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ill H i 'f if .1 5 - ''ii i ' 1 . . - . r- , i - 1 - JAMES G. BOYLINy Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, ONE DOLL PZIYZX1 NEW SERIES VOL I4.-N0. 6. Wadesboro, N. C., Thursday. August 17, 1899. WHOLE NUMBER 95g '-"Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks." .. The giants of the forest must yield at Ust to the contimud bl&ws of the ivoods j man. When the human Hood has become clogged and impure the little drops of Hood' s" Sarsaparilla, properly taken, tuiH fell the oak of bad blood. SaMafmiifflq ovington & Rdwine, Monro, N. . ;;i T. L. Cati&le, Wadsboro, N. C. - Covington, Red wine & Caudle, ATTORNEYS - AT - XAW, ; WADESBORO, N. C. Practice in all .the State, and United . Mates Courts. ... . 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Parsons and others ami described lu mortage by E. B. Ourtis and wife to i A. Sellars, registered in Anson county Trust Book So 87, page 1. Sale win be subject to approval of court. For full description and other particulars see said records and iudinuent role. Tliis Ang. c.tli. 1899. JAMES A. LOCK1IAKT, Cora'r. fiale at J o'clock p, m. , Kablnz Days ia North Carolina History ol the Clan as Given by a Meniber-Lonls Pilsbary Gives CaptV Shotwell's Mann script to a Friend, Who Pub lishes Some Extracts Front it A Graphic Description or Cou tlitioiis as They Kxisted iu North Carolina at the Time of the Organization ot the Clan. New York Sun. From Georgia comes the report that the survivors of the Kukluk Klan are quietly arranging a reunion to be held in Atlanta in August, and as it is now more than a quarter of a century since this most formidable of secret societies dominated in the South, it is probable that a reassembling of the. Klan might occur without much bitterness. One of the four notorious leaders of the order in Georgia is aliye and serving as a deputy sheriff in the western part of Texas. The others died violent deaths. There are many distinguished survivors of the Klan in the South to day who would hesitate to attend openly a convention of the ear ly members of the order, but who would hun association with the men who per petrated such ontrages in the name of Kuklux that the North and South joined hands to wipe it out. It has always been maintained by the original members of the Klan that the deeds of tiolence and bloodshed which in 1867 and 1S68 made the name Kuklux the synonym for the most brutal lawless nessvwere committed by unworthy new recruits or by men in no way connected with the order, but who found its name a convenient shield. There never was another period in our history when sijch an order could have flourished. The war left the South in a chaotic condition. It was filled with men of t military train ing and no means of support. The ne groes, who had been slaves, tried in many places to become master?. T?rom these anomalous and peculiar conditions was developed a band of regulators such as this country had never before seen. Many of these men were of high char acters, but although the Kuklur Klan Was organized on innocent lines it had become an engine of power which made it a veritable Frankenstien before the originators'realized it. Although it num bered thousands of men all through the South, the oaths which boucd its mem ber to the order were of such a characters that to this day no authoritative account of the Kuklux Klan has ever been pub lished. A history of the Klan which was printed in one of the magazines of this city fifteen years ago was made up of facts which any out sider might gather in the States where the Klan operated. The joint select committee of Congress which reported in 1872 on tbe "condition of af fairs in the late insurrectionary States," contained a mass of disreputable history. It established ihe fact that outrages with out number had been committed in the. Southern States and frequently in the name of Kuklux. Much of the evidence was contradictory. It would not have been safe for any member of the Klan to reveal its history and secrets at that time. When Louis D. Pilsbury, afterward warden of the Blackwell's Island peni tentiary, was connected with the Albany penitentiary he became well acquainted with Kandolph bhotwell, then serving a six years' term for a Kuklux assault in North Carolina. Many Kuklux prison ers were sent North to serve out their .sentences. Shot well was a captain of the Klan and a man of education and marked ability. His trial and conviction were 01 national interest. There were other Kuklux prisoners in the peniten tiary, but none ot them was or- the repu tation and ability of Shotwell. During his imprisonment he spent part of his time in preparing a history of the Ku kluk, which naturally was in the nature of an apology for it, and for obvious rea sons he did not want it made public nn til his death. This history is written with a pencil in a large blank book,and in its introduction the author explains that he uses the colloquial style that he may better elucidate the points of general interest. Mr. Pilsbury gave this diary to the writer several years ago, and as an interesting contribution to the history of the Kuklux Klan some portions of it are printed below. Shotwoll was as well qualified as any man in the South to write about this secret society. fco far as is known, Shotwell's history of the Klan is the only authortatives one by an officer of the organization. It has not been published before tor obvious reasons Parts of it are given below in the form of question and answer, as it was written Q. Will you state the origin of the Klan? A. The Kuklux Klan (using that fa miliar generic title for the several socie ties of which it was composea) was the legitimate offhpring of the royal league and the Freedmen's Bureau; consequent ly owes its existence to radical legisla tion. It is difficult for any one not a resident of the South at the time to form a just idea of onr condition for a number of years after the war, or even now. The chief features of reconstruction the military provisional and reorganized governments, with their attendant train ot eyils, are well known to the reading public. But the humiliations, the exactions, the per secutions and personal annoyances put upon the Southern people by the swarms of adventurers and sharpers which settled upon the land, under tbe auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Internal Revenue Department can never be real ized except by those who naa the mis fortune to experience them. - From the first it apparently was the common object of all classes of Federal officials to excite an antagonism of races. No opportunity was lost to alienate the late slave from, his late master. The . 1 1 1 j freed men, nmnnuencea Dy ouisiucra. would for the most part have continued to work and sing and dance on the old plantation, content to receive a moderate allowance of the cropr and come to look to ' uie Jfiassa - lor aavice ana assist ance in an irouoious circumstances. But this would not do for the bureau.' The idle and vicious were lured from the farms by the issue of free rations, while the more industrious were kept in per petual excitement by. plausible reporss ,hat their former masters were plotting to put them back into slavery. The bureau took cognizance of all disputes between whites and blacks, and as no occassion was lost to browbeat the former for the diversion of the latter, Sambo was not slow in coming to the conclusion that the "bottom rail was on top" sure enough. Any person acquainted with the exces sive vanity and the emotional nature of the negro will not need to be told that his mind soon became unsettled and poisoned by such treatment. ' Nor will it appear strange that he was speedily duped into a mental subjection to his new found friends, far more abject and binding than the physical restraint from tfhich he had been so recently relieved. Tbe immediate practical effect of the bu reau system was to collect the negroes in towr.s, where they gave their attention to politics and pillage, while the farmers, for lack of hands, were obliged to reduce the number of acres under cultivation. To give an illustration: The City of New bern, N. C, with a resident population of less than 6,000 whites, had in 1866 -'67 floating population of nearly 10,000 negroes, although only a tew mue3 111 the adjacent country farm servants could not be hired at any price. As might have been expected, crime and disorder were fearfully frequent. Being at the time associate editor of The Daily Jour nal of Commerce, I had occasion to chronicle a dozen or more murders in less than halt as many months. Bur glary and highway robbery were the reg ular morning news items. Now, in the sedate, la -abiding old North State capital crimes have never been common, and a murder makes a terrible noise, so that the ne order of things created great alarm and indigna tion. At this juncture a more threat ening aspect was given to our domestic perplexities by the introduction of the league. Having long foreseen that negro suffrage was inevitable, the wire pullers of the Republican party under the leader ship of Holden, who had recently suffered an overwhelming defeat, began the scheme for the new political element. The first votes cast by freedmcn were seven in number for Major Johu Hughes- a life-long Democrat and model Southern gentleman. Which event so alarmed the Holdenities that they speed- ly enlisted the whole influence of the government in favor of ihe league; and in a few months there were not 100 col ored voters in the State scarcely as many in the entire South unbound by an oath to vote for the Radical candi dates. Large numbers of timid men were likewise driven into the Radical Klan by dread of confiscation and loss of their civil privileges, it being asserted on the stump by league orators that the goyernment designed to take away the ballot from all who did not reenter on the Republican rolls. The election for a convention to fo rm a constitution demonstrated the power of the league. I was a candidate for that convention and was told weeks before hand that I would be beaten by a precise number of votes; the result justified the prediction, showing a thorough degree of organization among the leagurers. In Polk county my opponent was a man of low origin and questionable character, who, it i3 said, could not write his own name. No wonder that a contitution framed by men of such calibre should prove defective and convulse the State with repeated efforts to abolish or amend it. The first Legislature after its adoption was largely composed ot carpet-baggers and negroes, and, save a mere' handful o coservatives, soon organized itself iito the most gigantic ring on record. In a few months the State was plundered cf oyer thirty millio is her credit wasted, her bonds hishonored, her courts proFti tuted, her fair name blackened and her quiet disturbed by p )litical squabbles of LIGHTENS LABOR Cobwebs about a house are usually the sign that the housewife has more than she can do, the way she goes about It ; that all her time and strength are utilized in doing heavy work ; that she uses soap in her cleaning. If she would only use Washing Powder heavy work would be so lightened that the little things needn't be neglected. Gold Dust gives a wo man time to rest, time to visit, time to read, and time to sew. It is much better and cheapef than soap for all cleaning. For greatest economy buy our laj-ge package. The N. K. Fairbank Company Chicago St. Louis New York Boston the most disgraceful sort. In short, she was bankrupt in peace and prosperity. The incompetency and corruption of the uew ju.licary was felt more acutely than anything else, except the fearful multiplication of the taxes, because the people of North Carolina had been ever accustomed to regard their courts with great pride and veneration. The new judges had been chosen not for their abil ity or merit, but solely in reward of their services as party leaders. Several of them were notoriously incompetent; one is said to habitually spell January with a small j. In view of these facts is it surprising that our people lost respect for the courts nay, that sometimes they forsook them and took the law In their own hands? Such a state of things was certainly prov ocative of disorder. And well, I have not exaggerated the picture. Every con servative newspaper in North Carolina has animadyerted on the incompetency, indecency .and corruption of the judicary and defied coatradition. I have confined myself to North Carolina, but the same grievances and disgusting features were common to all the Southern States. We are now ready for the iutroduction of the Klan, The feeling had become almost universal that there should be some organization of good men for the suppression of crime and to counter act the pernicious teachings of the league. In East Ten lessee a mutual self-protective association had long existed among the returned refugees, who were in hourly danger of their liyes from their bushwhacking neighbors. Subsequently, when Brownlow was at the zenith of his despotic reign, overrun ning the State with bands of armed ne gioes, this nubleus was re-organized and expanded (possibly by some leaven of the Knights of the Golden Circle) into the Constitutional Union Guard. So ripe was the public mind for the new move ment that in a few months it had spread over the entire South, and had assumed the proportions, though not the harmany, of a general plan or organization. In North Carolina and elsewhere it was for a period known as the "White Brother hood." Q. What were its chief features? A. The original scheme provided for a supreme chief, council, etc., for the South chiefs of State, 0 congressional districts and of counties. Counties had an indefinite number of camps or com panies, each with a chief and other of ficers, subordinate to the grand chief. But this scheme never came to perfection, either as a whole or in any of its parts. Q. The ayowed objects of the order? A. Were embodied in the oath, which had five principle clauses, ytz.: To oppose and denounce the Radical party in all its corruption, and ever to maintain that intelligent white men should govern the United States. To mutually assist each other when in distress. To take all lone females, widows and their households under our especial care and protection.' ' , The final clause bound the neophyte to secrecy and obedience, aud imprecated death upon the head of the traitor. Q- It was not, then, an exclusively political organization? A. Certainly not. I distinctly assert that the Kuklux Klan was no more than a secret co-operative society of the na ture of a vigilance committee or patrol, designed to correct such civil abuses as did not come within the parview of the law or were neglected by the officers of the law, and also to shield oar women5 and children from the insolence, rapacity and brutal passions of vile desperadoes, white or black. So well is this under stood at the South that you will find but few of our noble ladies to-day who do not sympathize warmly with the convicted Kuklux in this prison. They do not ap prove of every act, particularly the more violent ones committed by. or at least at tributed to, the Klan. But they know that its general aims were good, and. feel indebted to it for a certain degree ot safe ty which they could not have had with out it. Q.-vStill it was a partisan order. All your members were Democrats? A. Not all. In my own immediate command 1 had a score or two of men who had bolted for Grant. To under stand this you must distinguish between scallawags, carpet-bagger-ragtag party of the South, and the Rermhlican party ot the North. A man might be a sound national Republican, yet heartily second the Kuklux in their endeavor to purge society of its con upt and incendi ary elements. y. You say that the oath embodies lhe object of the order. We have heard that there were verbal instructions ol a more serious nature. a. ine Radical schemers tried to mane that appear, but it is false. The only verbal instructions were in effect as follows: To observe due dilligencein the cause, to obey all orders properly com municated, to report all cases of crime, outrage or insolence to women in their neighborho od and to rally in defence of any brother when iuvoked with the sign ot distress. Q.-You deny that the Klan conspiracy? A. Most emphatically. Of all the abominable fabrications of the Radical prosecutors that is the most absurd. Every man of us was s leniuly sworn to support the constitution. The very pass word of recognition was "Our country.' And in my command there were Union ists who had lived in the woods and caves alt through the war. Q 1 here was no conspiracy to de prive the negro of his civil rights? A. I was asked that question by the uon. tjerrn omith a lew days ago, to whom I replied that no intelligent South erner desired te curtail ary civil rights necessary to- the full enjoyment by the freedmen of life, liberty and property or for their salvation and prosperity There were certain social privileges which we will not grant to an inferior race, be it African, Oriental, Chinese or Esquimau But, outside ot these, we earnestly desire that the negro should hay e every aid and to become an" intelligent, honorable citizen. Nor wonld he ask more than we are willing to grant, ii he were not insti gated by unprincipled, meddlesome white fanatics. Q. Were many prominent public msn connected with the Klan? A. In North Carolina no. A num ber of gentlemen of ability and of some local prominence became connected with the White Brotherhood upon its first in troduction, but most of them came in at one d or and passed immediately out of the other, being satisfied that the organi zation was not sufficiently well regulated and compact to insure its stability or car. ry out the objects for which it was de signed. Many of these gentlemen have been indicted, I have heard, under the absurd construction that once members always membei s. All done for political effect, of course. Q. You mention the "Invisible Em pire." Was it a new organization? A. Not exactly; it was the old disease breaking out in a new spot. To resume my account of the Klan. Its first opera tions were of a somewhat hideous nature. In various parts of the country whtre-ihe negroes had been most unruly a huge, terrific monster, giant, giraffe, hobgoblin, hypognff or even old Nick himself stalk ed into the village on a moonlight night and performed several supernatural feats. such as drinking two or three buckets of water or blowing an immense volume of flame from the nose, and after exhorting certain evil-doers to beware of a second visit, suddenly departed amid such an infernal uproar that many old "aunties" will never believe that human agency bad anything to do with it. Absurd and childish as it may seem, yet such a warn ing usually had stronger effect than all the penalties of the law in restraining the insolence and rowdyish propensities of the negroes. Of course the more intelli gent suspected the trick, but as it implied a mystery or mysterious organization they were none the less awed. In North Carolina, however, the sue cess of the league seemed to demand a more serious check. Having come into power through the colored vole the lead ing scallawag3 and carpet-baggers began to rob and oppress the State in a whole sale manner, while each colored brother had liberty to enrich himself by prlyate peculations. One enterprising i .dividual carried on the wholesale and retail busi ness at the same time by stealing chick ens at home and helping to steal millions in the Legislature, ot which he was a member. But the chief ground for alarm was the prostitution of the courts and the abuse of the pardoning power. Murder, barn burning, riots and all sorts of crimes had become daily occurrences. No wonder. for the league -was all powerful, and If the criminal could show a good league re cord it was tolerably certain that he wonld escape, either through some legal quibble or by an alibi sworn by vagabonds that would swear anything for a pint of rum or the governor wouia pamon him; or finally, when all else had failed, the jailer. who, of course, was a good brother, would let him out oljail. Punishment was not in the practice of the courts un less the prisoner was a Democrat. The consequence of such a state of affairs be gan to be seen in paragraphs like the following: "Five men charged with the murder of the Foscue family were taken from the county jail and drowned in the Neu9e by parties unknown." Q. what was. the strength of the or ganization in North Carolina at that time? A. Cannot say with accuracy. But 12,000 would cover it, I presume. The Klan had never shown its hand in more than a dozen counties where the league had been most rampant. was a the south. The fairest account will be rouna in'Appleton'a Biographical tncyciopeaia.' but even this one, which was written Dy H icrpinson. is tainted with the same old an imii.rhut insHtieaevervtbinz an abolitionist evrliil against the aontb. It does look like that forty years of time and the freedom of h neemousrhtlO nave monueu our ciie- Thase Vfnrmnnc ami a mt tn mo I mini ami retired old John Brown and bis 3,000 miles from home thev are raising I followers into oblivion, but it has not, ana ARP OS THE HORtlOXS. Rill Hy That the Maveuieats r the SaluU Are Mysterious to IIIw. g a commotion among our people and I don't understand what they are after. Are they really missionaries sent out from Utah to propagate their religion, or are they religious tramps who find this an easy way to live. They compass sea and land to make a single proselyte and remind us ot the far-reaching real of the Jesuits of the sixteenth century. The Jesuits went to the heathen of all countries who had not heard of Jesus, but these Mormons go to the Protest now they are transferring their bones to a more congenial soil and will have grand ceremonies over their burial. McKiniey has been invited, and as two of the seven were negroes, 1 reckon he will go. Maybe theoevit has got mem Keeping postomce somewhere in Hades. til I.I. A K" IXGERKOLL'S NET HOD INT I'UIEM). Education that Pays. The "North Carolina College of Afflicultnrp stnil .f pch.-tni Arts in anU in en.ightened Christendom - and Raleigh offers the youth of the State seek covertly to undermine their faith. . i ., J.-c i-u 1 They work upon the weak minded and no.fc thorough English and fanatical and only make converts by de-1 suieuuuc euucaiion, out also a prac- troying the peace of the family. No I tical training for all trades an busi- wonder that the good people or the I noswa inrOnrtirxr Dcoii. communities drive them out and mal- r0,,ffF: V r -c treat them. I have no respect for pros- Manufacturing, btock, Dairy, Fruit elyters in a Christian land who would and lruck farming, Civil, Electrical seek to draw their converts from one and Mechanical Engineering, Archi- Chnstian church to another and sow dis- tecture and Mercantile Business, cord in a family. - ' , RnV9 . f9hf tn ull a I was ruminating abc.Qt the Mormon- . f .7 c j V mm, which u another child born ot new 1 "nui aic iuua uiicu tu uc England fanaticism, where all the devil-J self-supporting and wealth-produc- ish things Originate. It is close akltf to I ora Unva nnahlo tn fata tha fnU the doctrine of free love, that originated Rhotd taV-p oiip of tho short there half a ceutury ago, and is now course snouia take one ot the short pretty generally accepted. If a man est courses, or, as special students, doesn't find his affinity when he marries devote themselves eutirely to some ne Unas ner aiterwaras, ana uiey Keep nn unhir in whih r.hpv nm srw- on swapping around. . I.. trJn:,1cr Vo r!rvinr hnv will loe Smith came from there and one day r . 9 . . . J . pretended to find a Bible under a big be excluded trom die college lor stone. It waa placed there by an angel lack of means, tfork is furnished and had golden leaves, and he .was told tae most deserving. Examinations to read it for it was the last will of God ... . . ... ' . a. and he must preach it to the people. ""V" "Cl? " uu'"- He copied tbe writing and was going to 19, 1899, at the courthouse, by the sell the gold, but the angel rebuked j Connty Superintendent. Let every mm and took the 1 golden leaves away, wh0 wishes an educatiou that wen, mat man louna enough tools to t - , . . om- ohnna start a new departure in rehgioa and I J"J , J "uuuUuvuo. because the good people at home made Some one will have a chance to se- fun of him, he and bis iollowers moved cure the county scholarship. Utu- 'Ile That Any Uood W'lu" Would Should be provided with good health, and everyone who would have good health should remember that pure, rich blood is the first requisite. Hood's Sarsaparilla, by giving good blood and good health, has helped many a man to success, besides giving strength and courage to thousands of women who, before taking it, could not even see any good iu life to win. Hood s Puis are gentle, yet effective. How Are "Tour Kidneys t Dr. Hobbs' Sparairas Ptlls core all kidney Ills. Sam pi free. Add. Sterling Hemedr Co.. Cbicmuo or N. T. Acts gently on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels r.LEANSES THE SYSTEM aat ass a aa a m OVERCOMES 2.rri ( hAtorm. CONSTIPATION wn nrmiitir tm v ffECTS. IT5 Rtt, ! -HIEfl ICIALE 6urrniaI7g,Syrvp(2- a-s tsa tw aa HMfcrv int. m tu nn to Pennsylvania, where he had more vin- ions and the angel gave him a pair of magic spectacles and a Unm and Thum mim. and talked to him behind a cur tain, and John the Baptist visited him and gave him the Holy Ghost and the gift ofprophecy and supernatural pow ers. From there he and his followers went to Palmyra. N. Y.. and had the "Book ot Mormon" printed, and organ ized a church with thirty members, and Smith cast a devil out ot a man named Knight. But Palmyra got too hot for them and they moved to Kirtland, Ohio, because the augel said so. But Kirtland got too- warm for them and they moved to Missouri and founded the city of Z1011. Not long after he went back to Kirtland on a visit and tbey tarried and feathered him. bat his persecu tion gave him strength and followers and they built a church there and called them selves tbe Latter Day baints, and started a band and flooded the country with wildcat money in the name of tbe Lord. The leaders were arrested aud indicted for mur der, treason, burglary, arson and larceny, but were allowed to escape from jail and leave .virt land with their families.- From there they went to Illinois, guided by au angel, aud lounueu tbe city 01 rxauvoo There they built another church and sent missionaries to England to make converts, and tbey made them, mauvoo grew np rap idly and the Saints soon numbered 1,500 men and elected Smith mayor and lieuten ant general. In 1842 he had another revela tion from the angel and was advised to take some spiritual wives. Accordingly he took two married women, tbe wives of Dr Foster and William Law. two of his chief supporters. Of course, this raised a rumpus aud t oster ana Law started a newspaper against him and published the affidavits of sixteen women, who charged Smith and his head man. Uigdon, with impurity and immorality. Smith then destroyed the press and Foster and Law had to tly for their lives. They appealed to the courts and had warrants issued for him and Kigdon and seventeen others. They were arrested and put in Jail. The governor visited them aud promised protection to them, if tbey and their families would leave tbn country, but the people were so exasperated with them they went that night to tbe jail and broke down tbe doors and shot Smith and bis brother to death. What kMd of a story is that to found tbe Mormon religion upon. And yet "these Mormon elders have the cheeK to travel through this southern land to propagate thsir spurious faith among our people But Smith's wife and bis sou Joe never did accept the revelation as to spiritual wives, and the son reorganized Mormon ism at Piano, 111., where he publishes The True Saints' Herald, and is in all that region the acknow .edged head of the Saints of the true Mormon church. The polygamists were all expelled, after suffering by whipping and bouse burning and other penalties b mob violence. They moved in scattered bands to Utah and chose Brigbam V'oung as their leader, lie was a zealous advocate of polygamy and showed his faith by his works, for when he died in 1877 he left seventeen wives, sixteen sons and twenty- eight daughters that be acknowledged beside a number 01 others who acanowi edued him. But these Mormons who are sojourning in our land declare that polyamy is now abol ished and that they are not proselyting to that faith, though it was ttieiaith 01 Abra ham and Jacob and uavid ana boiomon. Well, our people donTt want such men fool ing around their lamiues ana demoralizing weak men and weaker women in every community. A moderate chastisement would have a sanitary innuence on an sucn tramps Fanatics and tramps have their nursery in New England. We see that tbe bones of the seven lieutenants of old John Brown have recently been removed to orth Elba and are to be reburied with honors, and that McKiniey was invited. That sbows the animus of that people. They still make demigod of that old fool John iirown, whom uwidings ana ueecner aua uarrisou mane a cat's-paw of to incite the slaves of Virginia to insurrection aud to provoke them to mur der and arson and rape. Thev furnished him with SdOu in gold and all the ritiles and ammunition he wanted, and so he tooi up u is residence near Harper's ctrry and for two years lived there and planned his bloody ana treasonable scheme. Fred Dunn las visited him there and advised to wait for the fruit was not ripe, uut me oiii fanatic believed the Lord was with bun and wouldn't wait any longer, and so one dark night he aud his little band of twenty two deluded followers surprised aud over powered the guards and took the arsenal and then calmly awaited the uprising of the negroes. Uut the negroes would not rise. Most of them were attached to their masters and their families and would not join the traitors. Tbey soon came to grief. John Brown was wounded, nis sou was killed and most ot bis followers. Fur forty long years the graves of seven of them have been unmolested, but John Brown's soul, they say, keeps marching on and so it does seem to, with the second and third genera tions of those who have hated us so long and so bitterly. They sent Brown to Kan sas during the dark and bloody days and there he and his followers, among other outrages, called five leading southerners from their beds one dark night and assasiu ated them. Brown said it was God's will. For twelve years he never lost sight or his chief aim, which was to start an insurrec tion in Virginia and let it spread all over the south, until every slaveholder was was murdered. And this is what the north made a martyr and demigod of him for Our own Robert E. Lee, a United States army officer, officiated at his capture and trial. Jefferson Davis and John si. Mason, of the United States Senate, were appoint ed a committee to make report upon tbe in vasion and declared it of no significance ex cept as showing tbe animus of the north to ward the south. A friend writes me who wishes to know where be can get a true history of John Brown and his Virginia raid and execution. Nowhere! No southern man baa wriiten his history. Three have been written ers, if prepared to enter, aud too poor, will be credited for tuition aud room-rent until they have earned the money, which win not De long, as any- graduate of the A. and M. Col lege quickly hnds profitable employment. Absent-minded Men. Columbian. There have been a great many stones about absent-minded men, where one for gets his house address, another what busi ness he is in. and where another has to refer to the mark on his handkerchief be tore he can remember his own name. There is a farmer named Rogers in the North, who possessed a Jersey cow which he used to drive, miming and evening, to and from the pasture, not far from his home. One miming as one of the neigh bors was passing along the road, he met Mr. Rogers walking in the middle of the lane, his mind apparently engrossed with some weighty question. The neighbor balled out: "Good morning, Mr. Rogers. Where are you going?" "Why," said Mr. Rogers, in a surprised way, I'm driving the cow to pasture. And he waved his hand toward where the cow ought to have been. "Well, where is the cow?" asked his friend. "I suppose I forgot to let her out of the bam," answered M Rigers, humbly, as he realized his position. And he had. Hacking I'ougu Cured. Ramon's Liver Pills & Tonic Pellets have permanently cu ed me of a very troublesome disease that I had in my back stomach and bowels, which was accom panied by a hacking cough. I was for long time unable to get up when I was down, but now I am as well as anybody I believe I would haye been in my grave If I had not used them. I have sold them for the last ten years. My customers will have no other. W. U. fc.mbry, Embree, Ua. A Story Vouched For by a Wo man Retil4ent ot Pennsylvania. Bradford Evening Star. The incident was related by a Bradford lady who requested that her name not be mentioned in con nection with it. 'It was in Pittsburg,' she said, 'I believe in the Library Hall, where I first heard Col. Ingersoll speak. There was a large audience gathered there, among them being clergymen aud the cream of professional life of the city. Col. Ingersoll's speech was masruificeut from an oratorical standpoint, bnt nis atiacs on relig ion and the Bible was blasphemous. lowever, the man s powers as an or ator and as an actor made a deep mpression on his hearers and seemed to affect one man in particu- ar, the Rev. Alexandria Clark, pas tor of the Methodist Church, which very one in Pittsburg knew as the Old Home. ."At the conclusion of the lecture Col. Ingersoll was backing from the stage in his peculiarly graceful man ner, when the lwev. M. Clarke bounded to the forum and asked to be introduced to the speaker. This formality having been gone through, the minister and the agnostice clasp ed hands,the minister with eagerness, the agnostic with a grace peculiarly his own. I well remomber the pleas ant, hearty, honest manner in which the great Ingersoll grasped the hand of that good minister, whose fame as a Christiau of the real kind - was known throughout Pittsburg. Mr. Clark, when he held Col. In gersoll's hand in his held it tightly while he lifted his eves toward heav- eu aud prayed with a fervent man ner that (jtod would direct the won derful talents of this man in another and a better sphere. His prayer was not a long one, but it was from the heart and had its effect upon Inger- oll. The great agnostic, looking the good Christian in the eyes, thank ed him most heartily for his kind ness, aud solemnly added that Mr. Clark was the first Christiau minis ter that had ever wished him god speed. He then left the stage and the audience slowly hied out of the building. 'The sequel, though, shows Inger soll as he was. It brought out the great manhood of the agnostic. Eev. Alexandria Clai k went West. I am not sure to what state he emigrated, but I believe it was Missouri, and there he became ill. He was at a hotel, and th Governor of the State, who had known him many years,had him removed to his home. Mr. Clark grew worse and was threaten ed with death. The news came Ea3t, aud Ingersoll heard it in Wash ington, where he was lecturing, and immediately went West as quickly as possible aud was at the bedside of the Christian minister and until the death of Mr. Clark, was almosc con stantly in attendance upon him. When Mr. Clark diet., Mr InGersoll took charge of the remains and brought them East to New Castle where they were buried. At the fu ueral, after'the officiating clergyman had concluded his sermon, the ag nostic delivered an address touching upon the grand life and character of the dead man which moved his hear ers to tears. It was one of his best efforts and was from the heart. thsa't Tubacc Sit a4 fcaiuLc Yvar l ife Iwsy, To quit tobacco easily and forever, be in;i? netic. full of life, nerve aud vitor, take No-To- Bac, tbe wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 60c or II. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Lost Time. Judge. Algy What did you do would when old Bootstraps caught you kissing his daugh t3r? Ferdy Why, first I started to argue. then I started to explain, then I started to apologize, and then I started to run but, bah Joye, it was too late; I should have d me that in the fiist place. 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The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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