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.