The wheels of progress, of intelligence, and of right cannot and will not move backwards, but will go forward in spite of all that can be said and done.

In the mean time the exercise of patience, forbearance, and good judgment are all that will be required.
Another fact which seems to be overlooked by many is that the so-called Solid South of to-day is not the menace to the country that it was between 1875 and 1888.

During that period the Solid South included the States of Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Those States at that time were as reliably Democratic as Texas and Georgia.

Such does not seem to be true of them now, and yet I venture the assertion that the disposition of the federal patronage in them had very little, if anything, to do with bringing about the change.

What has been done and is being done in those States can be done in others that are located south of them.