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A Brave Southerner Answers Abe Hewitt

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Day
6
Month
June
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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" 'ov tbat Abe Hewitt has raísed this questipn about southern politicians having less brains than tlie Yankees," saiil .7 iuljre Lee of Georgia, " I want to teil the trutli about tliis thing with no Eli Perkins imagina tion. The factis, we southerners have ahvays had brains enough to control this govemment. Think of it - we cotton states actually make a tariff for New Engíand. We control congress. We are the nation today, and these mudsill Yankees are sitting down in the hall." " How do you get so many congressinen?" asked Burke Cockran. "Why,Abe Hewitt's ignorant Yankees gave them to us. The Yankees voted themselves out, and we voted ourselves in. Why, do you know that little brainy Soutli Carolina, with 462,000 people has sevencongressnien, while Massachusetts with 2,215,000 people, has only twelve?" " And Mississippi?" " She's got 544,000 people and seven congressmeu, while Pennsvlvania, with 5j 1 48,000 people, has only 18'. In one district in Georgia 30,000 southern people, or 2,280 white voters, makes a congress'man, while it always takes 171,000 Yankees, or 35,000 voters, to make a conEresstnan. But you've got representación according to your brains - 'small prains, small representation.' " "But do the negroes vote?" asked a northern congressnian. " Niggers vote ! I should say not, and fchey never will. Your Yankee idiota made tliein citizens - made thern voters - but do you tbink we brainy southerners will evercount theirvötes? I should nut. They vote in Kentucky, Tén■ e and the border states, but they will never vote in South Carolina, MisMsippi or Louisiana, vvhere they are in t!n majority. It wouldn't do." "Thenthe 20 congressmen representing Louisana, South Carolina and Mississippi are fraudulent?" " Xo, salí, it's southern brains. We kii'uv how to manage." " How many votes did Cleveland get in South Carolina?" " Why, lie got 00,000, and 85,00(1 in Mississippi, and 85,000 in Louisana, but tliev made liirn president, and those ignorant northerii Yankees let ns do it. Why, you Yankee fools put McKané in Sing Sing for disfranchisingafewcitizens in Brooklyn and made a great row becanae Bob Ross was shot at the polls in Troy, while we brainy southern men count out 858,000 niggers in Georgia, oblitérate (589,000 in South Carolinia and annihilate 74 1,000 black Yankees in Mississippi. We actuaüy whipyoü ankces in and make you help us do it ! Brains ! I reckoa we have got brains !" " Wliat vrould yon oíd rebs do if we Sfanfcees shoul'd eleet i president fraudueutly in three nbrthern states as you did Cleveland in the south?" "What! Yon disfranchise a Democrat ! YouYankees haven't nerve enough to stand by your own disfranchised Republicans in the south. If you should put in a president fraudulently, ue'd laint FRAiD on his brow, as Dana painted it on Hayes', who was really the last president honestly elected in the nigger states. But you yankees are afraid to do it. We old rebs would have some respect for you if you had nerve enough to vvrite fraud on Cleveland's forehead." " But you're afraid to do it. That's why the brainy men of the south run this government, aud you can carry the aews to old Abe Hewitt."

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