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The Project Gutenberg EBook of K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic, by James Melville Beard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South Author: James Melville Beard Release Date: August 2, 2010 [EBook #33324] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK K. K. K. SKETCHES, HUMOROUS *** Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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. BY JAMES MELVILLE BEARD. PHILADELPHIA: CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, 624, 626 & 628 MARKET STREET. 1877. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. J. FAGAN & SON, STEREOTYPERS, PHILAD'A. Selheimer & Moore, Printers, 501 Chestnut Street. INSCRIBED TO Messrs. Geo. C. Reeler and H. R. and J. M. Park, BOTH AS A MARK OF THE AUTHOR'S ESTEEM AND A TESTIMONIAL OF GENEROUS AID RENDERED DURING THE PROGRESS OF THE "SKETCHES." PREFACE. These sketches are placed before the public without other apology for their appearance than may be found in that demand for information on the subject treated which renders a work of the character a positive necessity of the times. The secret political movement here introduced to the reader has contributed more to the sensational character of American politics, and, at the same time, proven a more influential factor in those political questions with which we have dealt as a people, than any or all contemporaneous issues. And yet nothing has been written on the theme bearing a just proportion thereto,--absolutely nothing,--if we subtract the unknown qu
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