The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29

for one such Yankee OF ability.
The Darkest Days.
When the reign OF terror which fol-
| LOVED negro rule reached It's climax as
/ many as nine burning barns were seen
| at one time from the Courthouse Square
| of the town of Dallas, In CASTOR county,
| North Carolina.
Taxpayer conventions met and ,ap-
| pealed to Washington In vain. The Adj
| minstrntion answered by sending mora
rifles to arm the negro militia.
The law forbidding the intermarriase
| Of races were repealed by military pro,
| clamat!on and the commanding General
| OF North Carolina toolt q negro woman
with hin, over the state In n spec'ai
car and made speeches from q. platform.
J declaring TINT she was his wife. that
| a new ora had dawned in the history
! Of the world and that he was there 10
| enforce It's spr1 with the bayonet II
| need be-
In this the darkest hour of1the life OF
| the South, and the lowest u, pupnc
| morals ever known III the nation. the IN
visible empire suddenly rose from the
field of death and challenged the visible
to mortal combat
! Overturned Negro Race.
Within a few months after the ap.
pearance Of the white brotherhood the
J Disorders of anarchy were succeeded by y
4 strange peace, positively weird IN us
\ completeness. according to the acknowl-
| cdgment OF Judge Tourgec. In the first
campaign they overturned be negro
governments of six Southern states. anu
| the Others one BY one. wore redeemed
under Tho tnsp.ration OF this s,iccess.
In North Carolina, my uncle. Colonel
Leroy McAfee. was elected to the l.eGls-
lature from Cleveland county. and as
the representative OF the Khan on the Jn-
dietary Committee. lmpeached Governor
Holden. removed him from office, ana
deprived him OF his citizenship.
Colonel McAfee was IN many respects
| a typical leader of the I<lnn. He was
| In the official language of the Invisible
Empire Grand. Titan---thnt Is to say,
| the commander OF a Congressional Dis
| trict The chief was General Nathan
Bedford Forrest Of Tennessee. the dar-
ling and brilliant cavalry commander 81
the Confederate forces OF the southwest
His title was Grand Wizard of the En-
pire The Grand Dragon commanded the
state. the Giant county, the Cyclops
township den.
Duel for Supremacy.
He was a man OF gentle manners.
courteous, kindly, brave and cons iderate.
an alumnus Of the University OF North
Carolina, and a veteran Of the Confed-
| -
A,nteers to the front the first day OF
! the war, and surrendered. a shattered
| brigade with Lee at Appomattox.
His people in tho old world, OF the
clans OF McAlpin and Ferguson. were OF
| the best blood of Scotland. They came
to America from Down and Antrim, In
the north Of Ireland, with the great mar
tyr mn1igrations which peopled America
| with 100000 Scotch Covenanters.
l no IS,,
anu led to It's triumph by these sturdy
clansmen Of Scottish ancestry Generals
Forrest and George Gordon. OF Tennessee.
and John B. Gordon. OF Georgia, were
\ all Of Scotch blood, and the hill countries
OF the South were the scenes OF their;
struggles and their victories, In the duel
| for supremacy between the Union
! League" girdled with bayonets, and the
Is"Invlsible Empire
The Covenanter People.
No adequate history Of America will
| be written until full credit be given the
people OF Covenanter blood for the part
| they played In creating the nation and
developing its life. Here Judge Tourgee
should have found the secret of that mag
| nifcent audaclty which so captivated
his Imagination.
The Covenanter of the South, had he
cleaned OF negro dominion as the result
Of surrender would have chosen to con-
tinue the Civil War, and could have kept
ar army of half million men busy for
forty years. His race had defed the
crown Of Great Britain hundred years
J from the caves and wilds of, Scotland
/, and Ireland, taught the English people
| how to STAY a king and build a common
! wealth. and, driven into exile In Ameri-,
| ca. led our Revolution, peoped the hills
L ! ync$
have always felt 1t q pity that Gov
| error William ". Holden. of North Caro-
| lima, died unforgiven by the State for the
| part he played in the tragedy of recon
| structlon. With all his faults, he was
man of genuine culture, and high or
| der of talent. When l lived in Raleigh
he was a. forlorn figure haunting the
| capital petltioning each Legislature to
| remove his disabilities. But the State re-
! fused TO forgive the man who had for
| any cause suspended the writ Of habeas