o blame. The Negro has been taught to believe that God is no
respecter of persons and therefore his subjects should not be. He
thought that if he did what other men did he would obtain the same
results.

Now evidently the Negro is a man. He loves as other men do, he lives as
others do, he dies as others die, he has joy and sorrow as others do,
even hates as others do, laughs and cries as others. He must therefore,
be a man as man is the only being which possesses these faculties. Then
he asks for a man's chance and the world will never be right until this
is given him. The world will never be safe for democracy until all the
races of the earth are allowed to share in it.

In answer to all of the foregoing questions asked me by both the white
and black, I have said that things will be better for the Negro after
the war. I have said that it was impossible for the world to be made
safe for democracy unless every county in the South is made safe for it.

I have gone as far as to cite a recent occurrence in Camden, Wilcox
County, Alabama, where more than one hundred and forty Negroes were sent
to the cantonments and I was asked to be one of the speakers on the
occasion. The white people there gave the Negroes a great banquet and in
my remarks after thanking them for their hospitality, I said "That it
would be foolish and cowardly on my part to stand here in your presence
and say that as a race we have no grievances, for we have them, but this
is no time to air them. When the house is on fire it is no time for
family quarrels, but the thing to do is to put the fire out and then we
can adjust the quarrels after.

"Today our National house is on fire and it is the duty of every man,
both white and black, rich and poor, great and small, to rise in his
might and put the fire out and when the fire is out, we will see you
about these grievances."

I went a step further and told that "already the war had brought some
good results as this was the most democratic day that this little city
had ever seen." Before the war, two expressions were commonly used by the
white man and the Negro. The Negro's expression was this:--"I haven't
any country," and the white man's expression was:--"This is a white
man's country." Now both of these classes are saying, "This is our
country." I further said that "we should win this war, because democracy
was right and autocracy is wrong, and if we lose, and God forbid that we
should, the fault will n