By his utter self abnegation and his preference for the welfare of the masses rather than the political aggrandisement of a few leaders, he has acquired the most malevolent partizan opposition ever encountered by any Chief Magistrate of the Nation. By the strong voices of the people reverberating over the country, and by the more recent utterances from the granite hills of New Hampshire, the thrifty valleys of Connecticut, the loyal voters of Rhode Island, his policy is endorsed and his future political status insured. FOOTNOTES: [1] The Night Hawk is an attache of the Ku Klux Camp, whose business it is to scour about, and locate the victims upon whom visitations are ordered to be made. [2] Alluding to the shooting of a Mr. Cason a few days before. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "transspires" corrected to "transpires" (page 24) "Deacon's" corrected to "Deason's" (page 44) "of of" corrected to "of" (page 47) "straighforward" corrected to "straightforward" (page 67) "rise rise" corrected to "rise" (page 138) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.