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22 fice. They are distinctly drawn; let us mount the high ridges and travel backward, but let us not presume to look down into the valleys,for dense fog will meet us. No people now exist who can trace more clearly their paternity than the negro. The genealogical table of the Jew, written upon the skin of beasts has perished, but the genealogical table of the negro, written in his own flesh, remains. Ages of scourging have not sufficed to erase it. Written by the finger of God, it is more enduring than the stones of Sinai. It remains, and will remain the badge of our suffering, the badge of our triumph.