ismanaged affairs in the South, and
some of your good people, you state, resorted to lawless methods to
displace them. The radicals took charge of this lawless organization,
you claim, prostituted it, and made a record of crime and villainy in
the South so great that eleven large volumes in the records of Congress
are required to merely hint at the atrocities. The nation grew quiet for
a period, to catch your point of view and reason with you, and your
radicals misread its attitude and thought that it had undergone a change
of heart. They led the South to its recent crushing defeat.

"The radicals who have oppressed the Negroes of the South and sent them
North, sent them forth with heart burnings, and through the pivotal
states of the North they are ever on guard to turn the tide of battle
against your section. Radicalism, then, is building up a political power
in the North that will be a potent factor in continuing the isolation
and impotence of your section, and will render the wish of a Negro ward
politician of the North of more consequence than the combined pleadings
of all your congressional delegation from the South.

"In the South to-day radicalism is widening the breach between the races
and that old kindly feeling is fast disappearing, being succeeded by
suspicion and hate.

"The bonds of personal friendship which have served to keep things quiet
in the South when circumstances seemed most forbidding are being snapped
asunder. The sullen hatred of the Negroes engendered by the rabid
utterances and violent conduct of the radicals among the whites is
pregnant with harm to the South, and tends to summon to a resurrection
the entombed savagery of some members of the race, and to dishearten
others in their upward strivings. On and on I could go, showing the
awful wreckage in the pathway of the Southern radical.

"If the nation would ever heal this sore the radicals must be
suppressed. If the Negroes attempt their undoing a feeling of racial
solidarity among the whites greets them. If the North attempts it a
sectional feeling is stimulated.

"I come now to the one thing that will gladden the hearts of the Negroes
and the nation and make secure the glory of the South. _We would have
you good white people of the South to assert yourselves_--that class of
you who have not been carried away with that false doctrine that the
problem can be solved with the Negro shorn of political power. In short,
the one missing fact