Chapter VII: Details of Organizations

A Band of Regulators whose Force at this time numbered a Half
Million well-organized and perfectly Drilled Men--Who composed
its Draft--Considerations which recommended it to the Better
Classes of Society--Its Haunts--Oath-bound Covenant, and
Penalties attached--Galloping forth to Predestined Conquest--It
proceeded under a rigid Constitutional System--Territorial
Subdivisions--Empire--Realm--Province--Den--Grand Wizard and his
Cabinet--Grand Giant--The Commander of a Den--Grand Cyclops--
Night-Hawks, etc.--How Members were Initiated--Proposed Initiates
might Retire if Displeased with the Conditions of Membership--How
far the Klan was "Rebel" in its Draft--Members of the State
Legislatures, Congressmen, and Governors of States, took its Vows
upon them--Its Political Suffrages--Compelling Ignorant Colored
Men to relinquish the Franchise--K. K. K. Placards--Empty Coffins
containing Ukase of Banishment Carted to the Doors of Obnoxious
White Citizens--Its Ideas of Social Decorum 71

CHAPTER VIII.

K. K. K. CUSTOMS.

The Klan never did its Work by Halves--How General Orders were
Transmitted--Form of General Order--Its Imbroglios with the
League--Avoided Conflict with United States Troops--League
Informers--K. K. K. Intimidation of Witnesses--_Memento Mori_--
Crusade of the Ermined Ranks--The Klan a Bitter Enemy of those
Unorganized Parties of Ruffians who made War on their kind in
the former's Name--Its Right to Borrow Sympathy on this Exchange
a Grave Question of Doubt--Vendettas Conducted against the
"Shams." 80

CHAPTER IX.

THE KLAN IN TENNESSEE.

Misgovernment in Tennessee--The Loyal League and the State
Administration--The K. K. K. an Outgrowth of the Conditions which
the former Inspired--Rapid Development of the Order on Tennessee
Soil--Its Purposes of Revenge--Legislation on the Subject--
Militia called out and Detectives Employed--The State pronounced
a Ku-Klux Barracks--A Simultaneous Uprising of the K. K. K.
throughout the State and Concerted Raids against the L. L.
Rendezvous in various Neighborhoods--Military Accomplishments of
the Grand Wizard--Subcommanders in Charge of the Expedition--
Capture of Secret Papers--Ku-Klux Hollow-square--Oath administered
to Captives 88

CHAPTER X.

THE LOYAL LEAGUE IN COUNCIL.

Speech of Hon. Bones Button before the State Council of the Loyal
League--What followed--Amusing Contretemps 97

CHAPTER XI.

EFFECTS PRODUCED. A PERIOD OF ALARM.

Excitement throughout the State--Scenes at the Capitol--Government
Officials Notified of the Extent of the Disaster--A Quorum of the
Legislative or Judicial Bodies not Attainable--No Departures from
the City--The K. K. K. Cabal Receiving that Attention from
Caucusing Legislators which its Importance Demanded--A Mob at the
State-House--At Sunset the Situation Unchanged--A Sortie from the
Capitol--Mobs along the Route--Seeking Refuge from the Excited
Populace--Out of Danger--The New Situation--An Ugly Specimen of
the Genus Ku-Klux--The Governor Recovers from the Attitude of a
Suppliant--An Amusing Episode 107

CHAPTER XII.

KU-KLUX HORRORS IN TENNESSEE.

The Klan Outlawed--A Rash Act of one of its Dens--Negro
Insurrectionists Placed in the Jail at Trenton--Subsequent
Massacre--Detectives in Pursuit--Members of the Order Indicted--
Efforts to Convict the Accused--Affair in Obion--Why these
Horrors are Classed as Twin Editions--Description of Madrid
Bend--K. K. K. Transactions in this Remote Quarter--Planters'
Jealousy--Message from Mr. J. to the Leaders of the Party--
Cool Treatment it Received--The K.'s Declare their Intention of
Punishing one of the Laborers on J.'s Farm--His Defiance--A
Fierce Skirmish--J.'s Flight--Massacre of Fleeing Blacks--Eight
Colored Men taken from the County Jail at Troy--Their Fate a
Mystery 116

CHAPTER XIII.

KU-KLUX LAW.

Any person, under color of law, etc., of any State, depriving
another of any rights, etc., secured by the Constitution of the
United States, made liable to the party injured, 7034--Penalty for
conspiring, by force, to put down the government of the United
States, etc., 7035--Conspirator's doing, etc., any act in
furtherance of the object of the conspiracy, and injuring another,
liable to damages therefor, 7035--What to be deemed a denial by
any State to any class of its people of their equal protection
under the laws, 7036 125

CHAPTER XIV.

THE K. K. K. IN LOUISIANA.

Adventists--How they Practised on the Parasitical Blacks--A Little
Power is a Dangerous Thing--The Political Situation in '67--The
State Press--The Order of K. K. K. in Louisiana--When the
Government Officials were first Notified of its Presence--The
Feeling in Grant Parish--Riot Growing out of a Personal
Difficulty--Blacks Entrenched in the Court-House at Colfax--
Parley--Negroes Refuse to Surrender--A Second Defiance--Building
Fired--Massacre and Termination of the Bloody Affair--Statistics
of Losses in the Fight--Who were Responsible--The White League or
Camelias--Occupied the K. K. K. Basis in Externals--New Orleans
Riots--Their Effect on the Returning Boards--Coushatta--K. K. K.
in Texas--Border History Uneventful 134

CHAPTER XV.

TALLY-HO!

The Situation in Georgia--Some Things which may be Explained--
Negro Criminals--Taking Refuge in the Ocmulgee Swamps--Ku-Klux
Ambushed--A Terrible Oath--Uncle Jack B.--"Nigger Dogs" in the
"Goober State"--Uncle Jack Interviewed by the Ku-Klux--What
came of it--Getting Ready for the Chase--A Pack of "Negro Dogs"
described--In the Swamps--The Opening Chorus--A Warm Trail--
Disappointment--The Lull is Past--A Last Effort--Another Crime
added to the Calendar--A fresh Start--At Bay--Tragical Scene 143

CHAPTER XVI.

THE "SHAMS."

The Klan in South Carolina--Officious Interference in Politics--
Atrocious Performances of Men in Masks--The "Shams," or
Counterfeit Editions of K. K. K.--How Organized--Their Vocabulary
of Crime--South Carolina Fanatics--How the "Sham" Movement
Affected the K. K. K.--A Resolution of _sine die_ Adjournment--
K. K. K. Horrors on the Increase--Rotten-Egg Battalions--Citizens
sometimes took the Execution of the Law into their Own Hands--A
Case in Point 154

CHAPTER XVII.

A MORAL POINTED.

Experiments in Metaphysics--An Anecdote Dealing with the
Characteristics of some People--Another--Peculiarities of the
Caucasian--Ditto of the African--An "Awakening" among the Children
of the New Abrahamic Covenant--"Brudder Jones's Preechin'"--What it
Wrought--The Pale-Faced Settlers in Distress--An "Artifice" of
Retrenchment--Eloquent Discourse--Nineteenthly, and what followed--
K. K. K. _redivivus_--"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching,
etc."--A Break for Tall Timber 161

CHAPTER XVIII.

K. K. K. AS A FACTOR IN POLITICS.

Late Announcement of the Earl of Beaconsfield before an Assembly
of Englishmen--The Secret Societies of Europe--True Status with
Regard to Current Politics--Combining the Offices of Regulator and
_Vigilante_ with that of Politician--Its Generical Belongings--Few
Friends Unconnected with its Patronage--Negative Issue which it
Introduced into the Great Campaign--Occupying a Voice in Southern
Counsels--Unprincipled Plagiaries--Dangerous Sentimentalism
Awakened at the North 172

CHAPTER XIX.

THE LAST OF THE K.'S.

A Popular Fallacy--Karl Konstant Kain, Esq.--Awaiting Events--An
Intricate Subject for the Hospitals and Doctors--Getting Even
with the Latter--Yellow Jack on a Raid--K. K. K., Esq. in his
Prison Cell--Promoted to the Hospital--An Uncommon Defiance--K.
Konstant Kain struggles back to Shore--"Do not Weep"--A Critical
Moment--A New Cast and entire Change of Scenery--"Gruel" did it--
Waited upon by a Deputation of Citizens--"Young Man, Go West"--
The New Orleans Pest-House--Konfounded, Krooked Konundrum 180

CHAPTER XX.

CONCLUSION 189

KU-KLUX SKETCHES.