THE LAW OF THE LAND



South made that mistake, and bitter has been the price
of her folly. Yet the South, having sinned, paid the
price of her sinning in all ways exacted of her. She
accepted the ruling of the North, and, as a distin-
guished orator once said, surrendered 'bravely and
frankly.' But she did not admit, and please God,
never will admit, that those fresh from savagery
should govern the white men, that they should insti-
tute the machinery of the law whereunder the white
man must live.
  "Gentlemen, you see before you, sardonically done,
the fruits of the Black Justice. Is that the Law If it
be, then send us to our graves; for as that Black Jus-
tice formally exists to-day, Calvin Blount, and I, and
these others, must go back to our fields or to our
graves. Do you wish to send us to the latter If
you do, you send these other white men just as law-
fully back to take up the hoe of labor, to bend their
necks under the black yoke of African ignorance and
savagery. Is that the Law In my heart, gentlemen,
I believe that those who say this is the law have not
read the history of this country, do not understand
the theory of this country, and can not speak for
it unselfishly or honestly.
  "Yet, gentlemen, that is the dilemma into which
our brothers of the North would continually thrust



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