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

Eyes. and it's straight"
did Mr.. Stevens tell you so2''
Hes the man that told me-"
'"The plans simple" said Legree
''Mr. Stevens is going to give the
niger the ballot and take it from !
enough white men to give the niggers
a majority. Then be will kick old Andy
Johnson out of the White House, put
the gag on the supreme court so the
south can't appeal. pass his bill to
confscate the property Of the rebels
and give it to loyal men and the mig
gers. and run the rebels OUT
"And the beauty of the plan is" said
Tim. with JUNCTION. that they are go
ing to allow the negro to vote to give
himself the ballot and not allow the
white man to vote against it. That's
what call dead sure thing" Tim
drew himself up, sardonic grin re-
vealing his white teeth from ear to
ear, and burst into an impassioned
harangue to the excited group. He was
endowed with native eloquence. and
had been graduated from college in
Canada under the private tutorsh1p OF
it's professors. He was we'll versed in
English history. He could hold an
audience of negroes spellbound, and
his audacity commanded the attention
Of the boldest white man who heard
him.
Legree, Perkins and Haley cheered
his wild utterances and urged him to
greater flights.
He paused as though about to stop,
| when Legree, evidently surprised and
delighted at his powers. said: go on!
| Go on!'
Eyes. go onr' shouted Perkins. 1--WE
are done with race and color lines"
| A dreamy look came to Tins eyes
as he continued:
"Our proud white aristocrats OF the
south are in panic. it seems. They
feel the coming power Of the negro.
They fear their Desdemonas may be
fascinated again by an Othello. Well.
Othello's day has come at last. If he
| has dreamed dreams in the past, his
tongue dared not speak; the day is fast
coming when he will put these dreams
into deeds. not words.
1.-THE south has not paid the penalties
Of her crimes The work of the con-
oueror has not yet been done in this
land. Our work now is to bring the
proud low and exalt the lowly. This
is the first duty Of the conqueror.
"The French revolutionists estab-
lished a tannery where they tanned
the hide of dead aristocrats into
leather with which they shod the com
mon people. This was France in the
eighteenth century with a thousand
years of Christian culture.
"When the English army conquered
Scotland they hunted and killed every
fugitive to a man. tore from the homes
of their fallen foes their wives, stripped
them naked. and made them follow
the army, begging bread. the laughing
stock and sport Of every soldier ant
, camp follower. This was England IL
, the meridian of Anglo-Saxon intellec
tual glory. the England of Shakespeare
, who was writing Othello to please the
warlike populace
"I say to my people now in the Ian
guage of the inspired Word, All things
are yours | have been drilling an(
2 teaching them through the Un1o1
league, the young and the DID,, IThav'
: told the old men that they will be jus
as useful as the young. II they can
r carry a musket, they can apply tn
, torch when the time comes. And the.
, are ready now to answer the call
= the Lord.
J.. They crowded around Tim an
wrung his hand.
.
e Early in 1867, two years after tn
war, Thaddeus Stevens passed throug
congress his famous bill destrOyin
: the governments of the southern state
:; and dividing them into military dis
e tricts. enfranchising the whole negr
race and DISTINGUISHING one-fourth
n the whites. The army vas sent bac
g to the south to enforce these decree
e at the point of the bayonet The at
thority of the supreme court was dt
e stroyed by a supplementary act an
Y the south denied the right Of appea
t Mr.. Stevens then introduced his bill
/ confscate the property of the whit
e people of the south. The negroes lai
down their hoes and piows and bega
r to gather in excited meetings. Crime
d of violence increased daily. Not
b night passed but that a burning bar
L or home wrote its message of anarch
g on the black sky.
o The negroes refused to sign any col
h tracts to work. to pay rents, or vaca,
k their houses on notice even from tt
Freedmen's bureau.
e The negroes on General Worth's pla1
o tation not only refused to work.
J. move. but organized to prevent an
e white man from putting his foot G
e the land.
If General Worth procured a speci
l. order from the. headquarters of tt
lie Freedmens bureau for the district l
:. Gated at Independence. When tt