to see him prosper.
Such of us liberals as labor to keep the Negro out of politics do so,
not out of hatred of him, but for his own good, as we see it. We hate to
see him the victim of the spleen of the radicals and they do grow
furious at the sight of the Negro in exalted station. In your Northern
home bear in mind these two classes of Southerners and remember that
some of us at least are anxious for the highest good to all."

Mr. Daleman now paused and a sad look came over his face.

He resumed: "One of the hardest tasks among us is the suppression of
lynching. In the very nature of things, as conditions now exist, there
cannot be such a thing as a trial of a charge of outrage by a Negro man
upon a white woman. Often in cases of that nature the crime charged is
disproved, by proving another offense involving collusion. Well, no
lawyer can be found who would set up such a defense for a Negro client
if the white woman in the case objected, for he would be killed,
perhaps, and, furthermore, collusion is punished in the same way as
outrage. So lynching is here fortified. Tolerated and condoned for one
thing it spreads to other things and men are lynched for trivial
offenses.

"If a departure could be made from the custom of public trials and jury
trials in such cases, relief might be found. The trials could be secret
and before a bench of judges. Care for the feelings of the woman and her
guardians, and things will be better. There is no pronounced sentiment
among the better classes in favor of lynching for other causes and it
can be put down. There is marked improvement in this matter, and it may
be that lynching may be stopped without the changes in jurisprudence
which I suggest."

Mr. Daleman now arose from his seat, saying, "Come, my son. They will be
awaiting breakfast for us, I fear. Tell the North that down in this
Southland there is an element of as noble men as the world affords; men
with a keen sense of justice and an unfaltering purpose to lift our
section to a position of high esteem in the estimation of the world. We
may seem to work at cross purposes with you of the North; we may be
overwhelmed by waves of race prejudice from time to time, but we are
here, and I claim to be one of them. I challenge the man, white or
black, rich or poor, to say that I ever mistreated him by word or deed."

"You need no vindication. Time was when practically all Southerners were
classed together by the outside, but that d