ry of the detective police, that among the
beneficiaries of crime must be sought the perpetrators, one would
conclude that the radical leaders prompted the assassination of Lincoln
and the murder of negroes; for they alone derived profit from these
acts.

From this time forth the entire white race of the South devoted itself
to the killing of negroes. It appeared to be an inherent tendency in a
slave-driver to murder a negro. It was a law of his being, as of the
monkey's to steal nuts, and could not be resisted. Thousands upon
thousands were slain. Favorite generals kept lists in their pockets,
proving time, place, and numbers, even to the smallest piccaninny. Nay,
such was the ferocity of the slave-drivers, that unborn infants were
ripped from their mothers' wombs. Probably these sable Macduffs were
invented to avenge the wrongs of their race on tyrants protected by
Satanic devices from injury at the hands of Africans of natural birth.
Individual effort could not suffice the rage for slaughter, and the
ancient order of "assassins" was revived, with an "Old Man" of the
swamps at its head. Thus "Ku-Klux" originated, and covered the land with
a network of crime. Earnest, credulous women in New England had their
feelings lacerated by these stories, in which they as fondly believed as
their foremothers in Salem witches.

As crocodiles conceal their prey until it becomes savory and tender and
ripe for eating, so the Radicals kept these dark corpses to serve up to
the public when important elections approached, or some especial
villainy was to be enacted by the Congress. People who had never been
south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers knew all about this "Ku-Klux"; but
I failed, after many inquiries, to find a single man in the South who
ever heard of it, saving in newspapers. Doubtless there were many acts
of violence. When ignorant negroes, instigated by pestilent emissaries,
went beyond endurance, the whites killed them; and this was to be
expected. The breed to which these whites belong has for eight centuries
been the master of the earth wherever it has planted its foot. A handful
conquered and holds in subjection the crowded millions of India. Another
and smaller bridles the fierce Caffre tribes of South Africa. Place but
a score of them on the middle course of the Congo, and they will rule
unless exterminated; and all the armies and all the humanitarians can
not change this, until the appointed time arrives for Ham to d