Sectionalism
Unmasked

Compiled by
HENRY EDWIN TREMAIN

NEW YORK
BONNELL, SILVER & CO.

48 WEST TWENTY-SECOND STREET

1907

HARVARD

COLLEGE

LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1907

BY BONNELL, SILVER & Co.

Sectionalism Unmasked

CONTENTS

I

Lincoln and the Slavery Question in the South.-Current Propa-

ganda. Sectionalism and Class Feeling.-Extollation of the

Confederate Cause.—The Confederacy stripped of Sentimental-

ism.-Its Tyranny.-Individual Political Independence Im-

possible. Comparisons and Contrasts.-The Danger to the

Republic from the Present-day Trend of Sectionalism

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II

Extreme Fanatical Race Prejudice.-The Slogans of the Extremists.

-The Georgia State Convention.-The Gubernatorial Rivals

and their "Tweedledum" Politics.-The Aim of All the Po-

litical Leaders to make the Colored People Subservient Dis-

franchised Servitors. Colorphobia in Extreme Forms.-

Political Serfdom or Political Manhood.-The Parting of the

Ways.-The Better Element.-Henry Watterson Talks.—Dis-

crimination in Education.-The School Question.-China and

the South a Study in Contrasts.-Training Citizens and Voters

and Teachers

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III

The Labor Question.-Farm Laborers.-A Realistic Picture of

Agricultural Conditions.-Peonage and Congressman Clark, of

Florida.-Convict Labor.-Inhumanities and Barbarities of

Present-day Peonage.-Farming in Belgium and the Southern

States. Contrasts and Conclusions

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IV

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The Uplifting Vote of the Negro.-The Power of the Oligarchy.—

The Bogy of Negro Supremacy.-Electoral Inequalities Ex-

posed.-Plutocracy Dominant.-The Alliances of the Oligarchy

and Plutocracy.- Actual Conditions

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V

The "Problems of the South" and the Cry of "Hands Off.”—A

Noxious Sectionalism.-In Elections no Party Platform Issues

Voted Upon.-The Georgia Disfranchisement.-The Political

South of Ante-bellum Days.—Speech of Hon. Alexander H.

Stephens.-Disregard of Law and Consequent Tendencies.—

How the Oligarchy Maintains Control.-Inferior Races.—

Secretary Taft's Speech at Greensboro, N. C., Reviewed and

Criticised

'The President's Lincoln Day Speech in 1905.-Diplomatic Avoid-

ance of a Useful Agitation!-Comments on the Speech. Its

Influence

VI

Northern Men with Southern Principles.-An Executive Ally of the

Oligarchy.-Elevating Influence of the Suffrage.-The Presi-

dent on Good Citizenship.-Discrimination.-The New York

Tribune Deprecates Agitation on Fundamental Lines.-The

Conditions of Suffrage in the South.-The President on States'

Rights and Citizenship

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VII

Reduction of Representation.-The Party Pledge.-Presidential

Suggestions.—First Presidential Message.-Unofficial Action

on the Plank of the National Republican Party.-Congressional

Action.-Mass Meeting at Philadelphia.-The Case Succinctly

Stated.--Arguments and Facts about Southern Electoral

Affairs

86

VIII

1. Some Reasons for Equalizing Representation.-Electoral Condi-

tions. What an Equitable Reduction of Representation would

Effect.-Value of Citizenship

2. How Disfranchisement Works and Reacts.-What Representa-

tive Crumpacker said.

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IX

The Imperialism of the Southern Oligarchy.-Conditions Political
and Electoral in Alabama.-Milholland on an Uplifting Race.—
Sir Erskine May on English Suffrage and the Bribery and Cor-
ruption under Oligarchy Rule.-Parallels and Suggestions

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X

President Harrison Quoted.-Nullification.-Senate Valedictory of

a Wisconsin Senator.-The Florida Legislature.-Press Declara-

tions and Comments.-Calhoun and the Nullifiers.-Secretary

Taft on the Colored Race and on the War Amendments.-

Henry Watterson Quoted

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Mr. Taft at Tuskegee. Some Comments.-The Color Line.-The

Two Races and Their Future.-"Jim Crow" Legislation.—

Economic Progress of the Negro.-The President and the

Oligarchy.-Hoke Smith's Pronunciamento.-The Press There-