Chapter I. The Origin 47 Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan 68 Chapter III. The Transformation 83 Chapter IV. The Decline 100 Chapter V. Disbandment 125 APPENDICES. PAGE Appendix I. Prescript of Ku Klux Klan 133 Appendix II. Revised and Amended Prescript of Ku Klux Klan 151 Appendix III. Constitution of a Local Order 177 Appendix IV. Ku Klux Orders, Warnings, and Oaths 187 Index 199 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Badge worn by high officials of the Klan. See outside cover. PAGE 2. Some Klansmen 19 3. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard 28 4. General John B. Gordon 33 5. Room in which the Klan was organized 53 6. Costumes worn in Mississippi and West Alabama 58 7. Costumes worn in Tennessee and North Alabama 97 8. Carpetbaggers Listening to a Ku Klux Report, (Cartoon) 113 9. The Fate of the Carpetbagger and the Scalawag, (Cartoon) 192 10. A Specimen Warning sent by the Klan 196 "When laws become lawless contrivances to defeat the ends of justice, it is not surprising that the people resort to lawless expedients for securing their rights."--_S.S. Cox, in "Three Decades," p. 558._ INTRODUCTION BY WALTER L. FLEMING INTRODUCTION. By WALTER L. FLEMING, Ph. D., Professor of History in West Virginia University.