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244 A Cincinnati man, who signs himself " Reader," writes : " Inclosed find clipping from The Cincinnati Enquirer, which is the production of the very lowest type of a Southern man, and the producer is not worthy to be called reverend. I suppose it's also God's law for you dirty so-called ministers to go around breaking up families, as you have done for years, and are still doing. Any one who will mix God's law with the law made by one of your type should not be allowed to preach to decent congregations." K. D. Marshen, of Niles, Mich., writes : is right should be himself lynched, and hell is now full of better men than the minister who would preach such a sermon." Another, bearing a Houston, 111., date, denounces Mr. Hillyer as a negro hater, and declares that his ser- mon is calculated to inspire mob law, not only throughout the South, but in every State in the Union. Referring to the letters, Dr. Hillyer says : " There is no doubt of the truth of every declaration I made in that sermon, and I stand squarely upon every ut- terance in that pulpit that night." Still the broil is kept up. Negroes here, negroes there, negroes everywhere. Wherever the}^ settle, trouble, turmoil and crime are all immediately in evi- dence. Their very presence will often depreciate property, even if they do not come to comimit rape and murder, steal and lie. The following clipping, taken from the same paper and page as above, amply demonstrate this : — OBJECT TO NEGRO NEIGHBOR Residents of a Baltimore Street Plan to Force Him to Move. (Special to The New York Times.) Baltimore, Md., Sept. 6. — The white residents in a block in East Monument street were holding indig-
 * ' A man who will use the Bible to prove lynching