How unfair it is, then, to argue that Gov
ernor Smith’s change of attitude on
public questions had nothing to do with my
refusal to support him a second time. In view
of these editorial attacks upon the reactionary
tendency of Governor Smith’s administra
tion, and his public application of the seal
of approval to the reactionary Legislature
which had defeated our reforms, how unreas
onable it is to say that Smith's change of at
titude had nothing to do with mine. In view
of these editorial warnings to Smith, that his
change of attitude on these questions might
dissolve our firm, how silly it is to say that
these had nothing to do with dissolving it.
The Glover case was a mere detail, per
sonal to myself, not affecting in any wise the
great purpose to which my heart is wedded.
Keenly as I felt the disappointment in that
matter, the lapse of time would have soothed
it; and I could have risen above it, as I rose
above the blow which Hoke Smith was said
to have dealt me in his Augusta speech of.
