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Rh toward the colored race; after arraigning the negro hybrids for being proud of the white blood in their veins, and informing them that they are still negroes; after rejoicing that the negro in the South is free; this writer proceeds to say: "Those at a distance cannot realize the situation the people of the South are facing, nor the conditions arising from living in the midst of hordes of negroes. One or two negroes may be to some tastes picturesque, spectacular, but to be in the midst of a whelming black flood, rolling its waves against the bulwarks of our civilization, overflowing our public highways and public conveyances, threatening our homes, is the condition which the men and women of our own race should investigate and realize, before they devote themselves to that strange philanthropy which is so tender of heart for the black brother or sister, and criminally ignorant of, and careless about, the terrible dangers that threaten the women and children of their own race, and which they may be so largely instrumental in precipitating.

"The all-pervasiveness of the negro, not by ones and twos, but by the million, with his ' equality ' insolence, his odoriferous person, his criminal tenden- cies, is a factor for danger and discomfort that must be held in check by the most far-seeing intelligence. There is no community where the blacks exist in any numbers, that they have not made themselves offensive to the whites — Washington, for example — and there is no other part of the country where this offensiveness, when short of actual criminality, is borne so forgivingly as in the South. They put on extra police force that their daughters in going to and from school may be protected from infamous remarks made