The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-19
THE LOYAL LEAGUE.
a Peep into the Midnight Radical Con-
claVes.
How the Ignorant Freedmen are Hum
bugged
The Oath, Signs and Passwords Revealed
Forty Acres" and the "Miller" at their
Posts.
Full Details Ofl1oW the BroWnlow Hell
The Oath, Signs and Passwords Revealed
Full Details of I1ow the Brownlow Hell
Fire is Manufactured
"Leaguers Beware
A Telling Expose rom Captain Driver.
To the Editor of thA Banner-l.

NASHVILLE, July 9Th, 1867.
Many of your readers viii doubtless re-
member my letter of June 9th, which was
largely circulated by the press of this and
other cities of the State If there is one
sentence. therein not il. accordance with
law and the true principles of liberty and
human rights. DON'T know what consli-
tutes those safeguards of man and have
/ been ''Taised fool" For writing and
publishing that letter was at once ''ex-
PEELED" from Loyal League No. I, j" where
had 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-fye years
and particularly on heparI Of it embrac-
ed in the past seven years. court its in
vestigaGion and will abide cheerfulIy by its
award, Indifferent alike to flattery 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 in
to that sanotum sanctorum of political
humbugs. Ipromised this-Fn do it.
At The frst door you give two light taps
and whisper through hole therein, ''Loy-
al Men, The door opens. You move on
to a second door and give two taps. A
loop hole is opened. You. whisper Must
rule, and are then marched around
darkened room and welcomed by the "Good
Chairman" IN the following words-"The
good and true are always welcome, DO,
You have now marched round the room
and are placed before an altar on which. is
spread the American Flag. Here also lies
open a Bible aud a book with the old, orig
inal, unaltered. Constitution of the United
States, gift Of our Fathers, as it was, is and
ever should be-unchauged
There, too, lie crossed two common
swords, such as are worn by army sur
geons. Between the two points is mys-
terious looking bronze ehalice. filed with
something the smell of which reminds you
of "Old Robertson"
On your right, at a small altar, stands
long, lank, lean Forty Acres - behind
you, at another desk or altar, stand a once
Provost Marshall AFouuk 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 though the wbitewash given by this
Loyal League e-re~e-
The gas ls now darkened, and Forty
Acres with eyes upturned like a~.'duek
10 thunder Storm his lean hands opened
out towards Heaven, mumbles out pray
er This done. the Chairman (ths Jolly,
good -natured, kind looking Miller, not "oi
Mansfield, /" though quite as portly) steps
forward with book and watch 10 hand, and
fires the mysterious looking cup, which
darts up fickering blue flame, such as is
Represented as burning in the Eternal Ha-
des." 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 nto defend
The Constitution of the United States an
altered, on which your hand rests, and
the Constitution of the State of Ten.
nessee. What is the latter Constitution
Who can tell
You are also sworn to keep the secrets oi
the League, ''to vote for none but loyal men, .
sc. In that long, dark. dirty room, OF
the right side of which stood about one
hundred old rusty muskets, in such pre-
sence. before the hickering blue fame
which but made darkness visible. will
the nasal twaug Of Forty Acres voice il
prayer still sounding in my ears, l wa
with others made loyal Lacquer. Sur
rounded with such parapheraalia of hum
bug, we were sworn also, as. before said
: to 10 even unto death all in our power t.
make liberty eternal. to ''vote for none bu
i. loyal men" go. - 3-
e We were next initiated into the sign
and passwords DC. Let one suffice bu
if you wish you can have them all I
? pass yourself as a Lacquer, when question
ed, give the "Fou- L.'s''-as follows, righ
hand raised to Heaven, thumb and thir,
finger touching their ends over the palm
and pronounce Liberty" Bringing IN
h.4d down on line with the shoulder
s pronounce "Lineoln.'' Dropping the ham