The broad ax., 1919-10-18
THE DAY OF RETRIBUTIoN.
By DR.. NJ. A. Majors.

The South is in the throes of des.
peration. The Old-time Negro is in his
honOred grave and peace to his ashes.
The custom Of intimidation and tv-
ranny praetieed for many years reveal
to the sober-minded that It. TOO, i
rapidly passing. The Negro of the
modern era, who dressed in his coun-
try's uniform and marched to war to
beat of drum, and stepping to martial
music, bearing bravely the color en-
sigma of a nations glory, and who
barred his breast to the terrors of
sehrapnel in dugOuts, trenches, and
r. across No Mans Land, are baptized
anew, and become a power to reckon
with. War in France Is no less tragic.
but no different when he must fight
without the uniform and the cOlOrs and
without the sounding brass and the
fare of trumpets for the rights of man
on his native heath. The ugly force Of
~ N d8EOAANG u4SlN-ulA u hEoAEE
, heaped upon him and his fellows i'm
pels the noble spirit so long depressed
to rise in horrifying Indignation to
meet and match his tyrannical foe with
instruments of death in seIf-defense
and to make secure the safety of his
life and home. The gauge of battle
is being. met with death dealing for
death dealing.
The spirit of infamy and race hate
has long been tolerated as an evil con-
sequence of a condition fraught by the
fearful tragedies of a former period
of the nation s history when everything
for Negroes spelled chaos. But the in
glorious days Of Southern daredeviltry
have fabricated whirlwinds of destrue-
ton from the very winds IN which so
ruthlessly were sOwn the seeds of cor
ruption and discOrd. The fear that
ouce made our forefathers tremble and
run away frOm, is not to be seen in
this glad hour Of races progress.
The New Negro is upon the scene, and
he, by his bravery and self-eOnfdence
is causing the world to sit up and take
sOtiee- he does not scamper and hide
when bewhisksred red neeks mar his
peace and dignity.
The world views with secret alarm
the bull dog tenacity with which the !
Negro stands his ground and fights
back his tradncsr.
The day IS rapidly approaching when
through the earnest spirit so manifest |
IN every part of the country by the |
COlOred people to practice the prinei-
pies Of seif-PreservatiOn, unity of race
and to practice the arts of death |
where peace has failed, the Negro viii |
he given his well won and fought for
place in the grand circle of the human
races.
The ugly might of Southern criminal |
aggression VIII ere long be smitten by |
the National Government. 1t win and |
must come. The Negroes viii leave the /
South, the South will need to eat. The
hands win leave, and the stomaehs win |
be left untitled The South, illogical,
unreasonable, and tynnnieal, viii have
to be saved from itself. The violation
of law has ever been the horrible orgy
of the Southern States. Shooting down
Negroes had become a festivity, and
red neck EHnderers basgued in official
power to cypress the struggling, help
less people for whose freedom the Ma
ton Waded in seas of human blood.
There was no pity, and conscience had
no love or care. GOaded and pressed
against the Ezl stood for decades the
helpless, eringing, unfortunate Negro
Of an infamous dark era of the Ma
ions Life.
They shot Us, hung US, burned Us,
our fair girls, stole our wives,
iishOnOred tie oaiy name We have had,