Walthallsaid il could not 1. aanalM)^pretended that MPMkMIany jurisdiction^on the sulijcct. KafarriuK to the hanging^in efllg^ of Secretary Proctor at Aberdeen^and the assault on I'aiinee, he said it was^simplv the wanton conduct of a few j_N^r-^sot.s, disapproved by the comiiiunit v.^Sjieeking for himself and representing th.^sentiment of the pi oplc ot Mississippi, he^condemned those outrages and held that^tic I luted Stales would not hold mi entire^community IMMMMM lor the actions ot a^few p^ rsoim. Proceeding to the question^of federal lutcrference in elec^^tions, Walthall agreed with In-^; tTHllti that the race qui Minn was^I the most formidable Mid pretention*^ever presented to a tree people for solution.^He saw no remedy which congress could an-^i ply that promised any practiral result, lie^bettered arbitrary rn ant taenia would bat
increaaethe difficulty. The professed jiur-^poae of federal control was to secure a fair^ccunt ol the negro vote, hut the actual ob^^ject WM tocount that vote (Ot the republi^^can party. The pro|M^aition was such a^uietiaee to the rights of the people that it^must meet with the condemnation of^all men anxious to preserve the spirit of^the government. In his opinion th^ result^of no congressional election m any^southern state would lie controlled by any^federal law congress nui'd p is-. The white^people would be driven into chaser eo-opcra^lion than befoie. because the (lection ot^nogro judges and officers means negro dom^^ination, and means death t j every interest^and hope of the people. He could not^coumel his people to accept such a desolat^^ing barbarism without a struggle, nor yet^to lleo from the homes of tb^ msetves and^their ancestors. He would not urge^them to violate any public law or^private right. but lie would urge^them, not as a leiU'dy, hut as^the means of present sulci v. to unitv.^He would np|^cal to them i for their own^safety i to subordinate all part} dUaWM^to that end and purpose. There was no^I kb fatV for them in nnv different UWlaa^Walthall criticised all 1 tit- proposed M^^' dii s for the race trouble ^ including di po:^Italian and dlsf raiichixcmeiit | us impracti^'cable and impossible. 