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The KGC was divided into three sections or 'degrees'--the 'Foreign and Home Guard Militia', 'Foreign and Home Guard Corps', of civilian support, and 'American Legion' which was political and governing arm. Reportedly, by 1860 membership in KGC was more than sixty-five thousand and constituted 'brains' of South. Bickley made their objective clear when he declared, 'The fact is, we want a fight, but how to get it is question.'
Through constant agitation, Knights stirred up hatreds and fears throughout North and South. 'After Abraham Lincoln was, elected in 1860, this minority of Southern minority conspired to bring off a last gamble. In 1861, to extremists' amazement, disunion triumphed,' wrote historian William W. Freehling.
KGC activity in Northern states involved a plan to create a "Northwest Confederacy" composed of pro-Southerners in several states, including Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, and Michigan. Illinois alone was reported to have a KGC membership of some twenty thousand. The plan was to seize federal arsenals, then take control of states and release all Confederate prisoners. One state official, Edmund Wright, tried to oppose Knights, only to have his wife poisoned and his home burned. In August 1862 sixty KGC members--out of a reported fifteen thousand members in Indiana--were indicted for conspiracy and treason but later released. Federal prosecutors were fearful of creating martyrs and conspiracy cases were weak.
The Knight's actions created havoc with national government, prompting President Lincoln to lament, 'The enemy behind us is more dangerous to country than enemy before us.'
The Lincoln administration was compelled to imprison more than thirteen thousand people on charges of 'disloyalty', which meant anything from speaking against government to discouraging military enlistment. 'Those who before war had been called 'the loyal opposition' found themselves after 1861 commonly referred to as traitors,' wrote author Larry Starkey.
Such repression incensed Democrats and anti-Republicans, who charged federal officials with exaggerating KGC threat in order to suppress criticism of administration. Membership in Knights' organization and its spin-offs, Order of American Knights and Sons of Liberty, grew to number in hundreds of thousands. According to Griffin, Knights went underground after war, 'eventually emerging as Ku Klux Klan. {In Birth of a Nation, movie shows over 20,000 white-hooded Knights going up Pennsylvania Ave. to meet their Grand Wizard, former Head of Princeton and later architect of failed League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson.)
In 1863 Bickley was arrested as a spy in Indiana and held without trial until his release in 1865."(5)
Did Melungeons (perhaps Lincoln was one) and other white people who fled Europe during Dark Ages repression find Cincinnati and earlier white settlers of Adena to their welcome liking? The Bat Creek, Tennessee area from which we have nine skeletons who Cyrus Gordon of New York University says were fleeing Roman Lions are good evidence of that. He demonstrates academics who thought language or script on stone found with them were wrong. They thought it was Cherokee but he showed it was Semitic many years later. There is a plethora of evidence showing people coming to America's in every post-Christian century. It was going on for at least 4,000 years before that by boat. The European people spread out of Caucasus to all parts of world 30,000+ years ago according to genetic proof provided in my other books is now joined by ‘Y’ chromosome research. When Napoleon gave Louisiana Purchase to America he imposed certain legal requirements establishing further separations between church and state that 'Birdman of Alcatraz' took advantage of as shown when he married in prison.
It would not surprise us if Holy Roman Empire was always managed by Merovingians of Charlemagne and Childeric right up to Priory of Sion that founded Templars through likes of Godfroi de Bouillon and Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair who are descendants of Charlemagne. The De Medicis role we implied was a part of whole affair is a very minor light in this darkness. The Borgia ethic has its Hapsburg and Rothschild mélange. The phenomena of "sheepleism" continually amazes proctors of behavioral science, and continually delights magnums of power elite who are always willing to ‘appeal to their base instincts’ as Machiavelli advised them to do. No lesser a student of politics than Otto von Bismarck has noted following that impacts whole world to this day.
"The division of United States into federations of equal force was decided long before Civil War by high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over world. The voice of Rothschilds prevailed.... Therefore they sent their emissaries into field to exploit question of slavery and to open an abyss between two sections of Union."
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