Speech #500172419

The framers of our Constitution knew the race for whom they were preparing an instrument of organic law. and they made the Constitution for the men who constituted the country. They knew for whom they were legislating in an organic way when they reserved to the States and the municipalities the powers of local selfgovernment and delegated to the General Government the powers necessary for the common defense and general welfare of all the States. They knew they were legislating for a people who were capable in the highest degree of selfgovernment. and while they threw wide open the gates to immigrants from every nation in the world. they legislated upon the theory that. the race did not inhabit the earth that could come here and dominate the AngloSaxon people of this country under such a Constitution. . The right of local selfgovernment is inviolable in the Constitution of the United States. All we ask. all that any man asks in the South. is that the Constitution of the United States be observed.