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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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