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Bryan-Hayes Correspondence
and intelligence of the country, in local as well as national affairs,
make the best men in the South "solid" against the Republican
party. The idea that the blacks cannot protect themselves without
power to rule, and that the intelligent property holders of the
South are disposed and prone to persecute them, and that the North
is more humane and considerate for them than the Southern people,
and understand their condition better, and that their measures for
the welfare of the blacks are best, and that they will force the
South to adopt them, is not only unwise and unjust but "foolish,"
for it cannot succeed any more than the South could succeed in
trying to force the North to submit to the control of anarchists and
foreigners. Let the people of the South manage their own affairs,
and these questions in time will settle and adjust themselves to the
interests and claims of society. In fact, they are fast doing so
when not disturbed by northern politicians, "carpet-baggers" and
"Scallawags," as instanced recently in the "Washington Co. outrage
case," where citizens of Texas are on Resolution of the U. S. Senate
taken to Washington City upon the representations of some of the
most disreputable politicians in the county of Washington, who
wished to rule the people of that Co. by controlling the black vote.
But the best portion of the Republicans, uniting with the Demo-
crats of that County under "the peoples ticket," defeated their
efforts to rob and peculate, and they, disappointed in their expecta-
tions, determined to pose as martyrs, hied to Washington City and
found there Republican Senators who, from good or bad motives,
suffered themselves to be used by them, and to question the right
of the good citizens of Washington Co. to understand and manage
their own local affairs. Anarchists, corruptionists, incendiaries are
the foes of society, and to such society must be opposed for self
protection is a law of nature, and no party can have the confidence
of the people that favors these foes of society. No wonder then
there is a "solid South" when Republican Senators of U. S. give
countenance to the proceedings of such men. I write hastily and
for your own information and not for criticism of others. The
Republican party acts most unwisely by not seeing and acknowledg-
ing the true facts in the South, that intelligence and political ex-
perience with property should govern, and will govern. We are
treating the blacks well and providing for him educational facili-
ties, and they have our sympathy and help in every way. The237
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