I had hoped that the peace which prevailed throughout that State would protect us from again being assailed as we have been for the last two days on the floor of this Chamber. No man who lives in the South. who loves the South. can desire that this agitation should go on. For years and years. when we were slandered and misrepresented in the Congress of the United States. immigrants passed by our doors and went to the West. to the less fertile plains of the West. and to the less genial climate of Colorado. Kansas. and Nebraska. because the South was being slandered and misrepresented. For the last four years since that policy has ceased the tide of immigration has turned toward our States. Within the time since the Democratic party came into power there we have paid off much of the indebtedness which was left upon us by the Republican party. We have more than doubled our population. we have more than trebled our school fund and those who attend the public schools.
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