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id: 26105
author: Anonymous
title: The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member
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  New districts, however, are being constantly added. A special instruction to the Brothers detailed for the formation of a new band, is, that if the persons selected for initiation refuse any of the oaths, or falter in their devotion to the cause, they are to be killed on the spot.


id: 41007
author: Burton, Annie Cooper
title: The Ku Klux Klan
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words: 7033
sentence: 321
flesch: 68
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  The Tribunal for the trial of the Grand Wizard shall be composed of at least seven Grand Dragons, to be convened by the senior Grand Dragon upon charges being preferred against the Grand Wizard; which Tribunal shall be organized and presided over by the senior Grand Dragon =present=; and if they find the accused guilty, they shall prescribe the penalty, and the senior Grand Dragons of the Empire shall cause the same to be executed. Sec. In the event of a vacancy in the office of Grand Wizard, by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, the senior Grand Dragon of the Empire shall immediately assume and enter upon the discharge of the duties of the Grand Wizard, and shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of said office until the same shall be filled by election; and the said senior Grand Dragon, as soon as practicable after the happening of such vacancy, shall call a convention of the Grand Dragons of the Realms, to be held at such time and place as in his discretion he may deem most convenient and proper.


id: 29942
author: Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox)
title: A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia
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sentence: 414
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summary:
  I should do great injustice to Mr. Dikes, Mr. Souber, and Mr. Crawford, and their sympathising friends, the author and inspirers of the above letter, were I to say, or convey the impression, that they were worse men than their neighbors. Mr. Williams states that Mr. Souber came to his house some two or three weeks ago, and told him he must get out of the house and leave the place, that he had charge of it now, that he was going to fence in the grounds and raise a crop in and around the stockade, and that he would not let any body live there but those that worked the place.


id: 35976
author: Cook, Ezra A. (Ezra Asher)
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words: 19327
sentence: 917
flesch: 68
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title:
  Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed Attitude toward Jews, Catholics, Foreigners and Masons. Fraudulent Methods Used. Atrocities Committed in Name of Order.

summary:
  Ku Klux Klan Knights of Beaumont, Texas, issue a justification for taking the law into Their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan has set itself above the constitution.


id: 35771
author: Damer, Eyre
title: When the Ku Klux Rode
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sentence: 1135
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  With the imposition of the constitution began the reign of the carpetbagger--demon of discord and anarchy--and the negro, and the infliction of the horrors of reconstruction; a civil convulsion in which the foundations of society were broken up; a vast sluice of ignorance and vice was opened; a race which never had evolved anything of its own motion was given the ballot, the highest right of American citizenship, and never regarded it as more than a personal perquisite, while white men of the highest type were disqualified from voting by the constitution of their state; negroes were made eligible to all offices, while the federal Constitution deprived the people of the wisdom, knowledge and experience in office of former leaders at a time when they were most needed. Next day, when they entered Livingston, they were confronted by a body of white men, who told them they would not be permitted to retain their guns while in town and must take them back to the camp.


id: 35579
author: Anonymous
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title:
  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.

summary:
  After the close of the rebellion and as a measure of concession to the turbulent spirits by whom he was surrounded, he employed white men to do his labor. They complain that the civil government of the Southern States had passed into the hands of carpet-baggers, who had been forced upon them, who were engaged in plundering the people, encouraging the negroes to pillage and destroy the property of the country, and placing them in positions where they could rule over white men.


id: 33324
author: Beard, James Melville
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title:
  K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it.

summary:
  The horses of the raid were powerful specimens of their race, and furnished with all those _cap-a-pie_ appointments of K. K. K. regalia that were prominent in other departments of the expedition. Each individual wore about his waist, in addition to the scarf to which we have called attention, a belt supporting two large army pistols, in scabbards; and on the flaps of the latter, embroidered in white characters, appeared the devices of the order--skull and cross-bones, and mystical K. K. K. The banners which were three in number, and carried at intervals in the procession, were of black silk, supporting in the centre two lions rampant on either side of the regulation skull and cross-bones, and on the right, left, and middle, at top, the mystic K. Absolute stillness reigned over the weird column, no man being permitted to speak, even in a whisper, while the large bridle-bits, Texas spurs, and other appendages of a cavalry outfit likely to create alarm in passing through quiet neighborhoods were carefully muffled.


id: 31819
author: Lester, John C.
title: Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
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sentence: 2507
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  Loyalty, meaning of, 125 Lynch Law, by Cutler, cited, 15 M. McCallum, James, a member, 21 McCoy, Capt. Thomas, a member, 21 McCord, Frank O., one of the founders of the Klan, 20, 37; first Grand Cyclops, 21; Laps D., prints the Prescripts, 38; L.W., editor of the Pulaski Citizen, a Ku Klux newspaper, 38 McKissick, Alex., a member, 21 Magi, Grand, 57; duties, 141, 162; how elected, 143, 165 Martial law proclaimed in Tennessee, 128 Masonic order, 25 Members, admission of, 102, 147, 170; expulsion, 149, 174; none ever arrested, 106 Methods employed by the Klan, 91, 96, 97, 187-196 Militia law of Tennessee, 124 Mississippi, Klan extends to, 70; costumes worn in, 43, 58 Minnis, J.A., testimony, 80 Mitchell, Capt. Robert, a member, 21 Monk, Grand, 86; duties, 141, 163; how elected, 143, 165 Montgomery Mail, cited, 189 Moore, John A., a member, 21 Morton, Capt. John W., a member, 21, 26; initiates General Forrest, 27 Motto, on ensign, 147 N. Name of the order, selection of, 53, 55; influence of name on the career of the order, 55, 56, 136, 154 Nashville Convention of the Klan, 84, 89; adopts Prescript, 33 Nashville Den drowns a detective, 67 Negro equality, Klan opposed to, 171 Negro members of the Klan, 26 Negro troops, conduct of, 32 Negroes, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 31, 32; conduct of, 77; frightened by Klan, 97-99 Nelson, J.L., a member, 21 Newspapers forbidden to print Ku Klux notices, 41, 130 Night Hawks, the staff of a Cyclops, 86, 136, 156, 161, 164 Nihilists, 25 North Carolina, a local order in, 177-186 Number of members, 30, 95 O. Oaths and obligations, 146, 147, 171, 172, 197, 198 Officials of the Klan, duties, 85, 86; how elected, 143, 165 Order issued by the Grand Dragon of Tennessee, 109-111 Orders and warnings sent by the Klan, 40, 41, 187-196 Origin of Ku Klux Klan, 47-67 Outrages attributed to the Klan, 105 P. Pale Faces, 18; Gen. Forrest a member of, 30 Parades of the Klan, 44, 91-95 Pearcy, Capt. J.L., a member, 21; owns a Revised and Amended Prescript, 40 Penalty for betrayal of secrets, 149, 176 Pettus, Gen. Edmund W, 33, 80 Pike, Gen. Albert, chief judicial officer, 27 Principles of the Klan, 87, 88, 171, 182 Province, or county, 85, 136, 156 Pulaski, Tennessee, description of, 50; conditions in 1865, 52; Ku Klux Klan founded there, 16, 53; Ku Klux parade, 91-95 Pulaski Den, origin and membership, 19-21, 53, 57, 61 Prescripts, 16, 30, 36, 87, 88; original, adopted at Nashville Convention, 37, 40, 133-150; Revised and Amended, 37, 38, 40, 151-176; an imperfect copy used by a local order, 39, 177-186; sold by Grand Wizard, 137, 145, 157, 169; dedication, 150, 176; Amendment, 147, 173; Register, 148, 176 Purpose of the original Den, 22 Q. Quotations, poetical, in original Prescript, 135; Latin, in the Prescripts, _passim_, 133-176 R. Radical Republican party, 171 Radicals in Ku Klux disguise, 105 Randolph, Ryland, 26, 40; quoted, 99, 104; author of orders and warnings, 41, 190-192; publishes cartoon of Coon and Sibley, 43, 113 Realm, or state, 85, 136, 156 Reconstruction Acts, 71, 84 Reconstruction of the Constitution, by J.W. Burgess, cited, 113 Reconstruction in Mississippi, by J.W. Garner, cited, 49 Reed, Richard R., one of the founders, 20, 21; on committee to choose a name for the order, 53 Regalia and records of Klan destroyed, 129 Register of the Prescript, 41, 148, 176 Regulators, 71, 73, 106 Results of the Ku Klux Movement, 35 Revenue of the Klan, 145, 168 Revised and Amended Prescript, 38, 151-176 Ritual of Pulaski Den, 54, 57 Rose, W.H., a member, 21 S. Saunders, Early Settlers of Alabama, quoted, 96 Scotch-Irish descent of the members of the Klan, 21, 23 Screws, Capt. B.H., Loil Legislature, cartoon from, 43, 113 Scribe, of a local order, 179 Scribe, Grand, 86; duties, 142, 164 Secrets of the Klan, 148, 174; penalty for betrayal of, 149, 176 Sentinel, Grand, 86; duties, 143, 164 Shapard, I.L. and Robt., members, 21, 38 Sibley and Coon, carpetbaggers, 43, 113 South Carolina, local order in, 177-186; warnings sent by Klan in, 193-196 Southern Society of New York, owns a Revised and Amended Prescript, 40 Spofford, Judge H.M., residence used by Klan 54 Staff officers, 86, 164 State Guards of Tennessee, 123 Stubbs, Mrs. Elizabeth, in Early Settlers of Alabama, quoted, 96 T. Taxes levied in Klan, 145, 169 Tennessee, conditions in, 17, 29; the Klan in 51, 70, 95; Confederates disfranchised, 88; State Guards, 123; Militia law, 124; order of a Grand Dragon, 109-111; Anti-Ku Klux law, 113-123 Term of office, 144, 165 Texas, Klan extends to, 70 Three Decades, by S.S. Cox, quoted, 11 Titan, Grand, ruler of a Dominion, 86; duties, 138, 159; how elected, 143; appointed, 158 Titles of officials, 136, 155 Tories, 24, 77 Tourgee, Invisible Empire, cited, 18 Transformation of the Klan, 71, 83-99 Tribunal of Justice, 166 Tugenbund, 25 Turk, Grand, 57, 86; duties, 142, 163; office first held by Major J.R. Crowe, 21 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Klan at, 42 U. Understanding of Appomattox, violated, 34 Union League, a cause of the Ku Klux Movement, 24, 29, 31, 79-81, 125 Unionists, 24, 26, 77 University of Alabama, 42 V. Vehmgericht, 25 Voorheis, Milton, a member, 21 W. Warnings sent by the Klan, 40, 43, 196 Washington Post, cited, 67, 95 Waters, Dr. M.S., a member, 21 Webster's Unabridged Pictorial, cited, 147 Weekly Union Times, cited, 193, 194, 196 White Brotherhood, 18 White Camelia, 18 White League, 18 White Man's Government, 171 Wilson, Rev. D.L., one of the authors of the History of Ku Klux Klan 15, 16, 17, 19; article in Century Magazine cited, 53, 84 Wizard, Grand, 85; duties, 136, 157; how elected, 143, 165, 166; term of office, 144, 165; disbands the Klan, 128-130 Y. Yahoos, Grand Council of, 144 Yorkville Enquirer, cited, 195 Young Italy, 25 * * 11 Crawford, F.M., a member, 21 Creed of the Klan, 136, 154 Crowe, Major James R., one of the founders of the Klan, 19; first Grand Turk, 21; statement in regard to origin of the Pulaski Den, 22; one of committee to prepare a constitution and a ritual, 54 Cutler, Lynch Law, cited, 15 Cyclops, Grand, an official of the Klan, 57; ruler of a Den, 86; duties, 140, 161; election of, 143; appointment of, 160; in a local order, 179 Cypher Code, 148, 176 (See also Register.) D. Decline of the Klan, 100-127; causes of, 103 Dedication of Prescript, 150, 176 Den, the lowest division of the Order, 85, 136, 157; at Pulaski, Tennessee, 19-21, 53 Disbandment of the Klan, 27, 52, 112, 128-130 Divisions of the Invisible Empire of Ku Klux Klan, 156 Documents Relating to Reconstruction, cited, 18, 79 Dominions or Congressional Districts, 85, 136, 156 Dracovolans, or Flying Dragon, 147 Dragon, Grand, ruler of a Realm, 86; duties, 138, 158; how elected, 143; appointed, 157 Duties of officials, 136-143, 157-165 E. Edicts, or By-laws of the Order, 148, 174 Empire, The, 136, 156 Ensign, Grand, duties, 143 Ensign or banner of the Ku Klux Klan, 147 Exchequer, Grand, or treasurer, 57, 86; duties, 142, 163; how elected, 143; appointed, 157-161 Expansion of the Klan's territory, 68-82, 156 Expulsion of members, 149, 174 F. Fleming, W.L., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, cited, 49, 79, 113 Flying Dragon, 147 Force Laws, effect on Klan, 125, 126 Forrest, Gen. Nathan Bedford, Grand Wizard, 26, 27, 28; testimony before Ku Klux Committee of Congress, 28-30, 80; his estimate of the number of members, 95; his opinion of the character of members, 65; belongs to the order of Pale Faces, 30; disbands the Klan, 27, 52, 112, 128-130 Founders of the Klan, 19 Furies, the staff of the Grand Titan, 86, 136, 156, 159, 164 Fussell, Col. Joseph, a member, 27 G. Garner, J.W., Reconstruction in Mississippi, cited, 49 Garrett, Dr. W.R., makes plates used on pages 153-176 40 Genii, the staff of the Grand Wizard, 85, 136, 155, 157 164 Georgia, candidates in Georgia, 31 Ghouls, private members, 136, 156; elect officials 143, 165 Giant, Grand, ruler of a Province, duties, 139, 160; how elected, 143; appointed 159 Giles County, Tennessee 50 Goblins, 136, 156, 160, 164 Gordon, Gen. John B., 26, 27, 33; testimony before the Ku Klux Committee of Congress, 30-33, 80, 105 Grand Army of the Republic 171 Grant, Gen. U.S., magnanimity of,


id: 26240
author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
title: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
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summary:
  Most of them were old men, who sat in grim silence with nothing to do or say as they watched the rising black tide, their dignity, reserve, and decorum at once the wonder and the shame of the modern world. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks.


id: 36666
author: Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
title: The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South
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  He paused and a black court attendant led out and placed in line against the weatherbeaten walls fifty or sixty inmates of the County Poor House--all of them white men and women. He knew that every paper in the state read by white men and women would copy it and he already felt in his heart the reflex thrill of its call to his people.


