He called a meeting of conservative leaders in a Taxpayers’ Convention at Columbia. His position as leader had been made supreme5 by the indignities6 he had suffered, and he felt sure of his ability to accomplish results. Every county in the State was represented by its best men in this gathering7 at the Capitol.
The day he undertook to present his memorial to the Legislature was one he never forgot. The streets were crowded with negroes who had come to town to hear Lynch, the Lieutenant-Governor, speak in a mass-meeting. Negro policemen swung their clubs in his face as he pressed through the insolent8 throng9 up the street to the stately marble Capitol. At the door a black, greasy10 trooper stopped him to parley12. Every decently dressed white man was regarded a spy.
As he passed inside the doors of the House of Representatives the rush of foul13 air staggered him. The reek14 of vile15 cigars and stale whiskey, mingled16 with the odour of 264 perspiring17 negroes, was overwhelming. He paused and gasped18 for breath.
The space behind the seats of the members was strewn with corks19, broken glass, stale crusts, greasy pieces of paper, and picked bones. The hall was packed with negroes, smoking, chewing, jabbering21, pushing, perspiring.
A carpet-bagger at his elbow was explaining to an old darkey from down east why his forty acres and a mule22 hadn’t come.
On the other side of him a big negro bawled23:
“Dat’s all right! De cullud man on top!”
The doctor surveyed the hall in dismay. At first not a white member was visible. The galleries were packed with negroes. The Speaker presiding was a negro, the Clerk a negro, the doorkeepers negroes, the little pages all coal-black negroes, the Chaplain a negro. The negro party consisted of one hundred and one—ninety-four blacks and seven scallawags, who claimed to be white. The remains24 of Aryan civilization were represented by twenty-three white men from the Scotch-Irish hill counties.
The doctor had served three terms as the member from Ulster in this hall in the old days, and its appearance now was beyond any conceivable depth of degradation25.
The ninety-four Africans, constituting almost its solid membership, were a motley crew. Every negro type was there, from the genteel butler to the clodhopper from the cotton and rice fields. Some had on second-hand26 seedy frock-coats their old master had given them before the 265 war, glossy27 and threadbare. Old stovepipe hats, of every style in vogue28 since Noah came out of the ark, were placed conspicuously29 on the desks or cocked on the backs of the heads of the honourable30 members. Some wore the coarse clothes of the field, stained with red mud.
Old Aleck, he noted31, had a red woollen comforter wound round his neck in place of a shirt or collar. He had tried to go barefooted, but the Speaker had issued a rule that members should come shod. He was easing his feet by placing his brogans under the desk, wearing only his red socks.
Each member had his name painted in enormous gold letters on his desk, and had placed beside it a sixty-dollar French imported spittoon. Even the Congress of the United States, under the inspiration of Oakes Ames and Speaker Colfax, could only afford one of domestic make, which cost a dollar.
The uproar32 was deafening33. From four to six negroes were trying to speak at the same time. Aleck’s majestic34 mouth with blue gums and projecting teeth led the chorus as he ambled35 down the aisle36, his bow-legs flying their red-sock ensigns.
The Speaker singled him out—his voice was something which simply could not be ignored—rapped and yelled:
“De gemman from Ulster set down!”
Aleck turned crestfallen37 and resumed his seat, throwing his big flat feet in their red woollens up on his desk and hiding his face behind their enormous spread.
He had barely settled in his chair before a new idea flashed through his head and up he jumped again: 266
“Mistah Speaker!” he bawled.
“Orda da!” yelled another.
“Knock ’im in de head!”
“Seddown, nigger!”
The Speaker pointed38 his gavel at Aleck and threatened him laughingly:
“Ef de gemman from Ulster doan set down I gwine call ’im ter orda!”
Uncle Aleck greeted this threat with a wild guffaw39, which the whole House about him joined in heartily40. They laughed like so many hens cackling—when one started the others would follow.
The most of them were munching41 peanuts, and the crush of hulls42 under heavy feet added a subnote to the confusion like the crackle of a prairie fire.
The ambition of each negro seemed to be to speak at least a half-dozen times on each question, saying the same thing every time.
No man was allowed to talk five minutes without an interruption which brought on another and another until the speaker was drowned in a storm of contending yells. Their struggles to get the floor with bawlings, bellowings, and contortions44, and the senseless rap of the Speaker’s gavel, were something appalling45.
On this scene, through fetid smoke and animal roar, looked down from the walls, in marble bas-relief, the still white faces of Robert Hayne and George McDuffie, through whose veins46 flowed the blood of Scottish kings, while over it brooded in solemn wonder the face of John Laurens, whose diplomatic genius at the court of France 267 won millions of gold for our tottering47 cause, and sent a French fleet and army into the Chesapeake to entrap48 Cornwallis at Yorktown.
The little group of twenty-three white men, the descendants of these spirits, to whom Dr. Cameron had brought his memorial, presented a pathetic spectacle. Most of them were old men, who sat in grim silence with nothing to do or say as they watched the rising black tide, their dignity, reserve, and decorum at once the wonder and the shame of the modern world.
At least they knew that the minstrel farce49 being enacted50 on that floor was a tragedy as deep and dark as was ever woven of the blood and tears of a conquered people. Beneath those loud guffaws51 they could hear the death rattle52 in the throat of their beloved State, barbarism strangling civilization by brute53 force.
For all the stupid uproar, the black leaders of this mob knew what they wanted. One of them was speaking now, the leader of the House, the Honourable Napoleon Whipper.
Dr. Cameron had taken his seat in the little group of white members in one corner of the chamber54, beside an old friend from an adjoining county whom he had known in better days.
“Now listen,” said his friend. “When Whipper talks he always says something.”
“Mr. Speaker, I move you, sir, in view of the arduous55 duties which our presiding officer has performed this week for the State, that he be allowed one thousand dollars extra pay.” 268
The motion was put without debate and carried.
The Speaker then called Whipper to the Chair and made the same motion, to give the Leader of the House an extra thousand dollars for the performance of his heavy duties.
It was carried.
“What does that mean?” asked the doctor.
“Very simple; Whipper and the Speaker adjourned56 the House yesterday afternoon to attend a horse race. They lost a thousand dollars each betting on the wrong horse. They are recuperating57 after the strain. They are booked for judges of the Supreme Court when they finish this job. The negro mass-meeting to-night is to indorse their names for the Supreme Bench.”
“Is it possible!” the doctor exclaimed.
When Whipper resumed his place at his desk, the introduction of bills began. One after another were sent to the Speaker’s desk, a measure to disarm58 the whites and equip with modern rifles a negro militia59 of 80,000 men; to make the uniform of Confederate gray the garb60 of convicts in South Carolina, with a sign of the rank to signify the degree of crime; to prevent any person calling another a “nigger”; to require men to remove their hats in the presence of all officers, civil or military, and all disfranchised men to remove their hats in the presence of voters; to force black and whites to attend the same schools and open the State University to negroes; to permit the intermarriage of whites and blacks; and to inforce social equality.
Whipper made a brief speech on the last measure: 269
“Before I am through, I mean that it shall be known that Napoleon Whipper is as good as any man in South Carolina. Don’t tell me that I am not on an equality with any man God ever made.”
Dr. Cameron turned pale, and trembling with excitement, asked his friend:
“Can that man pass such measures, and the Governor sign them?”
“He can pass anything he wishes. The Governor is his creature—a dirty little scallawag who tore the union flag from Fort Sumter, trampled61 it in the dust, and helped raise the flag of Confederacy over it. Now he is backed by the Government at Washington. He won his election by dancing at negro balls and the purchase of delegates. His salary as Governor is $3,500 a year, and he spends over $40,000. Comment is unnecessary. This Legislature has stolen millions of dollars, and already bankrupted the treasury62. The day Howle was elected to the Senate of the United States every negro on the floor had his roll of bills and some of them counted it out on their desks. In your day the annual cost of the State government was $400,000. This year it is $2,000,000. These thieves steal daily. They don’t deny it. They simply dare you to prove it. The writing paper on the desks cost $16,000. These clocks on the wall $600 each, and every little Radical63 newspaper in the State has been subsidized in sums varying from $1,000 to $7,000. Each member is allowed to draw for mileage64, per diem, and ‘sundries.’ God only knows what the bill for ‘sundries’ will aggregate65 by the end of the session.” 270
“I couldn’t conceive of this!” exclaimed the doctor.
“I’ve only given you a hint. We are a conquered race. The iron hand of Fate is on us. We can only wait for the shadows to deepen into night. President Grant appears to be a babe in the woods. Schuyler Colfax, the Vice-president, and Belknap, the Secretary of War, are in the saddle in Washington. I hear things are happening there that are quite interesting. Besides, Congress now can give little relief. The real lawmaking power in America is the State Legislature. The State lawmaker enters into the holy of holies of our daily life. Once more we are a sovereign State—a sovereign negro State.”
“I fear my mission is futile,” said the doctor.
“It’s ridiculous—I’ll call for you to-night and take you to hear Lynch, our Lieutenant-Governor. He is a remarkable66 man. Our negro Supreme Court Judge will preside—”
Uncle Aleck, who had suddenly spied Dr. Cameron, broke in with a laughing welcome:
“I ’clar ter goodness, Dr. Cammun, I didn’t know you wuz here, sah. I sho’ glad ter see you. I axes yer ter come across de street ter my room; I got sumfin’ pow’ful pertickler ter say ter you.”
The doctor followed Aleck out of the hall and across the street to his room in a little boarding-house. His door was locked, and the windows darkened by blinds. Instead of opening the blinds he lighted a lamp.
“Ob cose, Dr. Cammun, you say nuffin ’bout what I gwine tell you?” 271
“Certainly not, Aleck.”
The room was full of drygoods boxes. The space under the bed was packed, and they were piled to the ceiling around the walls.
“Why, what’s all this, Aleck?”
The member from Ulster chuckled67:
“Dr. Cammun, yu’se been er pow’ful frien’ ter me—gimme medicine lots er times, en I hain’t nebber paid you nuttin’. I’se sho’ come inter43 de kingdom now, en I wants ter pay my respects ter you, sah. Des look ober dat paper, en mark what you wants, en I hab ’em sont home fur you.”
The member from Ulster handed his physician a printed list of more than five hundred articles of merchandise. The doctor read it over with amazement68.
“I don’t understand it, Aleck. Do you own a store?”
“Na-sah, but we git all we wants fum mos’ eny ob ’em. Dem’s ‘sundries,’ sah, dat de Gubment gibs de members. We des orda what we needs. No trouble ’tall, sah. De men what got de goods come roun’ en beg us ter take ’em.”
The doctor smiled in spite of the tragedy back of the joke.
“Let’s see some of the goods, Aleck—are they first class?”
“Yessah; de bes’ goin’. I show you.”
He pulled out a number of boxes and bundles, exhibiting carpets, door mats, hassocks, dog collars, cow bells, oilcloths, velvets, mosquito nets, damask, Irish linen69, billiard outfits70, towels, blankets, flannels71, quilts, women’s hoods72, hats, ribbons, pins, needles, scissors, dumb bells, 272 skates, crape skirt braids, tooth brushes, face powder, hooks and eyes, skirts, bustles73, chignons, garters, artificial busts74, chemises, parasols, watches, jewellery, diamond earrings75, ivory-handled knives and forks, pistols and guns, and a Webster’s Dictionary.
“Got lots mo’ in dem boxes nailed up dar—yessah, hit’s no use er lettin’ good tings go by yer when you kin20 des put out yer han’ en stop ’em! Some er de members ordered horses en carriages, but I tuk er par11 er fine mules76 wid harness en two buggies an er wagin. Dey ’roun at de libry stable, sah.”
The doctor thanked Aleck for his friendly feeling, but told him it was, of course, impossible for him at this time, being only a taxpayer4 and neither a voter nor a member of the Legislature, to share in his supply of “sundries.”
He went to the warehouse77 that night with his friend to hear Lynch, wondering if his mind were capable of receiving another shock.
This meeting had been called to indorse the candidacy, for Justice of the Supreme Court, of Napoleon Whipper, the Leader of the House, the notorious negro thief and gambler, and of William Pitt Moses, an ex-convict, his confederate in crime. They had been unanimously chosen for the positions by a secret caucus78 of the ninety-four negro members of the House. This addition to the Court, with the negro already a member, would give a majority to the black man on the last Tribunal of Appeal.
The few white men of the party who had any sense of decency79 were in open revolt at this atrocity80. But their influence was on the wane81. The carpet-bagger shaped 273 the first Convention and got the first plums of office. Now the negro was in the saddle, and he meant to stay. There were not enough white men in the Legislature to force a roll-call on a division of the House. This meeting was an open defiance82 of all pale-faces inside or outside party lines.
Every inch of space in the big cotton warehouse was jammed—a black living cloud, pungent83 and piercing.
The distinguished84 Lieutenant-Governor, Silas Lynch, had not yet arrived, but the negro Justice of the Supreme Court, Pinchback, was in his seat as the presiding officer.
Dr. Cameron watched the movements of the black judge, already notorious for the sale of his opinions, with a sense of sickening horror. This man was but yesterday a slave, his father a medicine man in an African jungle who decided85 the guilt86 or innocence87 of the accused by the test of administering poison. If the poison killed the man, he was guilty; if he survived, he was innocent. For four thousand years his land had stood a solid bulwark88 of unbroken barbarism. Out of its darkness he had been thrust upon the seat of judgment89 of the laws of the proudest and highest type of man evolved in time. It seemed a hideous90 dream.
His thoughts were interrupted by a shout. It came spontaneous and tremendous in its genuine feeling. The magnificent figure of Lynch, their idol91, appeared walking down the aisle escorted by the little scallawag who was the Governor.
He took his seat on the platform with the easy assurance of conscious power. His broad shoulders, superb 274 head, and gleaming jungle eyes held every man in the audience before he had spoken a word.
In the first masterful tones of his voice the doctor’s keen intelligence caught the ring of his savage92 metal and felt the shock of his powerful personality—a personality which had thrown to the winds every mask, whose sole aim of life was sensual, whose only fears were of physical pain and death, who could worship a snake and sacrifice a human being.
His playful introduction showed him a child of Mystery, moved by Voices and inspired by a Fetish. His face was full of good humour, and his whole figure rippled93 with sleek94 animal vivacity95. For the moment, life was a comedy and a masquerade teeming96 with whims97, fancies, ecstasies98 and superstitions99.
He held the surging crowd in the hollow of his hand. They yelled, laughed, howled, or wept as he willed.
Now he painted in burning words the imaginary horrors of slavery until the tears rolled down his cheeks and he wept at the sound of his own voice. Every dusky hearer burst into tears and moans.
He stopped, suddenly brushed the tears from his eyes, sprang to the edge of the platform, threw both arms above his head and shouted:
“Hosannah to the Lord God Almighty100 for Emancipation102!”
Instantly five thousand negroes, as one man, were on their feet, shouting and screaming. Their shouts rose in unison103, swelled104 into a thunder peal3, and died away as one voice. 275
Dead silence followed, and every eye was again riveted105 on Lynch. For two hours the doctor sat transfixed, listening and watching him sway the vast audience with hypnotic power.
There was not one note of hesitation106 or of doubt. It was the challenge of race against race to mortal combat. His closing words again swept every negro from his seat and melted every voice into a single frenzied107 shout:
“Within five years,” he cried, “the intelligence and the wealth of this mighty101 State will be transferred to the negro race. Lift up your heads. The world is yours. Take it. Here and now I serve notice on every white man who breathes that I am as good as he is. I demand, and I am going to have, the privilege of going to see him in his house or his hotel, eating with him and sleeping with him, and when I see fit, to take his daughter in marriage!”
As the doctor emerged from the stifling108 crowd with his friend, he drew a deep breath of fresh air, took from his pocket his conservative memorial, picked it into little bits, and scattered109 them along the street as he walked in silence back to his hotel.
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judgment
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