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112 a danger of all dangers to clean and respectable government. I shuddered as I witnessed the scene. The same scenes can be witnessed at any election at any time in that State today. (See, Note 3, p. 197.)

There are those who say that the members of our own race are to blame for this, for they buy the votes, which is just as criminal as the fraudulent deposition of them, and even more so, for the higher race should set the better example. But this is simply illustrative of what I have already stated in a former paragraph. Were it not for the presence of the negro in such numbers in such places, the whites would not have the inducement to resort to such criminal practices. One never sees scenes of that kind in New York City, where but comparatively few negroes appear at the polls, and the votes cast at a general election run far into the thousands.

As a rule, the youth of the American negro are by nature great liars, they are nearly all predisposed to gambling; and the majority of them will steal. So far as example goes, they, in these respects, set a fiendish example to the coming generation of the youth of our own race in this country. Moreover, the young blacks are distinctly lewd and sensuous in their inclinations, and at early stages develop a desire to carnally possess white maidens and women, traits in reality they never outgrow, and which are a constant menace to the gentler sex of our people everywhere. This influence is extremely bad and the knowledge of it reacts disastrously upon the minds of our daughters and wives throughout the country, as I shall presently show. To have a fine, pure-minded, clean and cultured race grow, it is highly essential that it