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K. K. K. sketches, humorous and didactic : $b treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a discussion of the causes which gave rise to it, and the social and political issues emanating from it.Beard, James Melville

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K. K. K. sketches, humorous and didactic : $b treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a discussion of the causes which gave rise to it, and the social and political issues emanating from it.

Name: K. K. K. sketches, humorous and didactic : $b treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a discussion of the causes which gave rise to it, and the social and political issues emanating from it.
Author: Beard, James Melville

Beard, James Melville

Ku Klux Klan (19th century)

Misgovernment in Tennessee--The Loyal League and the State
  Administration--The K. K. K. an Outgrowth of the Conditions which
  the former Inspired--Rapid Development of the Order on Tennessee
  Soil--Its Purposes of Revenge--Legislation on the Subject--
  Militia called out and Detectives Employed--The State pronounced
  a Ku-Klux Barracks--A Simultaneous Uprising of the K. K. K.
  throughout the State and Concerted Raids against the L. L.
  Rendezvous in various Neighborhoods--Military Accomplishments of
  the Grand Wizard--Subcommanders in Charge of the Expedition--
  Capture of Secret Papers--Ku-Klux Hollow-square--Oath administered
  to Captives                                                           88


  CHAPTER X.

  THE LOYAL LEAGUE IN COUNCIL.

  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.

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K. K. K. sketches, humorous and didactic : $b treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a discussion of the causes which gave rise to it, and the social and political issues emanating from it.

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