The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-02
TIE KU-KLEX.
WRITTEN FOR THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT
by s'RAPIDES."

WRITTEN FOR THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT
by ''RAPIDEs.''
4 hideous monster is roaming DER the
Followed by large aud frightful ghostly
band,
With cloven hoofs and long distended
claws,
Eyes Of fire and teeth that gnash meath
splDburous fumes roll out from nostrils
wide and deep,
And DER the land from place to place they
Spreading wild terror in each distant
Swallowing Whole men ard drinking wells
Of water.
Thieves and carpct-bag vagabonds, and
traitors, too, they say,
To their wild fury are sure to tall prey
Whence these demons It's beyond our
power to tell
They claim themselves to hail from the
depths Of neither heliv
Frames of dry bones mysterionsly held to-
They heed not darkness nor coolest stormy
weather.
No living mortal in their lrequented pains
can stay,
But like chaff before the winds are swiftly
borne away
Whittier no one kuowGth-a1 we know is
this,
When day dawns again some vagabond
we miss.
Thus has it been since wars dread carnage
ceased to flow,
When hecatombs of men were hurried into
the shades below;
When blood flowed free from hearts as
warm and brave,
As eyer ceased to beat or filed a patriots
grave.
When that bright cross that fiuttered
proudly DER the main,
And borne in victory Ger many CORY
Was farled by the might Of an overpower,
ing host,
When freedoms sun was set, and freemen's
cause was lost,
a yandal horde, base minions, murder
ous robbcr band,
With glitteriug bayonets, was scattered
Ger the land
Killing, robbing, piuEderfng, with furious
devilish rage,
Dealing death to innocent lsping infancy
and tottoring age;
Violating virtues, purity, ard the sanctity
ofGod's law,
Licensed only by revengeful hate, embit.
tered by horrid war.
Far up in Gather blue beyond all human
ken,
Patriot spirits hoyer-spirits Of brave and
fallen men,
Watching these dire offences and the
streams of blood that flow,
The heinous crimes committed here or
earth below;
Enrnged to fury the avenging Gods they've
sought,
To yindicato The crimes these earthly van
dals wrought.
They come, assuming ghost or hobgobliu
forms,
And roam Ger earth attended by bowling
storms
Performing deeds OF wonder beyond the
power Of men,
Nor leaving signs Of footsteps wherever
they have been.
They who rule the nation and make the
nations law,
nearing BHcSe monsters were STRUCK WIFI
fear and awe,
Held council to contrive means and
plan,
To check the vengeance of this frightfu
Ku-Klux Khan.
But their genius and their wisdom al
proved III vain,
Not yet they've learned from whence these
Ku-KiuX came;
Nor will ye, ye seifconceited lanyard
swell
While base and theiving minions in high
positions dwell.
Tho day the hand that piled the willy
quill,
And signed that namef to that preposter,
Gus BILL
That very day the nations rsIer ceased to
WELD
That moral power which should each IA,
toms ruler shield.
Wronged the spirits of dead mentor free
dom's cause was slain
And bound thirty million souls with q
single tyrants chain,
Tampersd with the Gods that protect the
rights of man,
And reused the uuremitting wrath of the
famous Ku-Klux Khan.
Grant tn. S. Grant. / Ku-Klux bill