fifty years the last woman-whipper at the South will be as dead as
Cleopatra; as dead as the pre-Adamite brute organizations. History will
be ashamed to record their doings. The fictions in which they are
enbalmed will be lost in the better coming era of morals and letters. By
the time the South has been overflowed and regenerated by a beneficent
inundation of Northern "carpet-baggers," with Yankee capital and
enterprise, it will be forgotten that a race capable of the crimes
referred to in the preceding story, ever existed.
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FOOTNOTE:
[2] It is curiously illustrative of the mixed childishness and ferocity
which characterizes the Southern civilization, that this secret
association of ruffians, organized to terrorize the loyal South, styles
itself by an absurd, mis-spelled name, and goes about on its nightly
work of murder in harlequin costume, with one of its leaders acting the
part of ghost, to frighten the superstitious blacks. Some more
courageous freedman occasionally makes a _bona fide_ ghost of this
masquerade.
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
TO THE
PUBLISHING FUND.
GERRIT SMITH, Peterboro, N. Y., $25 00
WENDELL PHILLIPS, Boston, Mass., 25 00
J. S. SEYMOUR, Auburn, N. Y., 25 00
D. M. OSBORNE, " " 25 00
CHAS. P. WOOD, " " 25 00
WM. H. SEWARD, JR., " " 25 00
J. N. KNAPP, " " 25 00
RUFUS SARGENT, " " 25 00
H. IVISON, New York 25 00
TIMOTHY L. BARKER, San Francisco, Cal., 20 00
WM. G. WISE, Auburn, N. Y., 10 00
G. I. LETCHWORTH, " " 10 00
S. L. BRADLEY " " 10 00
I. F. TERRILL " " 10 00
ABIJAH FITCH, " " 10 00
T. M. POMEROY, M. C., " " 10 00
F. L. GRISWOLD, " " 10 00
CYRENUS WHEELER, " " 10 00
JOHN CHEDELL, " " 10 00
DAVID WRIGHT, " " 10 00
JOSIAH BARBER, " " 10 00
GEO. E. BARBER, " " 10 00
S. WILLARD, M. D., " " 10 00
RICHARD STEEL, " " 5 00
C. H. MERRIMAN, " " 5 00
J. LEWIS GRANT, " " 5 00
A. H. GOSS, " " 5 00
CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, " " 5 00
J. M. HURD, " " 5 00
W. J. SUTTON, " " 5 00
WM. A. KIRBY, " " 5 00
THOS. MCCREA, " " 5 00
J. N. STARIN, " " 5 00
C. P. FORD, " " 5 00
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