y of that education during
the last fifty years. There was never kindness to the blacks and sympathy
from the Southern whites as of men to men. The human touch which makes, or
which ought to make, all men brothers has been woefully wanting in the
whites as a race towards the blacks as a race. There has been kindness and
perhaps much kindness from individual white people to individual Colored
people, but never from the mass of the whites to the mass of the blacks,
but just the contrary. Instead of kindness of the one race to the other
there has been increasing ill-will and active injustice as of one enemy to
another. If crime there has been in consequence of this deplorable, this
terrible fact who is the ultimate criminal? At the bar of history and at
the bar of God, I ask, Who is the ultimate criminal?

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

Printer's inconsistencies in the use of "childlike" and "child-like" have
been retained.

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