CHAPTER II.

CAUSES OF THE K. K. K. MOVEMENT.

Situation Produced by the War--Discontented Partisans--The War District in the South--Words of a Northern Tourist--The Curse of Slavery--President Johnson--How the Work of Reconstruction was Inaugurated--The Law-making Power vested in Dummy Legislatures-- Disfranchisement--Enfranchisement--The Color Issue which these Measures brought--A Singular Peace Policy--The War of the Conservatives in the South against Radicalism did not Revive Issues concluded by the late Civil Struggle, as the latter Boasted--Loyal Epithets--"Traitor," "Guerilla," "Southern Bandit," etc.--The Shamelessness of the State Officials--The Uneducated Negro a Law-giver--Organization of the Loyal League-- Some of its Peculiarities--The K. K. K. Movement as an Offset to the League 18