Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-15

TWYYE HAVE all been reading
Nk and enjoying some new
wv books lately at our home.
THE Leopard Spots" by the
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., like
himself is full of life. This book deals
with the race problem in the south as
viewed from the standpoint Of
southerner. 1t is a romance of the
white mans burden in the south, and
the story is laid after the war is over,
presenting prominent features of re-
construction tyranny and the crimes
which have led all the way up to the
lyncher's rope and fagot in all the
states of the union. This book could
only have been written by a southern
man, because every line in 1t breathes
of a deathless determination to pre-
serve this as a white mans country. 1t
is hot in it's intensity and will be ca
gerly read by those who prefer the in
tense and strenuous in literature. The
scenes are laid principally in North
Carolina, but they will fit all other
southern states as well. The author
says: 1.-The carpet Dagger was wolf,
a scalawag, a hyena, one is high
wayman and the ether is a thief" and
thus he talks of many things and many
men who came to the south i'm the re-
construction period to insult its citt-
zens and rob their pockets. The chap
ter where the southern man, George
Harris, the educated negro who had
been domiciled in the household of
Republican politician, and whose inti-
macy caused the negro to aspire to
his daughters hand. is one OF the most
thrilling in very exciting story. The
negro was shown the door and the ex-
asperated parent cried out in wrath:
zone drop of that blood in my fami-
Iy would move 1t backward three thou
sand years in history; I would kill her
with my own hand rather than see her
sink in your arms into the black waters
of negroid life; now 60"
Saws Mr.. Dixon: 'TYou cannot build
in a democracy a nation inside ma
ton of two antagonistic races. The
future American will be an Anglo
Saxon or a mulatto." Get the book
and read II, you can never forget 1t.
Tom Dixon's lectures sparkle and
scintiIlate and thrill and move men
He is a live wire, mind how you tread
upon it. If he had been a locomotive
engine he would have been the 500
pulling the Empire State Express on
the New York Central railroad; II he
had been a cyclone he would have
maze InlQBS Witt anu
one end of the land to the other; II
he had been a horse he would have
trotted it in two minutes two and
half seconds; If he had been dog he
would have been a gray hound. Hur-
rah for Tom and his book. If Tom had
as much religion as he has got fire and
vigor and enthusiasm and brains, he
would set this country on fire. But God
gives all things to no man. Tom has
got religion enough to behave himself
as a rule, and that seems to be about
as much as the average fellow has
these days.
BY the way. I see where Governor
Davis, of Arkansas, pardOned negro
convict with the understanding that he
is to spend the balance of his days In
Massa chusetts. Wonder what Jem Is
mad with Massachusetts about? Yam
kee Doodle loves the negro away down
south a heap more than they love the
negro away up north. Distance lends
enchantment between Yankee Doodle
and the colored brother.
We have got thousands of good col
ored people down south that a whole
lot of US white people think a whole
lot of, and we are going to keep on