already own?”
Senator Smith smiled thinly.
“Not much,” drily; “but we own the South.”
“And part of the price is putting the colored schools of the District in the hands of a Southern man and depriving us of all voice in their control?”
“Precisely, Miss Wynn. But you’d be surprised to know that it was the Negroes themselves who stirred the South to this demand.”
“Not at all; you mean the colored newspapers, I presume.”
“The same, with Teerswell’s clever articles; then his partner Stillings worked the ‘impudent Negro teacher’ argument on Cresswell until Cresswell was wild to get the South in control of the schools.”