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

CHAPTER XV.

TALLY-HO!

The Situation in Georgia--Some Things which may be Explained--
Negro Criminals--Taking Refuge in the Ocmulgee Swamps--Ku-Klux
Ambushed--A Terrible Oath--Uncle Jack B.--"Nigger Dogs" in the
"Goober State"--Uncle Jack Interviewed by the Ku-Klux--What
came of it--Getting Ready for the Chase--A Pack of "Negro Dogs"
described--In the Swamps--The Opening Chorus--A Warm Trail--
Disappointment--The Lull is Past--A Last Effort--Another Crime
added to the Calendar--A fresh Start--At Bay--Tragical Scene 143

CHAPTER XVI.

THE "SHAMS."

The Klan in South Carolina--Officious Interference in Politics--
Atrocious Performances of Men in Masks--The "Shams," or
Counterfeit Editions of K. K. K.--How Organized--Their Vocabulary
of Crime--South Carolina Fanatics--How the "Sham" Movement
Affected the K. K. K.--A Resolution of _sine die_ Adjournment--
K. K. K. Horrors on the Increase--Rotten-Egg Battalions--Citizens
sometimes took the Execution of the Law into their Own Hands--A
Case in Point 154

CHAPTER XVII.

A MORAL POINTED.

Experiments in Metaphysics--An Anecdote Dealing with the
Characteristics of some People--Another--Peculiarities of the
Caucasian--Ditto of the African--An "Awakening" among the Children
of the New Abrahamic Covenant--"Brudder Jones's Preechin'"--What it
Wrought--The Pale-Faced Settlers in Distress--An "Artifice" of
Retrenchment--Eloquent Discourse--Nineteenthly, and what followed--
K. K. K. _redivivus_--"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching,
etc."--A Break for Tall Timber 161

CHAPTER XVIII.

K. K. K. AS A FACTOR IN POLITICS.

Late Announcement of