12-12-1871: "Mr. [U.S. District Attorney D.T.] Corbin addressed [the jury] that forty or fifty of those conspirators met, armed and disguised. . . . a constitution and by-laws of the Ku Klux Klan.”

“Judge Bond announced that the court had not yet decided as to the validity of the court’s charging a violation of the right to keep and bear arms. . . . Mr. [U.S. District Attorney D.T.] Corbin addressed [the jury] that forty or fifty of those conspirators met, armed and disguised. . . . a constitution and by-laws of the Ku Klux Klan.”, Dec. 12, 1871