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This is a description of the Ku Klux Klan by someone identified as "a Southern writer, residing at Columbia, South Carolina." This writer was quoted as part of an editorial published in the New York Evening Post in 1872. "The best informed persons in the most disturbed districts in this State estimate that from two-thirds to three-fourths of all the white men, between the ages of sixteen and fifty, are members of the Ku-Klux order. . . . Each chief and Klan knows and receives orders from his district chief and his assistants, but does not, except by accident, know who the higher officers are. So district chiefs know the officers next above them in rank, but not necessarily those of higher grade. Special grips, passwords and signs, known only to the district and division chiefs and to those of higher grade, make it possible for them, when necessary, to make themselves known officially to the subordinates." Ba

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