Solid South

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the Solid South.

Out of the 30-year conflict against carpetbag rule, there emerged what was long known as the Solid South, a South that, except occasionally in the border states, never gave an electoral vote to a Republican candidate for president.

Before the Civil War, the Southern people had been divided on political questions.

Take, for example, the election of 1860.

In all of the 15 slave states, the variety of opinions was marked.

in nine of them delaware virginia tennessee missouri maryland louisiana kentucky georgia and arkansas the combined vote against the representative of the extreme southern point of view breckinridge constituted a safe majority in each of the six states which were carried by breckinridge there was a large and powerful minority in north carolina breckinridge's majority over bell and douglas was only eight hundred and forty-nine votes equally astonishing to those who imagined the south united in defense of extreme views in eighteen sixty was the vote for bell the unionist candidate who stood firmly for the constitution and silenced on slavery in every southern state bell's vote was large in virginia kentucky missouri and tennessee it was greater than that received by breckinridge in georgia it was forty two thousand against fifty one thousand in louisiana twenty thousand against twenty two thousand in mississippi twenty five thousand against forty thousand the effect of the civil war upon these divisions was immediate and decisive save in the border states where thousands of men continued to adhere to the cause of the union in the confederacy itself nearly all dissent was silenced by war men who had been bitter opponents joined hands in defense of their homes when the armed conflict was over they remained side by side working against republican misrule and negro domination by eighteen ninety after northern supremacy was definitely broken they boasted that there were at least twelve southern states in which no republican candidate for president could win a single electoral vote dissent in the solid south though every one grew accustomed to speak of the south as solid it did not escape close observers that in a number of southern states there appeared from time to time a fairly large body of dissenters in eighteen ninety two the populace made heavy inroads upon the democratic ranks on other occasions the contests between factions within the democratic party over the nomination of candidates revealed sharp differences of opinion in some places moreover there grew up a republican minority of respectable size for example in georgia mr taft in nineteen o eight polled forty one thousand votes against seventy two thousand for mr bryan in north carolina a hundred and fourteen thousand against a hundred and thirty six thousand in tennessee a hundred and eighteen thousand against a hundred and thirty five thousand in kentucky two hundred and thirty five thousand against two hundred and forty four thousand in nineteen twenty senator harding the republican candidate broke the record by carrying tennessee as well as kentucky oklahoma and maryland the economic advance of the south the break-up of the great estates in the dissolution of chattel slavery it was inevitable that the great estate should give way before the small farm the plantation was in fact founded on slavery it was continued and expanded by slavery before the war the prosperous planter either by inclination or necessity invested his surplus in more land to add to his original domain as his slaves increased in number he was forced to increase his acreage or sell them and he usually preferred the former especially in the far south still another element favored the large estate slave labor quickly exhausted the soil and of its own force compelled the cutting of the forest and the extension of the area under cultivation finally the planter took a natural pride in his great estate it was a sign of his prowess and his social prestige in eighteen sixty five the foundations of the planting system were gone It was difficult to get efficient labor to till the vast plantations.

The planters themselves were burdened with debts and handicapped by lack of capital.

H.

A. Herbert, Why the Solid South.

W. G.

Brown, The Lower South.

Six, give the chief steps in the restoration of white supremacy.

Seven, do you know of any other societies to compare it with the Ku Klux Klan? Eight, give Lincoln's plan for amnesty.

What principles do you think should govern the granting of amnesty? nine how were the force bills overcome ten compare the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments with regard to the suffrage provisions eleven explain how they may be circumvented twelve account for the solid south what was the situation before eighteen sixty thirteen in what ways did southern agriculture tend to become like that of the north what were the social results fourteen name the chief results of an industrial revolution in general in the south in particular fifteen what courses were open to freedmen in eighteen sixty five sixteen give the main features in the economic and social status of the colored population in the south 17.

Explain why the race question is national now rather than sectional.

I believe that if we saved the North, we could then look after the South.

If the Southern Democrats are foolish enough to bring about a solid South, the result will be a solid North against a solid South, and in that case the Republicans would have nothing to fear.

You now have my reasons, frankly and candidly given, for the action taken by me on the occasion referred to.

I hope you are satisfied with them.

The Democrats nominated ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York for President and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana for Vice President.

Their platform pledged many radical reforms in the administration of the government.

The ticket was made with a hope that it would be successful in the doubtful and debatable states of New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut, which, with a solid South, would constitute a majority of the electoral college, even if all other states should go Republican, which was not anticipated.

That the prospect of Democratic success was exceedingly bright and the probability of a Republican victory extremely dark was generally conceded.

I believe that if we saved the North, we could then look after the South.

If the Southern Democrats are foolish enough to bring about a solid South, the result will be a solid North against a solid South, and in that case the Republicans would have nothing to fear.

You now have my reasons, frankly and candidly given, for the action taken by me on the occasion referred to.

I hope you are satisfied with them." I thanked Mr.

The Democrats nominated ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York for president and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana for vice president.

Their platform pledged many radical reforms in the administration of the government.

The ticket was made with a hope that it would be successful in the doubtful and debatable states of New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut, which, with a solid South, would constitute a majority of the electoral college, even if all other states should go Republican, which was not anticipated.

That the prospect of Democratic success was exceedingly bright and the probability of a Republican victory extremely dark was generally conceded.

more and more national the south was drawn into the main stream of national life the separatist forces which produced the cataclysms of eighteen sixty one sank irresistibly into the background references h w grady the new south H.

A. Herbert, Why the Solid South, W. G.

Brown, The Lower South, E. G. Murphy, Problems of the Present South, B. T. Washington, The Negro Problem, The Story of the Negro, The Future of the Negro, A.

B. Hart, The Southern South, and R. S. Baker, Following the Color Line, Two Works by Northern Writers, T. N.

Explain how they may be circumvented.

12.

Account for the solid South.

What was the situation before 1860? thirteen in what ways did southern agriculture tend to become like that of the north what were the social results fourteen name the chief results of an industrial revolution in general in the south in particular fifteen what courses were open to freedmen in eighteen sixty five sixteen give the main features in the economic and social status of the colored population in the south 17.

By 1890, after Northern supremacy was definitely broken, they boasted that there were at least twelve Southern states in which no Republican candidate for president could win a single electoral vote.

Dissent in the Solid South.

Though everyone grew accustomed to speak of the South as solid, it did not escape close observers that in a number of Southern states there appeared from time to time a fairly large body of dissenters.

In 1892, the populists made heavy inroads upon the Democratic ranks.

References.

H.W. Grady, The New South, 1890.

H.A. Herbert, Why the Solid South? W.G.

Brown, The Lower South.

I believe that if we saved the North, we could then look after the South.

If the Southern Democrats are foolish enough to bring about a solid South, the result will be a solid North against a solid South, and in that case the Republicans would have nothing to fear.

You now have my reasons, frankly and candidly given, for the action taken by me on the occasion referred to.

I hope you are satisfied with them.

The Democrats nominated ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York for President and Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana for Vice President.

Their platform pledged many radical reforms in the administration of the government.

The ticket was made with a hope that it would be successful in the doubtful and debatable states of New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut, which, with a solid South, would constitute a majority of the Electoral College, even if all other states should go Republican, which was not anticipated.

That the prospect of Democratic success was exceedingly bright and the probability of a Republican victory extremely dark was generally conceded.

H.

A. Herbert, Why the Solid South.

W. G.

Brown, The Lower South.

Do you know of any other societies to compare it with the Ku Klux Klan? 8.

Give Lincoln's plan for amnesty.

What principles do you think should govern the granting of amnesty? nine how were the force bills overcome ten compare the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments with regard to the suffrage provisions eleven explain how they may be circumvented twelve account for the solid south what was the situation before eighteen sixty thirteen in what ways did southern agriculture tend to become like that of the north what were the social results fourteen name the chief results of an industrial revolution in general in the south in particular fifteen what courses were open to freedmen in eighteen sixty five sixteen give the main features in the economic and social status of the colored population in the south 17.

Explain why the race question is national now rather than sectional.