The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

| the machinery of government was
seized by negro voters organized and
| guided by unsCrupulOus white pollu-
| cal Adventures. Halls of legislation
| gIorified by the eloquence Of Patrick
Henry. the wisdom Of John Marshall
and the patriotism Of Washington
now resounded with the drunken
snorings. or the babboon gibberish Of
Cuffee and Sambo. The negro was in
toxicated with the license of freedom;
the North was blinded with passion
| and sentiment; the South was fight
| ing for civilization and existence. 1t
| is the saddest and dirtiest picture of
the ngliSh-SDeaking race. But
| remedy was at hand. The soldiers who
had surrendered at AppOmatoX had
not surrendered their wives and chill
| dren. their homes and fresideS TO ne
gro domination. They took UP arms
again, quietly, silently. in the dark
ness Of night, aided by grotesque dis
| guiSeS, resolved never to surrender
until the South was freed from the
peril of such domination. The end
came quickly, the negro was fright
ened into good behaviour; the carpet
Dagger was frightened into sudden
| exit for pastures new; the SCallaWag
was frightened into realization of
the impossibility of home Sapiens per-
| fectuS being governed permanently by
, homo anthrOpithecuS catarrhensls.
But the end came in North Carolina
only after a terrible fight and a bold
attempt to set aside those safeguards
l'Of liberty that are as old as the Eng
lish race and cherished beyond life
itself by English communities all over
the globe. The Governor of North
Carolina feeling the ground shaking
under his feet proclaimed martial law
in the counties of Alamance and Cas-
well and imported from the mountains
L,
ADDE'S and cut thrOatS, whom he sent
under desperate and lawless com
{ manders to terrOrize the people OF
. those counties and to serve as a warn
y ing to the rest of the State. The best
y | citizens of these counties were ar
. rested without warrant, thrown into
prison cells in company with the vileS
criminals and subjected to insults anC
indgnties The writ Of habea:
corpus was invoked in their behalf O
our own highest court. Counsel. wise
discreet just and able were tht
movers. The North Carolina Suprem'
Court granted a writ. The Governo
:, had declared that he would not ODE.
u the writ if issued and instructed hi
. cut throat soldiers to refuse to ODE,
y the writ or to produce the prisoners
u This writ was issued in behalf o
= North Carolinians restrained Of thei
lo liberty, not charged with crime, con
, ! fined in a North Carolina Jail, arrest
l. ed without warrant, held by Nortl
le Carolina officers. To whom shoul
III they look with surer hope to hav
= such detention inquired Of than to tn
VI Supreme Court Of North Carolina
is The writ was seS'ed by the marsha
D. of the court on Colonel Kirk, of tn
Governors militia who listened to tn
r reading and replied contemptuousl
l. that he would take no notice Of 1t an
iu that such "writs had played out" A
III attachment was then moved the coul
rs against Kirk for contempt. Remark
III able as it may seem, although theY
LII was no denial Of the facts, the cOul
H. did not issue the instanter order bl
10 adjourned until the Governor coul
We be heard. Four days later the attach
ne ment for contempt was refused an
lie in refusing it the Chief Justice of tk
ny Supreme Court Of North Carolina d.
Re clared, "the power Of the judicial
o. exhausted" No more humiliating Ell
at try ever blackened the record Of
IN court Not an effort had been mao
81 to enforce the writ, or to mainta
or the dignity Of the court Or to susta+
IL it's power, although several thousar
ne citizens had volunteered for service {
the posse cOmitatus and Kinks for,
III would have been overwhelmed"
is- Superior court judge also issued
Id writ Of habeaS corpus and it w
ne. served on Kirk who tore it to shred
us 1t was re-enactment in Nor
,as Carolina Of the era Of James Sc
10 Ond, with his judicial tool the inf
aS nous Bloody Jeffreys.
5A The climax was reached when t
- most daring and determined oppon
~ of the Governor, the States I'D
nc -. Josiah Turner was arrested and jaile
10 His only crime was attacking abus
a az which owed their strength and co
eu i tinuance to the danger Of attack
"a. "a, them. In a signed editorial a
ges nor Md defied arrast 80 hod o,ae,
zed u-itb tba 1-ords. .svo,. .;,iia -,
E 80. and arrest a man, and order your
.n1 cret clubs not to modest women a
ful daeanon bohoa., 49, :"