he Loyal
League--What followed--Amusing Contretemps 97

CHAPTER XI.

EFFECTS PRODUCED. A PERIOD OF ALARM.

Excitement throughout the State--Scenes at the Capitol--Government
Officials Notified of the Extent of the Disaster--A Quorum of the
Legislative or Judicial Bodies not Attainable--No Departures from
the City--The K. K. K. Cabal Receiving that Attention from
Caucusing Legislators which its Importance Demanded--A Mob at the
State-House--At Sunset the Situation Unchanged--A Sortie from the
Capitol--Mobs along the Route--Seeking Refuge from the Excited
Populace--Out of Danger--The New Situation--An Ugly Specimen of
the Genus Ku-Klux--The Governor Recovers from the Attitude of a
Suppliant--An Amusing Episode 107

CHAPTER XII.

KU-KLUX HORRORS IN TENNESSEE.

The Klan Outlawed--A Rash Act of one of its Dens--Negro
Insurrectionists Placed in the Jail at Trenton--Subsequent
Massacre--Detectives in Pursuit--Members of the Order Indicted--
Efforts to Convict the Accused--Affair in Obion--Why these
Horrors are Classed as Twin Editions--Description of Madrid
Bend--K. K. K. Transactions in this Remote Quarter--Planters'
Jealousy--Message from Mr. J. to the Leaders of the Party--
Cool Treatment it Received--The K.'s Declare their Intention of
Punishing one of the Laborers on J.'s Farm--His Defiance--A
Fierce Skirmish--J.'s Flight--Massacre of Fleeing Blacks--Eight
Colored Men taken from the County Jail at Troy--Their Fate a
Mystery 116

CHAPTER XIII.

KU-KLUX LAW.

Any person, under color of law, etc., of any State, depriving
another of any rights, etc., secured by the Constitution of the
United States, made liable to the party injured, 7034--Penalty for
conspiring, by force, to put down the government of the United
States, etc., 7035--Conspirator's doing, etc., any act in
furtherance of the object of the conspiracy, and injuring another,
liable to damages therefor, 7035--What to be deemed a denial by
any State to any class of its people of their equal protection
under the laws, 7036 125

CHAPTER XIV.

THE K. K. K. IN LOUISIANA.

Adventists--How they Practised on the Parasitical Blacks--A Little
Power is a Dangerous Thing--The Political Situation in '