is dead."

The conflict between classes in the South will last until they
recognize that they have an identity of interests, or that they are
brethren. Prejudice is neither dead nor fast dying. There is a change
in the cities, but it does not reach far inland. In how many Southern
States are the same privileges extended to both races in schools? in
cars? in hotels? in churches? This prejudice is in the blood. Heredity
and training have both fostered it. Race prejudices die slowly. For
centuries the contest between Patrician and Plebeian was carried on in
ancient Rome. The subject-class never affiliated with the
master-class. Two or three hundred years ago a new people was
introduced into the north of Ireland. The north is essentially
Scottish. Its inhabitants are Protestant and phlegmatic. In the south,
the religion is Romanist, and the people are mercurial. They are of
the same color. They have had the same history for centuries. For
nearly five hundred years, the Turk has been a disturbing factor in
Europe. The Turk is Asiatic. He is surrounded by European life. How
rapidly has the antipathy between races disappeared where the Turk has
power? The race-lines are as distinct as if the waters of a white
river and a black ran in the same channel. The Hebrews are found in
all parts of the world. They are industrious, and as decent as the
average man; they mingle with other people, and yet almost everywhere
the prejudice against them is constant and bitter. How long before
Protestant Orangemen and Catholic Irishmen will walk arm and arm in
the same procession? How long before the German and Russian and
Englishman will recognize the Jew as a brother? In the South, the
antipathy is between black and white, between a master-class and a
subject-class, between oppressed and oppressor. How long before this
prejudice will disappear?

II. How much time will be required for the consciousness of having
been wronged to wear from the breast and the blood of the black man?
This consciousness of having been wronged is not a race-prejudice, and
yet it may become one. It is hard to eradicate. It is aggravated when
the same feelings are in many hearts. This is a complicated factor.
Some of {125} the blacks seem incapable of sentiments of revenge. They
are too lighthearted to cherish grievances. But all are not so. The
pure blacks who carry with them the consciousness of having been
deeply injured, are many. What will you say of the mulat