rude
crescents, are dropped about where they will attract the attention of
the Brothers, while no one else will notice them.

It must be understood that the companies never meet to discuss any
proposition. That is done without a general meeting, which is only
called when some initiation is to take place, or when some action
requiring the whole or part of the band has been decided on.

A general rallying cry is provided for cases of emergency, as, for
instance, if a party of Brothers were engaged in any expedition, and
should encounter such resistance as to make aid necessary. The cry is:
"THE CROSS! THE CROSS! THE CROSS!" I never knew this cry to be used, but
when the time comes for active and extended operations in cities, it
will be.

THE WORK DONE.

In the code of the Brothers of the Southern Cross, every loyal
Southerner is a traitor, and every loyal Northerner is a born enemy.
The command is to "smite every vulnerable point," and enough is
published every week to show that "vulnerable points" are found every
day, when the Brothers put an enemy out of the way. Details are made
from the companies when the death of any person has been decided on.
The precise time for the act is never given with the order--the
Brothers wait the favorable moment for their work of Silence and
Darkness. Always enough men are detailed to cover all possible
contingences of ordinary resistance. When once detailed for such
service, a Brother is never free until it is done, even if no
opportunity occurs for months.

Every State in the South has its perfect organization of these
Brothers, and the order is yet in its infancy. Members are at work in
the Northern border States, organizing among those who are Southern
born, or who are known to side with the South against the North. This
is the principal point where the "lurid flames" are to be brought to
the aid of the South, though the Brothers have already been in every
Northern city of any prominence and accessibility. The "pestilence"
will go broadcast over the whole North; how, may be readily imagined
from the events of the late war.

Any favorable opportunity during the impeachment proceeding, or
afterward, would see this slumbering volcano throughout the South
burst forth with frightful violence. Impeachment, or the coming
presidential election, will, it is calculated, furnish an opportunity
when the national power will be so embarrassed as to allow the new
outbreak to get h