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Rh that is complete and thorough separation. Will this ever be done in the case of the negroes and their hybrids in the United States? No, I think not. I fear matters have now gone altogether too far to have any hope of such a thing's happening. Of course, we could do it, because we have the power, but it simply will not be done. Neither the government or those in power, as a whole, possess the necessary foresight and intelligence to perceive the danger. Some few do, but the vast majority do not; and, therefore, there can be no consensus of opinion in the premises, and certainly no accord in the action. As a race, the negroes themselves are altogether too pusillanimous by nature to dream of doing anything of the kind, nor have they the qualifications of mind, character, ability or organization to effect any such common movement. They are only great when sustained by a high civilization; remove this from them and they would all soon return to savagery and the practices of their forefathers, — their black forefathers.

What then? Just what I have said in print a dozen times during the last dozen years or more. Hybridization, mixing of the two races, and all the horrors, all the set-backs, all the assaults and consequent lynchings, all the increase of crime and rot of every imaginable nature which that entails.

The placing of the race in this country has been and still is a most supreme piece of stupidity, — no one's particular fault, in fact, perfectly natural, though none the less a glaring ethnological fiasco. Practically we exterminated the Indians occupying the country; we for years imported all the scum we could