This passage by The White League of St. Mary was written about their principles. We enter into and form a league for the protection of our own race against the daily-increasing encroachments of the negro, and we are determined to use our best endeavors to purge our legislature, judicial and ministerial offices from such a horde of miscreants as now assume to lord it over us. –"Programme and Declaration of Principles,” The White League of St. Mary
According to the passage, who was the conflict between?
A Republicans and Democrats
B Northerners and Southerners
C whites and African Americans
D the president and Congress