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

but in those hundred days was packed
the harvest of centuries.
The south was put to the test of fire
and blood. The world walked next
morning to ind for the first time in
our history the dream of union a living
fact. There was no north. no south
but from the James to the Rio Grande
the children of the Confederacy rushed
with eager, flushed faces to defend the
flag their fathers had once fought.
And God reserved in this hour for
the south. land of ashes and tombs and
tears, the pain and the glory of the
first offering of life on the altar of the
new nation. Our first and only officer
who fell dead On the deck of war
ship, with the flag above him. was
Worth Bagley of North Carolina. the
son of a Confederate soldier. The gal-@
liant youngster who stood on the bridge
of : the Merrimac. and between two
towering mountains Of flaming cannon.
in the darkness of the night blew up
his ship and set new standard of
Anglo-Saxon daring. was the son of
Confederate soldier of North Carolina.
The town of Hambright furnished
whole company of eighty-siX men, a
captain, three lieutenants, and major,
who saw service in the war.
Almost every problem of national life
had been illumined and made more
hopeful by the searchlight of the
Spanish-American war save One-the
irrepressible conflict between the Afri-
can and the Anglo-Saxon in the de-
velopment of our civilization.
While the we'll drilled negro regulars,
led by white officers, acquitted them
gro volunteers were the source Of riot
and disorder wherever they appeared.
From the first, it was seen by thought
full men that the negro was an impossl-
bility in the newborn unity Of national
! life When the Anglo-Saxon race was
united into one homogeneous mass in
| the fire of this crisis, the negro ceased
| that moment to be Il ward of the nation.
A negro regiment had been in camp
at Independence during the war and
was still there awaiting orders to. be
mustered out. It's presence had in
famed the passions of both races to the
danger point of riot again and again.
| The negro who was editing their paper
had gone to the length of the utmost
| license in seeking to influence race an
tagonism.
The little city was one of the Oldest
in the nation. 1t boosted the first
declaration of independence from Great
delphia document. The people had
never rested tamely under tyranny mol
accepted insult
The Mcleod negro-farmer legislature
had remodeled the ancient charter, and
under the new instrument combina
i ton of negroes and criminal whites
| had taken possession of every Office.
One-half of these Office holders were
| incompetent and insolent negroes. The
chief of police was an ignoramus iI
'l league with criminals, and their mayor
a white demagogue elected by pan
dering to-the lowest passions of a ne
gro constituency.
Burglary and highway robbery were
almost daily occurrences. The tive
largest stores in the city and four resi-
dences had been burned within {
month. Appeal to the police became {
farce. and it was necessary to hire ant
; arm force OF private guards to patro
the city at night. When arrests were
made the servile authorities prompt!
released the criminals. Negro inSOlenc'
reached a height that made it impos
: sible for ladies' to walk the street,
without an armed escort. and whit
children were waylaid and beaten OF
their way to the public schools.
The incendiary organ of the negroes
newspaper that had been noted 70
: its virulent spirit of race hatred, hat
published an editorial defaming TIL
virtue Of the white women of the com
munity
: At / / O'Clock the quaint old hall. bull
r in Revolutionary days to seat 500 pee
pie was packed with crowd of so
stern visaged men. standing SO thicl
: 1t was impossible to pass through them
: and thousands were ,massed outsid
l around the building
r CASTOR. whose ancestors had bee
2 leaders in the great Revolution, wa
called to the chair. The speechmakin
: was brief. fiery and to the point.
I Within one hour they unanimousl
D adopted this resolution:
e Resolved, That we issue a second dec
. laration of independence from the infam
OF corrupt and degraded government. Tn
day of negro domination over the Anglo
Saxon race shall close now, once and fo1
e ever. The government Of North Caro1in
I was established by race of pionee
:, white freeHlen for white men, and it sha
: remain in the hands of freemen.
We demand the overthrow of the Grim
: inal and seTibarbarian regime unde
f which we now live and to this end serv
. notice on the present mayor Of this cit.
it's chief Of police and the six negro alder
S men and their low white associates tha
their designations are expected by O'eloe
, tomorrow morning We demand that tn
" negro anarchist who edits a paper in TIL