it is to-day.

When I come to deal with the charge of immorality I bow my head and
blush for shame, first because if the charge be true, I see they are
getting like the white man every day. I know that at the close of the
American civil war the 4,000,000 negroes had more than 25 per cent. of
white blood coursing through their veins.

What about this new educated negro? Just ask the Pullman Car Company,
which employs hundreds of negroes, into whose care thousands of women
and children of our best American families are entrusted every day.

Now, you cannot do without the negro, because if you send him away,
you will run after him. He is here to stay. The only way to deal
successfully with the colored race is God's way. First, recognize that
he is your guest; second, recognize that you have robbed him of his
birthplace, home, family and savings. It is these facts that are
causing so much unrest on the part of the whites in this country. The
negro loves his country, which he has proved beyond a doubt in every
American battle, in every act of loyalty to his country, and in his
long and patient suffering. Pay him what you owe him by educating him.
Give him an opportunity to live. Allow him to live in decent parts of
your city. Pay wages sufficient to support his children. Do this and
God will remove the objectionable negro from the land.

* * * * *

The Negro stands to-day upon an eminence that overlooks more than two
decades spent in efforts to ameliorate the condition of seven million
immortal souls by opening before their hitherto dark and cheerless
lives possibilities of development into a perfect and symmetrical
manhood and womanhood.

The retrospect presents to us a picture of a people's moral
degradation and mental gloom caused by slavery. A people absolutely
sunk in the lowest depth of a poverty which reduced them to objects of
charity and surrounded them with difficulties which have ever stood as
impregnable barriers in their way to speedy advancement in all those
qualities that make the useful citizen. Every influence of state and
society life seems to be against their progress and like some evil
genius, these Negro hating ghosts are forever hunting them with the
idea that their future must be one of subserviency to the white race.

Hated and oppressed by the combined wisdom, wealth and statesmanship
of a mighty confederacy who watched and criticised their mistakes
which were s