The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-06-22
WILL YOU LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE
IT is BALLOTS NOW OR BULLETS LATER
MEN OF LEE AWAKE.

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Does anyone suppose that the CULVER
towering 1900 feet nigh; with 1900 sharp
shears to cut the 351 slim strands that blind
hin, will not awake. Does anyone suppose
that he would not exert his strength 6arous-
ed. Men Of Lee your homes, your nstituti-
ons, your traditions, cluster around your AM
glo-saxon Government, viii you Try to build
about thema wall tnat cannot be overturned,
viii you guard them by ballots now or bullets
later.
The Lethargy Of winter locks the glacier
and it moves not.
The heat OF summer loosens his bands and
the forests are crushed, the fields are desoIa-
ted, the cities destroyed, and the people left
10 mourn for these ttat are left alive Win
you LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE" at
present when you can make It WELL
ENOUGH for the future.
Vesuvus slept for its thousands Of years,
and the vineyards crept up-up, and ever up
ward, and wreathed its submits with a gar
land Of green and purple Armies had found
refuge from defeat in its crater, and the
marble villa CLEANED white from its yerdant
sides. But at last VeSuyius awoke Her
awakening is written in her buried cities, in
her desolated vineyards, in her dismantled
homes, covered, perhaps hundreds OF feet be-
heath her wrath.
North Carolina, fair north Carolina, slept
secure in her Saxon manhood, and dreamed
that the dark day would never come. SHE
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
The political CULVER lay bound. The poll
teal Vesuvus had not awakened Small
politicians were afraid it would hurt rings,
and the people slept,
That awakening was terrible Her freed
slaves combined with those who for office led
tam, were at Last aroused They swept over
lac barriers Cine white primaries) like a
wairwind; they beat with black tidal wave
upon the rocky Gifts OF white Supreln-
acy, and It fell They put their aceomplIces
ia the senate OF the U S., they put men-
selves in the minor offices, they swarmed in
Ae lobbes; they pauolIed the beats Of the
cities.
Fair Carolina lay within their grasp; ana
Wilmington, and other towns with Their black
officers, in that day when white women dared
not 20 outinto the streets and expect protecti
on from the officials, wnen all was dark arose
In revolt The CHANCE for the ballot was
passed, the time for the BULLET had come
The RED SHIRT, "a Klux Klan) arose is
y by magic, and Wilmington, and North Ca
rolina We're saved but the bullet sped on lis
mission OF death. the race war was on, ana
only bullets could reverse conditions. 1t was
too late for ballots, they cosld only avail aft
81 the bullets had cleared the decks tog board
ing, ana the gunners of the enemy were snor
away.
The Winchester and the RED SHIRTS
bad saved North Carolina. She Slept TOO
long 70 be redeemed by amy genter measures.
She Let we'll enough alone" while the
mine was set beneath her feet, let well enough
alone The baby that nestleS at your feet
q ads for better things than this policy pres
ents. The fate otCar0Ina warns YOU. Ii
is not well enough The question that is be-
tore US is not one that will down Hoke Smiths
election or defeat until it is Law. The blacl,
CULVER is awake in Lee The towers Of the
Saxon must be strengthened or they may MOI
withstand the shock when he was loosenea
bis bouudS and gone out to battle properly
ted The White primary is not a general elst-
ton we can still have it as an outer wal.
with a stronger inner wall added. Aupitcn-
arS tibet 20 to the well too often get broken.
HE has learned our weakness, he has prohte1
by his defeats, CULVER is awake. The temp
est is coming. Unless we seek safe hartol
eur bark may be wrecked It is BALLOTS
pow or BULLETS later. There is no othei
solution Of the tangle The horse that ont.
Knows MS power SpurnS the rein and gall0pS
tree.
When the scenes Of the streets Of Wilaingto
become the scenes Of the fields Of Lee
Then, then, OF course, there viii
found the RED SHIRTS to redeem her, BIZ
while we may in peace Why risk the haz
ard Of war?
The rattlesnalle may sleep at your tireside
ans while he Steers LET WELL ENoUG
ALoNF' The issue is too dangerougs fol
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