The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08

The Ku Klux Klan was COM
manded and led to it's triumph
by these sturdy clansmen of
Scottish ancestry. Generals For
rest, and George Gordon of Ten
nessee and John B. Gordon of
Georgia were all of Scotch blood.
and the hill counties of the South
We're the scenes of their struggles
and their victories, in the duel
Tor supremacy between the
Union League" girdled with
6ayonets. and the Invisible
Empire.
No adequate history of Ameri-
ca will be written mil full credit
be given the people of Covenanter
blood for the part they played in
creating the nation and develop-
ing its life. Here Judge Tourgee
should have found the secret of
that magnificent audacity which
SO captivated his imagination.
The Covenanter of the South,
had he dreamed of Negro domin-
ion as the result of surrender
would have chosen to continue
the Civil War, and could have
kept an army of half a million
men busy for forty years. His
race had defied the crown of
Great Gty!3 Britai4 b1gy.ia a lbVpdEed years
king and build a commonwealth.
land, idriVel%iptQ exile i'm America
led our Revolution, peopao<a->ll---
hills of the South, and conquered
the West.
l have always felt it a pity
that Governor William w. Holden
of North Carolina died unforgiven
by the state for the part he
played in the tragedy of Recon-
struction. With all his faults he
! was man of genuine culture,
and high order of talent. When
| lived in Raleigh he was a for
lorn figure haunting the Capital,
= petitioning each Legislature to
: remove his disabilities. But the
: state refused to forgive the man
Y who had for any cause suspended
l. the writ of Habeas Corpus anC
), raised an army of aliens to en-
e force a military rule.
n The last time | saw the OLE
Governor, he had been partl,
2, paralyzed and spoke with diff
is Guilty. greeted him cordial:
m and he tried to respond, stopped
le and feebly drawing from hi
IN pocket an envelope, wrote acros
n it a quotation from Seneca in
e. quaint old-fashioned style 9
e. handwriting hand whic
wrote the fatal signature to
ny proclamation which cost him n
he citizenship. He did not kno
ial that my mother was Colon
ire McAfee's sister, and l did n
W, tell him, for felt then, as
es- now, that he suffered for other
vas sins as we'll as his own, and tn
st, it would have been nobler thil
nd to have forgiven him.
of When Colonel McAfee return
the from the Legislature after t
the overthrow of the Reconstruct
ire: government, he disbanded I
ded Ku Klux Klan in his district
lty, accordance with General F
rests orders. Younger and mt
OF desperate mon reorganized it
nee a local fraternity to their o
hat sorrow and the disgrace of Sc
ian, sections of our mountain regi
was Its degeneracy into fierce nei
our borhood feuds and its pervers
con- by the lawless swiftly follo'
uni until it became necessary for
nd a organizers of the original +
rmy to aid in the suppression o
,eers spurious successors.
the NV father, Rev. Thomas Di
,ereo ST., a member of the oril
atox: Klan under Colonel McA1
d. Oh leadership and aided him ir
efguec suppression of it's reckless
od ol tators. He was preemine
merl- the type of man whose +
n tne tne made the Klan resistless p
greaS the first two years OF its
oplea ence. He never attended a 7