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...Klansmen attention: Remember your solemn oath to obey all edicts, mandates, rulings, and instructions of the imperial wizards. It is the order of the imperial wizard that all klansmen work faithfully for the nomination of our brother klansman, Major Jackson...
...James Asheton Bayard II, Senator (1851-64), resigned his office on being required to take an "iron clad oath" of allegiance to the Government. He was later reappointed to the Senate and served until...
Amid general pomp, masculine gold braid, feminine fine raiment, the new Governor General took the oath of office in the Legislative Council of Quebec. Later he lunched at the Chateau Frontenac, famed hotel. Still later, a special train sped the Governor General and his entourage to Ottawa...
...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...
...Silvestre and all Spaniards. As I rose I swore that I would avenge that blow a thousand times. I went back committed to lead my tribe and all the other tribes I could enlist in a ceaseless war against the Spaniards. For over five years I kept that oath. Spain can judge whether Silvestre's brutality was avenged...