The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-02-08

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federal bayonets hedged closer about
the ballot box of the South than it
ever will again in this free Republic.
/ (Applause.)
/ As time has passed away, the forces
of white supremacy have been re
cruited by the additions Of millions Of
the sober-mnded patriotic men of the
North, the East, and the West. The
recent war taught the young men Of
those sections what the negro really
is, and you will find that a vast ma
jority of those men who served in the
rank and file Of the American army
during that conflict and were subject
to contact with the negro and had
innumberable indignities imposed up
on them and their comrades as a re
suit of that contact-you will find
that those boys are unqualifedly in
favor of maintaining white supremacy
at all times and at all costs. Not
only that, but the millions Of white
women who have been compelled to
endure in silence this negro scourge
have been given the right to register
their protest at the polls, and they
are going to forever set the seal of
their eternal condemnation upon those
men who, as one woman recently eX-
pressed it, attempt to foist this be-
nign evil upon a thoughtless public"
The white women of the North re-
sent contact with the negro almost
or quite as much as do the white
women of the South. | have seen
them right here in this city, the wives
of the very congressman who expect
to vote for this inituitous measure
| have seen the expression of indigna I.
ton and righteous resentment on their
faces as they were trampled upon and .
pushed aside by the brutal negroes in .
the street cars of Washington. The
white women of the country are the
ones who as a rule have suffered the
as a result of your mis-
guided policy toward the negro. and
hey are going to manifest their pro
est hereafter in no uncertain terms.
What has the negro done for him.
elf or for civilization to enttle him
o equality with the white race? The
'nly civilization he has ever imbibei
vas that imposed upon him by the
White people of the South through
he unfortunate institution of slavery
unfortunate for the white man, for
innate for the negro.
For tens of thousands of wears he
canned at will over the continent of
africa, the richest country Of all the
World, Teasing upon his yellow man. !
nd never even developed an art of
griculture to the extent of making
is living out of the ground. For
ountless ages he trod the sands of
is native soil with diamonds beneath
is feet and never even dreamed of s
he theories of values. He saw the
avn Of civilization and watched the
ageant of centuries pass without so !
luch as manifesting desire to parti- !
pate in the progress, He bowed be
cath his masters whip at the build :
lg of the pyramids and watched sue .
aeding civilization rise and fall, and
II he ever learned was to construct I
rude shelter Of bark and grass sufi- i
ent to shield his head from the beat l.
g rays of a tropical sun.
He remained in this savage state
ntil he was brought to our shores -
nd shown the light Of civilization =,
trough the institution Of slavery q
le worst curse that ever befd1 the y
)uth, and the greatest blessing the i
egrO has ever known. From the =
andpoint of the white man slavery q,
as a grevious fault, and previously
is Dixie answered it. For more than b;
years she has passed through the al
rkest shadow that ever fell across ~
c white mans path. Blu, thank
ID, the light is beginning to break :
rough the rifting clouds and the
nth is rising like the phoenix from M
e ashes of her own destruction, the
hest domain Of this great Republic
d the greatest bulyark of Anglo
Xon civilization ON the western hem. |
)here. applause
The people Of the South were not
.ogether responsible for tn institu |
n Of slavery n.r will they pay the
nalty alone They bought those
ives from the people of the north /
d the time has now come when you
lst Join US in a proper solution Of
S question or YOUR section must II
y its just reward. The ggitators ii
hind this bin instead Of aiding you III
this work or furnishing he South III
an offense of which she Is not III
lily are merely Completing th,
nation, Fastening your day Of
uble, and commenting the posi0n-
chalice 10 your own lips. The
tive behind this agitation is social ii
Iality. That is what these negro /
tators want, and that they will III
-er get SO long as our people main -
b their self-resTeat and their sense
race pride.
little more than a hundred years
the negroes of Haiti threw Off
yoke Of BONDAGE. took over the
eminent. and forced the white pe0-
Of that countrg TO submit 10 their
iination. And what has been the