CHAPTER VII.

DETAILS OF ORGANIZATIONS.

A Band of Regulators whose Force at this time numbered a Half Million well-organized and perfectly Drilled Men--Who composed its Draft--Considerations which recommended it to the Better Classes of Society--Its Haunts--Oath-bound Covenant, and Penalties attached--Galloping forth to Predestined Conquest--It proceeded under a rigid Constitutional System--Territorial Subdivisions--Empire--Realm--Province--Den--Grand Wizard and his Cabinet--Grand Giant--The Commander of a Den--Grand Cyclops-- Night-Hawks, etc.--How Members were Initiated--Proposed Initiates might Retire if Displeased with the Conditions of Membership--How far the Klan was "Rebel" in its Draft--Members of the State Legislatures, Congressmen, and Governors of States, took its Vows upon them--Its Political Suffrages--Compelling Ignorant Colored Men to relinquish the Franchise--K. K. K. Placards--Empty Coffins containing Ukase of Banishment Carted to the Doors of Obnoxious White Citizens--Its Ideas of Social Decorum 71