remote ancestors came from Africa."

Thus is scattered to the four winds, we feel, Mr. Dixon's claim that
the Negro suffrage was born of the spirit of revenge.

MR. DIXON'S WIDE HEARING.

If Mr. Dixon is so wholly false as we have set forth in this paper, the
question naturally arises as to how he could have obtained such a
hearing as has been accorded him. Of the many factors which perhaps
operated to secure this hearing we shall mention a few that commend
themselves to us as possible causes.

In the first place, there is that great American spirit of fair play.
The Negro through Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Tourgee novels had his day
in court, and it was felt to be only just that the South be heard in all
fullness.

Another factor in Mr. Dixon's success in obtaining his hearing we
believe to be his choice of the hour in the world's history in which to
demand a hearing. Queen Victoria, who had reigned so long and honorably,
had just summoned by her death all of Anglo-Saxondom to her bier, where
in a common sorrow over the departure of a great and good woman they
learned anew how that, fundamentally, they were all about alike.

About this time, too, a poet had arisen, with voice to reach, for the
time being, at least, the whole English speaking world, furnishing
another scrap of evidence that differing forms of government, wide seas
and varying problems had not affected their spiritual unity.

Anglo-Saxon lads, peacefully sleeping in the harbor of a Latin nation,
had been treacherously blown up, and at the sight of that which was
thicker than water in the hold of the Maine, the Anglo-Saxons of the
world got still closer together.

In the war that followed, the South had its first opportunity of
attesting with its blood its professions of love for the Union flag
which it had sought to lower in four years of bloody strife. As a result
of that war the Northern and controlling section of the country felt
impelled by the logic of the situation to force an unaccepted relation
upon an alien race, thereby providing the one outstanding section of the
Anglo-Saxon race with some form of a race problem.

These various happenings brought the English speaking people wondrously
close together and bridged the chasms made by internecine wars and
conflicting ideas of government.

Listen now to the dream of Thomas Carlyle as set forth in his lecture on
"The Hero" as a poet. Says he:

"England, before long, this islan