Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-11
THE LOYAL LEAGUE.
A Poop into the Midnight Radical
Conolaves,
How tho Ignorant Freedmen are
Humbusged.
Tho oath. Signs and PASSWORDS
Revealed.
"Forty Acres" and the "Miliers y
at Their Posts.
Full Details of How the Browniow
Helldre is Manufactured.
Leaguers Beware "
A Telling Expose From Captain
Driver.
Full Details of How the 1rowniow
Hellfire ia Manufactured.
-" Leaguers Beware ! p"
A Telling Expose From Captain
Driver.

To the Editor of the Nashville Bann'r.l
NASHVILLE, July 9.-Many of YOU
readers will doubtless remember my let
ter of June 9th, which was largely circu'
lated by the press of this and other cities
of our State. If there is one sentence
therein not in accordance with law and
the true principles of liberty and human
rights, l don't know what constitutes
those safeguards of man, and have been
raised fool" For writing and pub
fishing that letter l was at once Eek
PEELED" from Loyal League No. l."
where had been sworn to do even unto
DEATH" all in my power to keep ever
burning on the altar of the American
heart the sacred flame of Liberty" Let
the world sit in judgment on my life OF
sixty five years, and particularly on the
part embraced in the past seven years.
court its investigation and will abide
cheerfully by its award, Indifferent alike
to fiattery or abuse. / shall do my duty,
even though asses bray and dogs snap
and howl.
Expelled from the Loyal League
Now. gentlemen, permit me to introduce
you into that sanctum sanctorum OF
political humbugs. / promised this-lll
do it.
At the first door you give two light taps
and whisper through hole therein,
Loyal Men," The door opens. You
move on to second door and give two
taps A loop hole is opened. You whis-
per must rule, and are then marched
around darkened room and welcomed
by the Good Chairman" in the follow
ing words: 1.-THE good and true are
always welcome, etc.
You have now marched round the room
and are placed before an altar on which
il spread the American flag. Here, also,
lies omen a Bible anda book with the old,
original, unaltered Constitution of the
United States, gift of our fathers, as 1t
was, is and ever should be-unchanged.
There, too, lie crossed two common
swords such as are worn by army sur
reons Between the points is a mystic
rious looking bronze chaliee, filed with
something, the smell of which reminds
you of " Old Robertson.
On your right, at small altar, stands
long, lank, lean Forty Acres" behind
YOU, at another desk or altar, stands a
once Provost Marshal. Around this long
dark, dirty room, sit the " Loyal
Leaguers, some black and some white,
and among them some of our most worthy
citizens. There are also not few whose
"copper" sticks out through the white
wash given by this Loyal League.
The gas is now darkened, and Forty
Acres" with eyes upturned like duck
in thunder storm" his lean hands
opened out towards heaven, mumbles out
a PRAYER This done, the Chairman 1.-THE
Jolly, geod.natured, kind looking Miller,
not of Mansfield" though quite as
portly) steps forward with book and
watch in hand, and fires the mysterious
looking cup, which darts up Pickering
blue fame, such as is represented as
burning in the Eternal Hades." With
your right hand on the book, and the left
in the air, you now take the oath OF
allegiance" known to all, and are most
particularly required ito defend the Con
stitution Of the United States (uHal-
tered), Oh which your hand rests, and the
Constitution of the State Of Tennessee,
What is the latter Constitution 2 Who
can tell
You are also sworn to keep the secrets
of the League, ITO vote for mona but
loyal men," etc. In that long, dark
dirty room, on the right side of which
stood about one hundred old rusty mus
kets, in such presence, before the flicker
ing blue flame which but made darkness
visible" with the nasal twang of Forty
Acres voice in prayer still sounding il
my ears, was with others made loya
Lacquer. Surrounded with such para
pherualia Of humbug, we were sworI
also, as before said, to do even unit
death all in our power to make libert.
eternal, TO "vote for Hone but loya
men" etc.
We we're next initiated into the sign
and pass words, etc. Let one suffice
but il you wish you can have them all
To pass yourself as a Lacquer, whel
questioned, give the -Four LA
follows: right baud raised to Heaven
thumb and third finger touching thei
ends over the palm, and pronoune
Liberty" Bringing the hand down o.
a lice with the shoulder, prouounc
Lincoln" Dropping the hand open a
your side, pronounce Loyal" Wit
your hand and fingers downward in tn
chest, the thumb thrust into the vest
waistband, across the body, pronoune
League"
There is great deal Of other ton
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