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248 could, perhaps, submit to the loss of this with the same resignation which has accompanied his surrender of the rest. There are vague indications of cleavage. In some regions the inertia is being overcome. Com- munities are pervaded by aimless agitations like those which preceded the flight of the Tartar tribe across the desert. The " exodus " is an intimation of what may follow. The feasibility of this colonization of Africa, the cost and conditions of a migration so pro- digious, its effect upon the civilization of the two con- tinents and the destiny of the two races, are subjects too vast and momentous for consideration here. John J. Ingalls. Note 8. Page 159. Fortunately there are many, many people in this country who entertain very different opinions than those held by Mr. W. P. Garrison. Hundreds upon hundreds of negroes in this country would leave it now, were the way only properly opened to them. Years after Senator Ingalls published what is here reprinted in Note 7, and years after Mr. Garrison wrote me the letter he did (Chapter VIII., p. 159), this question of deporting the negroes now in the United States is as warmly advocated as ever. In sup- port of this fact, I here reproduce the admirable ad- dress of Mr. John Temple Graves, as it was published in the New York Times of Friday, September 4, 1903, (p. 3). It runs as follows : — FOR A NEGRO REPUBLIC John Temple Graves Advocates One in Philippines — Would Have No White Man Vote There — Hopeless to Solve Problem Here — Blacks Still Slaves. Chicago, Sept. 3. — In an address on " The Problem of the Races " before the forty-eighth convocation of the University of Chicago, John Temple Graves advo-