They could not be expected, year after year, election after election, and perhaps generation after generation, to hold together by reason of this one question, differing on other things.

So whenever the Democratic Party should come into power it was apparent that all the vigor would be taken out of the election laws.

If there be not power to repeal them the House of Representatives can always refuse to make the appropriation for enforcing them.

So it became clear to my mind, and to the minds of many other Republicans, that it was better to leave this matter to the returning and growing sense of justice of the people of the South than to have laws on this subject passed in one Administration, only to be repealed in another.

A policy to be effective must be permanent.