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Title: The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan.
A Full Expose. By A Late Member

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 22, 2008 [EBook #26105]

Language: English

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THE

K. K. K.

[Illustration: THE CONSECRATING BOWL.]

EXPOSED!

BY A MEMBER.

THE OATHS,
SIGNS, CEREMONIES AND OBJECTS
OF THE
KU-KLUX-KLAN.

A FULL EXPOSE.

BY A LATE MEMBER.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

CLEVELAND.
1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, in the Clerk's
Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern
District of Ohio.

PERSONAL.

It does not matter who is the writer of the following pages. If it did,
no inducement likely to be offered, would tempt him to publish his name.
He has no desire to be tracked out by the Brothers of the Southern
Cross, and he knows too much of their deathless hatred and hound-like
pertinacity, their numbers, and the ramifications of their organization,
already encroaching on southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to
carelessly take the slightest risk of anything of the kind.

It is due to the public, however, that one who pretends to make an
exposure like this, in which the whole nation is interested, should
offer some plausible explanation of the means by which he became
possessed of the information. For this explanation the reader is
referred to the narrative following.

As to the truthfulness of the exposure, the writer is content to leave
its vindication to the events of the future, confident that so far as
the workings of the K. K. K. are ever discovered, they will confirm the
main facts as given here. Of course there are many minor points on which
it is