Never since the days of reconstruction and of the adoption of the
Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, has the question of the equal
suffrage of the races in the South awakened public attention as it does
now. In many quarters, some of them very influential, the right of the
Negro to a fair vote and a fair count is strenuously advocated. On the
other hand, the supremacy of the whites as the ruling race in the South
is set forth by leading Southern men more distinctly than ever before.


WHITE SUPREMACY.

Col. Grady, of Atlanta, in his famous speech at Dallas, Texas, urges
this in these emphatic terms:

Standing in the presence of this multitude, sobered with the
responsibility of the message I deliver to the young men of the
South, I declare that the truth above all others to be worn
unsullied and sacred in your hearts, to be surrendered to no
force, sold for no price, compromised in no necessity, but
cherished and defended as the covenant of your prosperity, and
the pledge of peace to your children, is that the white race
must dominate forever in the South, because it is the white
race, and superior to that race with which its supremacy is
threatened.

Hon. W.C.P. Breckinridge, member of Congress from Kentucky, and many
other prominent men in the South, express the same sentiment, so that
this may be regarded as the ultimatum of Southern popular requirement.