The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-28

q erto suppressed, saw their SUI
preme opportunity to obtain con-
troll of the nation in the crisis OF an
approaching presidential campaign.
Now they could fasten their schemes
Of prescription, confiscation and re-
venge upon the south.
MI Lincoln had held these wolves
at bay during his life by the power OF
his great personality. But the Lion
was dead, and the Wolf, who had
snarled and snapped at him in life.
put on his skin and claimed the her
itage of his power. The Wolf whis-
pered his message of hate. and in the
hour Of partisan passion became the
master of the nation.
Busy feet had been hurrying back
and forth from the southern states to
Washington whispering in the Wolf's
ear the stories Of sure success II only
the plan of prescription, disfranchise-
ment Of whites and enfranchisement
of blacks were carried out.
This movement was inaugurated two
years after the war. with every south
ern state in profound peace and in
life and death struggle with nature to
prevent famine. The new revolution
destroyed the Union a second time.
paralyzed every industry in the south.
and transformed ten peaceful states
into roaring bells Of anarchy. We
have easily outlived the SORROWS OF
the war. That was surgery which
healed the body. But the child has
not yet been born whose children's
children will live to see the healing of
the wounds from those four years OF
chaos when fanatics. blinded by pas
sion, armed millions of ignorant me-
groes and thrust them into mortal
combat with the proud, bleeding, half
starving Anglo-SaXon race of the
{ south. Such Il deed once done can
never be undone. 1t fixes the status
Of these races for thousand years.
| if not for eternity.
! The south was now rapidly gather
| inc into two hostile armies under these
influences. with race marks as uni
| forms-the black against the white
The negro army was under the COM
mand of triumv irate-the carpet
Dagger from the north. the native
| scalawag and the negro demagogue.
i In the winter of 1866 the Union
league at Hambright held a meeting
: of special Importance. The attendance
was large and enthusiastic,
Amos Hogg. the defeated candidate
! for governor in the last election. now
the president of the Federation OF
Loyal leagues, had sent special am
bassador to this meeting to receive
/ reports and give instructions.
This ambassador was none Other
than the famous Simon Legree of Rec
river. who had migrated to NORTH
Carolina, attracted by the first procla
nation of the president. announcing
his plan for readmitting the state tt
the Union. The rumors Of his deatf
| proved Il mistake. He had quit drini
and set his mind on greater vices.
In his face were the features of thu
distinguished ruffian whose cruelty tt
his slaves had made him unique in in
fanny in the annals of the south. HI
was now pre-eminently the type of thu
truly loyal At the first rumor O
war he had sold his negroes and mi
grated nearer the borderland, that b.
might the better avoid service ii
either army Next to Legree the mos
important leader present was the full
blooded negro. Tim Shelby. He hat
belonged to the Shelbys of Kentucky
but had escaped through Ohio int
Canada before the war. He had re
turned home with great expectation
Of revolutions to follow in the wax
Of the victorious armies of the north
He had been disappointed in the pro
gram of kindness and mercy tina
I Immediately followed the fall of tn
: Confederacy. but he had been bus,
day and night since the war in OF
ganizing the negroes, in secretly ful
: nishing them arms. and wherever pos
: sible he had them grouped in militar
posts and regularly drilled. He wa
elated at the brilliant prospects whic
Legree's report from Washingto
opened.
Glorious -. br0II