If by a mere technicality one class of citizens can be deprived of the rights and immunities guaranteed by the organic law of the nation, what is to prevent any other class from sharing the same fate? If less than one fourth of the male citizens of Mississippi can usurp the right to exclusively manage the local government, what is to prevent a smaller proportion from doing the same? If it is possible for a minority of the people of Alabama to disfranchise one class of citizens on account of race without the consent of the majority, what is to prevent the disfranchisement of any other class on account of _political_ views? Southern white men who view with apprehension these untoward political tendencies, who are alarmed at the passing away of the last vestiges of a republican form of government from that section of our Union, and who silently condemn and deplore the outrageous and inexcusable manner in which the black man is being divested of his political and civil rights for mere party advantage, must seriously and actively face the situation, if they would save the south from the shame and the humiliation with which she is threatened, and which she has already too keenly experienced at the hands of a profligate leadership. There is a dormant statesmanship in the south that must and will exert itself mightily, "a moral and intellectual intelligence which is not going to be much longer beguiled out of its moral right of way by questions of political punctilio, but will seek that plane of universal justice and equity which it is every people's duty before God to seek." But the question is not a sectional one. The whole American people are deeply concerned in it. Nullification in South Carolina is as great a national menace today as it proved to be half a century ago. Republican institutions and the national welfare can have no guarantee or protection against the evil consequences threatened by defiant trampling upon constitutional authority. Not in its most palmy days did the slave system possess such power as is aimed at by these latter day nullifiers. Having shorn the Negro of his political rights and brought him into industrial subjection, thereby usurping power both in state and national government, they now threaten to dominate the economic and industrial policies of the nation. This government can not long continue half republican in form and half oligarchic. JOHN L. LOVE. Footnotes: [1] Greeley's American Conflict, Vol. I, p. 417. [2] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 94. [3] McPherson, "History of Reconstruction," p. 40. [4] Ibid p. 36. [5] McPherson, History of Reconstruction p. 35. [6] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 101. [7] 16 Wall, p. 70. [8] Blaine, "Twenty Years of Congress," II., 266. [9] Prof. Kelley Miller, article in "Washington Star," Nov. 14, 1898. [10] Chicago Weekly "Inter Ocean," Dec. 26, 1890. [11] I 20 So Rep, 869, also Mississippi Code (1892) Sec. 3802.