proportion rather than in the proportion that exists
between them and the white population of the South alone?
--A. Yes, sir.

Q. The central idea of the South is a national idea, then?
--A. The central idea of the South is more a national idea
now than it has been in this respect.

Q. I would use the word "leading" rather than "central"
there--the leading idea?
--A. We, of course, claim that we want to manage the
internal affairs of our States just as much as New York, or
New Hampshire, or Massachusetts would want to manage theirs,
but that it is necessary for us to have the guidance and
protection of the Government: we want it just as much as
either of those States.

Q. Have you traveled considerably through the North?
--A. I have.

Q. What portions of the North have you visited within the
last few years?
--A. I have visited Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
Hartford, and I might say a number of other points in the
States of which they are the chief cities.

Q. While we are speaking of this matter of reciprocal
feeling between the sections of country, as you have
mentioned the attitude of the South, I should like to know
from you, from your personal observation and knowledge, what
you find to be that of the North toward the South?
--A. I think it is of the kindliest character. I have never
in my life been treated with more consideration than I have
been by gentlemen in the East who were most opposed to the
South during the war.

Q. I do not refer simply to personal courtesy, but I mean
the expression of feeling as between the sections, the
general tendency and drift of Northern feeling towards the
Southern portions of the country, to the people of the
South?
--A. I think, so far as I have been able to observe, that
the feeling in the East towards the South is a general
anxiety for her prosperity. I would go so far as to speak of
it as anxiety for her prosperity.

Q. You think the war of sections is pretty much over?
--A. I think it is obliterated, and for that reason I go
back to this point, that our prosperity in the South has
begun.

Q. You have described with some minuteness the condition of
things among the planters and those who work upon the
plantations. I should like to ask t