ministration to be destructive of the rights of the states and of the liberties of the people". The Democrats convention in Corsicana where a “radical Republican” declared the "national administration to be destructive of the rights of the states and of the liberties of the people". As the literature fosters a paternalistic discourse it contains accounts and narratives of white supremacists that explain the Ku Klux Klan and politicians’ inclination "to take the law into their own hands; that is the law of nature. A man will seek his own defense if he cannot get it any other way”. Tired of the “incompetency of the judiciary department” like “Judge Tourgee” in “account of his partiality in punishing criminals, and in not sustaining the law as he should", the novel directs the reader to the failure of governance and “spurious” Klan. When President Grant enacted the “Anti-Ku Klux statute in 1868” Supremacists said it “was one of the chief reasons for the spread of the Ku Klux Klan, as it aimed at the very life and liberty of
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