Situation Produced by the War--Discontented Partisans--The War District in the South--Words of a Northern Tourist--The Curse of Slavery--President Johnson--How the Work of Reconstruction was Inaugurated--The Law-making Power vested in Dummy Legislatures-- Disfranchisement--Enfranchisement--The Color Issue which these Measures brought--A Singular Peace Policy--The War of the Conservatives in the South against Radicalism did not Revive Issues concluded by the late Civil Struggle, as the latter Boasted--Loyal Epithets--"Traitor," "Guerilla," "Southern Bandit," etc.--The Shamelessness of the State Officials--The Uneducated Negro a Law-giver--Organization of the Loyal League-- Some of its Peculiarities--The K. K. K. Movement as an Offset to the League 18 CHAPTER III. THE KLAN. A Stirring Episode--Raising the Dead--Night-Hawk Abroad--Moving toward the Rendezvous--Grand Cyclops of Den No. 5--Forming the Magic Circle--K. K. K. Drill--On the March--The _Tout Ensemble_ of a Raiding Body--Weird Costuming--Banners Inscribed with the K. K. K. Escutcheon--How the Scene Impressed Beholders 29 CHAPTER IV. SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING K. K. K. Impressions after a K. K. K. Raid--Will Morning never come?-- Conjectures Regarding the Subject in the Minds of those who should have been Prepared to Render an Opinion--What Superstitious People thought--The Mill Council--K. K. K. Arraigned on various Charges, and Acquitted for Want of Testimony--The Subject an Enigma--Man a Superstitious Animal 38 CHAPTER V. K. K. K. DEALINGS WITH THE LOYAL LEAGUE. A Train which brought Welcome Passenger--Caucusing in the Open Air a Dangerous Proceeding--Correct Surmises--An Old Church, Bequeathed from Generation to Generation, and Liable to many Uses--Brothers and Sisters all--The L. L. in full Bloom--Storm succeeded by a Calm--Weird Visitors--What they left behind them-- Sudden Panic--The Rally--Still in Doubt--The Chairman's Stratagem--How it didn't Work--Despondent Leaguers taught to Act for Themselves. 49 CHAPTER VI. GHOST FEATURE OF THE MOVEMENT. ITS PHILOSOPHY.