Secret Political Societies in the South During the Period of Reconstruction An
Secret Political Societies in the South During the Period of Reconstruction An
Walter Henry Cook
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These punishments were decreed and carried out in a formal and dignified 22 manner in conformity with the strict discipline of the Ku Klux Klan leaders. The members of this order were thus self-constituted committees of safety, such as always ap- pear sooner or later in a lawless, disorganized society. Like organizations served to restore order in many western mining towns during a rule of anarchy. This fact must be kept constantly in mind — in many sections of the South there was no other prot...ection to life, property or virtue. The more serious penalties imposed by the order would never have been resorted to by the intelligent men of the South had the courts been open to them, or had even a semblance of justice and civilization been maintained. And the Ku Klux Klan was composed of the bravest and best men of the South, much as this has been denied by well-meaning northern apologists. Anarchy reigned su- preme, and the Ku Klux Klans merely resorted to the first law of nature, self-preservation.
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