Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and DisbandmentLester, John C.
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
Lester, John C.
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
By order of the Great
BLUFUSTIN.
G. S. K. K. K.
A true copy,
Peterloo.
P. S. K. K. K.
KU KLUX.
Hollow Hell, Devil's Den, Horrible
Shadows. Ghostly Sepulchre.
Head Quarters of the Immortal Ate
of the K. K. K. Gloomy month. Bloody
Moon. Black Night, Last Hour.
_General Orders No. 3._
Shadowed Brotherhood! Murdered heroes!
Fling the bloody dirt that covers you to the four winds! Erect thy
Goddess on the banks of the Avernus. Mark well your foes! Strike with
the red hot spear! Prepare Charon for his task!
Enemies reform! The skies shall be blackened! A single Star shall look
down upon horrible deeds! The night owl shall hoot a requiem o'er
Ghostly Corpses!
Beware! Beware! Beware!
The Great Cyclops is angry! Hobgoblins report! Shears and lash! Tar
and Feathers! Hell and Fury!
Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!
Bad men! white, black, yellow, repent!
The hour is at hand! Be ye ready! Life is short. J. H. S. Y. W.!!!
Ghosts! Ghosts!! Ghosts!!!
Drink thy tea made of distilled hell, stirred with the lightning of
heaven, and sweetened with the gall of thine enemies!
All will be well!!!
By order of the Great
BLUFUSTIN.
G. S. K. K. K.
A true copy,
Peterloo.
P. S. K. K. K.[58]
[Illustration:
Prospective scene in the "City of Oaks," 4th of March, 1868.
"Hang, curs, hang! * * * * * _Their_ complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to _their_
hanging! * * * * * If they be not born to be hanged,
our case is miserable."
The above cut represents the fate in store for those great pests
of Southern society--the carpet-bagger and scallawag--if found
in Dixie's Land after the break of day on the 4th of March next.
The genus carpet-bagger is a man with a lank head of dry hair, a
lank stomach and long legs, club knees and splay feet, dried
legs and lank jaws with eyes like a fish and mouth like a shark.
Add to this a habit of sneaking and dodging about in unknown
places--habiting with negroes in dark dens and back streets--a
look like a hound and the smell of a polecat.
Words are wanting to do full justice to the genus scallawag. He
is a cur with a contracted head, downward look, slinking and
uneasy gait; sleeps in the woods, like old Crossland, at the
bare idea of a Ku-Klux raid.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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