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 t