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Delivered by a Southern Statesman, which has only quite recently been published in England,1 and which contains an admirable summary of the situation, as it now stands in America, between the two races. The justness and directness with which the Speaker reviews the historical and legislative facts which have placed the negro in his 'present social position is only equalled by the broad spirit and fine moral temper that pervades it throughout. Addressed, as I presume it is, by a Southerner to Southerners, it undoubtedly emphasises distinctions between racial pride and racial ostracism or persecution which an enquiry conducted purely with a view to humanitarian principles might at least consider as open to criticism; but it is full of instruction and worthy of the best traditions of American statesman ship. Among many points of interest the speaker more particularly dwells on the fact (pp. 27-30) that the population argument, namely, that the white race would be swamped by the black, has been entirely falsified by the statistics of the decade between 1880 and 1890. And the scathing indictment he directs against the attempts now being made in several states to exclude the freedman from representation by that which is in reality a fraudulent administration of the law (p. Is very notable indeed. The powers that fight against inquiry are as strong now as they ever were when Las Casas first devoted the life of a hero to the amelioration of the lot of the Indian races. How.
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Delivered by a Southern Statesman, which has only quite recently been published in England,1 and which contains an admirable summary of the situation, as it now stands in America, between the two races. The justness and directness with which the Speaker reviews the historical and legislative facts which have placed the negro in his 'present social position is only equalled by the broad spirit and fine moral temper that pervades it throughout. Addressed, as I presume it is, by a Southerner to Southerners, it undoubtedly emphasises distinctions between racial pride and racial ostracism or persecution which an enquiry conducted purely with a view to humanitarian principles might at least consider as open to criticism; but it is full of instruction and worthy of the best traditions of American statesman ship. Among many points of interest the speaker more particularly dwells on the fact (pp. 27-30) that the population argument, namely, that the white race would be swamped by the black, has been entirely falsified by the statistics of the decade between 1880 and 1890. And the scathing indictment he directs against the attempts now being made in several states to exclude the freedman from representation by that which is in reality a fraudulent administration of the law (p. Is very notable indeed. The powers that fight against inquiry are as strong now as they ever were when Las Casas first devoted the life of a hero to the amelioration of the lot of the Indian races. How.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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It was at the opening of the present year, during my visit to Concord (Mass), that the thought occurred to me of bringing together as some record of a visit, so memorable to myself, the three names that especially focus the significance of that nursery of political liberty and spiritual freedom, I mean the names of Lincoln, Emerson and Thoreau. To some it may appear that I have attached too much importance to the name of Thoreau. No doubt much we find in Thoreau as an exponent of modern individualism is to be found in stronger relief and more original colour in Walt Whitman. It is also true that Thoreau was even more indebted to Emerson for his general intellectual outlook and its artistic expression than to Whitman, whose influence, such as it was, touched him later. But without concurring, for one moment, with the suggestion of his English biographer that Thoreau was really the greater man of the two, it is clear he was as much an original force as either of these his two compeers.
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