The white people owe a high duty to the negro. It was necessary to the safety of the State to base suffrage on the capacity to exercise it wisely. This results in excluding a great number of negroes from the ballot, but their right to life, liberty, property, and justice must be even more carefully safeguarded than ever. It is true that a superior race cannot submit to the rule of a weaker race without injury; it is also true in the long years of God that the strong cannot oppress the weak without destruction. CHARLES B. AYCOCK _The New Constitution of Mississippi adopted, 1890_ November Second It becomes the duty of all States, and especially of those whose constitutions recognize the existence of domestic slavery, to look with watchfulness to the attempts which have been recently made to disturb the rights secured to them by the Constitution of the United States. JAMES KNOX POLK _James Knox Polk born, 1795_ November Third FROM THE LAST-KNOWN DECLARATION OF THE NATURAL RIGHTS OF MAN! VIRGINIA, 1687 Man in marriage is said to repair his maimed side, and to regain his own rib. And the woman is then and thereby reduced to her first place.... From a rib to a helper was a happy change. COL. JOHN PAGE (_In "A Deed of Gift"_) November Fourth NOVEMBER 'Neath naked boughs, and sitting in the sun, With idle hands, because her work is done, I mark how smiles the lovely, fading year, Crowned with chrysanthemums and berries bright, And in her eyes the shimmer of a tear. DANSKE DANDRIDGE November Fifth It came to pass that I was one of the few who witnessed the last descending glory of this attempted Republic, projected by men who considered that the only true and natural foundation of society was "the wants and fears of individuals," but which was decided adversely to _their_ interpretation of that natural law, by the God of battles. CORNELIUS E. HUNT (_Of "The Shenandoah"_) [Learning Aug. 2, 1865, in the course of her cruising in the Pacific, that the Confederate government no longer existed, and knowing that they had been rated as "pirates" by Federal officials, the captain and crew determined to surrender their flag and commission in a foreign port, setting out forthwith for Liverpool, England.--Editor] November Sixth The First Lieutenant stood ... gazing at the flag under which he had so long done battle, and then turned away with tears coursing down his bronzed cheeks. He was not alone in this exhibition of weakness, if such it was, for more than one eye, unaccustomed to weep, turned aside to conceal the unwonted drops, as at a silent signal, the quartermaster hauled down the Stars and Bars, thereby surrendering the Shenandoah to the British authorities. CORNELIUS E. HUNT (_Of "The Shenandoah"_) _The "Shenandoah" furls the last Confederate battle flag, 1865_ November Seventh