The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-03-23
HoNoRINe SOUTHERN cHARAoTgR.

to investigate certain Southern
elections Senator Hoar responded !
to Senator Daniels; and we copy
as follows from his speech:
III believe these two races can
live together in peace, in affection,
in glory, as neighbors, as brethren,
as equals-dividing among the
political parties which exist in this
country as the people of the white
race have done.
"Mr. President, | do not expect
these remarks to be so received,
but | make them i'll no spirit of
hostility; | make them with a full
knowledge OF the difficult problem
that awaits us, and the problem
that especially concernsour friends
south of MasOn's and DiXnn's line;
but | remember when make them
that the person hears the sound of
my voice this moment, who i'll his
lifetime will see fifty million ne
groes dwelling in those States. If
You 90 oil with these methods which
are reported to us on what we
deem pretty good evidence, you
are sowing in the breast of that
race seed from which is to come
harvest of horror and blood.
We desire, those of us who live
in the North, to do everything that
we can to help you ii you will only
accept our help AMI not spurn it.
We will pour ont our money like
water; you may tax us by the ten
million or the hundred million or
! the thousand million, if it is need.
ed, to give these people the intelli-
gence and education which is nee
esslry to fit them to live with you
as citizens.
| know, too, when say these
things that | am saying them of
my countrymen. | am saying
them of men with as gallant, noble,
and honorable traits, where this
race prejudice does not get posses
sion of their souls, as ever existed
on the face of theearth. They have
some qualities which | can not
even presume to claim in all equal
degree for the people among whom
| myself dwell. They have an apt
ness for command which makes the
Soutl e II gentleman wherever he
goes not IL peer only, but prince
They have a love of home; they
have, the best of them and the most
of them, inherited from the great
race from which they come the
sense of duty and the instinct OF
honor as no other people on the
facs Of the earth. They are lovers
OF home. They have not the mean
traits that grow up somewhere ii
places where money-making is tht
chi, f end oflife. They have, above
all and giving value to all, that
supreme and superb constancy
which, without regard to persona
ambition, without yielding to Tho
temptation of wealth, without get
ting tired, AMI without getting di
verted, can pursue great public
Object in and out, year after year
and generation after generation.
In the great future which the
hundred million and the two hun
dred million who are toinhabit anf
rule this continent are to enjoy, tiIt
greatest and the most glorious
part, my brethren, is to be actet
by YOU. Bat do not helieye it is
a good thing that a generation o
young men anywhere shall bl
brought up to believe that the elec
tion methods which We hear OF and
we know Of, are honorable or rcpu
table. However that may be- LEI
us know the facts.n
The generons terms in which thu
Massachusetts Senator speaks o
Southern men and Southern traits
can but temper asperities and plan;
the bud of hope in the mos
despondent. For in the gratefu
light his eloquent language sheds
we see that underneath the dis
torted and repelIant surface offs
tionaI politics, there flows a broad
warm current Of National life ant
brotherhood; under its outer ski
are sinews that knit and streDgtheI
the bonds of unity and kinship. /
| Mr.. Hoar, for whose manhood an'
integrity ofpurpose we have alwayl
entertained andexpressed the high
est respect, would only be just a
well as generous, if he woul'
spluck the mote from his eyen tina
he might more truly understan,
and see the Hbeam in his brothers.;
he would know that we are deal
ing with our hard condition as bes
we can. AS Mr.. Daniels, in hi
graceful acknowlo dgement of hi
adyersary's tribute, said:
s1The Senator mas expressed s.
many noble sentiments in hi
speech, with such tasteful eloqHenct
and with such a high appreciation
of those with whom | am NOR
nearly identified, that / could bu
forgive him ere he got through 70
what he said in the beginning, ans
could but feel that in any argu
ment ! might submit l was appeal
ing to 4 mind which was not onl,
capable of justice, but which ol