He also mentions that they still will make the Africans suffer even more mentally and physically as a “free man”. They also did not have the right to vote, and when the African Americans obtained the right to vote they were punished by getting a severely beaten or lynched. They are unable to carry themselves as gentlemen or carry themselves with respect. A few sentences later he finishes the last paragraph by stating “...And these things which the war did not decide, the Southern people will still cling to, still claim, and still assert in them their rights and views.” The Southerners never let go of slavery and took it off of the plantation and into the streets of the