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

dragging us down to his level. But i
he cannot find happiness except In lord
ing it over a superior race, let him look
for another world in which to rule
There Is not room for both Of us on
this continent
Again and again CASTOR raised his
hand to still the mad tumult or ap-
plause his words evoked
''And we will fight it out on this line
if it takes a hundred years. two hun
dred five hundred. or thousand. It
took Spain 500 years to expel the
Moors When the time comes the An
Saxon can do in one century what
the Spaniard did in eight.
"We have been congratulated on our
self restraint under the awful provOea-
ton of the past four years. There is
a limit beyond which we dare not go.
for at this point self restraint becomes
pusillanimous and means the loss of
manhood"
He then reviewed with thrilling
power the history Of the state and the
proud part played in the development
border wilderness of North Carolina
became the cradle of American democ-
tacy and the typical commonwealth
Of freenen.
He played with the heart strings of
his hearers in this close personal his
tory as a great master touches the
strings of harp. His voice was now
low and quivering with the music of
passion. and then soft and caressing.
He would swing them from laughter
to tears in Il single sentence, and in
the next the lightning fash. Of a fierce
inyective drove into their hearts it's
keen blade SO suddenly the vast crowd
started as one man and WINGED at it's
power.
Through it all he was conscious of
two blue eyes swimming in tears look
ing down On him from the gallery.
The crowd now had grown so en-
tranced. and the torrent of his speech
Sc rapid, they forgot to cheer and
feared to cheer lest they should lose a
word of the next sentence. They hung
breathless on every flash of feeling
from his face or eloquent gesture.
81 am not talking of a vague theory
of constructive dominion" he contin-
ued. when | refer to the negro SUI
premacy under Which our civilization
is being degraded. l use words in their
plain meaning. Negro supremacy means
the rule of a party in which negroes
and that means negro
81 call your attention to one typical
county Of more than forty thus de-
graded. the county Of Craven. whose
quaint old city was once the capital of
this commonwealth. What are the
facts? The negro of6ceholders of
Craven county include congressman.
a member of the legislature, a register
Of deeds. the city attorney. the coro-
ner. two deputy sheriffs. two county
a member of the school
board. three road overseers. four con-
stables. twenty-seven magistrates,
three city aldermen and four police
men. There are sixty two negro Of
ficials in this county Of $4,000 inhabi-
tants. and their member of the legis- |
lature is a convicted felon. The white |
people represent 95 per cent of the |
wealth and intelligence Of the COM
munity and pay 95 per cent of it's
taxes. and are voiceless in it's govern
ment.
"Would a county in Massachusetts, |
submit to such infamy? No. There is
not county in the north from Maine
20 California that would submit to 1t
hours. Will the children
If Lexington, Concord and Bunker
Hill demand such submission from the
children of Washington and jefferson?
No. The passions that obscured rea-
son have subsidized. The Anglo-Saxon
ace is united and has entered upon its
world mission.
I'VE will take from an improbable
servant the ballot he has abused. To
him that hath shall be given, and from
linn that hath not shall be taken away
wen that which he hath. 1t is the law
If nature. 1t is the law of God
'fes. ! confess it, he continued:
i am in sense narrow and provin-
1al | love mine own people. Their
'ast is mine. their present mine; their
uture is a divine trust. I hate the
lishwater of modern world citizenship.
"A shallow cosmopolitanism is the
mask Of death for the Individual 1t is
he froth Of civilization. as crime is its
regs. Race and race pride are the Or
finances of life The true citizen of
he world loves his country.
$50 confess l love my people. |
owe the south-the stolid. silent south.
hat for generation has sneered at
aper made politics and scorned pub
&c opinion. The south. old fashioned,
nedieval. provincial. worshipping the
cad. and raising men rather than
aak1ng money, family loving. home
tradition ridden The south.
ruel and cunning when fighting
reacherous foe. with brief, volcanic
ursts of wrath and vengeance. The
outh. eloquent. bombastic, romantic.