The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-10-13

they were promised unlimited do
minion.
"His military satraps nailed to
the courthouse doors of every
county pIOclamations of equality,
/ and promised bayonets to enforce
the intermarriages of whites and
blacks.
ga reign of terror Immediately
followed.
1.-THE men who represented
Aryan civilization had to take
their choice between rebellion and
humiliation.
cat this moment in Sonth Caro-
lima $4,000 armed negro troops.
answerable to no authority save
the savage instincts of their black
officers, terrOrized the State, and
not single white man was allow
ed to bear arms. Hordes of former
slaves, with the intelligence of
children and the instincts of saw
ages, armed with model rifles,
paraded daily before their former
masters. The children of the
breed of Burns and Shakespeare,
Drake and Raleigh, had been
made subject to the spawn of an
African jungle. When Goth and
Vandal overrah Rome and blew
, out the light of ancient civiliza
ton, they never dreamed the lep-
rous infamy of raising the black
slave, a thick Tipped, Hat nosed,
spindle shanked negro to rule over
his white master and lay his claws
upon his daughter.
THE WHITE MUST RULE.
"Could the modern flesh and
blood endure itH
mo the spirit of the South sud
denly leaped forth half startled
at herself, her feet upon the ashes
and rags, her hands tight gripped
upon the throat of the tyrant,
thief and beast.
1.-The Ku Klux Khan, a secret
oathhOund brotherhood, rose in a
night. disarmed every negro and
restored civilization. The secret
weapon with which they struck
was the only one at their com.
mand, aud 1T was the most terri.
BILE and efficient in the history of
revolution. The movements of
these white and scarlet horsemen
were like clock work. They struck
shrouded in mantle of darkness
and terror, and they struck to kill.
Discovery of retaliation was i'm
possible. Their edicts were exc.
cuted as by destiny without
word. save the whistle of their
Night Hawk, the crack of his re-
volver, and the hoof beats of swift
horses, moving like figures in a
dream, and vanishing in the mists
and shadows
1.-THE southern people in their
despair had developed the cour-
age of the lion, the cunning of
fox, and the deathless faith of re.
ligious enthusiasts.
"With magnificent audacity,
infinite patience and remorseless
zeal conquered people now turn
ed his own weapon against their
cOnqueror, and beat his brains out
with the bludgeon he had placed
in the hands of their former slaves.
"And so a lawless band of night
raiders became the sole guardians
of society, brought order out OF
chaos and law out of lawlessness,
and preserved our race in America
from extinction at least in negroid
mongrelism. Had the South in
that crisis become mullatto, the
nation would inevitably have sunk
| to its level.
"The future of this nation de-
ponds on the strength and purity
of our white racial stock; for this
republic is great not by reason of
the amount of dirt we hold or the
size of our census roll. We have
become great for one reason only
because of the genius of the
breed of pioneer freemen who set.
tied this continent, dared the
might OF kings, and made a will
derness the home of freedom"