To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:31:31 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Who Was That Masked Man?
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:22:33 -0400 "Michael Walsh"
<MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
> The anti-mask law dates from 1845.
> See:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1793000/1793540.stm,
> =
> http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/kkk.htm ,
> http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/23/kla=
> n.03/#1
> for various reference to the law.
>
> mjw

Perhaps, then, the law was originally aimed at the 'Know-Nothings', a
political faction of that era.

Ron Kean

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