The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-09-08
the audacity of genius and the
faith of a fanatic.
The Neorro had heen made the

Inc Negro had been made the
ruler of his former master who
was disfranchised and disarmed.
The hand of the thief and ruffian
clutched at every mans throat.
The Negro controlled the state,
county, city and town govern
ments. Their insolence grew
apace. Their women were taught
to insult their old mistresses and
mock their poverty as they passed
in their faded dresses. A black
driver in a town near mine,
struck white child of six with
whip, and when the mother
protested she was arrested Nv a
negro policeman and fined n
dollars by a negro magistrate for
insulting freedman!
Thieves looted the treasury of
every state and county, and
taxes mounted until as many as
$500 homesteads of white men,
many of whom could not vote,
were sold for taxes in a single
county.
The Negro and his ally the
carpet-bag adventurer had at
tanned undisputed control of So
ciety through the secret oath
bound order known as "The
Union League. -
The white people of the South
at first secuted the idea that the
negroes, who had been faithful,
through the war, could now be
used as their deadliest foes in
the new order of society. But
for the signs, grip, fass-words,>
and mysterious blue flamir
altar of 'The Union Leagh. =.
the whites could have held thx,
friendship of their former slaves
AS a rule the ties that bound
them were based on real affec-
ton. But the League did it's
work we'll. By promises to the
slaves of forty acres of the land
of their former masters, linked
with the widest theories of
equality and md dSminIHgP 6aeh2fg 81 trained
oarrisons, a gulf between the
White man of the South and the
negro was dug which time, can
never bridge. Its passion have
become part of the very heaft
beat of both races.
The Union League OF America
was organized in CLEVELAND,
Ohio, during the war, by t1en6s
of Thaddeus Stevens, the Radl-
cal leader of Congress. Its
mime object was the confiscatlor
Of the property of the South
The chief obstacle to this pro
Gram was Abraham Lincoln
Hence the first work OF TN
I ,eague was to form consplrac.
TO destroy Lincoln and proven
his denomination for a secon'
,, term.
: They according nominate
! John C. Fremont for Preslden
before the convention met l
Baltimore to name Lincoln's sut
cessor, and boldly proclalme
e war to the knife against the Pres
e dent. They figured on Fremont
e prestige as the first tormldao
u candidate of their party, his re
q ord as a pathfinder and his grle
le ances against the Administr
tion. but they forgot that ne WI
l. L. born in South Carolida. Fremo
y himself gave the League a mort
10 blow in it's first political progra
lee by boldly repudiating their pla
I'd form of vengeance and confise
II. tion. They then turned on th'
e own candidate, cursed nm as
ne fool. and helped nominate a
ty elect Lincoln as the lesser
,sst two evils.
mt IJpon the assassination OF
els President, Thaddeus Stevens 81
'er denly became dictator OF the
'ed tion. and the Union League gr
rapidly into restless pollt1
at, mower. Within two years
ed, most every negro in the so
ole had been admitted to mem!
the ship, drilled in it's anarchl
its program and in the manual
Che arms.
When the time was ripe,
the Stevens, in 1867, destroyed
The state governments IN the -
so which had been establish!e'
,rth President johnson, permit
the the former slave to vote 10
= no franchise himself and dlst
the chise his master at the same
wen ton. He divided the terri
wing from the James to the Rio CIR