Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-14
Aataural&s 9epartment.
A. HEAD EXPOSES THE KUKLUX KHAN.
CITY HOTEL which is in N. o.
April II, 1868.

l have joined 'em. l am n. n. n
feller. I run the risk of dying some day
Tor night, but I am going to unbosom my
self and make public expose of the K. K
KS pro bono publico.
Once upon time, when night had spread
her sable mantilla Ger the earth, and pinned
it with moon, Invent to bed. People Of
ten 90 to bed at night, with the exception
of the K. K. KS, who never 60 to bed, ano
who never sleep. They have ears, but. see
not; they have eyes, but hear not.
The clock on the cupola of the Crescent
Office had tolled forth the hour of II; the
stuffed owl in the Crescent City Museum
had gone to roost: the statue of Henry
Clay reposed in silence in perpendicular
posish the snakes had ceased their croak.
ing, the frogs their biting; the mosquitoes
had begun humming; and ''all went merry
as a marriage-bell'- her hash! was
sleeping in my couch of couches like q june
bug in January, but 1 did not snore: !
never snore. Everybody would do it, !
presume, if it was fashionable. But to re-
sumo.
As T said, it was past midnight, and !
was dreaming of my country-seat "a stool
with three legs), when I was startled sud;
denly by cold, clammy, shrimpy hand
upon my forward. awoke and rose up in
bed to discover figure clothed in white
sitting upon my bed. He Il suppose he
was he held in his right hand Roman
candle burning blue, and in his left a sky
rocket; his eyes were glaring balls OF tre,
and he had two horns in his forehead, be-
sides several which he had taken in his
mouth. As I awoke, he waived the torch
three times around his head and beckoned,
like Hamlet's ghost, for me to follow him.
7 arose from my bed and followed-entire-
ly in white He led me through winding
streets, up dark alleys, and finally brought
me to the graveyard. All this time he had
never taken his eyes of fire off of me. Ar
rived in the centre of the graveyard, beside
an unburied skeleton between two thorn
bushes, he shot off his rocket, and glaring
upon me, said:
ssMortuary mortal, I come from the bloody
den of the bob-tailed scorpions. am the
chiefest among 10000, and the one alto
gether lovely You see here before you
the spectre of the Great Tribe of the De-
monians Deathly Dragons. l am sent to
warn, to defy, to drag you to danger: sice
the scorpions tongue has Kissed; 3ice the
dirge of death is done; 3ice the bloody
grave has gaped! Behold J"
Hooked, and saw in letters of blood upon
the skeleton before me, and surrounded by
letters of fire,
~ lam DEAD. A9Q
illustrated by cofins and daggers.)
I gazed in horror, and exclaimed, in pet:
ri6ed accent, 81 believe ye, my boy! and
tainted.
When I recovered myself (and my wal
let), I found that I was transported to a
subterranean dungeon beneath terra frma
1t had all the appearance of place that
was worse than The Place itself! There
were blue lights, blue fellers, and blue
flames.
Even 'sthe lights burned blue" The
4going paragraph states that. any para
graph going might state the same thing.
rightly the s'taller-dip" candles s'shone
DER (thorough) fare women and brave men,!
When had been taken inside this du''
geon, I felt that I was done was intro
duced to hard crowd in hard times. They
formed around me (the crowd and not the
times), and in deep, sepulchral tone thai
shook the cave, said:
"Was1ce contest this mortuary mortal
and is le trooly rural?"
NV conductor answered for me, and sale
in tones Of thunder (and lightning):
"He can keep hotel, he can sing like
martin ale, swim like an angel, gamble OF
the green, and is loil to the corps -
"Let him pass" said the tycoon, wht
thought I hadn't 'full hand
I passed, and found myself in the inne
chamber, where 1 saw nothing but thunder
the yells of demons, and the rattling o
chains; heard nothing but lightning, tn
fash Ct gunpowder, and the last ditch, AM
I dreamed the dreams of the dun )reary!
A mangled corpse stood upon apyrami'
of skulls, and holding in his right hand
coffin, and in his left hand pristine man)
coughiu' two, he exclaimed,
enc rial, am the Bloody Butcher of tn
Bogus Elunderers of Babylon. Swear t.
keep our secrets, or dye"
As I didn't care to dye, l swore.
Then was teetotally surrounded by de
mons as looked like devils, not one of whor
bought their shirts at Moody's, who shrek
ed:
"He swears by the fiery fagon found i
ferocious furnaces furnished by fellers fror
Feliciana that he does not, never did, an
never will again, so help him Felis!'
was then stabbed by a small swor
which was held in the hands of every de
mon in pantalets around me, then druggeo
boiled in a caldron, set upon hot gridiror
slid down a gang-plank, walked over cake
of ice, mutilated in the hair of my heae
and faally tattooed and scalped!
vas dragged through tubular boilers
the tune of the Rogues March, stripped
the suit of clothes in which 1 was bor1
powdered to atoms, and told that I had
mission to perform to all outside barbar
ans-which it was to annihilate every livin
thing, and to kill every decade member
society. I act-seeded.
s'Do you swear p
81 swear"
I was then clothed with habiliments (
woe, thrust into a den of worms with onl