There never was, before or since, a period of our history when such an order could have lived. May there never be again!
FOOTNOTES:
[53] In the copy of the Revised and Amended Prescript owned by Columbia University Library is bound a letter in which is mentioned this order of destruction.—Editor.
[54] The local "Dens" were not affected by this order. Many had already disbanded; many more remained active as long as the Reconstruction régime lasted.—Editor.