t governments in South
Carolina, six thousand Negroes took part in one of the parades during
his canvass for the governorship.

But some states did not have leaders prepared to deal with the Negroes
as political equals, leaders who were wise enough to appeal to the good
within the race. In such places the unreasoning, undiscriminating,
brutal, murderous mobs arose to do by violence what better and wiser men
had done elsewhere through moral suasion. Had enlightened methods been
employed the sky would not have been as portentous as it is to-day. As
it is, we have the sickening record of the atrocities of the Ku Klux
Klan and the heritage of evil and lawlessness left in its wake.

Over against Mr. Dixon's lurid and grossly misleading pictures of the
conduct of the Negroes in reconstruction days, we offer the following
tribute to the race, clipped from the columns of the Nashville _Banner_,
perhaps the most widely read daily newspaper in the state of Tennessee,
and a paper opposed to the reconstruction policy pursued by the federal
government:

"Let us do the negroes justice. There is no spirit of
bloodthirsty and incendiary revolt prevailing among them.
History and experience have shown that there never existed a
more tractable people considering all the trying conditions and
circumstances to which they have been subjected. In time of war
and in the frightful reconstruction period, when they were
urged and tempted by false friends and incentives and had
opportunities of evil appalling to contemplate, they were
restrained as perhaps no other people would have been
restrained and were more sinned against than sinning. And
to-day as a people they have no mind except to accept the best
that may come to them."

MR. DIXON VS. HON. JAMES G. BLAINE.

Mr. Dixon's hope is evidently in the young North. That the young people
may not be wedded to the traditions of their section, he would impress
the young North that what their fathers did in the way of bestowing
equality of citizenship upon the Negro, was the result of a leadership
blind with the spirit of revenge. As a complete rebuttal to this
contention on his part, we quote from an article which appeared in the
North American _Review_ from the pen of the late Hon. James G. Blaine:

"It must be borne in mind that the Republicans were urged and
hastened to measures of amelioration for the Negro by very