Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-02
Blu REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR.

Saxon. Our old men dreamed of local SUI
1 premacy. We dream of the conquest of
the globe. Threads OF steel have knit
| state to state. Steam and electricity have
I silently transformed the face of the earth,
| anihilated time and space, and swept the
ocean barriers from the path of man. The
| black steam shuttles of commerce have
woven continent to continent.
1--WE believe that God raised up our
| race as he ordained Israel of old, in this
| yorld-crisis to establish and maintain
| for weaker races, as a trust for civilIza-
ton, the principles of civil and religious
Liberty and the forms of Constitutional
| government.
I'm. this hour of crisis. our flag has been
raised over ten millions of semiZbarbaric
| black men in the foulest slave pen OF the
Orient. Shall we repeat the farce of 81
reverse the order of nature, and make
| these black people our rulers? If not why
/ should the African here, who is not their
equal be allowed to imperil our life?"
A whirlwind of applause shook the build
| ing
"A crisis approaches in the history of
| the human race. The world is stirred by
J its consciousness today. The nation must
live-to master the future or be mastered
in the struggle. New questions press up
| on us for solution.
"Shall this grand old commonwealth lag
behind and sink into the filth and degra-
dation of Negroid corruption in this SOL
/ emn hour of our world?"
mo! Nor screamed a thousand voices
What is our condition today in the
dawn of the twentieth century? If we at
] tempt to move forward we are literally
! chained to the body of a fostering Black
/ Death!
Fifty of our great counties are again
under the heel of the Negro, and the state
is in his clutches. Our city governments
are debauched by his vote. His insolence
/ threatens our womanhood, and our chill
: dren are beaten by negro toughs on the
way to school while we pay his taxes
| Shall we longer tolerate negro inspectors
| of white schools, and negroes in charge of
white institutions? Shall we longer toler-
ate the arrest OF white women by negro
/ officers and their trial before negro magis-
! trates?
| LET the manhood Of the Aryan race with
its four thousand years of authentic his
tory answer that question:
With blazing eyes. and voice that rang
/ with the deep peal of defiant power, Gas
ton hurled that sentence like a thunder
| bolt into the souls of his two thousand
| hearers. The surging host sprang to their
| feet and shouted back an answer that
made the earth tremble!
| Lifting his hand for silence he continued,
ut is no longer a question of bad gov
/ II ID QuCSlAOH u AAupOSSADAO
| government. We lag behind the age drag
ging the decaping corpse to which we are
| chained.
who shall deliver us from the body of
this death?
Hear me- men OF my race Norman and
! Celt, Angle and Saxon. Dane and Frank
/ Huguenot and German martyr blood!
THE hour has struck when we must rise
! in our might, break the chains that bind
us to this corruption, strike down the Ne
| gro as a ruling power. and restore to our
! children their birthright, which we re-
ceived. a priceless legacy. from our
/ fathers!
IT believe in Gods call to our race to
do His work in history. What other races
failed to do, you wrought in this conti-
mental wilderness. fighting pestilence,
/ hunger cold, wild beasts, and savage
hordes. until out of it all has grown the
mightfest nation Of the earth.
rs the Negro worthy to rule over you?
| ASK history. The African has held one
fourth of this globe for 5000 years. He has
never taken one step in progress or res
cued one jungle from the ape and the
adder, except as the slave of superior
race.
"In Hayti and San Domingo he rose in
| servile insurrection and butchered fifty
| thousand white men, women and children
| a hundred years ago. He has ruled these
beautiful islands since. Did he make pro-
| yress with the example of Aryan civiliza-
ton before him? No. But yesterday we
| received reports of the discovery of can
nibalism in Hayti.
He has had one hundred years Of trial
in the Northern states Of this Union with
| every facility of culture and progress, and
lie has not produced one man who has
| added a feathers weight to the progress
of humanity In an hour of madness the
| dominion of the ten great states of the
South were given him without struggle.
A saturnalia of infamy followed.
Shall we return to this? You must an
swer. The corruption of HIS presence In
our body polite is beyond the power of
| reckoning. We drove the Carpet-bagger
| from our midst but the Scalawag. our
| native product is always with us to fatten
on this corruption and breed death to So
| ciety The Carpet-bagger was a wolf, the
Scalawag is a hyena. The one was a
highwayman the other sneak.
$50 long as the Negro is factor in our
nolitieal life, will violence and corruption
| stain our history. We can not anord long
/ er to play with violence. We must remove
the cause.
Suffrage in America has touched the
lowest tide-mud OF degradation. II our
cities and our Southern civilization are to
be preserved. there must be a return TO
the sanity of the founders of this Repub-
lie.
"a government OF the wealth, virtue and
intelligence Of the community, by the de-
based on the criminal, is a relapse to ele-
mental barbarism to which no race OF
freemen can submit
"Shall the future North Carolinian be
an Anglo-Saxon or a Mulatto? That is the
question before you.
Nations are made by men, not by pa
per constitutions and paper ballots. We
are not free because we have a Constitu-
ton We have a Constitution because our
pfoneer fathers who cleared the wilderness
and dared the might of kings, were free
men. 1t was in their blood, the tutelage OF
generation on generation beyond the seas,
the evolution of centuries OF struggle and
sacrifice.
IF you can make men out Of paper, then
1t is possible with a scratch of a pen in
the hand of mailman to transform by it's
magic million slaves into a million kings
I'VE grant the Negro the right to life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness If he
can be happy without exercising kingship
over the Anglo-Saxon race, or dragging
us down to his level But If he can not
find happiness except in lording 1t over a
superior race. let him look for another
world in which to rule. There is not room
for both of us on this continentr'
Again and again CASTOR raised his hand
to still the mad tumult of applause his
words evoked.
"And we will fight 1t out on this line, II
1t takes hundred years. two hundred