The attempt of the Government of the United States to exercise its constitutional authority to preserve to the majority in any southern State the right of free and fair elections are to him but the exertion of a hostile and alien power to keep down in the dust what lie terms "his people." by which term I suppose he neans the white democrats of the South. The amendments of the Constitution by which four millions of the laboring classes of the South. whose fathers had dwelt for generations rpon its soil. to whose unpaid toil its greatness. its wealth. its prosperity are hergely owing. to whose Christian forbearance the safety of the homes of the wives. of the children. of the South was due while the whites were away during four years of war waged for their oppressiona body of people speaking the same language. of the same religion. hounl to them by ties so close that he says "every black man and black woman and black child in the South was bound by the most tender affection to some white man or white woman or white child"-ti amendments. I say. hy which these persons were enfranchised he speaks of as "crushed in" upon the institutions of the South. lie compares this enfranchisement to the sudden pouring in upon the people of Now England and New York of 4.000.000 of Chinese coolies. The policy by which 4.00.000 negroes received their place as equals among 15.000.000 suggests to him Gibbons famous sentence that the most hateful despotism in the world is the rule of a people by its own slaves. TrulyThy gentleness hath made thee great.