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120 the whites, you have the right to whatever the white man has a right to,' the object most desired by him is the forbidden, the unattainable white woman. In that over-and-over repeated story of the outrages in the South, it is almost invariably a white woman or white child that has been the victim, and a negro the criminal. The Southern white man knows that his wife is not safe in her home, nor his child in her bed, except for the vigilance and the surveillance of the law."

It is as true as black is not white when she says that "when one American woman was carried off by bandits the entire nation, even the government, was roused with indignation and anxiety. Almost daily in our own country beasts worse than bandits despoil the tender and the helpless. Good, conscientious, mistaken women are sympathizing with the black man, because they have not heard the little child's voice crying in the night and found their baby girl out of doors in her own blood, mangled and torn, nor seen some white woman's body with skull crushed and bruised breast, nor even heard the obscene infamies that, in wanton insolence, are spoken to the white girl or woman by the passing black."

Proceeding, this Southern lady shows up the record for all kinds of crimes in the South, and the increase of certain diseases. Eighty-five per cent, of the crimes committed in the Southern States are committed by negroes. Insanity is increasing among them to a fearful extent, and especially among the mulattoes. Tuberculosis has a similar showing, and the blacks there are especially prone to that disease, forming an immense nidus to propagate the malady and pass it along to the most susceptible types among the