CHAPTER XIV.

THE K. K. K. IN LOUISIANA.

Adventists--How they Practised on the Parasitical Blacks--A Little Power is a Dangerous Thing--The Political Situation in '67--The State Press--The Order of K. K. K. in Louisiana--When the Government Officials were first Notified of its Presence--The Feeling in Grant Parish--Riot Growing out of a Personal Difficulty--Blacks Entrenched in the Court-House at Colfax-- Parley--Negroes Refuse to Surrender--A Second Defiance--Building Fired--Massacre and Termination of the Bloody Affair--Statistics of Losses in the Fight--Who were Responsible--The White League or Camelias--Occupied the K. K. K. Basis in Externals--New Orleans Riots--Their Effect on the Returning Boards--Coushatta--K. K. K. in Texas--Border History Uneventful 134