and their sympathies. What ought to be is one thing; what
in the weakness and fallibility of human nature will be is quite
another thing. The statesman regards the actual and acts upon it; the
desirable, the possible, and even the probable furnishes but poor
basis for political action."--_Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress,
1st Session, App., pp. 230-231.

[70] _Ibid._, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, p. 376.

[71] _Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress, 3rd Session, p. 4039.

[72] _Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress, 3rd Session, App., p. 475.

[73] _Congressional Record_, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, p. 1121; 44th
Congress, 1st Session, p. 206; 47th Congress, 1st Session, p. 3946.

[74] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 3825-3826; 3781-3784;
5540-5543.

[75] _Congressional Record_, pp. 3667, 3668, 3669.

[76] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 2nd Session, App., pp. 123-136.

[77] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 2100-2105.

[78] Miller pointed out the inherent weaknesses of the South, the
insecurity of investment, violation of the right of property and of
contract, the jeopardy of life, and over-assessment of taxes on
property held by Northern Whites--as constituting the causes
underlying the failure of investors to direct their monies to Southern
enterprises. He discussed the amenability of the Negro to civilizing
influences and the economic progress that the race had made since its
emancipation from slavery. Miller asserted, moreover, that though
these remarks might effect the loss of his seat in the next Congress,
he conceived it his duty to his party and to his race to defend his
people against the dastardly attack of one who pretended to be its
friend. _Congressional Record_, 51st Congress, 2nd Session, p. 2691.

[79] _Ibid._, pp. 1479-1482; 1524.

[80] _Ibid._, 53rd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 2158-2161.

[81] _Ibid._, 54th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1868; 2nd Session, p.
320.

[82] _Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 393, 2439,
2447, 2452.

[83] _Ibid._, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 198, 178, 3793; 3rd
Session, p. 220; 43rd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 87, 88.

[84] _Ibid._, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 85, 320, 1333.

[85] _Congressional Globe_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 321, 1203;
47th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 4551, 6146.

[86] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 442, 3754, 4857; 45th
Congress, 2nd Session, p. 2706; 47th Congress, 1st Session, p. 6432;
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