carcass in the sun on the Square, or the benches of the
Mayor's Court.

He waiteth for the troubling of the political waters, to the end
that he may step in and be healed of the itch by the ointment of
office. For office he 'bums' as a toper 'bums' for the
satisfying dram. For office, yet in prospective, he hath
bartered respectability; hath abandoned business, and ceased to
labor with his hands, but employs his feet kicking out
boot-heels against lamp post and corner curb, while discussing
the question of office

THE FATE OF THE CARPETBAGGER AND THE SCALAWAG

Cartoon by Ryland Randolph in _Independent Monitor_, September 1,
1868.]

TO THE PUBLIC

K. K. K.

TAKEN BY HABEAS CORPUS.

In silence and secrecy thought has been working, and the benignant
efficacies of concealment speak for themselves. Once again have we
been forced by force to use _Force_. Justice was lame, and she had to
lean upon us. Information being obtained that a "doubting Thomas," the
inferior of nothing, the superior of nothing, and of consequence the
equal of nothing, who has neither eyes to see the scars of oppression,
nor ears to hear the cause of humanity, even though he wears the
Judicial silk, had ordered some guilty prisoners from Union to the
City of Columbia, and of injustice and prejudice, for an _unfair trial
of life_; thus clutching at the wheel-spokes of destiny--then this
thing was created and projected; otherwise it would never have been.
We yield to the inevitable and inexorable, and account this the
_best_. "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth," is our
motto.

We want peace, but this cannot be till justice returns. We want and
will have justice, but this cannot be till the bleeding fight of
freedom is fought. Until then the Moloch of Iniquity will have his
victims, even if the Michael of Justice must have his martyrs.

K. K. K.[59]

ANOTHER KU KLUX PROCLAMATION.[60]

The following document was discovered on yesterday morning posted on
the "legal advertisement" board hanging at the court-house door. We
have examined the original and find it is in the same handwriting as
the one left with the jailer on the night of the late raid on the
jail:

HEADQUARTERS K. K. K, DEPARTMENT OF S. C.,

_General Orders No. 49._

_From the G. G. C., S. S._

We delight not in speech, but there is language which, when meant in
ear