The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
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tion of racial trait that will repel and dishearten every
well-wisher of the Negro — cool faith in his ever attaining
a reputable social status.
The picture has one luminous
merit alone— it will serve to dispel delusions.
Displayed
at Washington, it is like a light set on a hill, imprinting
its lessons on every Congressman with more
convincing and impressive force than all the speeches and
writings in vindication of
the South 's racial policies."
"We may allow ourselves deceived by religious
fanatics, and
by designing politicians
— we may close
our eyes to the truth— but the fact remains; a very
considerable proportion of these mixed-bloods have
actually descended to a savagery in the midst of a high
civilization in which they were born and reared, and
this too, despite the most persistent efforts of the
Press, the Church and the State, to
educate, elevate
and Christianize them. And the worst feature is,
that what is termed the "better class" are in full
sympathy with the criminal class.
For years the misguided philanthropy of the
people of the North has prompted them to shower
their favors upon the negro with the most lavish hand,
and now the base born ingrate turns like a mad dog
upon his benefactors and bites the hand that fed him.
When the great bulk of these so-called negroes were
in the South the crimes of murder and rape w^iich
they delight to perpetrate were confined to that section,
and when the outraged communities would rise
and wreak summary vengeance upon some black