the Earl of Beaconsfield before an Assembly
of Englishmen--The Secret Societies of Europe--True Status with
Regard to Current Politics--Combining the Offices of Regulator and
_Vigilante_ with that of Politician--Its Generical Belongings--Few
Friends Unconnected with its Patronage--Negative Issue which it
Introduced into the Great Campaign--Occupying a Voice in Southern
Counsels--Unprincipled Plagiaries--Dangerous Sentimentalism
Awakened at the North 172

CHAPTER XIX.

THE LAST OF THE K.'S.

A Popular Fallacy--Karl Konstant Kain, Esq.--Awaiting Events--An
Intricate Subject for the Hospitals and Doctors--Getting Even
with the Latter--Yellow Jack on a Raid--K. K. K., Esq. in his
Prison Cell--Promoted to the Hospital--An Uncommon Defiance--K.
Konstant Kain struggles back to Shore--"Do not Weep"--A Critical
Moment--A New Cast and entire Change of Scenery--"Gruel" did it--
Waited upon by a Deputation of Citizens--"Young Man, Go West"--
The New Orleans Pest-House--Konfounded, Krooked Konundrum 180

CHAPTER XX.

CONCLUSION 189

KU-KLUX SKETCHES.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

Terms of Southern Surrender in the War of the Rebellion--Candor of
Paroled Troops--"Lee's Ragamuffins"--Generals Grant's and Sherman's
Proposed Amnesty--The "Rump Congress" and Disfranchisement--What the
Latter meant--Issues which the War Settled--How these were Revived by
the Pending Congress--Anarchy in the South--The Loyal League.

The treaty concluded between the conquered and conquering States at the
close of the late civil war, while arranging all external differences and
disarming physical resistance, yet did not provide for certain
contingencies arising from the ethics of the dispute, which were destined
to exert a powerful influence over the destinies of the American people.
Undoubtedly the Southern troops surrendered their standards, and accepted
the conqueror's amnesty in good faith, and we can but believe that their
allegiance to the restored Union--which had been promptly tendered--would
have been crowned with this condition but for the disposition manifested
by the civil power to review the pledges of its ambassadors in the field,
and interpose supplementary conditions that could have no other beneficial
effect than might be supposed to re