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 whom he refers will achieve their aim, and be crowned with the same reflected glory that has availed to cover a multitude of sins in the instance of the American order, though reflecting people, who take into account the incentives to such measures, can but regard them as intermeddlers of a very base stamp. The cause of religious liberty on the Turkish frontier will not be benefited by this revelation; and, continuing the analogy, there are few men of influence in the Southern States who do not make it a point, whenever occasion offers, to disclaim the alleged good offices of the Klan in the work of Southern redemption. We have before intimated that, in one of these States, the cause of the allied Democrats and Republicans did receive essential aid from this source, and while we shall not enter into any such exegesis of the question as would show just how far the common cause was aided or retarded by the secret measure, we must be permitted to record a belief that its influence was commonly hurtful.