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While the moonshiners and ku-klux were provoking the country in my early boyhood as though led by an inscrutable hand were finding their way over the mountains and preparing to establish themselves as the outguard of civilization that they might become the possessors of all the sons of
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918
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They all contained editorials defending Dr. Cobb from the charge of being a ku-klux preacher.
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900 Charles Harden 1896
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The editor of the Signal made it the occasion of an attack upon what he termed ku-klux preachers, and scored Dr Cobb heavily as he fulminated against the Conservative party that Vance, an unpardoned rebel, was trying to organize.
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900 Charles Harden 1896
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It seemed as though the passions of men, aroused by the political troubles and getting no vent in action, welcomed this new outlet, and already the night-riding of ku-klux and toll gate days was having a new and easy birth.
The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891
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