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Title: The clansman : an American drama : from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman : presented by the Southern Amusement Co.
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
Subjects: Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946 Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Publisher: New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Men, women and children must have, and be worthvof, implicit mutual trust. They must be trusted with thesecrets of life and death without reserve and withoutfear. It was a magnificent conception and in a sense deservedsuccess. It differed from all other attempts at revolution inthe caution and skill with which it required to be conducted.It was a movement made in the face of the enemy, and anenemy of overwhelming strength. Should it succeed it wouldbe the most brilliant revolution ever accomplished. Shouldit fail—well, those who engaged in it felt that they had nothingmore to lose. Judge Tourgee was in my opinion the most brilliant carpet-bagger who found fame and fortune in the ruined South. Inmanv ways he was a remarkable man. His death was decreedby the Ku KInx Klan for the part he look in persuadingGovernor Holden to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus inNorth Carolina. The writ had never been suspended for a Cenenil .\athan Bedford Forrest, of lennessee.Chief of the Ku Khix Klan
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rilU. SIOKV (»/•■ TIlli Kl KLUX KI..1.V moment during ihr entire lli^tllry dl llic Coninionwcallli, noteven (luring the tOiu years of war wlien tlie conscript actswere enforced. A hundred picked men were commissionedto execute Tourgee and the (lovernor for this usurpation ofpower and throw their bodies inln ihe Capital Square atRaleigh. They failed only because of a warning received intime. And yet this big-brained, self-poised Yankee sat downafterwards and wrote the tribute to his foes I quote. WeSoutherners arc much too intense in our feelings to do suchthings. It never occurred to Judgethis book that the members ofthis Klan were merely a setof scoundrels and despera-does. Nothing perhaps lietter il-lustrates the chaotic condi-tions of the times than themanner in which Judge Tour-gee obtained his title. He ap-plied to the Supreme Court ofNorth Carolina for license topractice law and fell throughon the examination. He cursedthe ancient and honorableCourt, composed of men ofgreat

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