The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889 by Various
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page 13 of 123 (10%)
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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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