I reject and oppose the principles of the radical party.
III.

I pledge aid to a brother of the Ku-Klux Klan in sickness, distress, or pecuniary embarrassments.

Females, friends, widows, and their households shall be the special object of my care and protection.
IV.

Should I ever divulge, or cause to be divulged, any of the secrets of this order, or any of the foregoing obligations, I must meet with the fearful punishment of death and traitor's doom, which is death, death, death, at the hands of the brethren.
Murderers, incendiaries, midnight raiders on the "side of justice, humanity and Constitutional liberty"! Let us see what kind of "justice, humanity and Constitutional liberty" is meant.

In Volume I, page 21, I find the following: Taking these statements from official sources, showing the prevalence of this organization in every one of the late insurrectionary States and in Kentucky, it is difficult now, with the light that has recently been thrown upon its history, to realize that even its existence has been for so long a mooted question in the public mind.