the ballot, that which represented privileges and powers for which the quick-witted celt and the thoughtful saxon had struggled a thousand years to achieve, was given in the twinkling of an eye to the unfit hordes of an inferior race. . . .no two men in alabama, or in the south, did more to stay the hideous tide of negro domination than the two dearly beloved senators whose death the house mourns to-day. in the dark and trying days of reconstruction these two men were foremost among the defenders of anglo-saxon civilization.