  CHAPTER VII The Frenzy of a Nation CHAPTER I The First Lady of the Land CHAPTER VI The Gauge of Battle CHAPTER IX The King Amuses Himself CHAPTER I A Fallen Slaveholder's Mansion CHAPTER II The Eyes of the Jungle CHAPTER IV At the Point of the Bayonet CHAPTER V Forty Acres and a Mule CHAPTER VI A Whisper in the Crowd CHAPTER VII By the Light of a Torch CHAPTER VIII The Riot in the Master's Hall CHAPTER XI The Beat of a Sparrow's Wing CHAPTER XII At the Dawn of Day CHAPTER I The Hunt for the Animal CHAPTER III The Parting of the Ways CHAPTER IV The Banner of the Dragon CHAPTER V The Reign of the Klan CHAPTER VII The Snare of the Fowler CHAPTER VIII A Ride for a Life CHAPTER IX " Vengeance Is Mine " THE CLANSMAN The Illustrations Shown in This Edition Are Reproductions of Scenes from the Photo-Play of “The Birth of a Nation” Produced and Copyrighted by The Epoch Producing Corporation, to Whom the Publishers Desire to Express Their Thanks and Appreciation for Permission to Use the Pictures. THE REIGN OF THE KLAN THE CLANSMAN AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN BY THOMAS DIXON AUTHOR OF THE LEOPARD’S SPOTS, COMRADES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH SCENES FROM THE PHOTO-PLAY THE BIRTH OF A NATION PRODUCED AND COPYRIGHTED BY EPOCH PRODUCING CORPORATION GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK Copyright, 1905 By Thomas Dixon, Jr. THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. TO THE MEMORY OF A SCOTCH-IRISH LEADER OF THE SOUTH My Uncle, Colonel Leroy McAfee GRAND TITAN OF THE INVISIBLE EMPIRE KU KLUX KLAN TO THE READER “The Clansman” is the second book of a series of historical novels planned on the Race Conflict. “The Leopard’s Spots” was the statement in historical outline of the conditions from the enfranchisement of the negro to his disfranchisement. “The Clansman” develops the true story of the “Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy,” which overturned the Reconstruction rÉgime. The organization was governed by the Grand Wizard Commander-in-Chief, who lived at Memphis, Tennessee. The Grand Dragon commanded a State, the Grand Titan a Congressional District, the Grand Giant a County, and the Grand Cyclops a Township Den. The twelve volumes of Government reports on the famous Klan refer chiefly to events which occurred after 1870, the date of its dissolution. The chaos of blind passion that followed Lincoln’s assassination is inconceivable to-day. The revolution it produced in our Government, and the bold attempt of Thaddeus Stevens to Africanize ten great States of the American Union, read now like tales from “The Arabian Nights.” I have sought to preserve in this romance both the letter and the spirit of this remarkable period. The men who enact the drama of fierce revenge into which I have woven a double love story are historical figures. I have merely changed their names without taking a liberty with any essential historic fact. In the darkest hour of the life of the South, when her wounded people lay helpless amid rags and ashes under the beak and talon of the Vulture, suddenly from the mists of the mountains appeared a white cloud the size of a man’s hand. It grew until its mantle of mystery enfolded the stricken earth and sky. An “Invisible Empire” had risen from the field of Death and challenged the Visible to mortal combat. How the young South, led by the reincarnated souls of the Clansmen of Old Scotland, went forth under this cover and against overwhelming odds, daring exile, imprisonment, and a felon’s death, and saved the life of a people, forms one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of the Aryan race. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Dixondale, Va. December 14, 1904. CONTENTS
LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY Scene: Washington and the Foothills of the Carolinas. Time: 1865 to 1870.
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