The Nation's Peril.: Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation.Anonymous
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The Nation's Peril.: Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation.
Anonymous
Campaign literature, 1872 -- Republican; Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Scores of similar cases might be cited, all of which are matters of public
record, but those above given, serve to show, that the Order of the Ku
Klux Klan, is inimical to religion and education, as well as to the
politics of those differing with them in their avowed opposition to
Republicanism, and their adherence to the Democratic party. These gallant
defenders of the white man's race were determined that no Government but
the white man's should live in the country, and these results they hoped
to obtain through the banishment, scourging and killing of negroes,
Radicals and Republicans, by which means also, with the aid of their
sympathizers at the North, they expected to have a Democratic
Administration.
WARNINGS AND EDICTS OF THE KLAN.
It would seem to have been the design of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klans,
in issuing their warnings, to play as much as possible upon the
superstitions of the people. These documents were written in a disguised
hand, sometimes in coarse language, and contained sentiments intended to
inspire terror in the minds of the recipients.
They were usually bordered with designs, representing daggers piercing
bleeding hearts, death's heads and cross bones, and various grotesque
devices. Some of them had a spice of grim humor, which, although fun to
the Klan who issued these missives, meant banishment, scourging or death
to those who received them. Specimens of these, the originals of which
fell into the hands of the United States Officials during their attempts
to break up the Ku Klux organization are here given _verbatim et
literatim_.
Five persons residing in White County, Georgia, having made themselves
politically obnoxious to the Klan, received the following:--
"READ THE CONTENTS, K. K. K.
O ye, horsemen of Manassas. Bounce, ye dead men that is now living on
earth. We are the men that I am talking about. We are of K. K. K. Now
Sandy Holcumb, Green Holcumb, Daniel McCollum, and E. Dickson, your
days are numbered. We shot the old Belt weather[2] a little too low.
We aimed to shoot him through the heart; and if you don't all get
away from this country very soon, your Radical hearts will be shot
out of you, and we had just as leave shoot you as for you to get
away.
K. K. K."
The parties named in the above warning did not leave, as the United States
Officials came into the county about that time and arrested nearly one
hundred members of the Camp from which the document was issued.
At Irwington, Ga., the colored people determined upon holding a
"protracted meeting," and colored preachers assembled there from all
quarters. The meetings are described as having been most orderly, but they
were deemed inimical to the interests of the Ku Klux, and the following
warning was issued and posted near the place of meeting.
"K. K. K.
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