o by his greed for
gain, we know. The Southerners who wrought upon their slaves
and gave them the rudiments of civilization, wrought, we know,
for the purpose of gain.

"The war which brought emancipation was not in itself a
deliberately planned altruistic movement, but was precipitated
upon the country, and waged primarily in the interest of the
solidarity of the white race in America.

"In order that the Negroes might preserve their estate of
freedom and thus obviate another martial conflict they were
given the ballot, and, that the national life might not be
corrupted by the putrid exudations from ignorant aliens to its
civilization and its ideals, culture was provided for the
liberated millions.

"The medley of motives working through all the past has at last
produced in America the strongest aggregation of Negro life
that has at any time manifested itself upon the earth.

"To say the least it is a striking coincidence that
simultaneous with the turning of the thought of the world
toward Africa and the recognition of the need therein of an
easily acclimated civilizing force, that the American Negro,
soul wise through suffering, should come forth as a strong man
to run a race.

"In America we are confronted with a grave problem, the
adjustment of our relations with a strong race. Some have
suggested that our social absorption by this race is the only
real solution of our difficulties.

"Fellow Negroes, for the sake of world interests, it is my hope
that you will maintain your ambition for racial purity. So long
as your blood relationship to Africa is apparent to you the
world has a redeeming force specially equipped for the work of
the uplift of that continent.

"Again, a seer linked to us by ties of blood, foreshadows that
the paramount problem of our century will be the problem of the
adjustment of the white to the darker races. If we disappear as
a dark race this world problem must look elsewhere for special
advocates. It seems to me that our situation is from every
point of view eloquent with the voice of destiny.

"I go to introduce a working force into the life of the
Africans that will make for their uplift. May it continue your
ambition to abide Negroes, to force the American civilization
to acco