The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-09
A BUGLE BLAST.
What Senator McLaurin Said to g
North Carolina Audience.
A MOST FERVENT APPEAL.
A Summons to the True Men Of
the old North State to Maintain
the Civilization Inherited
from their Forefathers.

day, prepared especially for the VIII
mington Star:
Fellow Citizens: In the various great
cities of the land, Peace Jubilees
are being held to celebrate the glorious
achievements of American valor in two
hemispheres, on both the land and the
sea. [ have heard everywhere, excep,
in this State, sounds of JOY. They are
extending the blessings of liberty to
other lands, while there hangs overyo
the black shadow of Negro domina-
ton.
North Carolina deserves better fate,
She has never failed when duty called.
In this war she gave the first sacrifice
of blood when Bagley died at Card euas.
She gave my old schoolmate, the gal
liant Bill Shipp, at Santiago, and Victor
Blue, of South Carolina, and Hobson
are both of good old Tar Heel stock. 1t
does seem hard, just at this time, for
the people of this State to be threaten
ed with'a yoke more hateful, and more
CALLING to race pride, than the rule OF
Spain over Cuba.
In other States, campaign issues are
being discussed, it is gold Or silver, tar
iff or war, Republican or Democrat. In
North Carolina the one issue is white
supremacy or negro domination. This,
fellow citizens, is the one paramount
issue, all others are dwarfed into insig-
nifcance. No use to talk Fusion,
there is but one kind of fusion now
possible in North Carolina. Be it said
to their credit, the Negroes themselves
have torn the mask from the bastard ar
rangement that has controlled under
the rotten guise Of Fusion. The
only Fusion" now for decent white
man, is Fusion" into your white
unions" sealediin the sacredness Of
the common blood of your race, and
pledged to the redemption of this grand
old State from the misrule and corrup-
ton that follow Negro domination.
Fellow citizens, it was upon North
Carolina soil that the first decla-
ration of independence was madt,
and it was the brave men of this
State and my own who turned the tide
Of battle as Cowpens and Kings Noun
tain so that itnever stopped until the
surrender at Yorktown.
Your ancestors carved an empire out
of a wilderness, redeemed it from saw
age red men, and then wrested it from
the British Lion. Shall you turn the
goodly heritage over to slaves and the
children of slaves? All the proud
traditions of the Caucasian race for
bid.
The right of the Caucasian to rule
comes from God. Where he is found
he governs. 1t is in his blood. His
commission is printed on his brow by
the hand of the Almighty, and the re-
cord Of his race is marked in all the
histories of the past in all the coun
tries of the earth. Anglo-Saxon civlll-
cation in North Carolina will never re-
treat in the face of conflict with an
inferior race. Every State in the south
has had this same ordeal to so through,
but in spite of the power of federal bay
onets, in every struggle, thanks be to
God, our civilization has been main
tanned, and in every conflict it has uitl-
mately triumphed. The constitutions
of South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana tell the story.
1t does my heart good, and warns
my blood to hear how grandly the
white people of all political parties and
shades of opinion are responding to that
good old battle cry, "White suprema'
cy!''
This IS the keynote. In the past 1t
has saved our homes and protected oul
women from insult and degradation. II
supplies a motive that makes strong the
arm of feebleness and nerves even the
craven heart.
"White supremacy" Under that in
spiration, let US hope that on the Stf
Of November, the black clouds will roll
away and the clear sun shine uron &
people redeemed and free-free from
terror ola worse than Egyptian bond
age.
The manner in which you are con
ducting your campaign reminds me @!
story of two Irishmen. They LANDED
in New York from the steamer anc
walked out into Jersey and laid down
to spend the night alongside Of the
railroad track. During the night one
Of them woke up at the noise Of an ex
press train. The ground trembled with
the rumble and roar while great biz
fiery eye glared at them. Terror
stricsen he shook his companion
wake up Jamie, wake up; these Amer
leans are moving hell to same Other
place
Well. you North Ca,olinians seen
determined to move hell to some othel
place, and l hope You will succeed
only don't move it down across tht
line; we have had our share in Soutl
Carolina. Cuba would be pretty gooc
place to move it 10. They ought to bt
used to hell there By this time.
In North Carolina, as I viewthe cas<
it is not even a question Of partly
white and partly black government.
There is no compromise and strange t.
say the color line is drawn by the Ne
groes themselves. am glad that it !:
so. Your troubles will end sooner
Had the Negroes been conservative anc
shown some judgment your State NIGH
have been controlled by fusion fo1
years, but whom the gods would de
stroy they first make mad. The Ne
groes have openly announced their in
tentioD to make it race matter anc
dominate to the exclusion of thei
white allies. This is the history o.
every southern State. The Negroes by
themselves have never in a single in
stance been able to gain control, bu
have been led by the white men, whom
they always repudiate as soon as they