The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-03-04
Story Of The XII KIUI Khan
AS Told in Early Days by an
Eminent Writer-Its ORR
gin and Some of Its
Accomplishments

from Golfers Weekly, written about
1869, and throws some light upon
the subject which the modern writer
fails to note in his research. We
are also indebted to one of our
lady readers for the copy.
The conditions which made this
paradox possible have had no parallel
in the story of the race.
The bloodiest war in history had
just closed. The conquered South
lay helpless amid her rags and ashes,
with the flower of her manhood
buried in nameless graves.
Four million negroes had been
suddenly freed and the economic
world torn from the foundations of
centuries. Five billion dollars
worth of property had been destroy
ed, every bank had been closed,
every dollar of money had become
worthless paper, and the country
had been plundered by victorious
armies.
With the sympathetic aid even of
their foes, the task of recognizing
their wrecked society and controll-
ing these millions of ignorant and
superstitious negroes was one to APP
pail the stoutest hearts.
Instead of the cooperation of
generous conqueror, the helpless
South, as she staggered to her feet,
received full in the face blow of
vengeance so terrible, so cruel and
so pitiless that it surpasses belief.
Such a blow on a disarmed foe
could never have been struck but for
the tragedy of Lincoln's assassina-
ton and the frenzy Of insane pas
sion, which for the moment blinded
the North.
Upon the assassination of the
President the greatest and meanest
man who ever dominated our Nation
al lite, became the dictator OF the
Republic.
This man, Thaddeus Stevens,
was beyond any doubt the most
powerful parliamentary leader in our
history. A fanatic, mIsanthrope
embittered by physical deformity, a
born revolutionist endowed with the
audacity of the devil, he became in
a moment the bold and INSCRIPTIONS
master of a craIed nation.
Twenty-eight-Years before this
crisis he had become infatuated with
a mulatto woman of extraordinary
animal beauty, whom he had separat-
ed from her husband. This yellow
vampire fattened on him during his
public career, amassed a fortune in
real estate in Washington, wrecked
his great ambitions, and made of
him a social pariah. A giant among
men, whose young soul had learned
the pathway of stars. his cheeks
now whitening with the frosts of
death, he was slowly sinking with
this woman into the night of negroid
animalism.
The muffied crack of a derringer
in the box at Ford's Theater, and
the hand of a madman, suddenly
snatched him from the grave and
lifted him into the seat of empire
with his negro wench by his side.
Mr.. Stevens determined to blot
the old South from the map, conhs-
cate the property of its citizens,
give it to the negroes, deprive the
whites of the ballot, send their lead
er into beggard exile, enfranhise the
negro. and make him the master Of
every State from the James TO the
Rio Grande.
II this statement seems an exag-
geration, turn to the Congressional
Globe" for 1867, page 203, and
read Mr.. Stevens Confscation Act,
House Bill No 20 and his speech in
its defense-a speech which lights
with the glare Of immortal infamy