Source: A Ku Klux Klan Threat (1868) Source: This document is note written by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, threatening Davie Jeems, a black Republican who was recently elected sheriff in Lincoln County, Georgia. Someone has written on the back of the sheet that "similar threats have prevented all the other Republican officers to take their [commissions]."

To Jeems, Davie. you. must. be, a good boy. and Quit. hunting on Sunday and shooting your gun in the night. you keep people from sleeping. I live on a big rock above the Ford of the Creek. I went from Lincoln County [sic] during the War I was Killed at Manassas in 1861. I am here now as a Locust in the day Time and. At night I am a Ku Klux Klan sent here to look after you and all the rest of the radicals and make you know your place. I have got my eye on you every day, I am at the Ford of the creek every evening From Sundown till dark I want to meet you there next Saturday tell platt Madison we have a Box. For him and you. We nail all radicals up in Boxes and send them away to the KKK - there is. 200, 000 dead men returned to this country to make you and all the rest of the radicals good Democrats and vote right with the white people...

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