The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-04-08

80 o,xious to see him. His lead
~rrh,n in the revolution OF Independents
"a his subsequent arrest and lmprASoi
mont had made him a famous man.
..Nr chairman anc Gentlemen OF 'he
Co,yanrion.' ne began with 2 deilpe'a1'
lar voice which spoke OF greater -.
ervo mower than tho words he utteIfu
.onyered-"I move to substitute !"
mis- document of meaningless piat,ddsS
he following resolution on "hieh -
make this campaign.
you could have heard a pin fali' IS III
ripoing tones like the call OF a Dug -
battle he read:
whereas. it is impossible to build a
state inside a State q two antagonist
races: and,
..vhareas. the future Norm Caroin-
;,o mist therefore be an AnGio-SaNoh
or a Mulatto;
..Resolyea. That the hour has 10Y
come in our history 10 eliminate the
Negro as A sovereign citizen and re-
/ for al time the government Of
our fathers
Tho delegates from New Hanover,
Craven and Halifax counties, the great
centres OF the Elack Belt. spTanS on
their seats with a roar Of applause thaI
shook the building. and p~andenloh'unl
broke loose, When one great WaNr
sutsided another followed. It was ten
minutes before order was restored Whll'
CASTOR stood calmly surveying the
storm.
INST before him sat General Worth,
! pale and trembling with excitement.
The audacity Of those resolutions had
swept him for a omc OF ms leet
and back into the far off years OF ms
own daring young manhood. tie couia
not aelp aGmiring this challenge OF tue
modern world to stand at the baf OF
elt uental manhood and make SGod It's
right to existence. He was apouC 10
summon his messengers and ally ms
licutenants when CASTOR began &c SPEAK
and his first words chained his atten-
ton.
While the tdmult raised - his reSo-
buttons was in progress he lifted lis eye
carelessly toward the gallery and there
lust above him Wnore it curved toward
the platform sat MS beautiful bride
His heart Ieaped. Her face was atiane
witt. emotion. her eyes flashing with
love and pride. She slyly touched with
her lips the top Of her finger and blew
a Kiss across the intervening space. he
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and with every nerve strung to it's
hichest tension resumed his place by
the speakers stand. When the tumult
died away he began a speech that fixed
the history of a State fer a thousand
years.
lis resolutions had wrought the
crowd to the highest pitch of excite
ment, and his words, clear. penetrating,
and deliberate thrilled his hearers With
electrical power.
Gentlemen he said and the slightest
whisper was hushed. I'VE believe that
Geo has raised up our race. as he or
daine1 Israel of old, in this world-crisis
to establish and maintain for weaker
races, as a trust fer civilization, the
principles of civil and religious liberty
an6 the forms of constitutional govern
ment.
"A mighty crisis approaches in the
history of the human race. The world
is stirred by it's consciousness today.
This Nation must grid up her lcins and
show her right to livc-to master the
future or be mastered in the struggle.
New questions press upon Us for solu-
ton.
shall this grand old Commonwealth
lag behind and sink into the filth and
degradation of a neeroid corruption in
this solemn hour Of the world?"
nc. Mo-" screamed a thousand
voices.
What is our condition today in the
dawn of the twentieth century? If we
attempt to move forward we are liter
ally chained to the body of a fostering
Black Death,
FIFTY Of our great counties are again
MADAM ~ 1ool of 49, Nvo--1 o.1 49,
state is in his cluthes. Our city gov
ernnents are dehauched Lv his vote.
His insolence again threatens our wo-
manhood. and our children are beaten
by negro toughs on the way to school.
while we must pay the taxes. Shall we
lr2er tolerate negro inspectors Of white
schools, and negroes in charge Of white
Institutions? Shall we longer tolerate
the arrest of white women by negro
officers and their trial before negro
MAGISTRATES?
Let the manhood of the Aryan race
with its four thousand years of luthen-
tie history answer that question:"
With blazing eyes, and voice that rang
with the deep peal of defiant bower.
CASTOR hurled that sentence like a
thunder bolt into the souls of his two
thousand hearers. The sursing host
sprang to their feet and shouted hack
an answer that made the earth tramblet
Lifting his hand for silence he con
tinued.
1t is no longer a question Of bad
government. 1t is a question OF iunos-
sible government. We lag behind the
ages dragging the decaying corpse 10
which we are chained.
The hour has struck when we mast
rise in or might, break the chains II at
bind US to this corruption, strike down
the Negro as a ruling power, and re-
store to our children their birthrigbt
which we received, a priceless legacy
from cur fathers,
II believe in Gods call to our race to
do His work in history. What other
races failed to do, you wrought in this