CHAPTER XII.

KU-KLUX HORRORS IN TENNESSEE.

The Klan Outlawed--A Rash Act of one of its Dens--Negro Insurrectionists Placed in the Jail at Trenton--Subsequent Massacre--Detectives in Pursuit--Members of the Order Indicted-- Efforts to Convict the Accused--Affair in Obion--Why these Horrors are Classed as Twin Editions--Description of Madrid Bend--K. K. K. Transactions in this Remote Quarter--Planters' Jealousy--Message from Mr. J. to the Leaders of the Party-- Cool Treatment it Received--The K.'s Declare their Intention of Punishing one of the Laborers on J.'s Farm--His Defiance--A Fierce Skirmish--J.'s Flight--Massacre of Fleeing Blacks--Eight Colored Men taken from the County Jail at Troy--Their Fate a Mystery 116