The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-15
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furnished upon the same scale and in much the
same style as Dennis's ninety thousand dollar
upholstery in the lower House. The carpet is
of tapestry, with pattern Of convoluted rings,
auri the furniture ID appropriately made Of
black walnut. . Whiskey and other seductive
fluids are furnished by the barrel, and the ap-
pointments of the lodge room include one
handsome parlor organ, height of prominent
State official Ta9.. ~ = :!...'. ~.
The next step was to clothe this patent Ku
Klux with show of legal sanction, and tor
| this pirposethe following bill was introduced
| In the lower House on theo 18th of December,
and hurriediy put through, with but ltrIfing
opposition :.r':1no;2e z Il '+s y. = 'a''''o -
BILL TO INCORPORATE THE GRAFD coqE-
-lc7To OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF UNI
TED BRETHREN OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 49,, 49,,
BE It enacted, u;te &c. That P. P. Hedges. Frank
Adams A5ams6n. s j. Lee William Littlefeld, ,J w.
Thomas, John T. Henderson, R. w. Cousart,
A. Hart, Mitchell .Goggins, Geo. A. Richmond,
| NIB. rMeyefs, Fortune Childs Robert Tarle-
ton, Esop Goodson,H Edward Ferguson, w! H.!
Jones, and others, who are now, ,-0f may here
after become, officers and members Of the
Grand Council Of the: Independent Order of
United Brethren, ana their suecessory officers
/ and members, be, and they feIhereby; declared
to Be- body polite and corporate, by the name
and style of the "Grand Council of the Inde-
pendent Order of United Brethren, of the
State of South Carolina" and that the said
corporation shall by its corporate name, sue,
be sued in1plead, and be impfeaded, in the
c0arts.o Of this State; and shall be enabled and
empowered In law to purchase, have, hold, en-
E ioyi and possess ehatteIs, lands, tenements, or
Zeal estate, Of what kind and nature soeyer, and
the same or any part thereof TO sell, afIens or
convey, at their will and pleasure: Provided,
That the pfoperty so held shall not exceed the
animal lyyalue Of sffty ithousand dollars 10 And
thelssid CORPORATION SHAH have power to make
common seal, with power to change and alter
the same as often as they may deem necessary.
siOf the incorporators named above, all but
tySy out of the fourteen are members of the
House. This bill vas passed through the low
Ter house Under the lash Of the brotherhood,
which, opossesses Seventy-six votes in that body.
II f1asnaoe vet passed the Senate, and it is like
liz that ID will not but its passage after all is q
matter of no great Importance to the brother
hood; except Is giving it q uasilegisiarlvse 1 e
sTHg ritual and constitution of this new Ku,
Klnx has been icompleted and adopted: It Is
an adaptation Of the formula of&he old Know
Nothing organization, or the United Order OF
Sain. and includes solemn oath, 8 terrible In;
itsatioh, and the penalty of death for any be-,
itrayal-of the secrets of the order. The State
lis divided first into two departments, over each
lof which there is division commander, and
then into districts composed Of the various,
counties The utmost secrecy is preserved as
to the names of the officers of the grand couna
Gil and. the parties who are depended on to-
organize the various counties. I am told that
the Governor holds no actual offiee in she or,
der, but, with the ard of FIT. J. Hackey, stands
behind the scenes to work the wires; that Yone
of the grand divisions is commanded by col
ored member of the United States Congress );
that a prominent officer of the House has been
commissioned grand preceptor and instructor,
and an attdchee of the safnet body; named IN
theIbill, is the grand SCRIBE, and that various
members of the House are depended on to or
ganize the various counties, and are, OF course,
to be rewarded with important offices. In
some of. the counties, for obvious and pruden-
tial reasons, no organization will be attempted,
but all friends of corruption and misgopetn-.
n,eut will be. invited to rally to the general
standard in Columbia ~ ma -. 80, n
The regular meetings of the Central Klan
are held in the Columbia Lodge room on Mon
day. Wednesday and Friday nights, but the
rooms are brilliantly Illuminated every even
ing. and the work of organization and corrup-
tion is going bravely on. Constant accessions
to Che Brotherhood are being made, and chart
ers for subordinate lKlans are being printed by
the reara. .d The actual operations of the band
in! recent fegislation are most plainly to be
seen in the defeat Of the proposed repeal Of
the. resolution authorizing the Governor to
purchase two thousand stands of arms, the
killing of the impeachment resolution, and the
election of Judge Mackey. The last named
Jobs were part of the original stipuiationsy and
the frat was demanded by the Governor and
approved by the brethren, on the ground that
it might be useful have q few hundred Win.
chester rifles for their own use during the next
In hellightiof these revelations a number Of
other transactions, which in themselves seem
trivial, acauire,a new significance. Theicalen-
dars. of both houses are crowded with acts OF
incorporation for countless leagues, societies
and clubs, nine.tenths of which may safely be
assumed TO be dependencies Of ScotSs ku
KluxJ the; State militia is being reconstructed,
and SUCH determined advocates of reform as
General. Whipper, Colonel Yocum, &C., sum-
nlarily discharged : united effort is making
to saddle the city Of Charleston with metro
politan police commission |; Sheriff Maekey
has been commissioned colonel of another reg.
iment to be raised in Charleston, of which the
"Mishaw Zouayes," 'Saxton Rifemen," Gar
olina Light Infantry" est. Andrews Rife
CORPS, ,pi3SEdisto Light Guard" and other gangs
with similar high sounding names, who are be-
sieging the Assembly for acts of incorporation,
are doubtless to be the component companies,
and if all these preparations do not presage a
bloody and literal fight, then I am no phophet
NJ ',f.i,t a.,r; ~ ,,aGe n' PICKET.
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"NEw CHILDREN, NOT New Toys" Fanny
Fern writes in the last number of the Ledger:
Notlong since read q newspaper article, In
which the w-iter deplored that some "new toys
were not invented for the children of the Pres.
ent day.n Now, to the best of my belief, that
wouldn't solve the difficulty, since the trouble
is with the children, not with the toys which