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

climax as many as nine burning
barns were seen at one time from
the Court House Square of the
town of Dallas in CASTOR County.
North Carolina.
taxpayer conventions met and
appealed to Washington in vain.
The Administration answered by
sending more rifles to arm the
Negro militia.
The laws forbidding the inter-
marriage of races were repealed
by military proclamation and the
commanding General of North
| Carolina took negro woman with
him over the state in a special
car and made speeches from the
platform, declaring that she was
his wife, that a new era had
dawned in the history of the
world, and that he was there to
enforce its spirit with the bayo-
net if need be.
The lowest type Of negro,
maddened by these wild doctrines
began to grip the throat of the
white girl with his black claws.
A picture of one of these negroes
appeared in the first edition of
my novel, THE Leopard's
Spots but the publishers were
compelled to cut it out from all
subsequent editions becasro
SuCIi q JIlIlIS, tvSn IN PiNV"io.
| Yet the people of the South must
face this living beast day and
night. 49,,
In this the darkest hour of the
life of the South, and the lowest
in public morals ever known in
the Nation, the Invisible Empire
, suddenly rose from the field OF
! death and challenged the visible
to mortal combat.
Within few months after the
: appearance of the white brother
+ hood, the disorders OF anarchy
t were succeeded by a strange
: peace, positively weird in it's com
n pleteness, according to the ac'
!, knowledgement of Judge Tour
: gee. In the first campaign they
e Overturned the Negro govern
l. ments of six Southern States
n and the others, one by one. wer
redeemed under the inspiratlo
:e of this success.
IS In North Carolina, my uncle
Is Colonel Leroy McAfee, wa
n elected to the Legislature frol
Cleveland County, and as tn
S. representative Of the klan o
Oh the Judiciary Committee, IN
IN peached Governor Holden, r.
ed moved him from Office, and d'
u prived him of his citizenship.
ia ia Colonel McAfee was in mar
'to ~ respects a typical leader Of t!
w. W.. Klan. He was in the offlci
'lf language of the Invisible Empl
~ a Grand Titan-that is to sa
;a ~ the Commander of a Congre
"a sional District. The chief w
LII IN General Nathan Bedford Forre
otn tn of Tennessee, the daring a
f o4 brilliant cavalry commander
~. VI the Confederate forces OF
IGs ;; Southwest. His title was
,o, ,on Grand Wizard of the Empl
iolf = nf The Grand Dragon command
IA u the State, the Giant a Coun
'ialo Io the Cyclops a Township Den.
eeo &c A glance at the portrait
Ice Ice Colonel McAfee will convl1
;,,Se ;ns even a Boston Abolitienist !,
llla h;a he could hardly be called ruff
lib scoundrel or desperate. He
a man of gentle manners, CT
any nSf teous, kindly, brave, and
~ W siderate, an alumnus of the
,i;~n il;, versity of North Carolina, al
= 20 veteran of the Confederate A
q ;aos W who led a company of volunt
,oiiH, !. p, to the front the first day OF
II IN ln war. and surrendered a shaft
oae C,,iae brigade with Lee at Appoms
lar leioo His people in the old worl
iip;s I;ne the clans of McAlpin and re
,n,iid m,i son, were of the best blo'
o,.;m; rUu Scotland. They came to Al
ply ,,l ca from Down and Antrim Il
a sca,a o north of Ireland with the
I ohe martyr migrations which PEI
,,h;cb America with 800, 900 $
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