The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-03-10
The Ku Klux KIan.


purposes and methods of the Ku
Klux Khan in the auditorium of the
City Hall last Saturday night. An
audience of the representative citi-
zens. men and women, heard him,
and sat two hours and twenty min
utes rapt in interest as the Colonel
made plain what the Khan stands
for and the orderly manner in which
it endeayOrs to maintain its high
ideals Col. Camp was introduced
by Rev. NJ. F. Harmon. pastor of
the Christian Church, who paid a
glowing tribute to the Khan organic
ed by Gen. Forest and the Southern
patriots, George. Walthall. Lamar
and that grand old hero of recon
struction days DR.. Kendrick. This
Khan saved the civilization of the
South if not the whole country. Col.
Camp followed with the most elo-
quent and lucid address ever before
delivered in this city. Cards were
distributed among the audience
with the request that all who en-
dorsed the lecture write their names
thereon and hand to him before
leaving the hall. Nearly every one
in the audience responded az attest
ed by the numerous cards banded
in. It is needless to say. that iudg-
ing from appearances, the Khan was
generally endorsed by the large
crowd present.
1t is currently rumOred today that
a large Khan is being or will be
organized in this city-but who
knows?
We publish below an article from
the editorial columns of The Column
bus Dispatch, which puts the o. K.
on the purposes of the Ku Klux
organization. and at the,same time,
gives some valuable hitsory as to
the functioning of the old Khan dur
ing the days of reconstruction:
"A friend asked. yesterday.
why don't you say something
in the Dispatch against the Ku
Klux Kan?"
We'll, for one reason, we are
not old. and we expect to see
II Il i
are now denouncing the Ku
Klux will be raising their hands
to Heaven and imploring God
to send the Ku Klux. or an or
ganizatiOn similar to it, to de-
liver them and their children
from black supremacy. the boot
leggers and certain other forms
of outlawry that can only be
reached and punished by secret
means.
Where would the South be
today had it not been for the
old, original Ku Klux, whose
first grand dragon was the ia
nous Confederate cavalry lead
er. Nathan Bedford Forrest?
After the civil war the South
was over ran by Yankee car
petbaggers, who offered every
form of insolence and insult to
the white people of this section.
The homes and farms of the
people were sold for taxes and
many times the purchasers were
as black as the shade of hades.
Offices were filled by black men
who were no more qualified to
discharge the duties that de-
vOlve upon them than a house
cat. The beautiful common
wealth of Louisiana once had a
negro lieutenant governor. The
sheritfs in many counties and
parishes were negro men. They
crowded the legislative halls in
some of the Southern states.
The writer of these lines is only
40 years of age. yet he remem-
bers seeing In his native state
(Tennessee). numerous black
and kinky heads in the legisla-
ture of the Volunteer State, ne
gro men who could neither read
nor write, helping to enact laws
to govern members of the An
glo-Saxo race.
The Ku Klux came on the
scene, and conditions changed.
The black man receded and the
rightful heirs of government"
again took the reins in their
hands And there those reins
must forever remain.
Putting uniforms on young
negro men during the war. and
placing them at the steering
wheels of expensive automO- |