In my belief the south damaged and killed the reconstruction efforts due to evidence from Documents "A" & "B". As stated by Abram Colby " On the 29th of October 1869, the klansmen broke my door open, took me out of my bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead... They said rot me . " Do you think you will ever vote another damned radical ticket?'' I said, "there was an election tomorrow, I would vote the radical ticket" the Ku Klux Klan came after Abram Colby because he was voting against their main interest which was to keep the government in a white supremacist dictatorship. The KKK would first bribe that African-Americans for their radical ticket and if …show more content…
As cited from Doc A "....state senator caswell, is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux-Klan in the Grand Jury room of the Court house on Saturday.... he was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room..." It appears that the Klan is attacking members or the government who have the power to pass laws and put Klansmen on trail. Doing so they gain political fear meaning this would scare government officials into siding with the KKK. This showed that the Klan would go to extreme measures to deliver their message to absolutely everyone in