iers.
Having shorn the Negro of his political rights and brought him into
industrial subjection, thereby usurping power both in state and national
government, they now threaten to dominate the economic and industrial
policies of the nation.

This government can not long continue half republican in form and half
oligarchic.

JOHN L. LOVE.

Footnotes:

[1] Greeley's American Conflict, Vol. I, p. 417.

[2] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 94.

[3] McPherson, "History of Reconstruction," p. 40.

[4] Ibid p. 36.

[5] McPherson, History of Reconstruction p. 35.

[6] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 101.

[7] 16 Wall, p. 70.

[8] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 266.

[9] Prof. Kelley Miller, article in "Washington Star," Nov. 14, 1898.

[10] Chicago Weekly "Inter Ocean," Dec. 26, 1890.

[11] I 20 So Rep, 869, also Mississippi Code (1892) Sec. 3802.

[12] Journal of S. C. Constitutional Convention. 1731.

[13] 20 So. Rep. 865.

[14] 170 U. S. 213.

[15] 118, U. S. 373.

[16] 16, Wall., 70-73; 92 U. S., 214.

[17] 15 Stat. at Large. 73. Also 16 Stat. 67.

[18] Art. 6 Const. U. S., 2. Story on Const., Secs. 1836-1843.

[19] Chicago Inter Ocean, Nov. 4, 1890.

[20] New Orleans Picayune, April 4, 1899.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

The following misprints have been corrected:
"Goverment" corrected to "Government" (page 10)
"expendtures" corrected to "expenditures" (page 12)
"perservation" corrected to "preservation" (page 13)
"succeded" corrected to "succeeded" (page 13)
"disqualifing" corrected to "disqualifying" (page 16)
"requisiion" corrected to "requisition" (page 18)
"remarkble" corrected to "remarkable" (page 20)
"prosperty" corrected to "prosperity" (page 26)
"apprehenson" corrected to "apprehension" (page 27)

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