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THE NEWNAN HERALD
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NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1915.
Vol. 50—No. 31
SPRINGTIME WITHOUT YOU.
The cherry trees have bloomed a^ain since last
vou went away,
Rut I am weary, and have missed your presence
juBt as they; .... . „ ..
I walk amomr our garden thinere and tell them
you’ll return.
Thouffh. as I softly lisp your name, the words
with sorrow burn.
The daffodils came back on time, with cups all
full of jrold,
Yet did not brim? the thrills of joy they brought
in days of old: ...
And well I know, along the hedge where they are
wont to grow.
They miss the step and welcome smile of one who
loved them so.
Out mocking-bird is singing now along the wild
rose lane.
And busy thrush is singing, too, but in a minor
strain;
I did not know how much your voice was woven
in the lay
Of every blessed bird of ours until you went
away.
I wish for words as many ns the leaves upon the
trees,
And words ns sweet as meadow blooms that lure
the crafty bees.
That I could tell you, o’er the miles that separate
us far, ..... . . .
How all the glories of the spring are asking
where you are.
E. Harman.
Thad Stevens, the Infamous.
Jus. Callaway, in Macon Telegraph.
It took many long years after the war
of the CD's for the South to get a hear
ing north of Mason and Dixon’s line.
But the dawn after the long night por
tends a brighter day.
Dr. Wyeth says no part of his book,
“With Sabre and Scalpel," made such
a hit in the North as his chapter on
John Brown. And he told the story of
the real John Brown. In this column
was recently printed excerpts from Dr.
Wyeth’s remarks on the Ku Klux Klan.
But the following from Collier’s Week
ly throws more light upon that myste
rious organization. It says—
“The Ku Klux Klan was a gigantic
conspiracy of night riders who saved
the civilization of the South and be
queathed it a priceless heritage to the
nation. The conditions which gave it
birth have no parallel in the story of
the race. The bloodiest and most de
structive war in history had just closed.
The conquered South lay helpless amid
her rags and ashes, with the flower of
her manhood buried in nameless graves.
“Four million negroes had been sud
denly freed, and the economic world
torn from the foundation of centuries.
Five billion dollars’ worth of property
had been destroyed in the South: every
bank had been closed, every dollar of
money had become worthless paper,
and the whole South Imd been plundered
by invading armies.
"Even with the sympathetic aid of
their ladies, the task of reorganizing
their wretched society and controlling
these millions of ignorant and supersti
tious negroes was one to appall the
stoutest hearts.
“Such a blow on a disarmed foe could
never have been struck had Lincoln
lived, but upon his death the greatest
and meanest man who ever dominated
our national life became dictator of our
republic.
“This man, beyond doubt, was the
most powerful parliamentary leader in
our history. A fanatic, a misanthrope,
embittered by physical deformity, a
horn revolutionist endowed with the au
dacity of the devil, he became in a mo
ment the bold and unscrupulous master
of a crazed nation.
“Twenty-eight years before this ho
had become infatuated with a mulatto
woman (Lydia Smith) of extraordinary
animal beauty, whom he had separated
from her husband, and lived with her
during his whole public career.
“But the mullled crack of a pistol in
Ford’s theatre in the hand of a madman
suddenly snatched this man from the
grave and lifted him to the seat of em
pire, with hlB negro wench by his side.
Over him she had complete control.
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Thad Stevens, as master of the sit
uation, being leader of the House, de
termined to Mot the South from the
map, confiscate the property of its citi
zens, give it to the negroes, deprive the
whites of the ballot, while conferring it
upon the former slaves, send their lead
ers into beggared exile, enfranchise the
negro and make him master of every
State from the James to the Rio
Grande.
“If this statement seems extrava
gant, turn to the Congressional Record
(Globe) for lSt»7, page 201), and read
Thad Stevens’ Confiscation Act, House
bill No. 29, and his speech in its de
fense—a speech which lights with the
glare of infamy his whole character and
career. He lost his confiscation and
miscegenation scheme by only five
votes, hut he was sustained in the bal
ance of his Reconstruction plan. He
disarmed all the whites, placed the bal
lot in the hand of every negro, and a
bayonet at the breast of every white
man. He organized the negroes into
oath-hound secret societies, known as
‘Union Leagues,’ in which they were
drilled in insolence and crime, and
taught to hate their former owners,
over whom they were promised unlim
ited domination. His military satrups
nailed to the door of every court-house
his proclamation of equality, and
promised bayonets to enforce the inter
marriage of whites and blacks. Ne
groes were supplied with arms taken
from tho whites, and drilled every night
at the league rendezvous.
“The women of the South being thus
in danger, a reign of terror immediate
ly followed.
“The men who represented white civ
ilization had to take their choice be
tween these conditions, permitted by the
Government, or annihilation. A g-eat
crisis was upon them.
“At this very time : n South Carolina
80,000 armed negroes, answering to no
authority save the ravage instincts of
black leaders, terrorized the State, and
not a single white man was allowed to
bear arms. Hordes of former slaves,
well armed with modern rifles, paraded
daily before the homes of their former
masters. The children of the breed of
Burns and Shakespeare, of Drake and
Raleigh, had been made subjects to the
spawn of an African jungle.”
The above from Collier’s Weekly.
When these things came to pass, the
South arose. Here was rebellion against
the North’s reconstruction. The Ku
Klux Klan arose as in a night, all over
the South. The movements of these
white-and-scarlet horsemen was like
clock-work. But the “leagues’’ had
done the work of alienating and de
taching the negroes from the whites,
and in politics they gave the white peo
ple vast trouble, until within the last
twelve or fifteen years, when the white
primary got rid of them.
When Jeirerson Davis was in prison
Gen. Dick Taylor, author of "Destruc
tion and Reconstruction,” deBired to
visit Mr. Davis, and requested Presi
dent Johnson to let him do so. Johnson
was dubious, so he sent Gen. Taylur to
see Thad Stevens, Winter Davis and
Charles Sumner.
Gen. Taylor of these visits writes:
“Thad Stevens received me with as
much civility as he was capable of. De
formed in body and temper like Cali
ban, this was the Lord Hategood of the
fair; but he was frankness itself. He
wanted no restoration under the Con
stitution, which .he called a worthless
bit of old parchment. The white peo
ple of the South ought never again to be
trusted with any power. The only
sound policy was to confiscate thoir
property, and divide it among the ne
groes. Had the leading traitors been
promptly Btrung up —well, tho time for
that was passed. Here I thought he
looked lovingly at my neck, as Petit
Andre was wont to do at those of his
merry go-rounds.”
Yet this was the man who controlled
the legislation of the country, and even
(Jen. Grant wbb converted to his “Re
construction” policy, and rejected the
restoration policy of Lincoln. What
that Reconstruction did for us was a-
plenty.
Those who witnessed those night
meetings, those drills of the negroes,
each with a musket, and recall the civic
struggles at the polls for nearly forty
yearn after the war to redeem our
States and preserve our civilization, can
but hope that the effort to revive negro
politics in the South, in obedience to the
organization laboring for the revitaliza
tion of the fifteenth amendment, adding
thereto the voteB of negro women, will
utterly fail in the Southern States.
There can never be another Ku Klux
organization to save our civilization.
Conditions have changed.
Some years ago Miss Edna Cain wrote
an article for The Tcdegraph on her trip
to Porto Rico, where Bhe spent three
months. She was impressed by the ab
sence of the color line. The advent of
a baby in a Porto Rican family was
an event of more tiian usual interest,
because they never knew whether it
would be black, white or brown, owing
to the tricks of atavism. A Boston man
visiting there said he saw in the popu
lation of the West Indies what our
Southern people would have been sub
jected to hud Thad Stevens and his col
leagues been successful in carrying out
their schemes to debase Southern civil-*,
zation. What a diabolical plot was that
of Stevens and his confiscation and mis
cegenation scheme, bncked by the Gov
ernment, which lacked only live votes of
becoming a Federal law!
Went A-Courting Astride a Call.
Memphis, Tenn., April 20.—Gen Tom
C. Rye, Governor of Tennessee, and the
first Democrat in recent years to re
trieve this State from Republican con
trol, rode into prominence and into the
heart of tho girl he married astride a calf
he had trained. It was on the back of
this bovine friend that Tom went a
courting the young woman who is now
tho "first lady of Tennessee.”
Too poor to purchase a horse or a
mulo to ride about the country as
the youths of those days were wont
to do, young Rye secured a red hull
calf in a trade and proceeded to break
him to the saddle. The calf seemed to
ho of common stock, and young Tom
called him “Jim,” “because,” he said,
“1 thought if I gave ‘him a high-
sounding name he might not live up
to it.”
Although broken to the harness and
to the saddle, ‘‘Jim” labored in the
fields on week days plowing corn, but
when Sunday cume Tom mounted
astride his calf and went to church, and
then a-eourting, with as much happi
ness and success, if not in as much
style, as did the young fellows who rode
blooded horses.
Tom and his calf made their first ap
pearance together on preaching day at
the little church on the hillside, some
distance from Tom’s home at Camden.
The neighborhood bullies, who were
hanging around the church, saw a
splendid opportunity for fun, and forth
with began to tease the young “calf
trainer.” Tom had worked hard and
was a strong youth, and in quick suc
cession he thrushed three of his tor
mentors. After that the boys had
more respect for the calf, and Tom
rode him without further interference
to all church gatherings and frolics
within a dozen miles.
Tho young man was popular because
of his sunny disposition and droll hu
mor, and the attachment between him
and his mount, which seemed to be
above the tics of human companionship,
made “Jim” the beloved pet of all the
girls. Many Sunday afternoons, while
be sat in the parlor, the center of a
group of friends, shy maidens would
steal into the fence corner or into his
stall in the stable and feed “Jim” rich
brown sugar from their own hands.
It was in this way, pandering to the
aristocratic tastes of “Jim” in a se
cluded spot, Tom Rye courted and won
the heart of pretty Betty Arnold, a
belie of Camden. With ambition to be
a fit husband for his intended bride he
then sold “Jim,” bought some‘‘store
clothes” with the proceeds, and went
to Charlotte, Tenn., where he be
came a student in the law oflie of his
uncle, Maj. T. C. Morris.
In two years he finished Mb Black-
stone, passed his examination, and was
admitted to the bar. When he returned
to Camden to establish a practice and
claim his bride he found “Jim” as one
of a yoko of oxen drawing a log wagon.
“Jim” had been taught to come at the
call of his master, and Tom halloed.
Tho ox remembered him with a deep-
throated bellow of recognition.
Tom Rye became one of the leading
lawyers in his section of the State, and
established an en\ i le reputation for
kind-hearledness and sympathy for th
distressed, and for sound counsel to
those who got into trouble through
misfortune. This reputation has fol
lowed him all through life. This
popularity stood him in good stead
when he entered the political arena.
Gov. and Mrs. Rye have two children,
Raul Arnold Rye and Mrs. John F.
Nolan. Mrs. Rye retains much of her
youthful beauty, which made her the
belle of Camden in the days when Tom
used to ride his calf to see her.
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