4th. Did you belong to the Federal army during the late war, and fight against the South during the existence of the same? 5th. Are you opposed to negro equality, both social and political? 6th. Are you in favor of a white man's gov- ernment in this country? [Header: _Nemo tenetur seipsum accusare._ 20] 7th. Are you in favor of Constitutional liberty, and a Government of equitable laws instead of a Government of violence and oppression? 8th. Are you in favor of maintaining the Con- stitutional rights of the South? 9th. Are you in favor of the re-enfranchise- ment and emancipation of the white men of the South, and the restitution of the Southern people to all their rights, alike proprietary, civil, and political? 10th. Do you believe in the inalienable right of self-preservation of the people against the ex- ercise of arbitrary and unlicensed power? If the foregoing interrogatories are satisfacto- rily answered, and the candidate desires to go further (after something of the character and na- ture of the Order has thus been indicated to him) and to be admitted to the benefits, mysteries, secrets and purposes of the Order, he shall then be required to take the following final oath or obligation. But if said interrogatories are not satisfactorily answered, or the candidate declines to proceed further, he shall be discharged, after being solemnly admonished by the initiating offi- cer of the deep secresy to which the oath already taken has bound him, and that the extreme pen- alty of the law will follow a violation of the same. FINAL OBLIGATION. "I ---- of my own free will and accord, and in the presence of Almighty God, do sol- emnly swear or affirm, that I will never reveal to [Header: _Deo adjuvante, non timendum._ 21] any one not a member of the Order of the * * *, by any intimation, sign, symbol, word or act, or in any other manner whatever, any of the secrets, signs, grips, pass-words, or mysteries of the Order of the * * *, or that I am a member of the same, or that I know any one who _is_ a member; and that I will abide by the Prescript and Edicts of the Order of the * * * So help me God." The initiating officer will then proceed to ex- plain to the new members the character and ob- jects of the Order, and introduce him to the mys- teries and secrets of the same; and shall read to him this Prescript and the Edicts thereof, or present the same to him for personal perusal. ARTICLE VIII. AMENDMENTS.