If the control of the Southern States should be gained by the Republican party, unlimited negro suffrage would hardly be restored unless such action were forced by the party in the nation at large.

In the last extremity the South would suffer loss of representation rather than face the consequences of unrestricted negro suffrage.
Socially the South is in a state of ferment.

Old standards are passing, some of them very rapidly, and the younger generation is inclined to smile at some of the attitudes of the old.

The "typical Southerner" who nourishes within the pages of F.Hopkinson Smith and Thomas Nelson Page is extremely rare outside of them.

Most of the real Southern colonels are dead, and the others are too busy running plantations or cotton mills to spend much time discussing genealogy, making pretty speeches, or talking about their honor.