This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...the Southern question, and the real sentiments and aspirations of the Southern people, we could undoubtedly all be enabled to turn our attention to the discussion and development of great propositions which confront us all alike, and on which the future happiness and prosperity of all alike depend. I ask them, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...the Southern question, and the real sentiments and aspirations of the Southern people, we could undoubtedly all be enabled to turn our attention to the discussion and development of great propositions which confront us all alike, and on which the future happiness and prosperity of all alike depend. I ask them, Put yourselves in our place; we are opposed to secession; we are for an indissoluble Union; we will never consent to shivery in any form, direct or indirect. Now, these things granted, put yourselves in our place, with a class among you, sometimes outnumbering you, always formidable in numbers, on whom political power has been forced without preparation or fituess--would you not do precisely as we are doing, and would not the white people of Iowa retain their control over their schools, their tuxes, their courts, their county and Sttte governments? Would not their wit, their intelligence, their power of organization, more than counterbalance mere numbers? I take it that the auti-Chiuese plauk of the Chicago platform, for which, doubtless, Col. Henderson voted, is a public confession by the Republican party that its dogma of race equality is false, and a public retraction of all its old errors on that article of its faith. No man can assert that the Chinaman, with his four thousand years of civilization, is not more fit for the duties of American citizenship than the Southern negro. I assert that the South is as thoroughly union and anti-slavery, to-day, as Iowa or New England. Emancipation has brought to her material development, of which you now only see the dawn. The largest crop of slave-grown cotton was five million bales; this year our crop will be six and a quarter millions. The cost of cotton to the Massachusetts manufacturer is 18...
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