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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 7 7 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 3 3 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ku-klux Klan, (search)
ght to light by the congressional investigation instituted, but no chronicle has yet appeared, nor will any ever be able, to depict the horrors of the midnight warfare upon weak and helpless negroes and their families, the outrages by men in ghostly disguises, the homes destroyed, and the general terror spread over the Southern States where colored people were most thickly settled. The actions of the Ku-klux Klan in the South were made the subject of heated debates in Congress, and on March 21, 1871, a joint investigating committee was appointed. Two days afterwards, President Grant sent the following message to both Houses: To the Senate and House of Representatives: A condition of affairs now exists in some of the States of the Union rendering life and property insecure, and the carrying of the mails and the collection of the revenue dangerous. The proof that such a condition of affairs exists in some localities is now before the Senate. That the power to correct thes