The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-07-10
Kal.luz Rara5a On lie ash.
Brilliant Display Of the Mystic Brother
hood

pa Thursday oflas, week ;he following
order was received throush the pos, Office.
aqelosFd iuap official envelope and .aerAed
20 Be-
"CRIgsoN Den,
Blood Moon,
Awful Hour.
TO EDIToR or PULASKI CTrIzEN
You are hereby ordered 70 print two
hundred posters containing the following:
"Kuklux parade to night"
JAY 4tH. 1868. By command Of
s,st q -frr- The Grand Cyel9ps.
C. g. Grand Serb
Send posters to-morro& night at 8 o'cl'k
to Livery sableppPosite Dr.. Edmuadson's
house, where a Ghoul viii be in waiting to
receive them ami pay bill for printing the
same. q. s."
IS the order was PeremPtory, aad we
could sesno way toevade compliance wigi =
out exciting the disPlsasure Of the Grand
Cycops, and calling down upon the Citizen
Office tie dreadful ire. of the Khan. and as
printing was our business, and the pay
mentin this case. promised 10 be prompt,
and we were very much in need Of green
backs. and we had no objection Of any sort
to Complying with the order, but rather
took pleasure IN doing so, ard for vari-
Gus asouszunaeGesssFy here to,men-
ton, we cheerfully did as directed
On Friday night wof were at the spot in
dicated, half hour before the time. We
took Tie precaution to hava two OF three
young ladies with US for protection in case
the Ghoul should show any disposition to
Kuklux US on the spot We knew he
would not harm us if a. lady iuserceded in
our behalf. Promptly at O'Clock two
masked aud mystical looking persons, who
we supposs were Gbouzs, approached the
spot where we tremblingly awaited their
Appearance. We exclaimed
''What may this mea.,
That thou, dead corse, again, in eomplety steel,
Revisitst thus the glimpsc8 otthe moon,
Making night hdeous; and we fools OF natore,
So horribly TO shake our disposition,
With thoughts beyond the reaches OF our souls4'
The spokesman of the two replied Nee
sciro Gss est omuia," which our limited
kRo9lydge Of Laqa gave. u. to 'uhdefstand
that We wers not permitted to kRoE all
things
Coming down to plain. English, ha IN
CURED if we were the editor Of the Pulaski
citizen. We ve;s strongly tempted to give
him back his reply, Nec scire fas est ON
MIA, T" but as the receipt Of FIVE dollars BY US
depended upon cur reply, We came out
with the unequiyooal answer that We we're.
he then demanded the bills we were order
dered to print together with our bin for
priasing the same. We presented them,
and told him the cost was FIVE dollars. He
received the bills, paid US the spOEdulix,
and said -tozvs, Wade in pace,' which we
understood to be a hint to leave. We re-.
NAMED in the vicinity long enough to see
that they commenced Immediately to stick
up the posters. They would silently az
proach a fence, tree OF house, or anything
of the sort, and ia twinklipg the bills
would be posted. when one Of them would
ezclaim "Stet4'' aud they would move on.
Next morning the advertisements we're
.ohnd posted all over the city, and an old
bell COW was ssen early in the day with
9Kuklux parade tonight" pasted all over
her sides.
Tbs whole town, with many visitors from
the country, were on the qa: rice from dark
till about O'Clock that night, a; which time
rockets were seen to go up in every direction
and couriers galloping tOwards the out
skirts Of the city. Shortly the ghosty Khan
commenced moving into town from every
Direction, cavalry and infantry, and were
soon assembled on the public square.
1t was impossible to make a correct es-
innate Of the number, as they we're con
stantly coming ia and moving about It
has been variouslY estimated at from three
to FIVE hundred. Such ghosdy. myRteri-
GUS looking assemblage never was seen be-
fore. Could it be that these GAoaZs were
human Was humanity ever so thorough
ly disguised before They and their
beautifully oaparisoned steeds bad certain
/ ly been in many battalion drill. Veteran
soldiers never moved in better order and
in more complete harmony under Tie best
drill-masters, than did this mysterious
body, seemingly without orders. Never
I word was uttered by one of them, and
i without command. they performed various
4 eyoluuons on the square and upon the diff
i ferent streets Of town FOR about an hour,
and without noise, save the Gathering Of the
skeleton horses feet and the measured
tread of The well drilled infantry, they mys-
seTiousiy disapPeared. Where they came
! from or whither they went, we know not.