Legislature as "one of the elect come to grief."
It seems that the facts which excited the badinage of the waggish News
were merely that a party of the Ku-Klux Klan went to the house of Mr. Dill
and murdered two or three persons who were guilty of being colored men and
non-believers in the Ku-Klux Democracy.
"Very well," exclaims
some disciple of Vallandingham and Seymour; "you are responsible for
it." "How?" "By exciting hatred of race with your
confounded equal rights and suffrage." "And how would you have
prevent it?" "By putting the nigger in his place, and keeping
him there."
Such a conversation is a free but
a remarkably accurate rendering of the speech of the Indiana Senator,
candidate, etc., who said that in his judgment "the people" of
the late rebel States meant the late rebel class, and that they alone were
rightfully invested with political power. Let them do as they choose with
the rest of the population. Such a plan would not, of course, excite any
hatred of race. "I am a perfectly reasonable man," says the
angry husband. "All that I ask is to be allowed to do exactly as I’d___
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