Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1905-10-13
KUKLUX KLAN
Saved the White Race in America From
Extinction, Says Dixon.

LhtSio WIZ ooS C'i tu0 NlllZdllOU
OF the South aud bequeathed it a
priceless heritage to the nation.
The conditions which made this
paradox possible have had no
parallel in the story of the race.
The bloodiest war ia history had
just closed. The conquered
South lay helpless amid her rags
and ashes, with the flower of her
manhood buried in nameless
graves.
-Four million negroes had been
suddenly freed and the economic
world torn from the foundations
of centuries. Five billion dollars
worth of property had been de-
stroyed, every bank had been
closed, every dollar of money had
become worthless paper, ana the
country had been plundered by
victorious armies.
With the sympathetic aid even
OF their foes, the task of reorga
nizlng their wrecked society aud
controlling these millions of igpo
rant and superstitious negroes
was one to appall the stoutest
hearts.
Instead of the cooperation of
generous conqueror, the helpless
South, as she staggered 70 her
feet, received full III the face
blow of vengeance so terrible, so
cruel, and so pltlless that it sur
passes belief.
Such d blow on dlsarmed foe
could yer have been struck but
for the tragedy of Lincoln's as
sasslnation and the frenzy of in
sane passion, which for the mo-
ment blinded the North.
Upon the assassination of the
President, the greatest and mean
est man who ever dominated our
natloual life, became he dictator
of the republic.
This man, Thaddesis Stevens,
Was beyond any dou6t tue most
powerful parliamentary leader in
our history. A t; naic, u misan-
thrope emoittered byphyslcal de-
formlty, born revoEuuonist en-
dowed with the audaclty of the
devil, he became in d moment the
bold and unscrupulous master of
d crazed nation.
Twenty eight years before this
crisis he had become infatuated
with a muatto woman of extraor-
dinary animal beauty. whom be
had separated from her hus ban}.
This yellow vampire fattened on
him during his public career,
amassed d fortune in real estate
in Washington, wrecked bis great
am billions, and made of him a
social pariah. A giant among
men. whose young so1I had learn
ed the pathway of the stars, his
cheeks now whitened with the
trosts of death, he was slwoly sink !
ing with this woman into the
uight Of negroid animalism.
The muffled crack Of derring
er in the box at Ford's Theater, |
and the hand Of a madman, sud
lenly snatched him from the
grave and lifted him into the scat |
of empire, with his negro wench I
by his side.
Mr.. Stevens detern ined to blot
,he old South from the map, con-
1scate the property Of It's citizens,
give it to the negroes, deprive
he whites Of the ballot, seEd their
eaders into bcggard exile. en-.
franchise the negro, and make
lin the master of every state
rom the James to theRlo Grande.
Ii this statement seems an ex
.ggeration, turn to the "Congres-
lonal Globe" for 1867, page 203,
nd read Mr.. Stevens Confisca-
ion Act, House Bill No. 30, and
is speechin It's defense IA speech
1h'ch lights with the glare of i'm
1ortal infamy his whole charac-
er and career.
He succeeded in enfranchising
ne negroes and disfranchisiug
nough whites to give him AL
lajority. He placed a ballot in
le hand Of every negro and a
ayonet at the breast Of every
hite man He organizeG the ne
roes into oath bound secret socie