The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26

Upon which hang the life of society and
OF the state"
John Moore, John walthall and their
leers. signed the county committees ad-
dress.
Then the black pelt put the movement
OF redemption upon its feet
The extreme northern counties aroused
themselves. The party communities OF
Limestone issued an address animate with
the spirit OF redemption. You have
high and sacred duty to perform" ap-
pealed the committee to the voters, 'for
your personal interests, and that is TO Or
ganize your meetings in all your civil
beats and choose delegates to a county
convention. This is the only way
to save the county from the disasters
which threaten us, and the evil and cor
rupting influences of the radical office
| olders." The Limestone address was
signed by Thomas J. Mcclellan. Porter
| Bib, Davis, Ramsey and others.
| The white counties eagerly took up
the movement Tho Shelby committee
composed of Castleberry. Deshazo and
others, sent out an address TO the
whites saying: *The negro population
of the state has in unmistakable terms
| made an issue with the. whites. This
state is to be governed by ignorance
| and superstition or by intelligence and
patriotism. The committee is unwilling
to believe there is a single white man
| in this county who in such contest
will for a moment hesitate
The Lee county committee, composed
| of William j. Sanford, W. B. Am
brose, W. II. II. Griffin and others, APP
pealed to the white men with slngu-
| lar impressiveness THE political cam
| paign upon which VIC are now enter
ing is fraught with more interest and
| importance than any in which white
| men have ever before engaged.
| Time only ripens the outbursts OF the
enemy's passions into a settled policy
of malignant oppression, while our
| patient and submissive acquiescence
has only invited, encouraged and reaped
a continuous increase of evil inflict-
| ed by arbitrary rule.
| The enemy was not asleep. General
| Grant in the White House relaxed
nothing in his radical course. A ne
| gro state convention assembled In
Montgomery the last week in June. 1t
| was as usual controlled by white in
/ stigators with the oountenance of the
| federal administra lion, White men
wrote the resolutions A part OF the
series was as follows:
Resolved, That the colored people of
Alabama are in favor of free schools,
| free churches, freedom of speech and
thought and action by all men; that we
are in favor of the civil and political
rights of all men, as embodied In our
constitution and our free institutions.
Resolved, That the colored people of
Alabama, while according to all men
those inalienabe rights, born of Ameri-
can citizenship, demand the same shall
be guaranteed to them and that they
favor such legislation as will secure
them fully in these rights and place
them beyond the control of the white
mans party or any other party"
The Montgomery Advertiser began to
suggest George S. Houston as the can
didate of the democratic and conserva-
tive party for governor and therefore
leader of the great stuggle.
The radicals at once brought forward
Governor Lewis for reelection.
Mr.. Houston objected to the use OF
his name. His nearest friends supported
his reluctance. They counselled him to
avoid so great a risk of the reputa-
tion he then enjoyed as successful
candidate for elective office
JOHN WITHERSPOoN DUBOSE.