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es--The K. K. K. Movement as an Offset to the League 18 CHAPTER III. THE KLAN. A Stirring Episode--Raising the Dead--Night-Hawk Abroad--Moving toward the Rendezvous--Grand Cyclops of Den No. 5--Forming the Magic Circle--K. K. K. Drill--On the March--The _Tout Ensemble_ of a Raiding Body--Weird Costuming--Banners Inscribed with the K. K. K. Escutcheon--How the Scene Impressed Beholders 29 CHAPTER IV. SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING K. K. K. Impressions after a K. K. K. Raid--Will Morning never come?-- Conjectures Regarding the Subject in the Minds of those who should have been Prepared to Render an Opinion--What Superstitious People thought--The Mill Council--K. K. K. Arraigned on various Charges, and Acquitted for Want of Testimony--The Subject an Enigma--Man a Superstitious Animal 38 CHAPTER V. K. K. K. DEALINGS WITH THE LOYAL LEAGUE. A Train which brought Welcome Passenger--Caucusing in the Open Air a Dangerous Proceeding--Correct Surmises--An Old Church, Bequeathed from Generation to Generation, and Liable to many Uses--Brothers and Sisters all--The L. L. in full Bloom--Storm succeeded by a Calm--Weird Visitors--What they left behind them-- Sudden Panic--The Rally--Still in Doubt--The Chairman's Stratagem--How it didn't Work--Despondent Leaguers taught to Act for Themselves. 49 CHAPTER VI. GHOST FEATURE OF THE MOVEMENT. ITS PHILOSOPHY. Contrasted Views of the Organization inspired by its Dealings with the Public--The Colored Man in the South--Kindly Feeling for the Race cherished by Native Southerners--Households Presided over by Colored Matrons--Superstitious Tendencies of Cuffey--His Ideas about "Ghosts," and the Realm which they Inhabit--Spook Kinsfolk--The ideal "Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Wherein it was a Failure--The "Infantile Sex" and their Greed for Ghost-lore-- Painful Reminiscences--Use to which the Aged Patriarch, or Beldam, as the Case might be, put their Prerogative--Talent for relating Ghost Stories--The Young White Men of the South trained up in this School 61 CHAPTER VII. DETAILS OF ORGANIZATIONS. A Band of Regulators whose Force at this time numbered a Half Million well-organized and perfectly
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