The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 08, 1905, Image 8
THE STORY OF 1
KU KLUX KLAN.j
1
(Continued from tirst page.)
ingr of the order or took any
active part in its work, except as'
an elder counsellor of wisdom and 1
mode-ration to its chosen leaders,
l?ut his name was a tower of strength.1
He is and always was a man of |
pi-ace and a lover of order. Ib-saw'
the war begin with infinite sorrow.
He is a man of large patriotic views,
though an ardent Southerner, lie!
e ones of the stoek that created this;
Republic*. His grandfather, i.t. j
Colonel Frederick llamhright, was
a member of the Continental (' ngress
and commanded a regiment of
Kevolutii nary patriot- at the battle
of Kings-Mountain. He is today a
venerable minister of Christ, who
in a ministry of sixty years has
built twentv nourishing churches
iii I'iedmont, North Carolina. 11 *
know and dreaded the dangerous
power of a see rot oath-hound political
order. Ho wont into it reluctantly.
Ho joined with every other
mini-tor in tin* county, only became
it was the lard re.- rt ? t despair
to save society Irom the intoh
rahle cm,-e of Negro dominion,
insolence, and crime.
Hut for Mr. Steven- there never
would have heen a I'nion League,
and hut for the I'nion League there
never would have heen a Ku Klu\
K lan.
Mr. Laps I). Met'ord of Tennessee
is another man whos* portrait
si-arcely hears out the d -eriptr n of
a "desperado." Clansman Met'ord
was the printer in the ollioo of the
Hula.-ki t iti/en, who-et the type,
printed and >titehed the cotnpleto
edition c f tlie Kitual of the order.
He never knew until voars after the
author of tlu* manuscript, or from
whose hands ho received it. llo
got one day an anonymous lot tor
t lling him to roinovo tho middle
1 lick in tho spare honoath a certain
window in his printing oilier. He
did so and found that tho hriok in
the center of tho wall had hoen
taken out and in it.- place lay a roll
of manuscript containing the Kit vial
of the '"Invisible Kmpiiv." No
name appeared in the title. It was
merely marked with three stars.
Ho was instructed to print and hind
in the night and on a certain date
between the hours of one and two
a. nu, to place the bundle of complete
copies outside the door. He
did as ordered and unseen hands
bore them away in the darkness.
CHARACTER AND OBJECTS OT
THi. ORDER.
Tins is an institution of
Chivalry, Humanity, Mercy,
ami Patriotism: embody inn
in its aenius and its principles
all that is chivalrio in
conduct, noble in sentiment,
generous in manhood, and
patriotic in nurpose; its peculiar
objects being
First To pr< toct the weak,
the innocent, and the de]
fenseb'ss, fiom the indignities,
wrongs, and outrages of I
the lawless, the violent, and
the brutal: to relieve the injured
and oppressed: to sue ;
cor the suffering and unfortunate,
and especially the !
widows and orphans of Confederate
soldiers.
Second: To protect and defend
the Constitution of the
C nited States, and all laws
j passed in conformity thereto,
and to protect the States and
the people thereof from all 1
invasion from any -ource
whatever.
Third: To aid and assist in
the execution of all constitutional
laws, and to protect
the people from unlawful .
; seizure, and from trial except
hy their peers in conformity
to the laws of the land.
AKTICLK I.
TITI.KS.
Suction I. The ollicers of
this Order shall consist of a
Grand Wizard of the Kmpire,
ami his ten Genii; a Grand
Dragon of the Deal in,
I
I -S| M11. K <>l I 11 K KIRsr I'Ai.K Ol THK
RITFAI. Ol T11K KC KM \ KI.AN,
The only two copies of this Ritual
known to exist, are to he found in
the Library of ('nlunihia College and
the archives of the State of Tennessee,
Its author is General George
\\ . Gordon of Memphis.
Dr. I.andnun is a graduate of
I'.rown I'niversity, Providence,
Rhode Island, and is a type of the
hoys of extreme youth who formed
the rank and lile of the Klan; daring
young knights of the South they
were, who rode with their life in
their hands, a song on their lips
and the scorn of death in their
souls.
An extract from a letter written
to mo by the Rev. Dr. J. A. Clifton
of Orangeburg, S. ('., gives bis official
rank: "I was the Grand
Cyclops of the Last Chester Den and
my territory was very large. Dr.
H rat ton of York was the Cyclops
adjoining me, and we were compelled
to do many severe things in
those days to protect our homes. X
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fear 1 was almost a savage in keeping
savages in tluir places, but I
felt it was my duty."' This territory
is the immediate scene of my
novel ''The Clansman."
One' of the most interesting
figures in the inner history of the
Klan i-1 that ??f IIon..lolm \V. Morton,
the present Secretary of State
of Tennessee, who was(ieneral Forl-i-ct
v: nf o vfillovv Poln .**><1 I
hoyish in appearance, he was in
fact hut a ixiy, yet ho won the utmost
confidence of the General,
who relief 1 on him as Stuart did on
lVlham, and Leo on Jackson. Forrest
called him the "little hit of a
j kind with a great hig backbone."
j When the rumors of the Ku Klux
Klan first spread over Tennessee,
| Forrest was quirk to see its possibilities.
lie went immediately to
Nashville to lind his young chief <?f
artillery.
"Morton," he said, "1 hear this
1 Klan i- organized in Nashville, and
j I know you're in it. I want to
I join."
j The youngster fenced, smiled and
gave vague answers.
The General swore a little and
said: "Shut up, you can't fool
mc. If this thing s in Nashville,
I you re in it, and I'm going to get
in if 1 kick the floor flown. Its ap(
peal to tic terror of the Negro ami
I it- profound secrecy, if linked with
| wise leadership and merciless daring
at the proper moment, will saw
the Sf nth! "
The young man avoided the issue
and took his old commander for a
rifle. Forrest persisted in his questions
ahout the Klan, and the youth
i ki i?t -miling and changing the suh|iect.
On reaching a dense woods
in a -collided valley outside tin- city,
Morton suddenly turned on his
former leader, and said:
'< leneral, h.old up your right
hand' *
Forrest did as lie was ordered,
and thr youth, trembling with excitement
and liis eyes misty with
tears, solemly administered the preliminary
oath of the order.
That night the general was made
a full dedged clansman and was
soon elected (J rand Wizard of the
Km pi re.
Forrest was so elated u\'cr the
success of 11is mission, he remained
over a day to help young Morton
with liis girl who was hesitating
over the eventful issue of life. She
fairly w? . shipped the daring (Jenera
1 and when he declared to her
that Morton was the man of all
men for her she gave her consent.
A beautiful widded life of twentyseven
years followed. Three sons
and one daughter blessed their union
and all three of these boys leaped
forward to defend the flag the morning
McKinley called for volunteers
in I SOS.
The order of dissolution of the
Finn liv (lnnnv.il F\ imwt
was in every way characteristic of
the man. When the white race had
redeemed six Southern States from
Negro rule in 1*70. the Grand
Wizard knew that his mission was
accomplished and issued at once
his order to disband. The execution
of this command by young
Morton the Cyclops of the Nashville
Pen, also of the stall' of the (Irand
Wizard, is typical of what occurred
throughout the South.
Thirty-live picked men, mounted,
armed and in full Ku Klux regalia
for hoth horses and men, were selected
for the ceremony, and ordered
to I oldly parade through the streets
of Nashville. The Capitol was still
in charge of d,(KH) Uceonstruetion
Militia and '2<M) metropolitan police
who had sworn to take every Ku
Klux Klansman dead or alive who
dared to show himself abroad.
On the night appointed, the
squadron of thirty-live white and
scarlet horseman moved out of the
woods and bore down upon the city.
The streets were soon crowded with
.. 1 A 1 * .
people waicmng me strange procession
of ghost-like figures. On the
principal streets the police blew
their whistles and darted here and
there in great excitement, hut made
no move to stop the dare-devil paraders.
On they rode up the hill
and passed the Capitol building,
round which the camp-tires of a
thousand soldiers burned brightly,
and not a hand was lifted against
them.
They turned south into High
dreot and ladies began to waive
their handkerchiefs from windows
and men to shout and cheer from
the sidewalks. The scalawag police
received these shouts with suppressed
oaths. At last they began
to summon citizens to aid in the
arrest of the clansmen. The citizens
laughed at them.
On reaching llroad street, young
Morton, who rode at the head of
the squadron, observed a line of
police drawn across the street with
the evident intention of attempting
t?> stop or arrest the riders. Turning
to Mart N. l>rown, a gallant
clansman who rode by his side,
Morton said:
"What shall we do, Mart?"
"Turn into Vine street," he
quickly answered, "pass around
them. '
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"tfo?ride straight througli thei
witl*uut a change of gait!" \vs
Motion's order.
And they did. The ustonishe
police, dumbfounded at the ins<
lenco of the raiders, opened the
lines and the horsemen rode slow)
through without a word.
They passed a large frame buiU
ing used as a earpet-bag militia a
mory. It was full of negroes. Mo
ton halted his line of white fiure
drew them up at dress parade, ro<
up to the door and knocked. T1
negroes rushed to the duel's an
windows, and when they saw in tl
bright moonlight the grim figure
mey iorgoi me ponce aim ti c a,*n
soldiers guarding Nashville. Th<
made a unanimous break for tl
rear, and went out through evci
opening without knowledge of ar
ohstruetion. Many of them wo
window sash home for collars.
The clansmen silently wheel*
again into double column and rot
toward their old rendezvous. Th<
had overthrown the earpot-bi
Negro regime and restored eiviliz
tion. Their last act was a warnin
A handful of their men bold
slapped the face of the hostile a
thorities, before the new admiv.i
tration entered upon its work, ai
dared them lift a hand again.
Outside the city they entered tl
shadows of a forest. Down its di
cathedral aisles, lit bv tremb'ii
threads ?>t" moonl>cntns, the whi
horsemen slowly wound their w
to their appointed place. For t
last time the Chaplain led in pray*
the men disrobed, drew from ea
horse his white mantle, opened
grave and solemnly buried their i
galia, sprinkling the folds with t
ashes of the copy of their burn
ritual. In their weird eeremoi
thus ended the most remarkal
revolution of history.
BARON KANEKO
explain:
Mikado's con fid en tic
| Agent Tells Why h
Country Astonished th
World In Her Struggl
With Russia.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle.)
The widely different reasons I
Japan's success ranging from "(
iental Fanaticism" to a "rice diet
have resolved themselves into a sii
pie dr finition of words, as interpret
by the Oriental versus the Occident
11 j 111 ii. . :i i-.vpia Mill mil l)l I 111' ll
definition of words used to sum i
the success of the little island peop
was given in an interview with u re
resentative of the Brooklyn Eag
last week by Baron Kaneko. Bar<
Ivnneko's definition (<f the terms usi
by the European to point out the i
most phenomenal success of his pe
pi 3 are something akin to n microsc
piul analysis of words. The Baro
although he is first of all a stntesms
J?for it was he, with Marquis It
| who drafted Japan's new constit
. tion ? is no less a student and
! scholar. As a graduate of Hnrvar
I
he is better conversant with the En
lish language than most of his ci
leagues in the Japanese House
Beers. Baron Kaneko, were he n
such a valuable statesman, won
have inado a very good instructc
For Baron Kaneko can instruct
the things that perplex theEuropei
mind regarding his country, ai
what is more, he enjoys setting
rights the minds of those who ha
no more conception of Japanese ch?
acter than of a Chinese puzzle. F
natieism. the word an n'iii>Hr ooii.
upon and so popularly used to defi
Japanese success, was thus explain
by the Baron.
"Fanaticism," said he, "which h
been so widely quoted as txplainii
Japan's recent, successes, is a n<
word to me. I have known of it t
ing applied to many other nation
victories. I remember when I was
boy in the high school of Boston,
reading in your colonial historic
telling of the continental urmy, "
the morning an American fights lil
a gay boy, at noon he fights like
man, in the afternoon he fights li
a demon.' I asked the teacher wh
a demon meant. He told me to loi
it up in the dictionary. I was si
prised to learn of its fierce sign!
cance. The explanation I would gi
to that word in this connection wou
bo nothing short of fanaticism,
patriotism, loyalty to your nation
welfuro and a prido in national su
cess is fanaticism, then that is tl
word to use. Ho deep is the feeiii
of national pride in every heart
Japan when our national existence
threatened, that every man, womc
and child is ready to take up tl
cudgel of defence. Would yon cr
that fanaticism? If fanaticism e
plains for that spirit that moved tl
armies of Napoleon, Washington ai
Ciraut, as a unit, to victory, the
n fanaticism as applied to the Japanese T
is army may be correct.
"It was this same spirit, that di*1
rected the army in Port Arthur and
J" Manchuria. It was with this sume
,r spirit that Togo, after his success. r<
N modestly explained that his victory l'<
I was due, not to himself, but. to the jj,
r_ 'Mikado's virtue.' I had been asked
r_ many times to explain this remark.
n "We have the same reverential
lo feeling for our Emperor that uny body
to of people have for their leader, who m
'<1 has proved himself of that character 'n
u' which inspires the highest respect
8? and confidence. The Kmptror knows er
10 K
his people, and they know hi in Dl
^ There is a perfect understanding be- ?'
rv tween them. When the troops wore
mobilizing for the war, the Emperor
l>0 on horseback as ft plain cavalryman w
reviewed his army. He spoke words
Xl of encouragement to his men, and | vv
lc expressed the hope that they would tc
py be victorious. With their intense U1
pat*iot:sm, this was the final spark 111
d of inspiration needed for their sue- b
g.
cess They moved like a unit and 8<
u_ they fought like a unit la that fa- 01
|s. natloiem? t!
xl Tlie patriotism of our people is not b
of a day. It is inbred and has been fr
lie cultivated for mora than 2 0<K) eentu- sl
111 ries. No other nation can show a t'
ruler's descent like our present Km'*
poror, for 2,000 years. We reverence 11
jhim and pay our highest respects to 11
hi n. We are tho most democratic
of nations. The poor and tho rich "
i all tend the sume schools. The men c
c- who make our laws are men who 0
lie know the wants, the needs and de-.
oil sires of our people. There is a close P
11-v bor.d of sympathy and understand- V
ing between the ruler and tho ruled. C
l'o bo able to govern, tho law-makers ?
must know the people they govern." >'
Tn spoakirg of the fundamental '
C principles of Japanese success, Baron P
Ivancko said he believed these two s=
I | were of tHe chief reasons for the lit- c
tie island coming into history as one t
^ of the great, world Powers: c
. The ignoranco of Japan, self-confessed
by other nations. ^
Advantage of a constitutional e
Government. t
p "We hear that Europe has been n
' deceived by the Japanese victory," 0
,, continued the Baron. "Deceived is n
' hardly the word to use. If Europe a
j has been deceived, she has herself to
aj blame. In appearance the Japanese a
might be called deceptive. We are v
] neither handsome nor brave looking.
. There is nothing commendable about ^
de ?
the Japanese appearance. They are
^ small and insignificant looking, com- P
oared with the handsome and fine ^
)n
j physiques of the people of many a
, European countries. While we are w
small in statue and not strong look- a
ing, we have been underestimated
and misunderstood. Other races and n
' nut ions never took the trouble to h
study us, whereas we studied thejp P
to the minutest detail. Every bit of ~
important work to do has been given w
j to an expert in his line of work, a *
man who has spent several years in a
^ many nations, learning thoroughlv S
every detail of the work assigned to
him by the Government. Thorough- P
^ ness is the keynote of Japanese sue- a
cess. Often when traveling in other b
countries I have made special in- d
11)
quiries regarding certain lines of
^ business. I found that the man who n
was spoken of as an expert in his line
knew his work thoroughly as it ofc- S
tiined in his own country. The
same line of business as carried on in
- a foreign country he knew little or h
en v
nothing of. l
ne
"The Japanese have been put .
down as imitators. This might be
mentioned a3 one stage of our progress.
In studying a foreign civili/a- ^
tion, the first step is imitation, then ?
>w v
organization. Our Japanese experts g
have a thorough research and study ,5
of every detail of their business as ,
' a .-j 1- ?- - - 1
. umucu i?u in 211inoi5i? every country or 0
the world. With this accumulation ?
^ of knowledge they are then ready not
to imitate, but originate To this
ke '
very thing is due considerable of our ()
^ success; the perfect capability of our
^ people to successfully perform their
work. Many visitors to our country c
pass through our streets and squares ; ^
they see the people and buildings, 1
and whon they return home they say [
^ the Japaneso are copyists and they y
^ are a race of imitators. This is be- 1
cause they see only the outward ap- H
1 ' pearance of our activity, but, un'
fortunutely, never study the inner
workings of our mind. Such in- <
stances of clever organization are ^
shown in the remarkable success of ,j
smokeless powder invented by Major t
Shimose. This powder, is by actual
test, five timos as strong as the Euro- ?
pean powder. n
Bring your job work to The ?
jn TiMbS. We can please you. i
he Man Who Grafts and
the Man Who Plows.
Robert Burns says:
It's hardly in a body's pow'r
> koAp. at times, frae bolng sour
> see how things are shar'd ;
ow best o' chiels are whyles in want,
hilo coofs on countless thousands
rant."
Plowin* i-? a laborious, humble and
inple life. The man who plows
skes enough to live* on, but he
;?kes little beyond.
Grafting is an easy life. The graft
lives by the sweat of other inen't
ow. His life is one of case; ofter
much comfort; sometime* of el*,
inco.
The man who plows, unless lie ii
ell grounded in honesty, is trinptoc
> envy the life of the grafter and to
ish that he had a like opportunity
) get rich. Perhaps he does noi
iind poverty so much for himself
od would be content wih his humbh
ut hard lot; but he would Itke t(
^e his wife aud children have inori
f the good things of Iif-?; and fo
icir sake he is tempted to put hi
and into the public treasury und t<
inko public office a private gain, in
lend of n public trust. The terapta
on is especially strong when he see
hat the rich man is looked up to am
lade much of without regard to th
lunner of getting riches. It look
o him that the main object of hi
fc is to get money?honestly, if on
an; but get it. That is the mott
f a large part of commercial life, am
5 is fast becoming the motto of th
olitician of high or low degree
iru... .. TT?; O 1 1:1.
t ucii it iv u i iru uiuvea ocuntuI 11 tv
lhauncey DePew can take $20,IK)
ut of the Equitable Company ever
ear for five years, without reudei
ug any service, it is not strange tha
ublic Gfiloers in other stations shoul
rah all in sight wherever there is
hance to get it ami at the sam
ime to cscapj tho law against lai
eny.
The man who plows 1 ioks on an
egins to wonder if it pays to be hot
st and to work for a living whe
here is a chance to get so muc
nore by graft. Thus the foundation
f public integrity are undermine
nd the standards of personal honest
re pulled down. One man sayi
'If there is to be public graft, I ha
s well get it as another." Othei
rho are not prepared to go quite s
ar say, "If there is to be graft, b
ad as well get it as anybody else.
Crafting is more profitable tha
lowing. It yieles larger return!
'or this reason many are tempte
nd ^led away into crooked path
rhere money is made by questior
ble methods.
It is well enough to tell the poc
lan who plows to be content wit
is lot; that honesty is the be*
olicy; that virtue is its own rewar
-and all that sort of thing. Tha
rill not satisfy him. Only one thin
'ill, and that is to punish the grafte
s a criminal, and to put a stop t
rafting. The way to do this is fc
ire man who plows to give his su{
ort to men who are strictly hone*
nd to insist that public officers aha
e hel 1 to a strict account in th
ischarge of their dutios.
The man who plows?by which
leant any man who works hard an
onest for his living?can preven
rafting by electing only honest me
o office.
Let the man who plows rise up i
is might and put the grafter out.fewberry
Observer.
Jester's Cotton Reporl
New Orleans, Sept. 1.?Secretar
Tester's statement of the world'
isible supply of cotton, issued todaj
hows the totdl visible to be 2,558
51, against 2,570,485 last week, an
,121,251 last year. Of this the toti
f American cotton i9 1,048,8;'
gainst 1.617,485 last week and 471
51 last year, and of all other kindi
ncluding Egypt, Brazil, India, etc
15,000, against 958,000 last wee
nd 617,000 last year.
Of the world's visible supply (
otton there is now afloat and held i
rreat Britain and Continental Eurof
,188,000, against 575.000 last yeai
n Egypt 46,000, against 55,000 la?
ear; in India 615,000, against 880
00 and in the United States 461,O0<
gainst 161,0(H) last year.
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ave you the knowledge to make, them,
old and guaranteed to cure Dyspej
ia, Biliousness and Kiddey Diseasi
y Dr. F. C. Duke, druggist, at 50c
ottle.
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