CHAPTER VIII.

K. K. K. CUSTOMS.

The Klan never did its Work by Halves--How General Orders were Transmitted--Form of General Order--Its Imbroglios with the League--Avoided Conflict with United States Troops--League Informers--K. K. K. Intimidation of Witnesses--_Memento Mori_-- Crusade of the Ermined Ranks--The Klan a Bitter Enemy of those Unorganized Parties of Ruffians who made War on their kind in the former's Name--Its Right to Borrow Sympathy on this Exchange a Grave Question of Doubt--Vendettas Conducted against the "Shams." 80