The Silent South, Together With the Freedman's Case in Equity And the Convict Lease System
The book The Silent South, Together With the Freedman's Case in Equity And the Convict Lease System was written by author Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 Here you can read free online of The Silent South, Together With the Freedman's Case in Equity And the Convict Lease System book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Silent South, Together With the Freedman's Case in Equity And the Convict Lease System a good or bad book?
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And the dragging in of a race instinct to account for the separation is like bringing a pole to knock down strawberries. Other things will, but a be- lief in instinct will not, keep the races apart. Look at the West Indies. But not even mis- cegenation — may the reader forgive us the be- draggled word — could have saved such a scheme from failure. The gentlemen prove absolutely nothing for their case, but much against it. For here is shown by actual experiment that even where there is not of ne...cessity a social relation, yet when the social idea merely gets in by mistake ' of both classes, the effect will not be social con- fusion, but a spontaneous and willing separation ; along the strongest lines of social cleavage. The' log — the church — will not split the wedge — the social impulse ; but the wedge will split the log. The uncultured, be they white or black, in North or South, will break away on one side with even more promptness and spontaneity than the cul- tured on the other, and will recoil, moreover, to 78 THE SILENT SOUTH.
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