d profound is the wish of many of both
races that a separation might be effected. Mr. Dixon is by no means a
pioneer in desiring a separation. The great emancipator desired this
result.

But Mr. Dixon is a pioneer in the matter of seeking to attain his end by
an attempt to thoroughly discredit the Negroes, to stir up the baser
passions of men against them and to send them forth with a load of
obloquy and the withering scorn of their fellows the world over,
sufficient to appall a nation of angels.

Mark the essentially _barbarous_ character of Mr. Dixon's method of
warfare.

There is the good and the bad in all men. The world has learned since
the days of the Christ that by far the best means of obtaining the
largest results of unalloyed good is by appealing to the best that there
is in men rather than to the worst. In no respect is the reactionary
character of Mr. Dixon's crusade more apparent than in his attempt to
attain his ends through his appeals to the worst that there is in men.

Mankind has been grouping itself from time immemorial, according to
certain physical likenesses, and each race or group has had more or less
of prejudice against alien groups. It has been the one struggle of the
higher human instincts to enable men, in spite of differences of form,
of feature, to find a common bond of sympathy linking mankind together.

Uncle Tom's Cabin grappled in the mire of Southern slavery and lifted a
despised and helpless race into living sympathy with the white race at
the North. To cut these chords of sympathy and re-establish the old
order of repulsion, based upon the primitive feeling of race hatred is
the first item on Mr. Dixon's programme.

The adopting of a course so patently barbaric stamps Mr. Dixon as a
spiritual reversion to type, violently out of accord with the best
tendencies of his times.

The very opposite of Mr. Dixon is Professor Nathaniel F. Shaler, of
Harvard, himself a Southerner, who approaches this same grave question
of the relation of the races and seeks to prepare the American people
for the consideration of the subject free from the distorting influence
of prejudice.

A SERIOUS HANDICAP.

The cultivation of race hatreds on the part of Mr. Dixon and others who
labor with him, if successful will react on the American people sadly to
their detriment. The wonderful activity of American industries call
loudly for the world as a market for their goods. The dark races of the
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