Contrasted Views of the Organization inspired by its Dealings with the Public--The Colored Man in the South--Kindly Feeling for the Race cherished by Native Southerners--Households Presided over by Colored Matrons--Superstitious Tendencies of Cuffey--His Ideas about "Ghosts," and the Realm which they Inhabit--Spook Kinsfolk--The ideal "Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Wherein it was a Failure--The "Infantile Sex" and their Greed for Ghost-lore-- Painful Reminiscences--Use to which the Aged Patriarch, or Beldam, as the Case might be, put their Prerogative--Talent for relating Ghost Stories--The Young White Men of the South trained up in this School 61 CHAPTER VII. DETAILS OF ORGANIZATIONS. A Band of Regulators whose Force at this time numbered a Half Million well-organized and perfectly Drilled Men--Who composed its Draft--Considerations which recommended it to the Better Classes of Society--Its Haunts--Oath-bound Covenant, and Penalties attached--Galloping forth to Predestined Conquest--It proceeded under a rigid Constitutional System--Territorial Subdivisions--Empire--Realm--Province--Den--Grand Wizard and his Cabinet--Grand Giant--The Commander of a Den--Grand Cyclops-- Night-Hawks, etc.--How Members were Initiated--Proposed Initiates might Retire if Displeased with the Conditions of Membership--How far the Klan was "Rebel" in its Draft--Members of the State Legislatures, Congressmen, and Governors of States, took its Vows upon them--Its Political Suffrages--Compelling Ignorant Colored Men to relinquish the Franchise--K. K. K. Placards--Empty Coffins containing Ukase of Banishment Carted to the Doors of Obnoxious White Citizens--Its Ideas of Social Decorum 71 CHAPTER VIII. K. K. K. CUSTOMS. The Klan never did its Work by Halves--How General Orders were Transmitted--Form of General Order--Its Imbroglios with the League--Avoided Conflict with United States Troops--League Informers--K. K. K. Intimidation of Witnesses--_Memento Mori_-- Crusade of the Ermined Ranks--The Klan a Bitter Enemy of those Unorganized Parties of Ruffians who made War on their kind in the former's Name--Its Right to Borrow Sympathy on this Exchange a Grave Question of Doubt--Vendettas Conducted against the "Shams." 80 CHAPTER IX. THE KLAN IN TENNESSEE.