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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 57: the Ku-Klux Klan (search)
ood's Church, of another freedman shot and killed, about twelve miles from a station of some of our troops. A Ku-Klux letter of notification ran: We can inform you that we are the law itself, and that an order from these headquarters is supreme above all others. I closed an itemized account in a letter to the Secretary of War in these words: I therefore report them to enable you or the President to act officially, hoping that you may be able to cleanse at least three counties, Monroe, Lowndes, and Noxubee, and that part of Lauderdale especially infested by the outlaws, in the way that your extensive war experience has taught you. Reviewing the operations of those secret, unscrupulous organizations popularly known as Ku-Klux Klans, in connection with the freedmen's education, after an interval of forty years, my conclusions are as expressed in the following language: The operations of the Ku-Klux Klan were directed principally against the negroes, and those who were supp