The Negro Question (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Negro QuestionBut political strength is little by itself. The military maxim, that no defences are strong without force enough in them to occupy their line, is true of civil affairs. Entrenchment in the letter of a constitution avails little with the people at large on either side of a question, unless the line of that entrenchment is occupied by a living conviction of being in the right. The most ultra-southern position on the negro question has an element of strength close akin to this. To be right is the only real meces sity, but where is the community that will not make and defend with treasure and blood the assumption that what is necessary is, right? Southerners, in the political sense of the term, may sometimes lack a clear, firm-founded belief that they are right, they may have no more than a restless confidence that others are as wrong as they, but they have at least a profound conviction that they are moved by an imminent, unremitting, imperative necessity. Not that this is all, hundreds of thousands of them, incapacitated by this very conviction from falling into sympathy with the best modern thought, have been taught, and are learn ing and teaching, not only on the hustings, but in school, in col lege, at the fireside, through the daily press, in the social circle and in church, that in their attitude on the negro question they are legally, morally and entirely right.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.