beast, a goodly land. Here we raise a product that supplies a
need of the world that cannot be so acceptably filled up to the
present time by any other quarter of the globe.

"The world at large, therefore, has a vital material interest
in the manner in which we conduct ourselves on this spot. We
have in our midst Negroes who have a superior adaptation to the
labor of the fields, and it is to our interest and to the
interests of mankind generally, that they be treated properly,
as in their humble way they do this their share of the world's
work.

"Crown Murder king here to-day, if you will, and his bloody
sceptre waved over our fields will drive the Negroes therefrom,
keep us poor, and sadly disturb economic conditions in the most
remote corners of the earth. The material interests of
civilization at large, therefore, appeal to you for the
administration of justice in our part of the world.

"But civilization has even higher interests involved. We must
bear in mind that these are no longer days of isolation, that
the deeds of Maulville have been canvassed throughout the
earth. Man has been battling upward through the ages, and his
savage instincts have sought to mount the ladder with him as he
climbed. It has been one of the hardest of man's battles to
leave behind him these depraved parts of his nature, and
evidence that you carry your savagery with you will make the
battle harder for the whole of the human family. And so the
moral health of the world demands that every community have a
pest house where the isolation and treatment of the morally
diseased may forestall an epidemic.

"Coming nearer home, I would call your attention to our sister
states to the north of us. These states are bound up with us in
a political system. Destiny has made us one people, and by the
outside world we must be reckoned with as a unit. Under these
circumstances, the thought must unavoidably develop that _that_
for which all are to be held responsible must, when the need
arises, be made the subject of inquiry and action on the part
of all.

"For the honor, then, of the other members of our political
compact who form a part of our shield against the outside
world, and to enable them in view of the attached
responsibility, to accord, wi