The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-16

cess. This disfranchisement of the soldiers
10 the first victory Of redicalism.-NatioHal
Intetligeaoer. ~ TTTrz e 81 F.fE, 3
From the Sunday Crescent.)
Head Exposes the Kux-Lux-Klan.
Cry HorEL,
Which il is in New Orleans,)
.aae Fag A4s April II, 1868. q
l have Joined EN-. I am a K. X. X.
Teller. run the risk of dying some day Tor
night but am going to unbosom myself
and make public expose of the X. X. KS.
Pro bono pai6lieo.
Once upon time, when night had spread
her sable mantilla Ger the earth, and PIN
ned it with moon, went to bed. People
often go to bed at night, with the exception
of the X. X. KS, who never go and who
never sleep. They have ears, but they see
not; they have eyes, but they hear not.
The clock on the cupalo of the Crescent
Office had tolled forsh the hour of twelve;
the stuffed owl in the crescent city museum
had gone to roost; the statute Of Henry
Clay reposed in silence in perpendicular
position; the snakes had ceased their croak-
ing, the frogs their biting, the mosquitoes
had begun their humming, and "ail went
merry rs q marriage bele"-to her hash
| was sleeping in my couch of touches like
june bug in January, but did not snore.
l never snore. Everybody would do it,
presume, if il WAS fashionable. But to re-
sumo.
As said, it was past midnight, and was
dreaming of my country seat, Ia stool with
three legs1, when l was startled Suddenly BY
cold, eIammy shrimpy hand upon my fore.
head. awoke and rose mp in bed to dis
cover a 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 sl1y-rocket; his eyes
were glazing balls of red FIRE, and he had
two horns in his forehead, besides several
which he had taken in his mouth. As
swoke he waived the torch three times
around his head and beckoned, like Hamlet's
ghost, for me to follow him. | arose from
my bed and followed entirely in white
He led me through winding streets, up dark
alleys, and finally brought me to i grave
yard. All this time, he had never, for q
moment, taken his eyes of fire from me.
Arrived in the center of the graveyard, be-
side an unburied skeleton between two thorn
bushes, he shot off his rocket, and garing
upon me, said:
"Mortuary mortal, l come from the bloody
den of the bobtailed scorpions. / am the
chietest among 10000 and the ! altogether
lovely. You see here before you the specter
Of the Great Tribe OF the Demonise Deathly
Dragons. | am sent to warn, to defy, to
drag you 10 danger. 3ice the scorpions
tongue has Missed; 3ice the dirge of death is
done; Slice the bloody grave has capped
Behold r.
looked, and saw in letters of blood upon
the skeleton before me, and surrounded by
letters of FIRE: s s3
renp AN nED! @gSs
illustrated BY collins and daggers.)
l gazed in horror, and exclaimed, in pet.
rifed accents; Il believe ye, my boy |" and
tainted.
When l recovered myself land my Wallet
l found that was transported 10 a subterra-
nean-dangeon beneath terra TRINA. 1t had
ali the appearance OF q place that was worse
than The Place ITSELF There were blue
lights, blue fellers aud blue flames
Even ''the lights burned blue" The 1go-
ing paragraph states that. gia.y paragraph
going might state the same thing
Brightly the "taller-dip" candles "shone
DER through fare women and brave men,"
When / had been taken inside the dan
geon, I felt that was done / was intro
duced to hard crowd in hard times They
formed around me- THE crowd and not the
tmes.1 and in deep sepulehraI tone that
shook the cave, said - -r.s7- -y,.
Whence comes this Inertuary m e,rtal. and
is he trooiy rural?n fFflf sff|
My conductor answered for me, and said
in tones of thunder land lightnng:l
he can keep hotel he can sing like a
martingaie, swim Ike an angel, gamble on
the green, and is loii to the corps
i Il
thought hadn't "full hand"
i passed, md found myself in the inner
chamber, where saw nothing but thunder,
the yells OF demons and the rafting. OF
chains: i heard nothing but is1tning, the
flash of gunpowder and the hast ditch, and
dreamed the dreams of the (un) reary
"A mangled corse stood upon d pyramid of
skulls, and holding in his ri ht hand cof
fin and in his left hand pristine mani
coughin' two, he exclaimed ss-.' w.
"Mortal; | am the bloody butcher of the
bogus plumbers of Babylon. Swear to keep
our secrets, or die" 1s1sl svaE 7g5.fs
Ash didn'tSc care to die, | swore. sEang2
Thend was tetotally surrounded by DDS
mons as1ooked like devils, not one of whom
bought their shirts at Moody's, who shrek.
ed
"He swears by the fiery dragon found in
ferocious furnaces by fellers from Feliciania
that he does not, never did, and never will
again, SO help him Felis."
| was then stabbed by small sword,
which was held in the hands of every demon
in pantalets around me, then drugged, boil
ed in a caldron, SIT upon hot gridiron, slid
upon agang plank, walked over cakes Office,
mutilated in the hair Of my head, and final |
ly tatooed and scalped r
l was dragged through tubular boilers to |
the tune of the "Rogue's March, stripped
to the suit of clothes in which / was born,
powdered to atoms, and told that ! had |
mission TO perform to Gil outside barbarians
which was to annihilate every living thing, |
and to Kill every decade member of society. |
| act seeded. -
do you swear?"
81 swear"
was then clothed in habiiiments of woe,
thrust into den of worms with only one
bottle of Mrs. Winslows soothing syrup, /
and told to await the action Of the impeach-
ment committee. 49, as
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