The age-herald., 1898-11-06
ROUGH RIDERS. IN
 ERSTERNz;N NORTH CAROLINE

occupied carriages in the lead of the pro- cession; the Red Shirts mounted and form ing line a mile long followed. Toward the rear was farmer, who, owning no mule or horse took his place, driving his OK to his wagon, OK and wagon decorated in the flaming color of the Union. Carter, confederate veteran mounted on a lean mule, sang appropriate war songs as the line moved along. Business houses were closed, schools. public and private, were dismissed and the whole white population stood on the sidewalks and in the windows above cheering and applauding. The line moved finally through the negro quarter Of the city, but all was silent there. The cabin doors were closed.
 When the procession passed beyond the city limits the guns were fired for an hour and patriotic speeches were made. At night the captains of the various military divi- sons Of the city met at the residence of the commander-in-chief to report the state of their several commands. They have the most effective arms known to the art of war among them Colts rapid fire guns for which the leaders paid down $1 1S0O
 
 MT. Aldrich, in the Fourth Alabama, and MT Street, populist, and the republican candidate also in the Seventh are in full sympathy. expressed or unexpressed, with that condition of affairs in North Carolina. which must culminate immediately in the general disfranchisement of the negroes, alive or dead. So far from the restoration or the southern representation in congress haVing settled the race question, the race issue is more and more intensified by that policy of revenge which restoration has liked in the republican party at Washing ton There are no negroes in civil office at the north, state or federal notwithstand, negroes there hold the balance between po- litical parties, but wherever the negro can pc forced upon a resentfu recognition in the south by the government at Washing ton, the effort is there ready. Negro cadets at West Point and Annapolis, negro post masters and letter carriers in our towns. negro officers in the federal revenue sys- fems in the south only, encouragement to aegro candidates for congress in this sec ion alone, are some of the irritating de- vices of the republican party to make re- stored union in spirit, as well as in fact, q burlesque.
 ~Ai' ". Y may De seated in the b1fty-seventh congress. but the audacity of his presence there will precede, as the night the day, the final redemption of this state rom negro rule or the menace of negro rule. North Carolina had it in her power when she was able to elect Ransom and Vance to the senate to reform her internal organism to her relief from the terrors of today. Let her dire calamity be our warn- ing. There is no need in Alabama for red shirts. We have elected a governor who IS widely at variance with a former gov ernor, Thomas G.. Jones, on the wise and proper relations of this commonwealth to the sentimental features of the Fourteenth amendment We know that the main ar gument of the republican party and it's ally in the August election was No new constitution" and that the people by d great majority elected governor and legislature favoring a new constitution. There is no need of red shirts in Alabama, because the white men of this state under stand their duty to God and humanity. That duty is plain to brave and honest men. J. w. D.