round for their
talents and let Negro men dream of stars as do your men.'"
(234-235.)]

"Your Bible says: 'And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not vex him.' White friends of the South! Let me beseech you to
vex not this social stranger within your borders; the stranger who
invades your swamps and drains them into his system for your comfort;
who creeps through the slime of your sewers; who wrestles with the heat
in your ditches and fields; who has borne your onerous burdens and
cheered you with his song as he toiled; who has never heard the war
whoop but that he has prepared for battle; whose one hope is to be
allowed to live in peace by your side and develop his powers and those
of his children that they may be factors in making of this land, the
greatest in goodness in all this world. Don't circumscribe the able,
noble souls among the Negroes. Give them the world as a playground for
their talents and let Negro men dream of stars as do your men. They need
that as much as you do. As for me, I shall leave your land."

Turning to Eunice, Tiara stretched forth her hands, appealingly and
said, "Sister, come let us leave this country! Come."

"Ha! ha!" laughed Eunice, with almost maniacal intensity, as she waved
her hand in disdain at Tiara, who now slowly left the witness stand.

All eyes were now turned toward Eunice, who had arisen and stood trying
to drive away the passions of rage that seemed to clutch her vocal cords
so that she could not speak. At last getting sufficient strength to
begin, she said:

"Honorable Judge and you jurymen: I declare to you all to-day that I am
a white woman. My blood is the blood of the whites, my instincts, my
feelings, my culture, my spirit, my all is cast in the same mould as
yours. That woman who talked to you a few moments ago is a Negro. Don't
honor her word above mine, the word of a white woman. I invoke your law
of caste. Look at me! Look at my boy! In what respect do we differ from
you?"

She paused and drawing her small frame to its full height, with her
hands outstretched across the railing, with hot scalding tears coursing
down her cheeks, she said in tremulous tones:

"And now, gentlemen, I came here hoping to be acquitted, but in view of
the statements made I want no acquittal. Your law prescribes, so I am
told, that there can be no such thing as a marriage between whites and
Negroes. To acquit me w