the greyhound in connection
with his more legitimate prey in the good old days of "academicia," he
declines to state just how many furlongs the panic-stricken multitude had
traversed, when a gloaming of red in the east warned them that they had
nothing further to fear from the "nocturnal beasts," who had obtruded
their heathenish "doxullumgy" on the late exercises, and will not commit
himself as to the sequel, further than to say that the results of the
"great awakening" were soon after visible in a certain rejoicing tendency
of the cotton plant and pumpkin vine of that fertile region.

CHAPTER XVIII.

K. K. K. AS A FACTOR IN POLITICS.

Late Announcement of the Earl of Beaconsfield before an Assembly of
Englishmen--The Secret Societies of Europe--Men of Influence in the
Southern States Disclaim the alleged Good Offices of the Klan in the
Work of Southern Redemption--Its True Status with Regard to Current
Politics--Combining the Offices of Regulator and _Vigilante_ with
that of Politician--An Absolutist in all Society Matters--Many who
advance the Idea that that Complete Renovation of the Social System
Effected through its Means could not have been Accomplished in the
Use of less Radical Measures--Inhuman Butcheries, etc., Figments of
the Scalawag Imagination--Many of its Acts were Lawless, etc.--A
Logical Presentation of the True Theory--How it Injured the Common
Cause--Its Generical Belongings--Few Friends Unconnected with its
Patronage--Negative Issue which it Introduced into the Great
Campaign--Occupying a Voice in Southern Counsels--Unprincipled
Plagiaries--Dangerous Sentimentalism Awakened at the North--What the
Imaginative Prose of the News-Reporter was Calculated to Do--How it
(K. K. K.) Prolonged the "Carpet-Bag" Reign of Terror.

The late announcement of the Earl of Beaconsfield (Mr. D'Israeli), before
an assembly of Englishmen, that the pending war against Turkey was the war
of the secret societies of Europe, conducted through Prince Milan, as
their agent, may induce incredulous persons to give greater heed to the
statement which we here make that the movement inaugurated by the secret
order known as the Ku-Klux-Klan was a war against radicalism as it
formerly existed in the Southern States, waged through its ... allies. If
the English premier speaks truth, there is a strong probability that the
secret purveyors to