The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

and the high professions of law and medicine
and journalism have competent representa-
repubIic, Which Command land the respect and
confidence of their fellows.
We affirm it as a matter Of fact, which
race is stronger and better today than ever
before in it's history; that it is more hopeful,
more mo- ;. moral more religious more intelligent;
real and personal property, and lives in bet
ter homes. AS ex-Gov. R. B. Bullock, of
Georgia. recently expressed it in the New
progress in given length of time. Where
it was confidently expected and predicted that
we would become dependent Pauper race
ourselves a self-sustaining race, producing
more cotton and corn and other wealth as
Of the states Of the South ~ than was ever
dreamed Of in the philosophy of the slave
master; We appeal to the statistics Of cot
and since the war to sustain our contention.
We have not produced all the wealth of the
South since the war.we have produced our
man than we produced as slave-and, in
stead Of becoming public charges have be-
share i'm the wealth we have produced and
rejoice in It and in the strength the expansion
and the glory Of the republic, Of which we
tSs H1 ises and
in whose past achievement and present glory.
in war and IN peace, We claim. BY right Of
honest LABOR ana SdCrluCo ana devotion. CO.
equal share and participation.
1t seems to us strange and unnatural that
we should have to turn from the magnificent
in peace and in. war, to specific grievances
and to appeal from the injustice and 5nha.
the Justice and fairness and Christian char
ity inherent in the heart and the soul Of the
We Il to Of
Christian Faith and $50 years of education in
american law and precedent that we shall
hours than those of today; we have seen
american justice and fair play 90 through
5-e and death and devastation and come out
Of Destiny. and we expect to see it do so
again. Our optimism is as expansive as
American love Of Justice and fair play. And
aroused, we do not believe that the world
can furnish sublimer reply than it can and
will give. And we do not look to one sec
ton for response but to all sections, and
especially to the South where we know that
we have friends who have been tried in the
who will be faithful in the future, as they
have been in the past, If we shall be true to
ourselves, true to the God who brought us
out Of the Egypt Of slavery into the Judea
But no race has ever risen out Of the shad-
ows into the sunlight without fierce oppo-
sition. We have been no exception to the
der where Daniel Webster declared there
was plenty of room, however long it takes
and time is the most important factor in the
economy Of God in working out the destiny
Of races and nations-we shall encounter
fierce antagonisn. but we shall win in the
end, for we shall have God and justice and
fair play on our side.
In view of the present condition Of affairs
in which we find ourselves we beg to direct
attention to the following facts:
II. Since 1868 there has been steady and
persistent determination to eliminate US from
the politics Of the Southern states. We are
not to be eliminated. Suffrage Is q federal
guaranty, and not q privilege to be conferred