A Mississippi View of Race Relations in the South

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By DUNBAR ROWLAND.
Read before the Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi, June 3rd, 1802.
JACKSON, MISS: HARMON PUB. CO. PRINTERS, —————— 1903.

By DUNBAR ROWLAND.
Director of Department of Archives and History.
Read before the Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi, June 3rd 1902.
The purpose of all investigation should be to elicit truth. It is therefore the object of this discussion to give a truthful, accurate and unprejudiced statement of facts about the political, social and industrial relations of the white man and the negro in the South. It is to be desired that not even an allusion shall be made that may raise a feeling of sectional prejudice in the breasts of any.
There are few men not of the South who can appreciate the sad trials of the past, or realize the dangerous problems of the future. Some may see the true nobility, calm dignity and Spartan fortitude which the South has shown in meeting her responsibilities, few know what they really mean. The wrongs and mistakes of the past would have driven a less proud and noble race into anarchy.
When the perilous problems of the South are better understood, when the clouds which political passion create are swept away by a sincere sympathy and a desire to lend a helping hand, when a friendly interest takes the place of unfriendly criticism, when what is right is the aim of all then and not until then can pressing problems be intelligently solved.