The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, July 1922 - April, 1923 Page: 285
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Bryan-Hayes Correspondence
state of things that whole sections of States have become demoral-
ized and dilapidated where once abode refinement, intelligence and
prosperity. The remedy with you is easier and quicker than with
us, for your violators of the law are caucasian and may mix with
and become identified with you by time, effort and wisdom, while
the same element with us is different, physically and morally. The
Almighty has made them a separate people; they go for and with
their color, in spite of all the kindness shown by the whites, be-
cause they have been taught that the whites are their natural
enemies, by the selfish men who have controlled and led them since
emancipation. With uncontrolled suffrage where will we land!
Well may we ask ourselves as you do what will be the future?
Such an element added to the discontented and needy white popu-
lation found in every State and increasing in the Southern, may
well fill the mind of the thoughtful patriot with gloomy appre-
hensions. But such questions open a noble field of useful labor
to the conscientious patriotic statesman--
"Oh but for such, Columbia's days were done;
Rank without ripeness, quickened without sun,
Crude at the surface, rotten at the core,
Her fruits would fall before her spring were o'er."
For in this age of the Republic, position for emolument and dis-
play is more sought after than for the good of the State. To such
as you must the republic look for honest statesmanship, which
only can bring back the government of our fathers. If you should
be nominated and elected President, I hope that you and your
wife will have the moral courage, strength of will and patriotism
to establish at the White House simplicity in dress and living.
There would be a moral grandeur and an effect in this, that would
touch the chord in the honest and patriotic heart of the Nation,
that would bring forth a shout of halleluja throughout the land.
I sympathize with you in your trouble with the miners and I
sincerely trust that your decision, good sense and firmness coupled
with proper conciliation and severity will bring the rioters to
reason and duty. Your views of elevating the erring men is noble
and I hope will be successful. As ever your friend,
Guy M. Bryan.285
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