The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-18
A Stirring Novel.
BY THOMAS Dixon, JR., OF North Carolina
Book One=-Legree's Regime.
copyright by Doubleday. Page & Coz

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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS HAP
TIERS. !
Little Charlie Castor never for /
gets the terribl. night when his T
mother was stricken with brain /
fever at the news Of his father' Il
death in battle. 4
Tom Camp, an old broken-down u
soldier. is overioyed to come home TO
his wife and little girl in their hum |
bic cabin. The negroes become very
insoient after the war. organizing \
into secret societies under the most |
corrupt leaders. Simon Legree, who u
became Sneaker of the House in the Z
North Carolina legislature, and Tim
Shelby, q negro, who expected 70 reap q
large fortune from ms polillcai IN
trlsues- These SO managed the electicnS
that il seemed an absolute lm~posslbllltF
TO break the machine, supported as II
was by men nigh III authority IN WASH
ington.
Ihe scenes IN i<aIelsh We're most
shameless, under reign 0! the vie
delegates thus elected.
VI
THE SECOND REIGN Oh TERROR.
1t was the bluest Monday the Pew.
John Durham ever remembered in his
ministry. A large drought had parched
the corn into twisted and stnnted little
stalks mat looked as though tney mao
been burnt IN a prairie IRE, me ny had
destroyed the wheat crop and the cotton
was dying in the blisterins sun OF Au-
gust and a blight worse than drought. OF
flood. or pestilence, brooded over the
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Ok mesh
The sunday before had been a pecu-
liaIly hard one for the preacher. He
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given 'heH Us leu h4ood % orlhA- -
Inc service ne couio nafaly rally
Ltoil .le hefNe lsilS''h : 'He Inorhlns'
,eit '"'' he ia" i'.aoiS l"i'1u' ins
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hopeie'9.
All day long the sorroWful stories OF
rum and loss OF homes were poured into
his ear.
The sheriff had advertised for sale foI
taxes over two thousand threee hundred
and twenty homes in Campbeu county
The land under such conditions had nc
value. 1t was only a formalitv for the
auctioneer to cry it and knock il dowr
for the amount of the fax bill
of oil tbis bonaloe. n,faor,- ar,hi.a. ~,
soul ? sense of utt.r xbo,srop ono
loneliness eama over him Tho loft
ideals of faith ana homo ba boa It'd =
,aacb saanood bo,lou, uouaa 80 u.hia,
he hed b,rh,uoo5 ha-o,e -. -
MA.
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80 y 'ioeN' l can eat ahSthihs'
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'hhe 'N"t VIII Tone You up. L Iouh'
- iioll some Oh your adnhirei
"t y = ieaNe TINS count III loi
u al 'iie consequences
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N AZ ai4lieu.
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Thought lhat "ould help you, SE
lau6I3d-
les L can eat on IN
strength or that.'
ne spread this letter out beside III
plate' ana read and reread 1t as he at
"hlie rs eyes flashed with a strang
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