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

disfTanchlsing enough whites to give them major
ity He placed ballot in the hand Of every negro
and bayOnet at the breast of every white man. He
organised the negroes into Oath.bOund secret sOci
cities known as '.Union Leagues in which they
were drilled in nsolence and crime, and taught to
hate their former masters, over whom they were
promised unlimited dominion.
His military Gatraps nailed to the courthouse
doors Of every coanty proclamations Of equality and
promised bayOnets to enforce the intermarriage Of
whites and blacks.
A Teign Of terror Immediately followed.
The men who represented Aryan civilization had
to take their chOice between rebellion and annihila-
tion.
At this momeat in South Carolina eighty thous,
and armed negro troops, answerabs to no authority
save the savage instincts Of their black officers ter
rorlked the State, and not single white man was
allowed to bear arms Hordes Of former slaves, with
the intelligence Of children aud the instincts of
ages armed with modern rifles, pareded daily be-
fore their former masters The children OF the breed
Of Rurns and Shakespeare, Drake and\ Raleigh, had
been made subject to the spawn Of an African jungle.
When Goth and Vandal overran Rome and blew out
the light Of ancient civilization, they never dreamed
the ieprOus iniamy Of raising the black slave, .
thick Tipped, Gat-aosed spindle -shanked negro to
rule over his white master and lay his claws upon
his daughter
Gould modern aeeh and blood endure iti
Ne The spirit Of the South suddenly leaped
forth, shalt startled at herself her feet upon the
ashes and the rags, her hands tight gripped upon
the throAE Of tyrant, thief and beast.
The Ks Klux Khan, secret oath bound brother
hood, rose In night disarmed every negro and re-
stored citiIizatiOn. The secret weapon with which
they strtck was the only one at their command and
il was tie most terrible and efficient in the history
Of revolution. The movements Of these white and
scarlet l3Orsemen we're like ClockwOrk. They struck
shrOudea In mantle Of darkness and terror, and
they strack TO- kill Discovery or retaliation was
impossible. Their edicts were executed as by des-
tiny Without word, save the whistle Of the Night
Hawk the crack Of his revolver, and the hOOf beat
Of swift korses moving like figures in dream, and
vanishing In msts and shadows.
The Southern people in their despair had devel
Oped cOprage Of the lion, the cunning Of the fox
and the 4eathless faith Of religious enthusiasts
With magnificent audacity, indefinite patience,
and remorseless zeal conquered people now turned
bis own weapon against their cOnqueror and beat
nAn WAnAM2 VsU Wall Ou0 UAuukOOn no uhu plaC6u IN
he hands Of their former slaves.
And 90 a1laWless band Of night raiders became
he sole guardians Of society," brought order out Of
'haos, layout Of lawlessness, and preserved our
ace in America from extinction at last in negro
nongrelism. Had the South IN that crisis become
nuIattO, the nation would inevitably have sunk to
ts level
The future Of this nation depends on the strength
ind purity Of our white racial stock for this Repub
iC is great, not by reason o the amount 81 dirt We
iOld or the size Of our roll We have become great
or one reason only because Of the genius ci the
reed Of pioneer freemen who settled this continent
Jared the might q kings, and made wilderness the
lome oi freedom.
Henry Leonard, "a years q age, clerk for Halle
Htiegiitz, brokers d 80 Broad street, New York
'ity, confessed Monday that he Il tie man vho
Obbed The National City Bank Of S5S9, 200 ID ecu.
tiles on Wednesday last. he looks younger thana