Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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through theforces of evolution, which are undoubtedlyat work, but which, in the nature of the case,must needs go exceedingly slow. Where thereis one negro fit for citizenship there are myr-iads of negroes wholly unfit. The hothouseprocess has been tried and it has failed. It,invested with every right enjoyed by thewhites, the blacks, gaining in all thingshave brought corruption into the suffrage and■ lit upon themselves, is it not a kind ofmadness further to press artificial method-,which however justified, theoretically, fromeducational look-outs in Michigan. Iowa, andonsin, fall helpless to the ground in theirpractical application to the semi-barbaroustoilers in the cotton fields and corn lands oVlabama, Georgia, and South Carolina?3 i ither speakers of national note have re-cently expressed opinions similar to those ofMr. Wattersons, and typical parts of theseaddresses and of those made in the debate onthe admission of Nebraska are in striking rom 01ii> 390 HISTORY OF NEBRASKA
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Gurdon W. WattlesPresident Trans-Mississippi exposition FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE 391 trast as opinions held in two different periodsbut only a single generation in time apart. In a lecture at Yale university, April 22,1903, President Hadley said that the Northhad made a great mistake in giving the ballotto the negro before he was fitted for it. Itwas not the fault of the negro; it was thefault of those who gave him the ballot withoutprevious preparation. The .North did nut rec-ognize this at the close of the war. It hadrecognized the dictum that all men are bornfree and equal. When the North recognizedthe conditions which prevailed in the South itacquiesced in the suppression of the negrovote. And yet, to the mind and conscienceof the intelligent and candid, this is a dis-tressing condition and a humiliating confes-sion. Without the ballot these millions ofnegroes thus thrust upon a superior race andunder institutions in advance of their capacityto appreciate or support, can not avert

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