Download or read book New Politics for the South (Classic Reprint) written by James Wilford Garner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Politics for the South SO long as the white people Of the South were exposed to the/ dangers Of negro domination they were justified in acting together to prevent the return to power Of the party which had once imposed upon them the incubus oi negro rule and which might do so again if the Opportunity were Offered. The motive back Of this feeling was not that Of hatred 0r revenge but it was the simple instinct Of self-preservation. Now, however, that the supremacy of the white race is fully established and the right Of the white people to govern is everywhere readily admitted, the excuse for the political solidarity Of the South on national questions no longer exists. In most Of the southern states the great mass Of the negro population has been disfranchised and the people Of the entire country have acquiesced, to say the least, in the action Of the South in providing constitutional safeguards against the return Of the negro to power. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since Missis sippi adopted a constitution which, in effect, took away from the negro his political privileges, and although the party which had conferred political rights upon him has been in control Of the national government during most Of this period, no serious attempt has been made to interfere with the action Of the state or to punish it by reducing its representation in Congress as the fourteenth amendment declares shall be done. Hardly a sincere and respectable protest against the disfranchisement Of the negro has yet been made by the Republican party, and recent events would seem to justify the conclusion that it has virtually abandoned him so far as his political rights are concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.