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162 termixture the civilization it has taken us centuries to establish. As I have remarked before, it is not that I have anything against the black race in the United States, but I infinitely prefer to see all the elements of this great and growing Republic we are establishing here kept pure, on the same principle that were I building up a fine aviary, I certainly would not tolerate the presence of a lot of black, undesirable, unrefined, flesh-eating vultures among my sweet-singing, edu- cated and attractive bullfinches, — that is all. The talk is all humbug about the value of the negro vote. It has no value, because it can be bought by the barrel. So, too, it is all humbug to contend for the great value of the negro in the South as a laborer. Every living one of them might be wiped out of the South tomorrow, and whites would soon fill their room, and matters in time adjust themselves, and that with very decided profit to our civilization. Today, the best people, and the most far-seeing thinkers begin to realize the career upon which the black race is now launched here in the States. As fast as they take up in their composition the blood of the Indo-European, they still remain loyal in every single instance to their kind, and use their advantages simply to seek social equality with the dominant race. They crave political power and position, and were they sufiiciently numerous, they would seize it every- where at all hazards. It is only their inferiority in numbers which prevents them from doing this. All this is becoming more and more evident to our people in the " black belt," and it is dawning even on the thinkers throughout the Northern States.