The age-herald., 1900-02-25

the southern states were about to take their place once more in the councils of the na- tion; and 1t ds probable that the politicians of the north feared that if political power rwtas placed in the hands of their late foe the contentious of war might be revived and renewed, and for this reason they de- sired to confer the right of suffrage on class of people whom they believed they could control and direct.
 The unwisdom of their actions, viewed in the lighe of the past, must be apparent to all fair-thinking men, when we know that the people of the south under no terms and conditions would return to CT countenance slavery in this country or any of dts de- pendercfeS: when We have seen the soldier of fshe south fighting in the same battle line with the soldier of the north for the honor of our common country, and the glory of the flag of the nation.
 You have tried the experiment for thirty years, and 1t has failed. Instead of its be- coming a source of strength to the repub- 1Bcan party, it has proved to a badgc of weakness. You cannc. by your laws con travene the laws of God. The Almi ghty, in His divine wisdom, has made some frail and others strong, some races weak and others great and powerful
 Ever since the day when the Aryan Cor white) race came down from the Caucasian mountains and overran Europe, though they were barbaItans. no other race of people have been able to stand against them. They acquired the civilization of those they con l-euered, but retained the power to rue. Th y embraced the Christian religion and carried the banner of the cross to Palestine at the point of their swords. They have dared the ! dangers of an unknown ocean and cleared | the path of civilization through the track | less forests of America They are the only race who have ever known the art of self government, and who have been able to maintain the liberty of the individual ctt- Szr., In fo nptr xxha A1aY. fbair apqas- tors landed with the Pilgrim fathers aft Plymouth Rock or with the Cavaliers at Jamestown, the same blood flows through their veins. They have never bowed to the domination of an inferior race and never will; and the man who seeks to make them subservient to an inferior race is not only a traitor to his own blood but is foreor- dained to failure by law of nature that the Legislation of man Is powerless to change.
 Nothing but reckless brutality will array the weaker race against the stronger, for in the end the weaker must give away. h. stead of the helping hand he should re- ceive the stronger toward his intellectual and moral development, it forces a strife that can only result in the further degrada- tion of the weaker race.
 In many of the southern states immedi- ately after the war the negro was in abso- lute control. What was the result? Govern me1t became farce; bribery stalked in the legislative halls; justice was purchased at price, and corruption held the reins of power; the rights of property became in- secure; life was endangered every hour, and anarchy reigned clothed in the robes of ignorance.
 In my state in four years a debt of twen- ty millions was created; negro Legislators were bought and sold at the price of a suit of clothes; and the women dared not walk the streets in broad daylight without arm ed protection. Men of the north would you submit to such a condition, would you have abandoned your homes and your property, or would you have snatched the brand from the burning, the government of your state from dishonor, at whatever the cost? As long as this condition remains do you ex- pect to see anything but the solid south? Can you expect any political question to be- come more dominent than the right of self preservation?
 Alter thirty years the great bulk Of the