The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-12
Boston. Nov. Il.
A vindication of the South.

A VluulCdLlOh oA tAAg S~s~~~~'
 Rev. T. A. Hoyt, D. D., in Christian oo-
 server.
 The dispute between the North and the South is not settled, and will not be set tied. while the negro remains. The South cannot treat the negro as the North de- mands: and the North will not try 10 learn the reason. The North expects or the white race of the South what IL ls impossible to grant. The South naturai' lv resents this dictation from people at distance, who are ignorant Of the facts.
 The contest is as irreconcilable as IL was in former days. Then the issue was slavery, now it is equality-social ana political. Emancipation was forced by a bloody war. The negro became the "aru of the nation" The white people Of the South were placed under the ban as "reb- els" and the struggle began, still contin! ues. and will last as long as the natioh exists in it's present form.
 All the dreams and fancies of peace and harmony between the two sectiohs have been rudely shattered by one act of President Roosevelt. This Is it's sig- nificance. It has broken "the truce or God" and sounded the signal or csvli strife. I would not judge him harshiy' I think he acted from impulse. l am told he deeply regrets 1t; stili' the paieius effects remdlH. u 6l dtiiCo sAAN
 Northern fanatics; 1t shocked the sensi- bilities of the Southern people, and 1t filled millions of negroes with vain long, ings for an impossible equality The eno is not vet. Why is it that the South re- fuses to tolerate social relations between the races? Prejudice" say some. IL IS partly prejudice. but prejudice with reason which vindicates it.
 Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the French Revolution" alleges that the strongest defence of Great Britain against the contagion of French ideas. was the invincible prejudice of its people against inidelity and anarchy, ana Tn iaNor VI religion. virtue and good order. he noints out the value in human affairs OF prejudice, based on reason. He says "You see. sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings; that Instead of casting away all our oio pre- iudices. we cherish them to very con siderable degree, and to take more shame to ourselves we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more We cherisn theia." He shows that wise men, insteao of exploding general prejudices, seek to discover the latent wisdom In tnem' and think it best to continue the preJu- dice with the reason involved, "because preiudice. with it's reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an a1- lection which will give it prominence. Preiudice stands as an alert sentlhei nm duty. It is ready for an emergency and does not hesitate or delay. It mas no doubts. "Prejudice renders a mans W.T. tue his habit, and not a series or nhcon- nected acts. Through just prejudice ms duty becomes a part of his nature.
 Let us apply these profound teacnings to the matter before us. The Southern neopIe have an invincible preJuoiGe against social equality with the nSsr9' 1s Is there a reason for this preJuoicS: r' would become the publicists ana philOS- onhers of the North to seek this reason Does it never occur to them that millions of intelligent and virtuous people, coveI- cover, ing one third of the area Of the country, would not cherish such prejudice unless there were some good reason Tor IL! There is a good reason. It Is that such relations between the races woulo 'eso to inter-marriage, miscegenation, ana lne production of a hybrid race inferior tc the whites, mentally, and to the blacks physically. Such an admlXture WouIo mean the degradation. and ultimate eX- tinction of the Anglo saxon . in the asnn sousM; for the universal prejudice in the Sou'n against social equality with the negro.
 Thus fortified 1t Is no longer mers prS- iudice, hut becomes d SdCreu SChSAt.AS'. o firm conviction, an inviolable instinct, fixed habit of nature. These divinely implanted motives are arrayed as armed sentries at the gates, to guard the sane tity of home, the purity of blood, the
 just pride of the superior Sw race SoIs sSeh nIe cannot be violated with impunity. They should be respected and specially by the Chief Magistrate. They were re- spected by President Mckinley. and, for the most part, by his predecessors
 MT Roosevelt wrote life, life or b,s oi,ve. nwn hook that that great ruler dared not dis regard the prejudices of the people, Let him study Burke's Speech on Concilia- tion with America" and see how thai illustrious statesman couns 9led the Eng fish government. to yield to the pre1udi- ces of the colonies. Let him hear Burke declare that widespread opinions must be held to have great weight, and that he could not frame an indictment against a whole people"
 In maintaining it's position on this so- cial question. the South obeys the ln-