The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-09

years was stronger than ever and wa
absolutely certain of victory. Tn
enormous patronage of the fedora
! government had been in their hands
for four years. and with the state
county and municipal officers, hos
of powerful leaders had been gathered
around McLeod's daring personality
Apparently he was about to fasten thu
rule of the negro and his allies on the
state for generation.
When CASTOR entered the convention
hall he received an ovation. heartfelt
| and generous. but it did not reach the
point of a disturbing element in the
| calculations of the three or four promi
nent candidates for governor. General
! Worth had drilled his cohorts so thor.
oughly in opposition to him that any
sort Of stalnpeding was out Of the
question.
The platform committee was com
| posed of seven leaders, among whom
was CASTOR. There was long wran-
gle over the document. and at length
when they reported sensation was
u.
triumph over. Simon Legree the COM
mittee was divided. and. refusing to
agree, submitted majority and minority
reports. The committee stood five for
the majority and two for the minority.
When CASTOR rose to offer and de-
fend his minority report sudden hush
fell on the sea of eager faces. A few
h1 ho h inn
speak All had heard he was an ora
tor Of power and were anxious to see
him. His leadership in the revolution
of Independence had made him a ia
nous man:
\"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of tho
convention" he began with deliber-
ate clear voice which spoke of greater
reserve power than the words he ut
tered conveyed-'T move to substitute
for this document of meaningless plat-
tudes the following resolutions on
which to make this campaign"
You could have heard a pin fall. as
in ringing tones like the call of bugle
to battle he read:
Whereas, 1t is impossible to build a
state inside a state of two antagonistic
races; and,
Whereas. The future North Carolinian
must therefore be Anglo-Saxon
mulatto.
Resolved, That the hour has now come
in our history to eliminate the negro from
our life and re-establish for all time the
government of our fathers.
The delegates from New Hanover,
Craven and Halifax counties, the great
centers of the black belt, sprang on
their seats with q roar of applause
that shook the building, and pande-
monium broke loaSe. When one great
wave subsidized another followed. 1t
was ten minutes before order was re-
veying the storm.
Just before him sat General Worth,
pale and trembling with excitement.
The audacity of the resolutions had
swept him for moment off his feet
and back into the years of his own
help admiring this challenge of the
modern world to stand at the bar of
elemental manhood and make good it's
right to existence. He was about to
summon his messengers and rally his
lieutenants when CASTOR began to
speak. and his first words chained his
attention.
While the tumult raised by his reso-
lut1ons was in progress CASTOR lifted
his eyes toward the gallery. and there
just above him where it curved toward
the platform sat Sallie. His heart
leaped. Her face was af1ame with emo
ton. her eyes flashing with love and
pride, She slyly touched with her lips
the tip of her finger and blew a kiss
across the intervening space. He
smiled into her soul look of gratitude, !
and with every nerve strung to it's
highest tension resumed his place by
the speakers stand. When the tumult
died away he began speech that fixed
the history of the state for thousand |
years.
His resolutions had wrought the !
crowd to the highest pitch of excite !
nlent. and his words. clear, penetrat- |
ing and deliberate. thrilled his hearers
with electrical power
''Gentlemen," he said. and the slight !
est whisper was flushed, the history
Of man is a series Of great pulse beats. !
whose food overwhelms his future and !
fixes it's life. Like the damned torrent |
on mountainside. it breaks the con-
servatism that nolds it stagnant for
generations and floods the world with
its sweep: Theories. creeds and insti-
tutions hallowed by age are cast as
rubbish on the SCARED hills that mark
Its course. The old world is buried
and new one appears.
''The Anglo-Saxon is entering the new
century with the imperial crown of the
ages on his brow and the scepter Of the
infinite in his hands,
"The old south fought against the
stars in their courses-the resistless
tide of the rising consciousness of ma
tionalfty and world mission. The young
south greetS the new era and glories
in its manhood. He joins his voice in