New-York tribune., 1868-04-08
THE kC-RLUX RLdN.
rHE WORK OF THG KHAN.

TiiE WORK OF TIT KHAN.
The following letters appears in The World
as special correspondence from Augusta. Ga:
Politically. Augusta is OF Importance in the State.
Ia and about il live some OF the first ot the State,
and e influence OF the city t. therefore, cunsdcr
be in Georgia affairs some miles up the railway lead
ing 70 Atlanta reside both Toobs aud stephens, aud IN
the city itself ts close ycinage live exGoNcrnor Her
sohel v Johnson aud tine present lawful Governor
Char.-, j. Jenkins. Two OF the c. 5. MaiorGeDe rails
also ave iu Augusta, A. e. Wright aud Lafayette Ne
Laws. and IN the world of letters three vino have had
a reputation beyond the state. Fist OF these Is Paul
Hayuc said by Tenuyson 70 be the best sODuetcer m
America and then James R. Randall, author OF
MARYLAND my Maryland There is iAfe In the Old Land
yet and other poems OF wide repute Last OF the three
il the Rev. Abram Ryan. Father Ryan, the poeiprieS
a Catholic clergyman stationed here. and equally
admired FOR his oratory and his poems, them being
The Conquered Banner The sOuth's Prayer &c.
And now, leave apleasant city. the invalid or
traveller for amusement would ungcr in let me say
word Of the Ku-Kluk Everybody. by this tne mast
have heard OF the Klan-the KuKhX khan X. h H.
Beware and wondered what It was all about. KIT
Klux then, secret organization, OF late oFisn IN the
South having IL, birth place In Middle tennessee. aud
now spreading Ike wildhre all throughout this country
I IS Ia Mississippi. aud IN Alabama aud all over rennes
sec and ia Louisiana, and, following shcrnans track III
Georgia is sweeping down through ths state into Flor-
ida and out into Virginia Maryland, and the Caoiinas
people there the h X X. its head, aud wherever
there are soldiers graves the order has Den The
idea put forth is that the dcad Confederate rises a ud
night and forming into the Pale Brigade rides forth to
redress the inflicted On those for whom he
died. Dire porterts are said 10 be seen by night,
mystic lights and cloudy forms, and squadrous that
70 charging by, all in skeleton forms, mounted ON
shadowy steeds that move with the speed of the
whirlwind and without sound. The negroes. superst
tous az all times, given over 10 beDef Ia OBJ lnd 'oUH
ration and the Evil Eye, IN huge perturbation at the
X X r. This Cuff has met In ns midnight tdnbles "a
man. and. falling INTO converse Herewith, has suddenly
heard his bones rattle fiery lights IN iles''ss
head land. OF course, knowing this was KukluS has
fed And then that sambo to be outdone in repida
ton OF lying by Cu has had his hand shaken nj his own
cabin door, found bress dc Lor skeleton fingers lett
within his palm. 'HuKuN" II but whispered AFTER
nlghtali, IL sound To the Great EnIranchised
into fits Great throughout the South il now his fear.
Aud whereas he prowed about ut all hours, haunt
in, the Loyal League, and drinking m-poor. impreS
sIble doomed barbarian-thc murdeuOus talk Ot mcen-
diary Eeconstructionlst agents heecps clOse within
doors after shutdown. Mysterious placalds appear IN
public places. Men are pointed ont as 2 probab!e
Grand Cyclops a possible High White Death ana IN
the midst Of all this superstition aud srmise and iobins
the fact appears that there is Ku-kuN Kan that
growing with the rapidly OF 4 SNOWFALL rolled in the
snow. No man enters the order but true man, aud
a true man is one that hates tyrant History |
full Of instances where people greatly op-
pressed aud with present remedy, have
had secret organizations arise among them Ia
dispense Wild Justice in those where the laws are
poweress either protect avense Let the reader
turn to Anne OF LGeIsein book second and accompany
Ing notes and he win there hud od,ime original o'
the IN Klux, in the iGeman IeMgeichL or Tribunal "t
the Bounds AS stated. this r. X. order arose ia Middle
Tennessee section OF the state peculiarly oppressed by
Browulow and his myrmdons. aud doubtless, orig
nally only intended species Of Regulator org'uA-
tion for local usethc numberess sepuchers OF bray,
men slain ln tAe Western campaigns ia those region
furnishing the hint for the peculiar nsignia and phrase
olOgy OF the Kan But. SiHid SDb's like oppresSioan
esewhere' existing have superinduced = like state ot
mind TO that lin which the KukluN had It's origin IA
Tennessee and the Klan has branched out uo ahno- all
the other Southern states. How far the organization
really extends what are its eutire or ultimate rur
poses it hard tell but in quitting Che subject may
be said that u appears 20 meet with all but uptersa
favor and promises some developments ere iVns Oh
interest
wAen at Augusta It : bat step for you TO l'A'e he
STATE snd leaving At Is impossible 10 Ie''iail '1sh
over a great commonwealth nov given over by nag
mentary and isrcpesenatyo Congress INTO '"shu fncr
apprehension and gloom"
TUE Kissing or THE SERPENT.
We presume most readers would ta'ke the
foovng article 10 be The product of the lO heioe
the lte onplcasaness" With our SOsshern brethren.
They would be mistaken; the article is rom 4hc Nor"
aaA Ke,rs d Ha'd OF April T. 1858 aud r'ter' Z" The
assassination OF G. " Ashburn sadms j<ePb'ic'n at
! Columbus, Ca, few days before
We Give place io the article froo The san "a lht hope
that ii iaay induce those who read a to reflect osiny ana
grriou,y ON tho present tcmper ana tendency o puphv
scutnent check ths reScmehf Of Oln gfOhgr' ond 0-
rIJai pf0D'e and warn evil doors ot ne yragw agoM
ytih the pangnrators OF ciylaud sOcia anarchy
Te raler Mi form s own opinion as 10 what were tue
c,uses ana who Were tho ministers OF Ia"!e,s
| .n aosse. Az tho North bat aae '"" S'' w