In South Carolina, according to the report of the federal committee, townsfolk journeyed to the postoffice, not to get their mail, but to read the daily Ku-Klux bulletin. One such, reprinted in the ten-volume report of the committee which examined southern outrages, was a warning against further "carpet bagger" administration. It is as follows:
Headquarters, Ninth Division, S.C.
Special Orders, No. 3, K.K.K.
Ignorance is the curse of God.
For that reason we are determined that members of the legislature, the school committee and the county commissioners of Union county shall no longer officiate.
Fifteen days' notice from this date is given, and if they, and all, do not at once and forever resign their present inhuman, disgraceful and outrageous rule, then retributive justice will as surely be used as night follows day.
By order of the Grand Chief,
A.O., Grand Secretary.
THREATEN NEGROES FOR FIRES
Another "special order," this one warning that the colored race in general would be punished for all malicious fires in particular, was made public in the Charleston News, Jan. 31, 1871.
Headquarters, K.K.K.
January 22, 1871.
Resolved: That in all cases of incendiarism, ten of the leading colored people and two white sympathizers shall be executed.