The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, July 1924 - April, 1925 Page: 238
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escaped with life; he is sitting up and is now safe. I regret
that I shall not see you if I go on to Hollins next month. I
hope that you and yours may ever feel that I think you tried to
do your duty while President to the whole country. In great
haste as ever yours,
Guy M. Bryan.
BRYAN TO HAYES
Galveston Dec 8th/80
Dear Rud:
I have just returned home after an absence of some weeks in
the country. I have read your address at Cleveland which you
sent me "with kind wishes" &c. Its tone in regard to the South
is kindly & pacific, but what do you mean by "mistaken men of
the South"? Had you been the nominee of the Convention, with
your principles as I understand them, I should have supported
you. Your message though long I have just read to the end; it
is from your standpoint unobjectionable; most of it I approve &
admire. The fifteenth Amendment is & has been observed in
Texas so far as Democrats are concerned-no matter what your
information may be to the contrary. I enclose you a slip from
(a Republican) Brazoria paper,48 where an ignorant negro has
been elected to office, & the deputy performs all the work. Negroes
fill other offices & are Members of the Legislature.
The solid South does not mean hatred or rather bad feeling for
the North-it simply means protection against oppression. The
people of the South eagerly desire peace, friendship & fraternal
relations, socially as well as commercially with the people of the
North; they earnestly desire the latter to come among them, &
to become citizens & help them rebuild their waste places, & to
enjoy their political opinions whatever they may be. "Fools
Errand" does not represent the general truth any more than did
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." If there were "Klu Klux" they were in
localities; I never heard of any in Texas. I said solid South
meant relief from oppression--that is "Home Rule"--free from
Carpet-baggers & low men in office. Home Rule was what the
Democrats North have contended for, hence the Southern people
"Cutting from paper: "Our young friend M. W. Carlton has been
appointed deputy for D. G. Shepard, the colored country clerk, and will
now be a citizen of Brazoria."238
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