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THE NEWNAN HERALD NEWNAN HERALD Consolidated with Coweta Advertiser September, 1SV>. ' Established I860. ' Consolidated with NewnanlNews January. 1U15, » 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. We, the undersigned merchants of Newnan, will give one general admission ticket for opening game, May 10, 1915, Newnan vs. LaGrange, with each $5 cash purchase or each $5 paid on 1914 account. This Offer Good Until May 10 Tickets will be given Monday, April 26. Barnett, St. John Co., B. H. Kirby Hdw. Co., Newnan Grocery Co., J. N. Marbury, H. S. Banta, W. 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II 3! im IIZZUI 1——li li ii il n 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. Nothing So Good for a Cough oi Cold When you have a cold you want the best medicine obtainable, so as to get rid of it with the least possible delay. There are many who consider Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy unsurpassed. Mrs. J. Boroft, Elida. Ohio, Bays: “Ever since my daughter, Ruth, was cured of a severe cold and C'mgh by Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy two years ago, I have felt kindly disposed toward the manufacturers of that preparation. I know of nothing so quick to relieve a cough or cure a cold.” For sale by alt dealers. 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