The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-08

the light of learning ana
the interest Of a masters Style-hss
discovered the secrets of all the iron
| bles in the Southern States, has found
the key tina unlOcks the hidden mys-
teries to whatever Of lawlessness pre-
walls in hal unhappy section, Most
earnestly the Senator informs us that
! opposition to negro suffrage, to cot
ored citizenship. to manhood rights
under the Constitution is the one
cause for whatever is to be found in
the South of alteration from the path
| of peace and law. Mr.. President. has
not the Senator COMPOUNDED cause
with effect? If the Senator's vision
usually SO acute, had looked quite
| through the question, must he not
have seen that negro suffrage. negro
citizenship, and not opposition TO these
principles, was the cause OF the ano-
males at the South Does the honor
| able Senator see no cause for unusual
| disturbance in the political elements
| from the fact that four millions OF ig-
norant, ~uneducated, unframed people.
totally unaccIIstome to any self-goy-
ern1nent and utterly incapable of COM
pretending the principles or appre-
ciating the duties that attach to this
great function, have been suddenly
invested with more than the balance
of power in the Southern States?
| Does the Senator find in this ascendant
| fact no cause, no sufficient cause. for
CONFUSION and upheayal in the politl-
| cal systems Of the South? Does the in
telligent Senator suppose that this un-
paralleled Transformation could take
place Without producing shocks to the
harmony of our pOlity? Is human gov
m in the opinion Of the Senate
so unlike everything in h material
| universe that this vast and unwieIdly
mass of blind power could be instant
" thrown OF its wheels and not re-
| verse or destroy their revolutions? If
the Indian Ocean should be suddenly
enptied into the Atlantic, boundlcss
as are it's capacities, the immense ac-
cession could not be withstOod, n q
tidal wave would in all probability
submerge a continent. Elastic and
| vital as is the c"ircumambient air. the
sudden passage of a colder or a more
heated current produces ~tornadOes ana
si1noons that sweep over a hemisphere.
rs human government here in the
An erican Republic superior to all laws
Of cause and effect, and are its genius
and energy equal to any strain that
may be placed upon it? The accession
of a. new planet in the meaSureleSS
heavens would make the very suns
trenble and Stagger in their spheres,
and yet the honorable Senator, with
his acute and sensitive observation.
can discover in the disorder Of the
southern planets no influence Of that
foreign body which counter-balanceS
their established order and diSarranges
all the laws Of their being. He would
not be reckOned a faithful aStronOmtr
who, watching the heavens, should be
hold the beautiful constellation Of the
Southern Cross eclipsed by some
burning comet Of 'pestilence and
war and then should hold up his
hands in holy horror and exclairn
against the malignant Influence Of the
o{o~r C.- - r1t
a step further in this line of his gu
ment. and declares that so desperate
and extreme was the hostility to the
constitutional rights of the col0red
man. his enemies resolved that the
reconstruction acts and the constitu-
tlonal amendments embodying their
rights should be a failure, even at
the point of producing q revolution
at the South n overwhelming law,
order, peace, liberty and everything
valuable in its ruins. IT may be true,
Mr.. President, that the wrongs in
flcted on the South were cruel enough
TO suggest TO the Senator's mind the
Image OF the blind giant, Selling the
pillars of the temple and burying the
oppressor and the oppressed in q com
mon calamity. But let me assure the
Senator that the people Of the South
nave too clear q conception Of the5r
duty, too deep a sense Of their obIiga-
ton to the age and the country. and
a too abiding hope in the ultimate
triumph Of justice, to have blindir
despaired Of the return Of reason and
madiy rushed to their own d~estruc-
ton and infamy, in order to defeat 4
policy which, if successful. whatever
motives prompted its adoption or
whatever their opinions Of it's justice
or wisdom, would result in their pU-
iilicaA ~aScendencE and the physical
regeneration Of their ountry
Nj ySn IaIrn 80 e .
but We have a sentiment born with
Us. coeVal with human creation. run
hlhs through every & and felt in
every cllne-a sentiment as inera01-
caole as lie, as memorable as fact, as
p~Sllhdneht as nature, as strong as the
a1fI1 GflOn of nn.if - LlD-.L-A