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Speech of Hon. Bones Button before the State Council of the 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 ’67—The State Press—The Order of K. K. K. in Louisiana—When the Government Officials were first Notified of its Presence—The Feeling in Grant Parish—Riot Growing out of a Personal Difficulty—Blacks Entrenched in the Court-House at Colfax—Parley—Negroes Refuse to Surrender—A Second Defiance—Building Fired—Massacre and Termination of the Bloody Affair—Statistics of Losses in the Fight—Who were Responsible—The White League or Camelias—Occupied the K. K. K. Basis in Externals—New Orleans Riots—Their Effect on the Returning Boards—Coushatta—K. K. K. in Texas—Border History Uneventful   134   CHAPTER XV. TALLY-HO! The Situation in Georgia—Some Things which may be Explained—Negro Criminals—Taking Refuge in the Ocmulgee Swamps—Ku-Klux Ambushed—A Terrible Oath—Uncle Jack B.—“Nigger Dogs” in the “Goober State”—Uncle Jack Interviewed by the Ku-Klux—What came of it—Getting Ready for the Chase—A Pack of “Negro Dogs” described—In the Swamps—The Opening Chorus—A Warm Trail—Disappointment—The Lull is Past—A Last Effort—Another Crime added to the Calendar—A fresh Start—At Bay—Tragical Scene   143   CHAPTER XVI. THE “SHAMS.” The Klan in South Carolina—Officious Interference in Politics—Atrocious Performances of Men in Masks—The “Shams,” or Counterfeit Editions of K. K. K.—How Organized—Their Vocabulary of Crime—South Carolina Fanatics—How the “Sham” Movement Affected the K. K. K.—A Resolution of sine die Adjournment—K. K. K. Horrors on the Increase—Rotten-Egg Battalions—Citizens sometimes took the Execution of the Law into their Own Hands—A Case in Point   154   CHAPTER XVII. A MORAL POINTED. Experiments in Metaphysics—An Anecdote Dealing with the Characteristics of some People—Another—Peculiarities of the Caucasian—Ditto of the African—An “Awakening” among the Children of the New Abrahamic Covenant—“Brudder Jones’s Preechin’”—What it Wrought—The Pale-Faced Settlers in Distress—An “Artifice” of Retrenchment—Eloquent Discourse—Nineteenthly, and what followed—K. K. K. redivivus—“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching, etc.”—A Break for Tall Timber   161   public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@33324@[email protected]#CHAPTER_XVIII"