Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-01-17
Senator Taft Is Sticking To The
Un-Wrilten Compromise


majority floor leader who is still mister Republican,
despite his defeat for the presidency by General Eise
hover refuse to bulge the matter of changing the
rules to prevent bustering in the United States Sen
ae which the main block in the way of the enactment
of Civil Rights Legislation despite the plea of delegates
representing more than fifty national organizations
What Senator Taft is doing is sticking to the I'm
written Compromise.
One of the most significant facts of American his
tory and the history of the south particularly but fact
about which tragicay little is known among rank and
file American citizens particularly the citizens of the
south who have been the most affected by its consum-
nation is the "UnWritten Compromise"
The Un-written Compromise which deals primarily
with the Negro and his rights American citizen
consummated following the Hayes Felden deal which
lead to the withdrawal of Federal troops from the south
following the emancipation proclamation, the death of
Lincoln and the enactment of the thirteenth fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the
United States.
The Un-Written Compromise was reached and con-
summated between the document and powerful Repubi
leaders Of the north with the leaders of the SOUTH
helpless and seeking out of the savages of the
for slavery, in which it agreed that the south
would have the right to the full development of the great
ly promising cotton agriculture of the nation-and that
the south should have its own way with the recently
freed Negroes.
The north its part of the Un-Written Compromise
got the full right to develop the financial economic and
industrial life of the nation.
The affect of the Un-written Compromise in the
total
ment OF the southern Negro pointed out in recent
book by Abe KerWian is directly responsible for an of
the evils, financial economic industrial social and poll
tca from which the south had suffered until the advent
OF the democratic administration under President Frank
lin d. Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman, whose
civil rights program lead Senator Garland to charge be-
fore joint session of the State Legislature that Presi
dent Truman, was of all things, leading the Democrat
Party in move to set aside the Un-written Compromise.
1t absentee ownership, freight-rate dfferen-
als, dfferentals for southern workers. lack of
industry lack of finance for development of southern re-
sources which brought about the condition that lead
President Roosevelt to call the south the nations num-
Der one economic proben-during the same period in
which this development liking place in the south the
nations great financial and industrial were be-
ing developed and concentrated in the north-the pot
cal effect OF the Un-Wrltten Compromise.
The Republican leaders of the nation and in the Con-
of the United States has kept the of protec
ton around the financial and industrial development and
concentration in the north by holding to the threat
of real emancipation of the Negro continuing to vote
with the south the question of Negro rights so long
southeers yield to their right to hold onto the pow
er and wealth of the nations.
The south got its first chance to break out of the
conditions brought by the political effects of the I'm
written Compromise, when southern industrial develop
ment started in Mississippi as we'll as in other
sections of the south during the Democratic admnisra-
tons of the past twenty years.
These industries coming from the concentrations in
the north had already begun to aroused objection in the
ceners of concentration before the last election and now
that the Republicans are back in power industrial and
economic development the south is seriously threaten
ed by the Negro nsStent demands for his rights as an
American citizen.
Southern white people may we'll look at the effect
of conditions existing before 1882 and make up their
minds on the rights of the Negro an American
citizen
Negroes throughout the country who may be amaz-
ed at the action of Senator Taft and the Republican
keepers of the sacred tradition of Abraham Lincoln can
relax in the knowledge that Senator Taft and the Repub
cans sticking to the Un-written Compromise.