Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-10-04

Cho ocean or the other side don't like the way "
haAdle tea lei them come on"
1his was violation OF law. II was high-haad
ed outrage. When Benjamin Franklin, our diplo
mat, heard Of it, he gravely informed the court tina
it was q lie, that no such thing ever happened il
Beston Harbor, that he knew the people Of Boston
that no snch crime, could have been committed b.
them. He soothed the indignation Of the court viii
the assurance that the next ship would bring new
Of the affair upon which they might rely. The mex
ship did briag news. 1t was from Bunker Hill. On
fOrefathers broke the law and wrote better one
They we're prophets, not parrots; men, not marti
nets. They did not talk about their ancestors-the
were ancestors
Ihave been accused of celebrating in my last novel
1.-The Cansman," the glory OF group OF daring an,
successful criminals. plead guilty to the soft i'm
peachment Of my Boston critics. 1t is true.
The Ku Ksux Klan was o gigantic conspiracy 0
lawIess night raiders who saved the civilization
the South and bequeathed it priceless heritage Il
the nation.
The conditions which made this paradox possibl
have had no parallel in the STORY Of the race.
The bloOdiest war In history had Just closed. Th,
conquered South lay helpless arid her rags ant
ashes, with the flower Of her maahood buried il
nameless gravee.
-Four million negroes had been snddenly freed en(
the economic world torn from the foundations o
centuries Five billion dollars worth Of property
had been destroyed, every bank had been closed
every dollar Of money had become worthless paper
and the country had been plundered by victOrioal
armies.
THE MADNESS OF THADDEUS STEVENS.
With the sympathetic aid even OF their foes, the
task Of reorganizng their wrecked society and con-
trolling these millions Of ignorant and saperstitioua
negroes was ONE to appall the stoutest hearts.
Instead Of the cooperation Of generous conquer
or, the helpless South she staggered to her feet
received fall in the lace blow Of vengeance 60 ter
rbe, 50 cruel and pitilcss that it surpasses be-
lief.
Such blow on disarmed foe could never have
been eruck but for the tragedy Of Lncolns assassi.
nation and thetrenzy Of insane passion, which for
The moment blinded the North
Upon the assassination Of the president, the
greatest and meanest man who ever dominated our
national life became the dictator Of the Republic
This man, Thaddeus Stevens, was beyond any
doubt the most powerful parliamentary leader In our
history. A fanatic, q misanthrope imbittered by
physical deiormity, born rev0lutionist endowed
with the audacity Of the devil, be became in mo-
ment the bold and unscrnpulous master Of crazed
nation.
Twenty eight years before this crisis he had be-
come infatuated with mulatto woman Of extraOrdi.
nary animal beauty, whom he had separated irOm.
ler husband. This yellow vampire fattened on him
Turing his public career, amassed fortune in real
estate In Washington, wrecked his great ambitions,
md made him social pariah. a giant among men,
yhOse young souI had learned the pathway 81 theI
tars, bis cheeks now whitening with the irosts Of
leath, he was slowly sinking with this woman into
be night Of negroid animalism.
The mnfflcd crack Of : derTinger n The box nt
Vord's theatre, and the hand 81 madman, suddenly
matched him from the grave and lifted him into the
eat Of empire, with his negro wench BY his side
Mr. Stevens determined to blot the old South from
be map, con6sCate The property Of its citizens give
to the negroes deprive the whites Oi the ballot,
end their leaders into beggared exile, eniEanchibe
be negro, and make him the master Of every state
rom che James 70 the Rio Grande.
NEGRO Do1nN ATEoE rHRRA TENED
Il this statement seems IA exagearation, turn 20
he Congressional GIObeD for 1867. page 2Os, and
sad Nj. eteyens' ConfscaiIcn Act, House Bill NO.
q and lis apeeoh 10 It's defence q Bpeebh which
ghts with the glare Of immortal inlnmy his whole \