ch hemp.
Beware. Beware. Beware. Beware.

(Signed) "PHILLIP ISENBAUM,
"_Grand Cyclops_.
"JOHN BANKSTOWN.
"ESAU DAVES.
"MARCUS THOMAS.
"BLOODY BONES.

"You know who. And all others of the Klan."

WARNING SENT BY THE KLAN

From Ku Klux Report, Alabama Testimony.]

THE OATH.[63]

I, before the great immaculate God of heaven and earth, do take and
subscribe to the following sacred binding oath and obligation: I
promise and swear that I will uphold and defend the Constitution of
the United States as it was handed down by our forefathers in its
original purity. I promise and swear that I will reject and oppose the
principles of the radical party in all its forms, and forever maintain
and contend that intelligent white men shall govern this country. I
promise and pledge myself to assist, according to my pecuniary
circumstances, all brothers in distress. Females, widows, and their
households shall ever be specially in my care and protection. I
promise and swear that I will obey all instructions given me by my
chief, and should I ever divulge or cause to be divulged any secrets,
signs or pass-words of the Invisible Empire, I must meet with the
fearful and just penalty of the traitor, which is death, death, death,
at the hands of my brethren.[64]

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I, T. A. Hope, before the Great Immaculate Judges of Heaven and Earth,
and upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, do, of my own free will
and accord, subscribe to the following sacred, binding obligation:

I. I am on the side of justice and humanity, and constitutional
liberty as bequeathed to us by our forefathers in its original purity.

II. I reject and oppose the principles of the radical party.

III. I pledge aid to a brother of the Ku Klux Klan in sickness,
distress, or pecuniary embarrassments; females, friends, and widows,
and their households shall be the special object of my care and
devoted protection.

IV. Should I ever divulge, or cause to be divulged, any of the secrets
of this order, or any of the foregoing obligations, I must meet with
the fearful punishment of death and traitor's doom, which is death,
death, death, at the hands of the brethren.[65]

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