The North wanted every member of the Ku Klux hunted down and hanged, because they had dared take the punishment of crime into their own hands at a time when the ordinary processes of law and order had been overthrown by the invaders.

• 北方佬将追捕到的每一个三K党徒都处以绞刑，因为他们居然胆敢将惩罚罪犯的权利拿到了手里，而事实上此时一般的法律程序早已被入侵者废除了。