The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-05-07
Head Exposes the Ku Klux
Khan.

A. Head Exposes the Ku Klux
Khan.
CITY HOTEL, }
(Which is in New Orleaus,)
April IL, 1868.
have joined 'em. am K. K. K. fel-
Ter. 1 run the risk Of dying Some day Cor
night, but am going to unbosom myself
and make public expose of the X. X.
KS.
Once upon a time when light had spread
her sable mantilla DER the earth, and pin
ned it with moon, 1 went to bed. Peo-
pie often 60 to bed at night, with the ex-
ception of the X. X. KS, who never 90 to
bed and who never sleep. They have ears
but they see not they have eyes but they
hear not
The clocks on the cupola of the Crescent
Office had tolled the hour of twelve; the
stuffed owl in the Crescent City museum
had gone to rest; the statute of Henry
Clay reposed in silence in perpendicular
position the snakes bad ceased their croak-
lrg, and the frogs their biting, the mus
quitoes had begun humming, and I" all went
merry as a marriage belle Ito her hash
l was sleeping in my couch of couches,
like June bug in January, but did not
snore. l never snore. Everybody would
do it, presume, if it was fashionable
But to resume.
AS [ said, it was past midnight, and 1
was dreaming of my country seat, "a stool
with three legs) when 1 was startled sud
denly by cold, clammy, shrimpy hand
upon my foreherd: awoke and rose up
in bed to discover figure clothed in white
sitting upon my oed. He (I suppose he
was he) held in his right hand Roman
candle burning blue and in his left sky
rocket; his eyes were glaring balls of red
fire, and two horns in his forehead, beside
several which he had taken in his mouth.
AS awoke he waived the torch three
times around his head, and beekoned, like
Hamlet's ghost, for me to follow him. l
arose from my bed and followed, entirely in
white He led me through winding
streets, up dark alleys, and finally bl ought
me to graveyard. All this time he had
never for moment taken his eyes of fire
off of me- Arrived in the center of the
graveyard, beside an unburied skeleton
between two thorn bushes, he shot off his
rocket, and glaring upon me, said
Mortuary mortal, | come from the
den of the bob-tailcd scorpions. I am 'the
chiefest among 10000, and the l altogeth-
er lovely You see before you the spec
ter of the great tribe of democratic deathly
dragons. 1 am sent to warn, to defy, to
drag you to danger. 3ice the scorpion:
tongue has Kissed 3ce the dirge of death
is done; 3icc the bloody grave has gaped
Behold!
| / looked, and saw in letters Of blood up
on the skeleton before me, and surrounded
by letters Of fire:
RD~ AN DED! 'usa
illustrated by collins and daggers.)
| gazed in horror, and exclaimed, in
petriGed accents 1" believe ye MY boy
and faint
When recovered my self (and my wal
let) found that was transported to 9
subterranean dungeon ben cath terra frn,a
1t had all the appearance of q place tha
was worse than The Place itself! Their,
were blue lights, blue fellers and blue
flames!
Even "the lights burned blue" The
4going paragraph states that. Any para
graph going might state the same thing
Brightly the taller-tip candles shonc e'el
(through) tair women and brave men.
| When 1 had been taken inside the dun.
geon, l felt that l was done. [ was intro
duced to a hard crowd in hard times They
formed around me 1.-THE crowd and not the
times), and in deep sepulcbral tone tina
shook the cave, said
"Whence comes this mortuary mortal
and is he trooly rural 2"
My conductor answered for me, and said
in tones of thunder (and lightning):
He can keep hotel he can sing like
a martingale, swim like an angel, gamble
on the green, and is loil to the corps!"
"Let him pass" said the tycoon, who
thought hadn't full hand"
L passed, and found myself in the inner
chamber, where saw nothing but thunder
the yells of demons ard the rattling Of
chains heard nothing but lightning, the
flash of gunpowder and the last ditch, and
dreamed the dreams of the dun n)reary
A mangled corse stood upon pyramid
of skulls, and holding in his hand a cofir
and in his left hand (pristine man)
coughin' two, he exclaimed:
{" Mortal, am the bloody butcher oi
the bogus blunderers of Babylon. Swear
to keep our secrets, or dye"
AS l didn't care to dye. | swore.
Then / was tetotally surrounded by de-
mons as looked like devils, not one of whom
bought their shirts at Moodys, who shrik
ed:
"He swears by the fiery aagon found il
ferocious furnaces by fellers from Felicia
ma that he does not, never did, md never
will again, so help him Fslis."
was then stabbed by a small sword
which was held in the hands of every de
mon in pantalets around me, then drug
ged, boiled in a cauldron, set upon no
gridiro n, slid down gang plank, wake,
over cakes of ice, mutilated in the hair 0
my hoad, and finally tatooed and scalped
l was dragged through tubular boiler
to the tune Of the Rogue's March" strip
ped to the suit of clothes in which l wa
horn novdered tn atoms and told that