I want to ask the senator this proposition in arithmetic: in my state there were 135,000 negro voters, or negroes of voting age, and some 90,000 or 95,000 white voters. general canby set up a carpetbag government there and turned our state over to this majority. now, i want to ask you, with a free vote and a fair count, how are you going to beat 135,000 by 95,000? how are you going to do it? you had set us an impossible task. you had handcuffed us and thrown away the key, and you propped your carpetbag negro government with bayonets. whenever it was necessary to sustain the government you held it up by the army.
