All history teaches us that those who suffer a wrong will sooner or later find means to correct and avenge it.

A diversity of production will be wealth to the south, break down its exclusion, open its doors to immigration, and assimilate its institutions with those of the north.

Although the south will probably deprive us of some of the markets we now have, yet no man in the north will complain; but, on the contrary, we have in the north millions of dollars in capital to invest, and millions of hardy men to work…

When this competition comes we will have a diversity of industry, and a country rich in developed as well as in undeveloped resources.

The north cannot rule the south any more than England can rule Ireland, or Europe can govern Greece and Turkey.

According to the principles of our government it is not possible for us to keep soldiers enough down south to guard all their ballot boxes, and indeed we need a good many up north to guard our own sometimes.

I am inclined to think that the blacks, having the labor and the muscle and industry on their side, will not be far behind the white race in the future in the south.

It is now conceded on all hands that, under our system of government, we cannot by external force manage or interfere with the local affairs of a state or community, unless the authorities of the state call for aid to resist domestic…

The only remedy is migration and public opinion; but these, though slow and very discouraging, will in time furnish a remedy and also a punishment.

Neither capital nor labor, prosperity nor hope, will go or linger long where human rights and life are unsafe.

The instinctive love of justice and fair play will, in time, dissipate the prejudice of race or caste and point the finger of scorn to the man who robs another of his rights, as it now does to the man who cheats, or steals the property of…

With the power of the colored people to migrate, whenever they are unjustly treated, to a place where law and justice prevail, with the capacity for labor and to acquire property, with reasonable opportunity for education, they will in…

What the new south wants now more than all else is education! education!! education!!!

The statistics with which we have been made familiar recently in the debate in the Senate, of illiteracy in the south, are appalling, but not much more so than was the condition of the western states fifty years ago.

I believe that these conditions will be the solution of the troubles of the south and make a great step on the road to prosperity and union in the south.

It is not merely common school education in the south that is needed, but it is higher education.

It wants in its midst the places where the active leading young men of the south can gather in colleges and universities and there gain that higher education which prepares them to be leaders among men.

Let them light their fires at this modern Athens upon the mountain top and they will shine forth all over our land.

Here the young men of the south will fit themselves to lead in the march of progress and improvement.

They will learn to vary their production, to develop their resources, to advance every race and generation in education, intelligence and patriotism, and with charity broad enough to secure all the people, of every race and tribe, the…

There is now no disturbing question of a sectional character which should prevent the north and south from moving in harmonious union.

The two streams have united, and though for a time their waters may be divided by the color line, like the Mississippi and the Missouri at and after their junction, yet, in the end they will mingle in a great republic, not of sections, but…

The love of our own state and pride in her history spring largely from the fact that she and her institutions, in birth and growth, are purely American.

She never wore the collar of colonial subserviency.

Her churches and colleges are not endowed of King Charles or Queen Anne.