The Great Liberal Woodrow Wilson

Here's a quote from Woodrow Wilson in his "History of the American People." D.W. Griffith used the quote in his 1915 version of Birth of a Nation.

"Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much the enemies of the one race as of the other, to cozen, beguile, and use the negroes...In the villages the negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences."

"The policy of the congressional leaders wrought...a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South...in their determination to 'put the white South under the heel of the black South.'"

"The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation....ubtil at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country."