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The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889 by Various
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HOW THIS SUPREMACY IS TO BE ATTAINED.

The most _obvious_ way is that which is in use at present, the
intimidation of the colored man and the manipulation of the ballot-box.
But against this the sober second thought of the South itself begins to
revolt. Thus a paper so thoroughly Southern as the Charleston _News and
Courier_ utters this salutary and emphatic protest:

"It appals thinking men to know and see that the present
generation and the rising generation of white men in the South
are taught in practice that republican institutions are a
failure, and that elections are to be carried, not by the honest
vote of a fair majority, but by campaigning, which begins with
rank intimidation and ends with subterfuge and evasion. The
white people suffer more by the trickery and malfeasance by
which they score victory than the colored people suffer. The
supremacy of what, for convenience, is called Anglo-Saxon
civilization, though there is little of the Anglo-Saxon manner
or of civilization in the mode of securing it, must and will be
maintained, but it can be maintained without sectional divisions
in politics and without the maintenance of radical lines at
elections."

As these old methods are beginning to find little favor with the South
itself, a multitude of other schemes are brought to the front.

The _Age-Herald_, of Birmingham, Ala., claims a patent (which it says
others are infringing) for the scheme which it thus sets forth:

"The Negroes could be induced to emigrate to a Western Territory, if it
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