SEC. 6. The person, through the cyclops of the order of which he is a member, can make application for pardon to the Great Grand Cyclops of Nashville, Tennessee, in which case execution of the sentence can be stayed until pardoning power is heard from.

ARTICLE VII.

SECTION 1. Any member who shall betray or divulge any of the matters of the order shall suffer death.

ARTICLE VIII.

SECTION 1. The following shall be the rules of any order to any matter herein not provided for; shall be managed in strict accordance with the Ku Klux rules.

SEC. 2. When the chief takes his position on the right, the scribe, with the members forming a half-circle around them, and at the sound of the signal instrument there shall be profound silence.

SEC. 3. Before proceeding to business, the scribe shall call the roll and note the absentees.

SEC. 4. Business shall be taken up in the following order:

1. Reading the minutes.

2. Excuse of members at preceding meeting.

3. Report of committee of candidates for membership.

4. Collection of dues.

5. Are any of the order sick or suffering?

6. Report of committees.

7. New business.

APPENDIX IV.

KU KLUX ORDERS, WARNINGS AND OATHS

KU KLUX ORDERS, WARNINGS, OATHS.

KU KLUX KLAN.

ALERT!

(Crossed muskets) (and pistol.) (Spade ax ax.)

ALERT! ALERT!

T T T T T T T T T T T

The B. G. C. of the K. K. K. is in town. You who know the signal of his presence and have seen it be on the _alert_. You who do not--to a brother--_mark the nail of the finger and the_ (?) must be organized in the future. _Traitors_ to their race _will not always flemish like the bay. Dimity marks them. Look out. And meet at the cave where the Greased Lightning Slumbers._

By order of the B. G. C.

In Pro., Per.

D. W. S.

Forerunner.[57]

KU KLUX.

Serpent's Den--Death's Retreat Hollow Tomb--Misery Cave of the Great Ku Klux Klan, No. 1,000.

Windy Month--b.l.o.o.d.y Moon, Muddy Night--Twelfth Hour.

_General Orders No. 1._

Make ready! Make ready! Make ready!

The mighty hobgoblins of the Confederate dead in h.e.l.l-a-Bulloo a.s.sembled!

Revenge, Revenge!

Be secret, be cautious, be terrible!

By special grant, h.e.l.l freezes over for your pa.s.sage. Offended ghosts, put on your skates, and cross over to mother earth!

Work! Work!! Work!!!

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Ye white men who stick to black, soulless beasts! the time arrives for you to part. Q. W. X. W. V. U., and so, from Omega to Alpha.

Cool it with a baboon's blood Then the charm is firm and good.

Ye n.i.g.g.e.rs who stick to low whites!

Begone, Begone, Begone! The world turns around--the thirteenth hour approacheth.

S. one, two, and three--beware! White and yellow.

J. and T---- P---- and L---- begone.--The handwriting on the wall warns you!

From the murderer's gibbet, throw Into the flame. Come high and low.

By order of the Great BLUFUSTIN.

G. S. K. K. K.

A true copy, Peterloo.