Experiments in Metaphysics--An Anecdote Dealing with the Characteristics of some People--Another--Peculiarities of the Caucasian--Ditto of the African--An "Awakening" among the Children of the New Abrahamic Covenant--"Brudder Jones's Preechin'"--What it Wrought--The Pale-Faced Settlers in Distress--An "Artifice" of Retrenchment--Eloquent Discourse--Nineteenthly, and what followed-- K. K. K. _redivivus_--"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching, etc."--A Break for Tall Timber 161 CHAPTER XVIII. K. K. K. AS A FACTOR IN POLITICS. Late Announcement of the Earl of Beaconsfield before an Assembly of Englishmen--The Secret Societies of Europe--True Status with Regard to Current Politics--Combining the Offices of Regulator and _Vigilante_ with that of Politician--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 172 CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST OF THE K.'S. A Popular Fallacy--Karl Konstant Kain, Esq.--Awaiting Events--An Intricate Subject for the Hospitals and Doctors--Getting Even with the Latter--Yellow Jack on a Raid--K. K. K., Esq. in his Prison Cell--Promoted to the Hospital--An Uncommon Defiance--K. Konstant Kain struggles back to Shore--"Do not Weep"--A Critical Moment--A New Cast and entire Change of Scenery--"Gruel" did it-- Waited upon by a Deputation of Citizens--"Young Man, Go West"-- The New Orleans Pest-House--Konfounded, Krooked Konundrum 180 CHAPTER XX. CONCLUSION 189 KU-KLUX SKETCHES. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Terms of Southern Surrender in the War of the Rebellion--Candor of Paroled Troops--"Lee's Ragamuffins"--Generals Grant's and Sherman's Proposed Amnesty--The "Rump Congress" and Disfranchisement--What the Latter meant--Issues which the War Settled--How these were Revived by the Pending Congress--Anarchy in the South--The Loyal League.