  | | PAGE | | CHAPTER I. | | INTRODUCTORY. | | Terms of Southern Surrender in the War of the Rebellion—Candor of Paroled Troops—“Lee’s Ragamuffins”—Generals Grant’s and Sherman’s Proposed Amnesty—The “Rump Congress” and Disfranchisement—What the Latter meant—Issues which the War Settled—How these were Revived by the Pending Congress—Anarchy in the South—The Loyal League | | 13 | | | CHAPTER II. | | CAUSES OF THE K. K. K. MOVEMENT. | | Situation Produced by the War—Discontented Partisans—The War District in the South—Words of a Northern Tourist—The Curse of Slavery—President Johnson—How the Work of Reconstruction was Inaugurated—The Law-making Power vested in Dummy Legislatures—Disfranchisement—Enfranchisement—The Color Issue which these Measures brought—A Singular Peace Policy—The War of the Conservatives in the South against Radicalism did not Revive Issues concluded by the late Civil Struggle, as the latter Boasted—Loyal Epithets—“Traitor,” “Guerilla,” “Southern Bandit,” etc.—The Shamelessness of the State Officials—The Uneducated Negro a Law-giver—Organization of the Loyal League—Some of its Peculiarities—The K. K. K. Movement as an Offset to the League | | 18 | | | CHAPTER III. | | THE KLAN. | | A Stirring Episode—Raising the Dead—Night-Hawk Abroad—Moving toward the Rendezvous—Grand Cyclops of Den No. 5—Forming the Magic Circle—K. K. K. Drill—On the March—The Tout Ensemble of a Raiding Body—Weird Costuming—Banners Inscribed with the K. K. K. Escutcheon—How the Scene Impressed Beholders | | 29 | | | CHAPTER IV. | | SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING K. K. K. | | Impressions after a K. K. K. Raid—Will Morning never come?—Conjectures Regarding the Subject in the Minds of those who should have been Prepared to Render an Opinion—What Superstitious People thought—The Mill Council—K. K. K. Arraigned on various Charges, and Acquitted for Want of Testimony—The Subject an Enigma—Man a Superstitious Animal | | 38 | | | CHAPTER V. | | K. K. K. DEALINGS WITH THE LOYAL LEAGUE. | | A Train which brought Welcome Passenger—Caucusing in the Open Air a Dangerous Proceeding—Correct Surmises—An Old Church, Bequeathed from Generation to Generation, and Liable to many Uses—Brothers and Sisters all—The L. L. in full Bloom—Storm succeeded by a Calm—Weird Visitors—What they left behind them—Sudden Panic—The Rally—Still in Doubt—The Chairman’s Stratagem—How it didn’t Work—Despondent Leaguers taught to Act for Themselves. | | 49 | | | CHAPTER VI. | | GHOST FEATURE OF THE MOVEMENT. ITS PHILOSOPHY. | | Contrasted Views of the Organization inspired by its Dealings with the Public—The Colored Man in the South—Kindly Feeling for the Race cherished by Native Southerners—Households Presided over by Colored Matrons—Superstitious Tendencies of Cuffey—His Ideas about “Ghosts,” and the Realm which they Inhabit—Spook Kinsfolk—The ideal “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”—Wherein it was a Failure—The “Infantile Sex” and their Greed for Ghost-lore—Painful Reminiscences—Use to which the Aged Patriarch, or Beldam, as the Case might be, put their Prerogative—Talent for relating Ghost Stories—The Young White Men of the South trained up in this School | | 61 | | | 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 Administr
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