reat Grand Cyclops of
Nashville, Tennessee, in which case execution of the sentence can be
stayed until pardoning power is heard from.

ARTICLE VII.

SECTION 1. Any member who shall betray or divulge any of the matters
of the order shall suffer death.

ARTICLE VIII.

SECTION 1. The following shall be the rules of any order to any matter
herein not provided for; shall be managed in strict accordance with
the Ku Klux rules.

SEC. 2. When the chief takes his position on the right, the scribe,
with the members forming a half-circle around them, and at the sound
of the signal instrument there shall be profound silence.

SEC. 3. Before proceeding to business, the scribe shall call the roll
and note the absentees.

SEC. 4. Business shall be taken up in the following order:

1. Reading the minutes.

2. Excuse of members at preceding meeting.

3. Report of committee of candidates for membership.

4. Collection of dues.

5. Are any of the order sick or suffering?

6. Report of committees.

7. New business.

APPENDIX IV.

KU KLUX ORDERS, WARNINGS
AND OATHS

KU KLUX ORDERS, WARNINGS, OATHS.

KU KLUX KLAN.

ALERT!

(Crossed muskets)
(and pistol.) (Spade ax ax.)

ALERT! ALERT!

T T T T T T T T T T T

The B. G. C. of the K. K. K. is in town. You who know the signal of
his presence and have seen it be on the _alert_. You who do not--to a
brother--_mark the nail of the finger and the_ (?) must be organized
in the future. _Traitors_ to their race _will not always flemish like
the bay. Dimity marks them. Look out. And meet at the cave where the
Greased Lightning Slumbers._

By order of the
B. G. C.
In Pro., Per.

D. W. S.
Forerunner.[57]

KU KLUX.

Serpent's Den--Death's Retreat
Hollow Tomb--Misery Cave of the
Great Ku Klux Klan, No. 1,000.
Windy Month--Bloody Moon,
Muddy Night--Twelfth Hour.

_General Orders No. 1._

Make ready! Make ready! Make ready!

The mighty hobgoblins of the Confederate dead in Hell-a-Bulloo
assembled!

Revenge, Revenge!

Be secret, be cautious, be terrible!

By special grant, Hell freezes over for your passage. Offended ghosts,
put on your skates, and cross over to mother earth!

Work! Work!! Work!!!
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Ye white men who stick to black, soulless beasts! the time arrives for
you to part. Q. W. X. W. V. U.,