Show tit 1 FRI titon 11 1 ir F wo 0 no purpose 0 o 10 a dicursi di cusi be izi presidential d I 1 ol 01 qu question ul ra in shii article wo we want to 10 get at the great f tf of history and of human nature which lie than the polL politics of the hi day 1 what 1 L n sheroo alio llio root t trouble or llie the south the south is Puff suffering oring from the of flavory nl bl avory tho the tra trait t ol of its ita social FlY was wan human Ond ngo I 1 it was not an exceptional or incidental thing tho the alave class was virtually abc entire leg ib lation was shaped by this int interest crest politics were shaped by it i the he whole of 0 society from top op to bolt oui in iu its social usages 1 its po personal ona habits I 1 I 1 iu manners its morals g l its religion w was most oat powerfully a by the institution ol 01 of tili blai very tho 0 lea leaders c or of t tho a people came to lecog I 1 a it as the c cornerstone corner stone of ol 01 their whole system solely in its interest est they were willing to weak break up a government 0 v otherwise acceptable and F found u s new nation TA A community can no DO more escape tho the of HD bin than an individual gerrity slavery livery was a gag gigantic antio and nd fearful wrong the woes boes it inflicted aro are beyond all 0 the degrada debrada lion it wrought in its victims the corruption it mr wrought ought in ia the oppressing race only the last ladt great day can tell it d contradict the whole teaching of history and the moral iii instinct ini of man if such a national crime brought no retribution trib ution e all had bad shared in the nn and none of ofus us escaped the penalty the gravel of northern soldiers soldier the bereaved northern homes the memory of our four years agony testify to what t oue part of US ua ut fored red for the wrong in which we and our fathers had bad been acu ecu partakers par takers on da tho the community that had bad here bera the immediate agent io in that tho be tin sin the burden must bo be heavier what to the sober judgment of at an impartial observer is the immediate difficulty that tho the south is encountering it is 11 tho the existence in the body ol of a large class clan of ignorant end and incompetent citizens consisting partly and bartely largely of blacks the root trouble is in t the c people themselves all special grievance the choice ot of bad ad men to office ignorant and corrupt legislation egi over taxation anil and I 1 the he tile trace straight lack back to this primary awe can tho the low condition ors of a large part pan of the voting aing clam other bad baa influences are very slight io in comparison these men low down whites anal ignorant t freedmen are d degraded be elavery very degraded thew them do a you tay say tho negro is little better than a brute 7 ile he and his big ancestors for un told id generations were treated on the ao asumption mamp tion that they icer aim brutes whatever could be done to dehumanize liim him to take away his nian hood was doneth tho national riat ional it is ig said eaid made this incompetent erca luro ture a att ctt citizen but in what it did it via equalized zed and lessened an evil that could not be wholly taken away the planter out euf ars from irown the heavy taxes that his f former 0 claves now as voters and lawmakers impose but they no longer toy pay to him tho the tax of their undivided labor and their manhood the difference diff creaco be tween tho the old law und and tho the new is this thua slavery kept its sufferers dumb the virus it created worked unseen arec dom has brought the trouble to the mr furi face and begun a cure why by we thus ibus go back to the past to rea calling callin ff bins that no longer aro are committed not to gratify vengeance under tho name DAMO of not to exult over those whom the LOA inoru has imater smitten toward 1 tho the south wo we recognize one omi duty duly to do everything that kind dai diiro petition can call inspire through and ana through private accio actio antioni ifor lor tho the rot ret ti end and help of her 1 people 1 c 0 le they are our their 1 1 1 1 f I 1 is ouri jurrist Jur quarrel should not be forgotten item nothing ought to bo be forgotten forgot tco to but u t should loso lose from its memora every abado of present Litter tim to our earn cars 1 all I talk of meD t as willingly inflicted at this day by the nation I 1 on aay part of its people is ia batt hateful ful for act t tho a southern people black or white we ire have hare jett as an much hostility as for the members of our own household but it is always right that facts should bo b calmly recognized and this is doubly nece necessary when a superficial medicine medici ae is offered for a 4 deep th theasel casel I 1 ho he expectation that tho the south would be b materially bettered through bar arl Gree greelegs greeleys leys election aci unfounded is every way hurtful ilia 0 o south is suffering from a degraded ignorant ind and vicious population lution of both colors i the tbt only cure is in ra raising issing ahw population into enlightenment and practical religion 1910 T I 1 ie best friend of the south P IS ia net neither b G Jcu ena cral I 1 grant dor mr grec ley eleyit it is the schoolteacher and the preacher of a living C christianity chrition fit |