3rd. Are you opposed to the principles and policy of the Radical party,
and to the Loyal League, and the Grand Army of the Republic, so far as
you are informed of the character and purposes of these organizations?
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 Government in this country?
=Cave quid, dicis, quando, et cui.=
. . .
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 Constitutional rights of the
South?
9th. Are you in favor of the re-enfranchisement 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 exercise of arbitrary and unlicensed power?
If the foregoing interrogatories are satisfactorily answered, and the
candidate desires to go further (after something of the character and
nature 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 officer of the deep secrecy to
which the oath already taken has bound him, and that the extreme penalty
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 solemnly swear or affirm, that I will never reveal to any one,
not even a member of the Order of the * * *, by any intimation, sign,
symbol, word or act, or in any
=Nemo tenetur seipsum accura.=
. . .
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 explain to the new member
the character and objects of the Order, and introduce him to the
mysteries 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.
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