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The 
 
 Voice of the 
 
 Third Generation 
 
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 By HENRY PECK FRY 
 
 of the Chattanooga Bar 
 
 P r i c e f Twenty Five Cents 
 
The Voice of the 
 Third Generation 
 
 A discussion of the Race Question for the 
 benefit of those who believe that the United 
 States is a white man's country and should 
 be governed by white men 
 
 By HENRY PECK FRY 
 
 of the Chattanooga Bar 
 
 Published by 
 the Author at Chattanooga , Tennessee 
 
 Price, Twenty Five Cents 
 
 Copyright 1906 MacGowan-Ccoke Ptg. Co. 
 
 By Henry Peck Fry ChaManooga 
 
,f1 
 
 To the American People 
 
 HOPING that in the interest of true 
 Americanism, the purity of the 
 United States Government, the discontin- 
 uance of violence, and the perpetuation 
 of the theory that this is a white man's 
 government, Almighty God will send the 
 message herein contained to every think- 
 ing man in the nation, and that " The 
 Voice of the Third Generation" will be 
 heard and its counsels heeded. 
 
 HENRY PECK FRY 
 
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The Voice of the Third Generation. 
 
 One Solution 
 
 THERE IS BUT ONE SOLUTION OF THE EACE PROB- 
 LEM. 
 
 That solution can only be arrived at by a thoughtful people hav- 
 ing no sectional or political interest at heart, but, looking at facts, 
 conditions and histor}', allow truth to predominate over prejudice, 
 and accomplish the result of placing this great American Re- 
 public on the high plane it should occupy. The race problem will 
 vanish into the gloom of an unpleasant memory of unpleasant 
 events, if one thing is done by the American people, and that one 
 
 thing is THE REPEAL OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT 
 
 TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 There has never occurred in American history an act of a legis- 
 lative body, a decision of a court, or the act of a set of public offi- 
 cials which has been so far-reaching in its damnable effects, so 
 destructive of American happiness, so annihilating, in its lowering 
 the standard of the priceless jewel of American citizenship, than 
 was this amendment to the Federal Constitution passed in haste 
 and now allowed by an intelligent nation to remain a law in this 
 great country. 
 
 The amendment, familiar to every citizen who has read the 
 United States Constitution, is composed of but few written words, 
 yet though small in size, it has become what will be the paramount 
 issue in the politics and the domestic economy of the country. 
 
 The exact words are as follows: 
 
 "ART. XV., SEC. 1. THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS OF THE 
 UNITED STATES TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR 
 ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY STATE, 
 ON ACCOUNT OF RACE OR COLOR, OR PREVIOUS CON- 
 DITION OF SERVITUDE. 
 
 "SEC. 2. CONGRESS SHALL HAVE POWER TO EN- 
 FORCE THIS ARTICLE BY APPROPRIATE LEGISLA- 
 TION." 
 
 On the repeal or annulling of this constitutional amendment, 
 consisting of either the greatest crime against intelligent citizen- 
 ship ever perpetrated by corrupt or fanatical legislators, or the 
 most glaring piece of legislative stupidity of which law-makers 
 have ever been guilty, depends the only solution that shows itself 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 to the race problem as it exists in the United States today. That 
 th. ir is a race problem developing in uncertainty as to possible 
 mit. Mm.', is a proposition that no thinking American citizen can 
 or will deny; and, its acuteness is increasing both on account of 
 tlu rapidity with which the negro is multiplying, the continued 
 evidence of his inferiority as a race, and the seeming ignorance of 
 people who have for years carried his cause as their own, as to the 
 true conditions which prevail in the Southern States. 
 
 It is for the purpose of enlightening those who remain in dark- 
 ness on this most vital question of Americanism; of urging upon 
 thinking people a demand for the good of the country that changes 
 should be made in our laws; of the protection of the welfare and 
 happiness of the American people; and for a peaceful solution of a 
 harassing question, a solution which means much to the march of 
 the aegro himself toward civilization, that this appeal to the Ameri- 
 can people is written, and in the significance of its title, showing 
 the changes taking place in the thought of the Southern States by 
 showing the attitude of the younger, or third generation, and de- 
 manding that in the name of future Americanism, broadness of 
 spirit and patriotism, that the negro be forever taken out of politics, 
 leaving this country as it should be, a WHITE MAN'S GOVERN- 
 MENT. 
 
 Generations In The South. 
 
 There are, living in the Southern States today, three genera- 
 tions of people, each having its distinctive characteristics, and each 
 cherishing its ideals and entertaining its beliefs. 
 
 These generations of people may be divided into, first, the peo- 
 ple who were at years of maturity in 1861, and who were active 
 participants in the Civil War; second, the generation which came 
 into being either shortly before, during, or shortly after the Civil 
 War. but who are now men past middle life; and, third, the younger 
 generation, who have been born since the days of the Reconstruc- 
 tion, and who are familiar with that dark period, not by personal 
 contad with a most distressful situation, but through the reading 
 of history and the conversing with persons who were present and 
 actively engaged in attempting to be good citizens under so trying 
 an ordeal 
 
 The firs! generation is almost gone. Its thin ranks remain only 
 tell us, of the younger generation, the record of the bravest body 
 of men, i nder the canopy of heaven, who ever wore a uniform, and 
 whi.se knightly bearing and chivalrous deeds of war will always be 
 our honor and glory. Whether or not, looking upon their great 
 struggle in the calm, dispassionate light of history, we agree that 
 their cause was right or wrong, we will always cherish and love 
 their record od the field of battle, ever remembering that had the 
 issue been today the question of adhering to the general government 
 or remaining to guard the portals of home and loved ones, w r e 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 would in all probability remain to guard those dear to us, and 
 fight for the supremacy of the State as they did in those dark and 
 gloomy days of 1861. The generation of the Confederacy passes 
 away. Their appeal for state's rights so valiantly made to the 
 arbitrament of the sword, was decided against them; their grand- 
 sons will appeal not to the weapons of war and violence, but to the 
 cool sense of judgment, the reasoning faculties of the greatest 
 people of the greatest country on earth, and the investigations of 
 human intelligence ; and, relying on the inherent spirit of fair play 
 and American manhood we have encountered in the college, on the 
 football field and in the walks of business, place the case in the 
 hands of the American people and ask them to assist us in working- 
 out our problems, involving the right to dispose of our domestic 
 questions to the best interests of the American Eepublic. 
 
 The second generation of Americans in the Southern States 
 consists of those who appeared on the stage of life immediately 
 before, during, or immediately after, the Civil War. While their 
 fathers were away from home they were toddling infants around 
 the fireside clinging to the skirts of the Southern mother. They 
 came,, too, during the bitter struggle, when young husbands and 
 wives were married, and the young husband often returning from 
 the battlefield, during a temporary lull of hostilities, to find that 
 perhaps while he had been serving his country in a hail storm of 
 bullets, a little stranger had been sent, as it seemed, from the 
 throne of God to bless his home and to make that hearthstone for 
 which he risked his life more sacred to him as he endured with 
 fortitude the dangers and duties of a soldier. Sometimes, too, the 
 young husband left a home filled with the new-made bliss of mar- 
 riage, and did not return at all, yet the little one came, adding to 
 the responsibilities and cares of the } r oung matron, whose teachings 
 have instilled since into his heart the integrity, the manhood and 
 the character which caused him to work to rebuild the beautiful 
 section of country but lately devastated by the carnage of conflict. 
 
 The Third Generation 
 
 The third generation consists of the young American of today, 
 ranging in years from eighteen to twenty-seven or eight. Born at 
 a period removed from the horrors of war, unfamiliar with any of 
 its real hardships, yet endowed with the courage of his ancestors, 
 strives to make the American Eepublic the strongest nation on 
 earth; and to whom the country is looking to perpetuate its ideals, 
 to carry the banner of American manhood and to govern the coun- 
 try when the generations surviving the bitter struggle have passed 
 into the "country from whose borne no traveler returns." 
 
 There are no more patriotic Americans on this continent than 
 the members of this generation. There are no sets of men, no 
 matter whether living in the ice-bound regions of Maine, on the 
 shores of the Great Lakes, or the beautiful hills around the Golden 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 Gate of California, who hold the ideals of the Eepublic more at 
 heart, and into whose souls shine the glorious light of Americanism, 
 than these young men but shortly emerged into the passage way of 
 life, and into whose hands will fall the welfare of the people of 
 their several Southern States. 
 
 Broad-minded in American spirit, conservative of the business 
 interests of American industry, and holding the traditions of the 
 American flag as their most sacred traditions, glorying in the deeds 
 of their Virginian Washington, their Jefferson, their Patrick Henry 
 and the long line of Americans who had carved from a forest 
 wilderness the government to which the world turns as the leader 
 in thought, in prowess and in industry. 
 
 Americans they are, these of the third generation, and to their 
 natural associations with history and tradition they have added 
 the association with the sons of New Hampshire, of Vermont, of 
 Massachusetts, of New York, of California and of practically every 
 state in the Union. 
 
 One of the greatest influences toward making a common coun- 
 try out of America has been the training of the college student at 
 the different institutions of learning in the United States. This 
 influence has not been in the mere passing of examinations, and 
 the acquisition of knowledge, which possibly could have been ac- 
 quired in other places, but it has been due to the rubbing together 
 in bonds of collegiate fraternity of youths from every state, each 
 receiving the ideas of the other and observing that while sections 
 or states may have their peculiarities, yet, underlying State, and 
 section and city, there is a broad spirit of oneness, a common cause, 
 a feeling of Americanism. The college boy from Tennessee perhaps 
 claims with the college boy of New Hampshire, and each sees in 
 the other the spirit of 1776, and each knows after years of associa- 
 tion that the great work they have done in securing an education 
 is not what the books contain so much, but rather they have im- 
 pressed upon them that 
 
 "The proper study of mankind is man." 
 
 On the football field the Georgia boy plays shoulder to shoulder 
 with the New Yorker, and on the opposing team, no doubt, the 
 sturdy Texan stands beside the stalwart Son of the West who comes, 
 perhaps, from the far away regions of the Oregon. The joys and 
 sorrows of college seem to these coming Americans but the training 
 for the future, when, in common, as they rushed the line in the 
 game of football, they must as American citizens play together the 
 
 at game of human life. 
 
 The voice of the third generation in the Southern States has 
 called in the past with a spirit of comradeship to the sons of the 
 aorthera Btates in our college life; the voice of the third genera- 
 tion calls now in a spirit of American manhood to the same sons 
 of the North and East and in unmistakable accents, armed with 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 the weapon of truth, and hearing the shield of argument, logic and 
 history, says to the sons of the North and East. YOUR FATHERS 
 COMMITTED A POLITICAL BLUNDER THAT IS RESPON- 
 SIBLE FOR THE RACE TROUBLES WE ARE HAVING IN 
 THE SOUTH, AND IN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN 
 FAIR PLAY YOU KNOW HOW TO SHOW, AS WE ALL 
 CAN TESTIFY, SOLVE THE RACE QUESTION NOT BY 
 THEORIZING INTO CONDITIONS WITH WHICH YOU 
 ARE IGNORANT, BUT BY REPEALING THE FIFTEENTH 
 AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION AND 
 MAKING THE UNITED STATES A WHITE MAN'S 
 COUNTRY. 
 
 The third generation says to the young American of the North 
 and East, firmly, understanding^, and without bitterness to the 
 negro, TAKE THE NEGRO OUT OF POLITICS AND YOU 
 HAVE SOLVED THE RACE QUESTION. THE NEGRO IS 
 UNFIT TO EXERCISE THE PRIVILEGES OF AMERICAN 
 CITIZENSHIP. HIS BEING IN POLITICS IS A MENACE, 
 AND, IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S DECENT, WILL YOU 
 NOT ALLOW US TO BUILD UP THE BUSINESS IN- 
 TERESTS OF THE SOUTH WITHOUT CONSTANTLY 
 HAVING THE DANGER CONFRONTING US OF NEGRO 
 SUPREMACY ? 
 
 The third generation says to the voung American of the North 
 and East, THIS IS A WHITE 'MAN'S COUNTRY. THE 
 NEGRO NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE THE 
 EQUAL OF THE WHITE MAN. LAWS WILL NOT CHANGE 
 THE NATURE OF THE RACE. EDUCATION HAS FAILED 
 TO DO IT. THE ALLOWING THE NEGRO THE BALLOT 
 IS ONLY A FALSE HOPE OF SOCIAL EQUALITY, 
 WHICH HELPS TO MAKE HIM MORE VICIOUS THAN HE 
 WOULD ORDINARILY HAVE BEEN. 
 
 The South Today 
 
 With this preliminary appeal to the Americanism of the young 
 men of the North and East, it might be well, before plunging into 
 a general and more specific discussion of the race question, to make 
 a few statements in regard to the condition of the South today 
 and its possibilities for the future. 
 
 The Civil War found the South in a state of devastation. We 
 of the third generation entering into the active duties of life, find 
 that the section is unsurpassed in the richness of its country and 
 the great opportunities which confront the people of the Southern 
 States. Where the boom of cannon once marred the scene, there 
 is now the hum of the wheels of industry, as raw materials are 
 converted into finished products going to every market on the face 
 of the civilized globe. New England, with its record of being 
 a great center of American manufacturing interests, will soon be 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 left behind in the race for commercial supremacy. The farming 
 lands of the west and the center of the nation had best look to 
 their laurels, for the soil of the south, rich in its fertility, offers to 
 the farmer a handsome return for his labors. The earth, in all 
 it- plenty, stands waiting for the ploughshare to turn the soil into 
 money. The mines, scattered through all the region, are opened 
 and from their cavernous depths issue an abundant supply of 
 mineral wealth which goes to make the fire of the engines, of home, 
 and commerce, to make-the rails of the railroad, the machinery of 
 the manufacturer, and even the coin of the realm. 
 
 Never before in the history of the United States have the States 
 comprising its southern section been so prosperous, and never have 
 the doors of opportunity been wider open than they are at present. 
 Business is good, commercial life at the high tide, and the people 
 everywhere are possessed with the idea of doing their share toward 
 making America the greatest nation of commerce on earth. 
 
 Tn the march toward the ultimate goal of commercial activity 
 and financial success, there have been problems encountered. Many 
 have been the storms through which we have passed, and through 
 which we have reason to believe we will pass in the future. We 
 have braved the harassing influence of poverty, we have struggled 
 with environment, and have encountered the opposition even of the 
 elements, but have emerged American citizens of finer liber. 
 
 A Grave Problem 
 
 THE GRAVEST PROBLEM WE HAVE BEFORE US TO- 
 DAY. AND THE STANDING MENACE TO THE ADVANCE- 
 MENT AND PROSPERITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 
 IS THE NEGRO PROBLEM, AND IN ITS SOLUTION WE 
 AIM-: PREVENTED FROM THE EXERCISE OF ALL OUR 
 FACULTIES TOWARD ADVANCING THE COMMERCIAL 
 SUCCESS OF OUR VARIOUS STATES. 
 
 The presence of the negro, as a constant danger and menace in 
 our political and social life, has caused more good American brain 
 and brawn to be expended than any one thing we have encountered, 
 and, until this great question is forever laid away and the principle 
 established that this is a white man's government, we will have 
 hanging over our heads a. black mantle obscuring business, and 
 have staring us in the face a black question mark which will, as 
 long as it remains, prevent our exercising our best judgment in 
 politics, in order to safeguard the people of our states, and place 
 protection around our homes and firesides. 
 
 We eannol attempt to overthrow the yoke, in some states, of 
 corrupt corporate domination without being held in line by schem- 
 ing politician- with the too true battle cry of "negro domination," 
 and we go to the polls and vote, not as free American citizens, but 
 as slaves, because we well know that should the negro get into 
 
TPIE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 9 
 
 power and hold our local offices, our wives and mothers and sisters 
 will have the insult of some vicious and ignorant negro politician 
 dictating the policy they should pursue in the daily duties of life. 
 
 THE SOUTH WILL NEVER STAND FOE NEGRO DOMI- 
 NATION. IT NEVER HAS AND IT NEVER WILL. THE 
 BULLETS OF GRANT AND THE DOCTRINES OF THAD- 
 DEUS STEVENS FAILED TO RAM THE NEGRO DOWN ITS 
 THROAT, AND THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE AMERI- 
 CAN PEOPLE TO SEE IT. 
 
 The solutions of great American problems of vast importance 
 to the people will be delayed until this matter of black disfran- 
 chisement is effected. The reforms in railroad questions, which 
 may ultimately lead to the complete government ownership of 
 railroads, will be delayed until the Southern people are forever 
 removed from the danger of having negro conductors, porters, 
 brakemen and engineers on the railroads. Having seen the bare- 
 faced impudence, the brazen effrontery and the vicious insolence of 
 the negro porters in some of the northern states, it would be quite 
 easy to imagine that in case the doctrine of government ownership 
 of railways be applied to the South, when negroes ran the trains, 
 how white ladies and children would be compelled, in ordinary 
 travel, to submit to the indignities offered by negroes backed by 
 the inflexible authority of the Federal Government. 
 
 The government ownership of express companies, telegraph lines 
 and the different forms of public service corporations which con- 
 trol the necessities of life in the different states, cannot be an 
 accomplished fact in the South with the possibility of officials of 
 the government having them in charge being of a race whose his- 
 tory has been written in the three words — Savagery, Slavery and 
 Ignorance. A negro is a negro, regardless of a smattering of edu- 
 cation he may have, and the protection of the government makes 
 him more vicious than in his ordinary condition. 
 
 The Negro's History 
 
 The history of the negro is the story of a race emerging from 
 the darkest depths of savagery to the initial rounds of the ladder 
 of an advancing civilization. As science teaches that the human 
 race has evoluted from obscure beginnings to its present position, 
 so the history of the negro may be traced from the time when he 
 dwelt amid the wilds of the Congo, down to the time when a 
 prejudiced American Congress armed him with a ballot and at- 
 tempted to make him the equal of a race which had produced a 
 Shakespeare, a Washington, a Napoleon and a Christ. 
 
 Savage and wild in the jungles, thriving and flourishing amid 
 the fiercest heat and the unhealthy dampness of the tropics, the 
 negro had his origin, representing the lowest type of the human 
 family. 
 
10 THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 Over fifteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, when in 
 the eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the civilization of 
 Thebes shone resplendent, the negro, barbarous and ignorant, with- 
 stood the virulent fevers and epidemics of the African swamps. 
 
 When Solomon rose to power, the matchless fountain of wisdom, 
 of the Hebrew Nation, shedding with the light of his learning a 
 luster into the hearts of men, and erecting a Hebrew civilization, 
 the wonder of the age; when the great Hebrew leader erected his 
 magnificent temple at Jerusalem to Jehovah, the One God, the 
 negro in his ignorance sat beneath the shade of the vegetation of 
 the swamp and poured forth his superstitious soul into the worship 
 of fetiches and idols and lizards. 
 
 When the Saviour of mankind went forth from Nazareth, and 
 step by step taught the doctrines, proclaiming himself to he the 
 son of the Living God, the negroes of Africa, dancing in sardonic 
 glee around the fetiches of elephants' teeth, offered prayers, held 
 festivals, sung their songs and offered human sacrifices to appease 
 the ire of the demons of the earth, the air and the forest. 
 
 When Grecian poets sang ; when Greece herself gave to the world 
 a Demosthenes, charming with his mighty eloquence the world of 
 men; when Grecian prowess withheld the furious onslaughts of the 
 then known globe; when Alexander ruled; when Lycurgus and 
 Solon administered the law; when Greece was culture and art and 
 wisdom, the negro was eating the flesh of negro in the equatorial 
 wilderness. 
 
 When Rome gave to the world its government, its laws, its men 
 of brain and iron, carving upon the annals of the human race its 
 Caesar, its Cicero and its Justinian, the African, naked and wild, 
 pursued the locust and the grasshopper for his daily sustenance. 
 
 GOVERNMENTS HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED, HAVE COM- 
 MENCED FROM OBSCURITY, REACHED THEIR ZENITH 
 AND PASSED INTO THE PAGES OF HISTORY, LEAVING 
 INDELIBLY STAMPED THEREON THE NAMES OF MEN 
 OF CAUCASIAN BLOOD WHO HAVE WON RENOWN IN 
 RELIGION, IN LITERATURE, IN ALL THE ARTS AND 
 SCIENCES KNOWN TO THE CIVILIZATION OF THE 
 TWENTIETH CENTURY, YET THE NEGRO AS A RACE 
 HAS NEVER CONTRIBUTED ONE IOTA TO THE SUM 
 TOTAL OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, OF DECENCY, OF 
 MORALITY, OF SCIENCE, OF RELIGION. 
 
 The history of the negro from the time lie flourished in the wilds 
 of Africa to the present date shows but the mimicry of the creature 
 of the tree top, and whatever he possesses in the way of intellectual 
 advancemeni has come from the Caucasian blood occasionally in- 
 jected in his veins. 
 
THE VOICE OF TH THIRD GENERATION 11 
 
 South Not Responsible 
 
 THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES ARE NOT 
 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE NEGRO IN 
 AMERICA. 
 
 There are two events so closely connected in American history, 
 that when one thinks of one, the other is recalled to mind. These 
 events were the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and 
 the first bringing of African slaves to American soil. On the one 
 hand was a brave and patriotic people fleeing from the oppression 
 which prevented their worshiping God according to the dictates of 
 their own consciences; and the other was a collection of men, 
 dragged from the savage wilds of the slave coast by Dutch traders, 
 and sold into bondage to the Virginia colonists at Jamestown. It 
 was near the year 1620 when these two events occurred, authorities 
 differing as to the exact date of either. A year later the cultivation 
 of cotton commenced, and the negro found his great field of in- 
 dustrial activity on the farms and plantations, although into the 
 northern and New England states he had been sold into slavery and 
 was used in the tilling of the soil. 
 
 The Puritan was owning slaves before many years. The Indians 
 were even enslaved, and King Philip's son was sold for New Eng- 
 land money. Finding the business of maintaining the African in 
 the cold climate of Plymouth Rock was highly unprofitable, the 
 New Englander sold his slaves further South and took up the tasks 
 of burning witches and serving God. 
 
 The slave trade flourished between America and Africa, the 
 traders being to a large extent Dutch and New Englanders, and 
 by the time the war of 1776 commenced there had been imported 
 300,000 negro slaves from Africa. 
 
 The first people to object to this nefarious traffic were the Quakers, 
 gentle followers of William Penn, and soon the cry was taken up 
 by the New Englander, because, forsooth, the Caverlierly Virginian, 
 the Carolina Huguenot and the Georgia Englishman were waxing 
 fat on the labor of the slave. Absence of cash, as is often the case, 
 provoked piety in the sanctimonious New England heart,, whose 
 pious flutterings had but lately failed to see anything shocking in 
 the work of committing outrages on supposed witches by burning 
 and hanging, far more brutal, cowardly and unwarranted than any 
 lynching ever occurring in the South, where negroes have been 
 dealt summarily with justice for assaults on white women. History 
 may condemn every state in the United States where the negro has 
 been lynched for committing dastardly assaults on the purity of 
 American womanhood. History will condone the man who pro- 
 tects the sanctity of his family with a gun; but, as future genera- 
 tions, yet unborn, scan the records and achievements of their fore- 
 fathers, they will stamp as the most infamous blot on American 
 civilization the "New England witch-burner." 
 
 '»•" 
 
12 THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 The organization of the United States government found the 
 country with 300,000 slaves. Their condition was far better from 
 a standpoinl of Law and order than it is today. They were treated 
 kindly well cared fur. taught the existence of a God and given as 
 ,„„,.], education as thev needed. THEEE IS NO EECOED OF 
 \ NEGRO'S HAYING COMMITTED AN ASSAULT ON 
 WHITE WOMEN BEFORE THE PASSAGE OF THE FIF- 
 TEENTH AM K\ ! >M ENT. This is true, although the negro was 
 constantly on the farm and the plantation with the white women 
 unprotected and unguarded, and although in the trying days of 
 the Civil War. when the battlefield required the presence of the hus- 
 band, the rather and brother, the women were safe in the care of 
 the negroes remaining at home. 
 
 The slave trade attracted the attention of the politician. At the 
 time the convention met in 1789 to adopt the constitution and 
 launched the experiment, at that time, which is today the greatest 
 government on earth, New England had commenced the agitation 
 'which Lasted through the war, the reconstruction, the after effects 
 and to the present time. The negro has for over a hundred years 
 not <iiil\ been a subject of the political drama, but one of its leading 
 
 actors. 
 
 Although there was much dispute in the early days, it is some- 
 thing to incite comment that the first steps to stop the slave trade 
 came from the much abused Southern States, and it might be well 
 to note in passing that GEORGIA, IN 1798, WAS THE FIRST 
 WIKIJICAX STATE WHOSE LEGISLATURE PASSED A 
 BILL PROHIBITING THE SLAVE TRADE. 
 
 The negro passed through the different stages prior to the Civil 
 War. He caused the mightiest debates ever held by the men of 
 brain and intellect in America, he brought matters to a crisis and 
 caused the mosl vital question that could arise under the Constitu- 
 tion, the righl of a sovereign state to withdraw from the Union, to 
 be referred to the arbitrament of war, from which resulted the 
 
 Lighter of thousands of American soldiers of both armies, the 
 rnin .if business, the accumulation of an enormous war debt, the 
 assassination of a great American presideni and the desolation of 
 thousands of American homes. 
 
 Slavery should never have been introduced in America. There 
 i- no argument existing todaj which sustains such an institution. 
 It is insisted, however, that the Southern people were never re- 
 sponsible for its condition, and in spite of incendiary speeches to 
 the contrary, and in spite of the utterances of Harriet Beecher 
 Stowe, the uegro was more kindly treated in the South sixty years 
 
 o than he is in many of the northern states today. The extinction 
 of slavery could have come without war. had the country followed 
 the advice of Mi'. Lincoln, who favored compensatory emancipation 
 and colonization. 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 13 
 
 Slavery was wrong, but worse than the wrongs of slavery was 
 the turning of millions of creatures, just emerging from the dark- 
 ness of barbarity, upon the American people. A crime against 
 decent American intelligence was committed by making practically 
 uncivilized people, ignorant of law and order, unable to compre- 
 hend the duties and requirements of civilization and citizenship, 
 and incapable of all ideas of government, as the equals of men 
 whose ancestors were ruling the world when the negro was naked 
 in Africa. 
 
 The government of the United States was debauched by a band 
 of political cut-throats and legislative pirates, whose intense hatred 
 for the people who had been forced into a war by the negro, and as 
 a pill to be fed the defeated States, invented the fallacious theory 
 that the negro was as good as the white man, and that he should 
 be allowed all the rights and privileges of American citizenship. 
 
 The third generation in the Southern States today are made to 
 suffer the social and political results of the Eeconstruction, and it 
 is time that an enlightened country, seeing conditions in the South- 
 ern States, should arise in the strength of American manhood and 
 repeal laws which experience has found to be dangerous, corrupt- 
 ing and unbeneficial. 
 
 IT IS Ts T OT TO THE MEN OF 1861 THAT WE LOOK FOR 
 ULTIMATE RELIEF, BUT TO THE THIRD GENERATION 
 OF THE NORTH AND EAST, WHO HAVE EVERTYHING 
 IN COMMON WITH US, AND WHO, BY THE STUDY OF 
 AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE OBSERVATION OF 
 PRACTICAL EVENTS, WILL LEARN THAT THE NEGRO 
 IS AN INFERIOR RACE, THAT HE IS INCAPABLE OF UN- 
 DERSTANDING THE TRUE REQUIREMENTS OF CITI- 
 ZENSHIP. AND THAT HIS RETENTION OF THE BALLOT 
 IS A PERIL WHICH WILL DISTURB THE BUSINESS, 
 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE WHOLE 
 COUNTRY. 
 
 Lincoln A Great Man 
 
 There is no more interesting historical reading than the utter- 
 ances upon the negro question of Abraham Lincoln. Opinions will 
 always differ as to the relative size of Mr. Lincoln as a man and as 
 a statesman. He has had his bitter maligners and his warm sup- 
 porters, both of whom have been extreme in their views as to the 
 personality of the war president. A careful study of the speeches 
 and writings of Lincoln convinces the unbiased American citizen of 
 today that his views as to the negro were sound. Of one thing there 
 is a certainty: MR. LINCOLN NEVER ADVOCATED, AND 
 NEVER BELIEVED IN EITHER THE POLITICAL OR 
 
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 SOCIAL EQUALITY OF THE WHITE AND BLACK RACES, 
 AND NEVER LOST AN OPPORTUNITY OF TELLING THE 
 WORLD HIS VIEWS. 
 
 In his famous debate with Douglass, in which both sides of the 
 controversy were thoroughly expressed, the utterances of Mr. Lin- 
 coln ought to convince the most prejudiced American who is un- 
 familiar with the negro's true condition, and who espouses his 
 cause from opinions inherited from fathers who held fanatical 
 views on the subject. 
 
 In the Lincoln-Douglass debate, Mr. Lincoln stated the follow- 
 ing views, in so plain a manner and in such clear language that 
 history cannot fail to show how the late president stood on the 
 negro question : 
 
 "I HAVE NO PURPOSE," SAID MR. LINCOLN, "TO PRO- 
 DUCE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EQUALITY BETWEEN 
 THE WHITE AND BLACK RACES. THERE IS A PHYSI- 
 CAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO, WHICH, IN MY 
 JUDGMENT, WILL PROBABLY FOREVER FORBID THEIR 
 LIVING TOGETHER UPON THE FOOTING OF PERFECT 
 EQUALITY. 
 
 "I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF MAKING VOTERS OR JURORS 
 OF NEGROES, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM TO HOLD 
 OFFICE, NOR TO INTERMARRY WITH WHITE PEOPLE. 
 I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE I DO NOT 
 WANT A NEGRO WOMAN FOR A SLAVE, I MUST NECES- 
 SARILY WANT HER FOR A WIFE." 
 
 Mr. Lincoln delivered the same views to the American people in 
 making the presidential campaign of 1860, held steadfast to the 
 principles of anti-slavery simply, but persisted with all the power 
 of his intellect to the close of the Civil War in the idea of simply 
 releasing the negro from slavery, without giving him any political 
 or social equality. The great scheme of Lincoln was the coloniza- 
 tion of the negro in certain territories and the payment to the 
 slave owners for the peaceful emancipation of the slave. Had Mr. 
 Lincoln lived to carry out his plans, there would have been no 
 race troubles, problem or issue before the American people today. 
 
 In his message to the first session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, 
 which met December 2, 1861, the President placed before that body 
 hi- views favoring "the voluntary action of the individual states by 
 the exercise of their own sovereign powers; compensatory emanci- 
 pation by the paying of adequate sums to owners of slaves, and 
 colonization," but his views failed to be received favorably. 
 
 Again in his message to the final session of the same congress, 
 Mr. Lincoln strenuously recommended the appropriations for 
 
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 gradual, compensated emancipation and colonization, giving many 
 valid reasons to support his theory. 
 
 Almost with the eye of prophesy he foresaw the dangers and diffi- 
 culties which would in future decades overspread the country, for 
 his message to this congress closed with the following appeal: 
 
 "Fellow citizens, WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY. We of 
 this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite 
 of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare 
 one or another of us. THE FIERY TRIAL THROUGH WHICH 
 WE PASS WILL LIGHT US DOWN IN HONOR OR DIS- 
 HONOR TO THE LATEST GENERATION. In giving free- 
 dom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in 
 what we give and in what we preserve. THE WAY IS PLAIN, 
 PEACEFUL, GENEROUS, JUST— A WAY, WHICH, IF FOL- 
 LOWED, THE WORLD WILL FOREVER APPLAUD, AND 
 GOD MUST FOREVER BLESS." 
 
 Lincoln has always received the credit for freeing the negro from 
 slavery. It is right and proper that the world should know that 
 his only intention was simply to eliminate slavery from American 
 soil, and not to place in the hands of ignorance the badge of Ameri- 
 can intelligence, the ballot, or attempt in any way to make the 
 negro the white man's equal. 
 
 The third generation in the Southern States insists that ABRA- 
 HAM LINCOLN BELIEVED IN, AND ADVOCATED, THE 
 MAINTENANCE OF A WHITE MAN'S GOVERNMENT AS 
 MUCH AS THE MOST PREJUDICED MAN IN ANY OF THE 
 SOUTHERN STATES TODAY. 
 
 To the doubter, it savs, go to the pages whereon are written the 
 records of the past, and IF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED 
 STATES BELIEVE THAT LINCOLN WAS ONE OF THE 
 GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, LET THEM READ 
 HIS WRITINGS AND HIS UTTERANCES, AND HEARKEN 
 UNTO HIS WORDS. 
 
 Unfortunately, however, for a peaceful solution of the race prob- 
 lem, Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, and the conditions became bad, 
 then worse. 
 
 THE BULLET OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH DID MORE TO 
 DESTROY THE PEACE AND HAPPINESS OF THE SOUTH 
 THAN ALL THE BULLETS FIRED FROM THE GUNS OF 
 LEE AMD GRANT, BECAUSE GOVERNMENT WAS RE- 
 PLACED BY HATE AND ANARCHY, AND THE RECON- 
 STRUCTION FOLLOWED. 
 
 The Shame of America 
 
 The beginning of the present race troubles was on the day when 
 Andrew Johnson took the oath of office, April 15, 1865. Here com- 
 menced the struggle between the executive power on the one hand 
 
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 and the legislative anarchists on the other. Johnson attempted in 
 his feeble way to handle the situation by issuing a proclamation of 
 amnesty t" the Southern leaders applicable to the rebellious states; 
 and an executive order in reference to North Carolina, and after- 
 wards adopted for other states. 
 
 The hatred for the South which had fired Thaddeus Stevens, 
 who was the leader in the House of Representatives, added with 
 Stevens* natural love for the negro, soon caused open rupture, 
 and it was not long before the South was absolutely in the clutches 
 of the most damnable gang of pirates ever disgracing the halls of 
 Congress. Stevens was made the Chairman of the Committee on 
 Reconstruction, and had hell itself opened and let loose its most 
 diabolical plans for torture, insult and torment and placed its fore- 
 most arch demons, armed with the steel of militarism, over the 
 Southern States, the conditions could have been no worse. 
 
 hi a short time President Johnson was swept aside, narrowly 
 escaping the loss of his political head, Washington became the cen- 
 ter of anarchy, and the South was slapped in the face. Freedmen's 
 Societies were organized by Stevens, inciting the negroes to revolt. 
 Ciime became a pastime, and amid the diabolical frenzy of the 
 devilish brain of Stevens, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal 
 ( institution, allowing the negro to vote, was born. 
 
 At the point of the bayonet the roots of society were upturned, 
 and the lowesl strata placed on top. Using the negro as a tool, 
 scheming scoundrels, known to this day as "carpetbaggers,'' came 
 to tile South, and began a series of depredations, in comparison to 
 which robbery, common thievery and even murder itself are names 
 indicating honor and civic virtue. Instead of being the beneficiary 
 the negro was made the victim of the carpetbagger, as the latter 
 with the votes of the negro looted every public treasury in sight. 
 Public delit.- were piled up; valuable franchises were lavishly 
 
 tnted; incompetency reigned; and the most infamous blot on 
 
 American history is the fact that the Federal Government of 
 
 Washington, of Jefferson, of Andrew Jackson and of Lincoln was 
 
 e agency for plunder, for unrestrained corruption, and 
 
 for wanton disregard for all that is decent. 
 
 TIM'; GIVING THE ISTEGRO THE BALLOT WHEN HE 
 WAS TOO IGNORANT TO USE IT. PLACING THE COUN- 
 TRY IX A STATE OF ANARCHY, WAS AN EXPERIMENT 
 IX CRIME QPOiS THE STATES LYING PROSTRATE 
 [JNDER THE IRON-SHOD FOOT Ob MILITARISM 
 WHICH THEY EAVE iSTEVER FORGOTTEN, A XI) WHICH 
 THEY WILL tfEVER BLOT OUT UNTIL AN INTEL- 
 LIGENT XAT!<;\ CORRECTS THE MISTAKE. 
 
 Thaddeus Stevens wen! as far a- he dared, but the waning power 
 of lus! lity was gradually apparent, and the states be- 
 
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 came what they were intended to become under Lincoln's plan, 
 except that the negro retains the ballot today. 
 
 Thaddeus Stevens became ill at length, was attended by two 
 negro preachers in his last illness, died, and AT HIS OWN KE- 
 QUEST, WAS BURIED IN A NEGRO CEMETERY. 
 
 Tracing the history of the enfranchisement of the negro from 
 those days, the third generation of the Southern States savs to the 
 third generation of the North and East, SEE THE RESULTS 
 OE THE INFAMOUS DAYS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, 
 AND BY THE TIES OF AMERICANISM YOU HOLD SO 
 DEAR, RECTIFY THE CRIME OF 1868 TO 1871, AND RE- 
 PEAL THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. 
 
 Amendments Really Unconstitutional 
 
 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE THIRTEENTH AMEND- 
 MENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS UN- 
 CONSTITUTIONAL, AND CONSEQUENTLY, THE SUC- 
 CEEDING AMENDMENTS, THE FOURTEENTH AND FIF- 
 TEENTH ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THE NEGRO RACK. 
 ALTHOUGH THEY WERE SO INTENDED, AND ON THIS 
 ACCOUNT THE TITLE OF THE NEGRO TO HIS LIBERTY 
 AND TO SUFFRAGE IS CLOUDED. 
 
 Radical as this proposition may seem, at the same time it is true, 
 and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the 
 United States Constitution are really not worth the paper on which 
 they were written. This can be shown by the very words of the 
 highest court in the country, which has never tried to show any 
 satisfactory reason for the legality of these amendments, other 
 than the arbitrary reason that they were constitutional. There 
 have been many questions arising under the three amendments, but 
 the United States Supreme Court has always assumed that the 
 amendments were valid, and not to be assailed. 
 
 The truth is that the thirteenth amendment to the Federal Con- 
 stitution was never RATIFIED BY ENOUGH AMERICAN 
 STATES TO MAKE IT VALID. 
 
 When the framers of the constitution of the United States met 
 to enter into a compact of government, it became evident that as 
 the country grew and new conditions arose, the Constitution would, 
 from time to time, require amendments to meet those eoiulitions. 
 Accordingly, in order to provide means to that end, an article was 
 adopted as follows: 
 
 Article V 
 
 "The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem 
 it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on 
 
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 the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several 
 States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which 
 in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of 
 this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of THREE- 
 FOURTHS of the several States, or by conventions in three- 
 fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may 
 be proposed by the Congress." 
 
 Various amendments were passed, twelve in number, which 
 were submitted to the legislatures of the States so soon after the 
 adoption of the Federal Constitution as to practically make the 
 amendments a portion of the Constitution itself. 
 
 THE REAL ISSUE OF THE CIVIL WAR WAS NOT 
 NEGRO SLAVERY. THE NEGRO AS A POLITICAL FAC- 
 TOR, HAD CAUSED QUESTIONS TO ARISE WHICH 
 DISRUPTED PEACEFUL RELATIONS, BUT THE PARA- 
 MOUNT ISSUE BRINGING ON THE WAR BETWEEN THE 
 STATES WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION 
 WHETHER OR NOT SOVEREIGN STATES, HAVING EN- 
 TERED INTO A COMPACT FOR MUTUAL PROTECTION 
 AND GOVERNMENT, HAD THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW 
 FROM THE UNION AND ESTABLISH A NEW GOVERN- 
 MENT. 
 
 THE SOUTHERN STATES MAINTAINED THAT THEY 
 HAD SUCH RIGHT. THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- 
 MENT DENIED THAT RIGHT, ISSUE WAS JOINED, AND 
 THE SOUTHERN STATES LOST THE DECISION OF THE 
 GREATEST CONSTITUTIONAL LAWSUIT EVER TRIED 
 IN THE COURT OF WAR. 
 
 In support of this proposition, the United States Supreme Court 
 has defined the status of the Southern States in the following 
 language : 
 
 "For the purposes of the National Government, the people of 
 the United States are an integral and not a composite mass, and 
 their unity and identity, in this view of the subject are not affected 
 by the segregation by State lines for the purpose of State govern- 
 ment and Local administration. Considered in this the States are 
 organisms for the performance of their appropriate functions in 
 the vital system of the larger polity, of which, in this aspect of the 
 subject they form a part, and which would perish if they were all 
 stricken from existence or ceased to perform their allotted work 
 
 "The doctrine of secession is a doctrine of treason, and practical 
 secession is practical treason, seeking to give itself triumph by rev- 
 olutionary violence. The late rebellion was without any sanction 
 of right of law. The duration and magnitude of the war did not 
 
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 change its character. In some respects it was not unlike the insur- 
 rection of a county or other municipal sub-division of territory 
 against the State to which it belongs. In such cases the State has 
 the right to use all the means necessary to put down the resistance 
 to its authority and restore peace, order and obedience to law. 
 
 "Whatever precautionary or penal measures the State may take 
 when the insurrection is suppressed, the proposition would be a 
 strange one to maintain that while it lasted the countv was not a 
 part of the .State, and was hence absolved from its duties, liabil- 
 ities and restrictions which would have been incumbent upon it if 
 it had remained in its normal condition and relations." 
 
 In other words, the Southern States were still in the Union, 
 and Mr. Lincoln's proposition was the correct one. Such being the 
 case, it is equally true that notwithstanding all that has been done 
 and all that has been said to the contrary, the SOUTHERN 
 STATES WERE AS MUCH ENTITLED TO VOTE FREELY 
 ON THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU- 
 TION AS MAINE, NEW YORK OR OHIO, AS EACH OF 
 THE SOUTHERN STATES HAD A GOVERNMENT OF ITS 
 OWN BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR EVEN 
 IF THE STATES FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THE NA- 
 TIONAL GOVERNMENT. 
 
 THIS RIGHT TO FREELY VOTE ON THE THIR- 
 TEENTH AMENDMENT WAS DENIED TO THE SOUTH- 
 ERN STATES, AND W 7 E HAVE THE CURIOUS ANOMALY 
 OF STATES WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN OUT OF THE 
 UNION HAVING THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT 
 HANDED TO THEM ON THE POINT OF A BAYONET 
 AND TOLD THAT THEY COULD NOT GET INTO THE 
 UNION UNTIL THEY RATIFIED IT. 
 
 Supporting the idea that three-fourths, necessary to ratify the 
 Constitution, were lacking, the reader has only to recall the actual 
 number of States which existed at the time of the Presidential 
 campaign of I860. There were, all told, thirty-three, and were as 
 follows : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con- 
 necticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary- 
 land, Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
 Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Missississippi, Louisiana. Arkansas. 
 Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, 
 Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Iowa, Missouri, and Oregon. 
 
 At the election of 1860 Lincoln received 180 electoral votes, 
 Douglas 12, Breckinridge 72, and Bell 39, Lincoln receiving the 
 majority of the votes cast and being the successful candidate for 
 President, Immediately following this election, the attempt WAS 
 MADE TO WITHDRAW FROM THE AMERICAN UNION 
 
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 BY ELEVEN SOUTHERN STATES. ACCORDINGLY. BY" 
 THE TIME THE CIVIL WAR ACTUALLY COMMENCED, 
 THERE WERE ELEVEN OF THE STATES OF THE 
 UNITED STATES ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH AN IN- 
 DEPENDENT NATION. 
 
 THESE STATES were Virginia, North Carolina, South Car- 
 olina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan- 
 sas, Tennessee and Texas. 
 
 THE PLEADINGS OF WAR WERE DRAWN UP, THE 
 EVIDENCE OF BATTLEFIELD PRESENTED, AND, IN 
 THE COURT OF WAR, THE ONLY' TRIBUNAL WHICH 
 COULD DECIDE THE QUESTION, THE DECISION WAS 
 RENDERED THAT THE STATES OF THE AMERICAN 
 GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTE A UNION, ONE, INSEPAR- 
 ABLE. AND INDISSOLUBLE. CONSEQUENTLY BY THE 
 DECISION OF THIS TRIBUNAL THERE WAS NEVER A 
 STATE OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE 
 UNION, THE DOCTRINE OF SECESSION WAS A FAL- 
 LACY, AND EACH SOUTHERN STATE HAD AS MUCH 
 RIGHT TO VOTE ON THE QUESTION OF ADOPTING 
 AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION AS 
 ANA' OF THE NORTHERN STATES. 
 
 The Federal Government at Washington was conducted with 
 in in- disregard to Constitutional Limitations. West Virginia, a 
 portion of the State of Virginia, was parcelled off without the 
 conseni of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to 
 this day has a cloud on its title of statehood. 
 
 Now according to the Constitution of the United States of 
 America, it was necessary that in order to establish the legality of 
 a constitutional amendment, it required the assent of twenty- 
 five American States to so amend the Constitution. 
 
 ONLY TWENTY-TWO STATES WERE GIVEN THE 0P- 
 PORTUNITY OF VOTING ON THE THIRTEENTH 
 AMENDMENT, RENDERING IT VOID, BOTH BECAUSE 
 THE THIRTY-FOUR STATES. COUNTING WEST VIR- 
 GINIA, IM1) NOT PASS ON THE QUESTION, AND FOR 
 THE FURTHER REASON THAT THE TOTAL NUMBER 
 OF STATES vOTING WAS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL 
 THREE-FOURTHS OF THE ENTIRE NUMBER WHICH 
 WAS TWENTY-FIVE. 
 
 HENCE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE LAND 
 THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL 
 
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 CONSTITUTION IS NOT WORTH LEGALLY THE PAPBB 
 ON WHICH IT IS WRITTEN, AND THE LAW ITSELF HAS 
 PLACED A BLOT ON THE EIGHT OF THE NEGRO TO 
 ENJOY EVEN LIBEEY ITSELF. 
 
 THE QUESTION THEN AEISES THAT AS THE THIR- 
 TEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE FEDERAL CONSTI- 
 TUTION IS ITSELF UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHAT IS TO 
 BE DONE WITH THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH 
 AMENDMENTS AND EXACTLY WHAT IS THE STATUS 
 OF THE NEGRO TODAY? 
 
 These questions can be studied by the people of the country, 
 but there is no question beyond the shadow of a doubt but that 
 the title of the negro to ANYTHING in this country is seriously 
 clouded. 
 
 THE THEEE AMENDMENTS WEEE EAMMED DOWN 
 THE THEOATS OF ELEVEN SOVEREIGN STATES, 
 WITHOUT THEIE FEEE WILL AND CHOICE, AND IN A 
 HIGH-HANDED MANNER, WITHOUT WAEEANT OF 
 LAW, WITHOUT EEGAED TO THE RULES OF GOVERN- 
 MENT, AND IN A MANNEE WHICH MIGHT MAKE 
 TYRANNICAL RUSSIA'S MODUS OPERANDI RESEMBLE 
 THE BENIGN BLESSINGS OF CIVIL LIBERTY. 
 
 The United States Supreme Court has assumed that the amend- 
 ments to the Federal Constitution were valid and in a decision 
 rebuking the State of Georgia for setting up the fact that her 
 State Constitution was adopted under coercion said : 
 
 "Congress authorized the State to form a new Constitution and 
 she elected to proceed within the scope of the authority conferred. 
 The result was submitted to Congress as a voluntary and valid 
 offering, and was so received and so recognized in the subsequent 
 action of that body. The State is estopped to assail it on such an 
 assumption. 
 
 "UPON THE SAME GEOUNDS SHE MIGHT DENY THE 
 VxVLIDlTY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. 
 THE ACTION OF CONGEESS UPON THE SUBJECT CAN- 
 NOT BE INQUIRED INTO. 
 
 "THE CASE IS CLEAELY ONE IN WHICH THE JUDI- 
 CIAL IS BOUND TO FOLLOW THE ACTION OF THE PO- 
 LITICAL DEPAETMENT OF THE GOVEENMENT AND IS 
 CONCLUDED BY IT. 
 
 "WE MAY ADD THAT HAD CONGEESS EXPEESSLY 
 DICTATED AND EXPEESSLY APPEOVED THE PEOVISO 
 
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 IN QUESTION, SUCH DICTATION WOULD BE WITHOUT 
 EFFECT." 
 
 If the JUDICIAL DEPAETMENT, meaning the courts, 
 WEEE BOUND TO FOLLOW THE POLITICAL DEPAET- 
 MENT, rather a queer statement, WHY DOES IT NOT FOL- 
 LOW THAT IF THE POLITICAL DEPAETMENT NOT 
 ONLY WAS ILLEGAL IN SECUEING THE EATIFICA- 
 TION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDEEAL CONSTITU- 
 TION BUT WAS CEIMINAL ABOUT IT, THE JUDICIAL 
 DEPAETMENT SHOULD BE COMPELLED TO FOLLOW 
 AN ILLEGAL LAW ? 
 
 It is customary for a court of law to examine the record in a 
 case, and decide the case on its merits. The facts in the case of 
 the wav eleven sovereign States were mistreated at the close of the 
 civil war, DESEEVE NO SUCH OPINION THAT CEETAIN 
 EESULTS WEEE FEEELY AND VOLUNTAEILY ACCOM- 
 PLISHED. 
 
 The words of the United States Supreme Court to the effect 
 that "HAD CONGEESS EXPEESSLY DICTATED AND 
 EXPEESSLY APPEOVED THE PEOVISO IN QUESTION 
 (THE AMENDMENT'S ACCEPTANCE) SUCH DICTATION 
 WOULD BE WITHOUT EFFECT," opens the doors to the 
 people of the present day to declare that the AMENDMENTS TO 
 THE CONSTITUTION WHICH WEEE SUBMITTED TO 
 THE PEOPLE, NOT IN THE EEPUBLICAN MANNEE OF 
 ALLOWING THEM FEEEDOM IN THEIE ACCEPTANCE, 
 BUT AT THE MUZZLE OF A EIFLE AND COMPELLING 
 THEIE ACCEPTANCE, THAT, THEEEFOEE THE AMEND- 
 MKNTS SO SUBMITTED AEE NULL AND VOID AND 
 MUST BE EESUBMITTED EVEN AFTEE THESE YEAES 
 TO THE WHOLE COUNTEY. 
 
 THE THIED GENEEATION DOES NOT DESIEE THE 
 MAINTENANCE OF SLAVEEY AND IT DESIEES TO GIVE 
 THE NEGEO EQUAL EIGHTS BEFOEE THE LAW, BUT 
 IT INSISTS THAT THE POWEE OF GOVEENING THE 
 WHITE PEOPLE WHEN HE HIMSELF DOES NOT UN- 
 DERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL PEINCIPLES OF GOV- 
 ERNMENT SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF HIS HANDS. 
 
 AS IT IS THERE IS A CLOUD ON THE TITLE OF THE 
 NEGEO TO HTS LTBEETY, EQUALITY BEFOEE THE LAW 
 AND TITS SUFFEAGE. 
 
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 The minds of the third generation, and of all subsequent gene- 
 rations will never be satisfied with the existence of arbitrary, unjust 
 laws passed and enforced with militarism, and remembering that 
 GOVERNMENTS WERE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN DE- 
 RIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT 
 OF THE GOVERNED, they will insist until these laws, which 
 were clearly not passed WITH THE CONSENT OF THE GOV- 
 ERNED be modified in some instances and taken off the constitu- 
 tion in the case of the fifteenth amendment. 
 
 The Solid South 
 
 The result of the passage of the Fifteenth amendment has 
 been the solid south. No matter what proposition might have 
 arisen, the hideous nightmare, of a repetition of the scenes enacted 
 by Stevens and his band, constantly arises so that people, who 
 might affiliate with different political parties, line up on all ques- 
 tions with practical unanimity fearful lest one vote might place 
 the reins of government again in the hands of another set of 
 "carpet baggers." 
 
 There are two great political parties. The South is, of course, 
 Democratic; but, repeal the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal 
 Constitution, and thousands of young men growing up in the 
 country would align themselves with the Republicans. The South 
 is the coming manufacturing country of the world, and its indus- 
 tries will spread through every line of endeavor. As the industries 
 increase the people will begin to advocate a system of protective 
 tariff on American manufactured goods, yet, as long as the negro 
 question remains, the chances for protection in Southern politics 
 are slim. 
 
 As before mentioned, the government ownership and control of 
 public service corporations might attract many to one party or 
 the other, yet, the danger of negro domination of these public 
 utilities is so acute, that thinking people in the South will not 
 stand for the proposition. 
 
 The aspects socially are becoming worse. The negro, having 
 the false hope of social equality held out to him, having been 
 politically declared the equal of the white man, is becoming inso- 
 lent, surly, and dissatisfied. 
 
 As friction increases between the races, the business interests 
 are disturbed, and as law and order becomes unable to hold down 
 the two, and mob violence ensues, as was recently the case in At- 
 lanta, the results are disastrous to the whole country; because, as 
 law becomes trampled under foot, the authority of the State is 
 suspended, and business cannot be transacted without the safe- 
 guards of the rules of society being observed. 
 
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 THE DIEECT AX I) ONLY CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE 
 IS THE KEEPING OF THE NEGRO CONSTANTLY IN 
 POLITICAL CSSUES, AM) ALLOWING HIM TO EXER- 
 CISE THE PKIVILEGES OF CITIZENSHIP WHEN HE 
 DOES NOT AS A RACE POSSESS SUFFICIENT CONCEP- 
 TION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT TO UN- 
 DERSTAND THE DUTIES OF A VOTER. 
 
 Efforts have been made by the people of the different States to 
 make the negro a creature of higher intelligence, but these efforts -A" ^ 
 have nearly all proven of no avail. Education has been tried in^ 
 every State in the Union, and in every Southern State the negro ^ 
 boy or girl has had the same advantages as the white children. 
 The consensus of opinion among leading educators, who have come 
 into active personal contact with the negro pupils, goes to show 
 that the education of the negro is a rank failure, and that no 
 amount of endeavoring to "raise the negro to a higher level by 
 educating him" seems to have done any real good for the race. 
 The most sensible plan proposed in the way of negro education 
 is to allow a common school education and then, in case the negro 
 wants any further instruction, let him work and pay for it. 
 
 The utter fallacy of expending public revenues derived from 
 taxes paid by white people, almost entirely, for the teaching negroes 
 higher Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Latin or any of the 
 higher branches of education, when the graduates, with the excep- 
 tion of a mere sprinkling, enter the lowest walks of life, and con- 
 tinue their courses of immorality, ignorance, prostitution and 
 crime. 
 
 Churches have been erected to teach ideas of religion to the 
 negro, but these organizations are honey-combed with politics and 
 matters foreign to the service of a Supreme Being. Very often 
 !'« negro preacher is an immoral, lustful creature, who does more 
 to tear down the morals of his negro women than he does to preach 
 the doctrine of the salvation of souls. 
 
 The negro, taking him as a whole, is a shiftless quantity. Any 
 man who observes the dives and his places of immoral congregation 
 know.- that never before in the history of this country have there 
 been so many idle negroes. Wages paid by manufacturers are 
 better today than they have been for years, yet the negro will work 
 a \'rw days, only hum- enough to get enough money to pay for 
 drunkenness the resl of the week, and to bear his idleness and shift- 
 Lessness. 
 
 Good Negroes 
 
 There are some good negroes in every line. They are men who 
 have succeeded in spite of the natural inclinations of their race. 
 There are excellent negro lawyers, men of absolute integrity; there 
 are good and successful business men among the negro population. 
 
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 who are an honor to their race; there are good negro doctors, and 
 in almost every line there are shining examples, but the most 
 noticeable fact about the good negro is that he CARES NOTH- 
 ING FOR POLITICS, AND WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED 
 ONE WAY OK THE OTHER IF HE WERE DISFRAN- 
 CHISED IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE LAWLESS ELE- 
 MENT OF HIS RACE FROM KEEPING IN POLITICAL 
 POWER. 
 
 The good negro always condemns lawlessness, and urges his fel- 
 lows to leave public questions, low dives and accompanying vices 
 alone. The good negro, realizing social equality with the white 
 race impossible, is never heard from on the subject. It is only the 
 vicious element whose self-opinionated folly makes society dan- 
 gerous. 
 
 Dangerous Factors. 
 
 The most dangerous factor, in the solution of the race problem, 
 is the man, who, without studying the true conditions in the South, 
 takes the side of the negro and attempts to lift him up to a level 
 with the white population. The result is that the one who makes 
 so unfortunate a mistake usually lets himself down to the negro's 
 level instead of accomplishing any real good for the negro. 
 
 As a general rule, when people who have lived all their lives in 
 the northern states, away from the negro and the conditions im- 
 posed by him, come to the South, for a short time, while they are 
 here, they are loud in their expressions of sympathy for the negro ; 
 but, as soon as the housewife becomes entangled with the perplex- 
 ing question of negro servants, is the victim of thefts of valuables, 
 incompetent service and observes the general negro character, the 
 cause of race reform has gained an advocate who is more bitter 
 than the Southerner. 
 
 NORTHERN PEOPLE, WHO LEARN FROM EXPERI- 
 ENCE THE TRITE CONDITION OF THE NEGRO, AS A 
 GENERAL RULE, ARE FIRED WITH AN ABSOLUTE 
 HATRED OF THE NEGRO, AND BECOME MORE RADICAL 
 THAN THE SOUTHERNER CARES TO BE. 
 
 The ministry, when it departs from its regular duties and enters 
 the realms of the race problem, does far more damage to the cause 
 of peace than even a brutal negro; and, when a Northern preacher, 
 who utterly refuses to mix and mingle with the people and study 
 the conditions, takes up the cause of a negro, as is sometimes 
 the case, who may have assaulted a white woman, he is a more dan- 
 gerous element to society than the negro who perpetrates the deed. 
 
 The press has done a great deal toward showing the false door 
 of hope to the negro. By constantly preaching equality to him, it 
 has made him more vicious. Incendiary headlines denouncing mobs 
 
26 THE VOICE OF THE THIKD GENERATION 
 
 who have lynched rape fiends, have in the past added fury to the 
 flames of discord, the ignorant negroes taking such denunciation 
 as an expression of approval of the negro, and a condemnation of 
 the mob. 
 
 The efforts of the false teacher, writer and preacher to solve the 
 race problem have been futile, and when New Englanders come to 
 the South, and, attempt to incite riot, by abusing people who were 
 born in the Southern States, and, who have been raised amid all 
 the awful conditions of threatened negro supremacy, the South- 
 ern man, has BUT ONE MESSAGE TO GIVE TO NEW ENG- 
 LAND, AND. THAT IS, THE SOUTH IS AMPLY ABLE TO 
 ATTEND TO THE HANDLING OF LOCAL QUESTIONS 
 WITHOUT YOUR UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE. 
 
 IF NEW ENGLAND WANTS TO SOLVE THE RACE 
 PROBLEM, LET NEW ENGLAND SHOW HERSELF AMERI- 
 CAN ENOUGH TO REPEAL THE FIFTEENTH AMEND- 
 MENT, AND THE SOUTH WILL GUARANTEE THAT 
 THERE WILL BE NO MORE TROUBLES. 
 
 It does seem, though, that men will ever fail to investigate and 
 will ever refuse to learn. The experiment of Thaddeus Stevens 
 failed absolutely of its purpose, if it had a purpose outside of 
 hatred of the Southern people, and instead of benefitting the negro 
 on his journey toward civilization, has harmed him infinitely by 
 placing him in a false attitude with himself. 
 
 The result of the reconstruction was the instilling into the sim- 
 ple minds of the negro the deeds of lust, of animosity and deviltry, 
 which did not exist before he had the ballot. The fires of hatred 
 lighted by Stevens caused the negro to commit crimes of rape and 
 murder, from which their whole race has suffered. 
 
 Primarily a rural people, they have swarmed to the towns, there 
 to be made the worse dregs of criminal life. Their misguided 
 friends, who may have wanted to help them, have done them an 
 injury by unconsciously encouraging them with false promises. 
 
 Criminal Assault 
 
 PRIOR TO 1861, THERE ARE NO RECORDED CASES OF 
 CRIMINAL ASSAULTS BY NEGROES UPON THE PER- 
 SONS OF WHITE WOMEN. 
 
 SIAVK THE PASSAGE OF THE FIFTEENTH AMEND- 
 M KXT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION THERE HAVE 
 BEEN SO MANY CASES OF THIS CHARACTER THAT 
 THEIR SICKENING DETAILS ARE WELL KNOWN TO 
 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 27 
 
 WITHOUT HESITATION, IT HAS BEEN THE POLICY 
 OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY TO MEET THE 
 OUTRAGES OF THE NEGRO WITH SWIFT AND SPEEDY 
 PUNISHMENT, AND THAT PUNISHMENT HAS BEEN 
 DEATH. 
 
 It is natural to suppose that, the above facts being true, the pri- 
 mary reason why mobs have been organized and lynchings have taken 
 place, not only in the South, but in the states of Ohio, Indiana, 
 Illinois and others north of the Ohio river, all caused by the com- 
 mission of this horrible crime; and, since this character of crime 
 was not committed before the negro was made the political equal 
 of the white man, it follows that the direct cause of the commission 
 of the crime of rape is the existence of the Fifteenth Amendment 
 to the Constitution. 
 
 The American Indian, a ward of the Government, has no elective 
 franchise, and consequently we never hear of the Indians having 
 committed criminal assaults on white women, vet from Indian 
 blood has come some of the best citizenship of the nation. The 
 Indian is not a citizen. The negro is, and the results of negro 
 citizenship has proven itself to be disastrous. 
 
 It is almost impossible to attempt to illustrate to the man who 
 lives in the northern states, unaccustomed to the presence of the 
 negro, the conditions in nearly every part of the South. One 
 might try to give facts and figures until doomsday, and fail to con- 
 vince the reader, who becomes a convert as soon as he enters the 
 Southern territory. Upon arriving there he sees around each little 
 way station large numbers of shiftless, idle and vicious negroes. 
 Creatures of but little intelligence but the sagacity of viciousness, 
 and ready to steal, to lie, to commit crimes of any or every nature. 
 As the traveler goes further into the states where the black belt 
 exists and the negro population is larger than that of the white 
 people, if he would alight from his train, and stop at one of the 
 small Southern towns, he would have his eyes opened. 
 
 It is in regions that are occupied by the shiftless class of negro 
 population, where they outnumber the white people, that the negro 
 is most vicious, and where assaults against white women have been 
 more often committed. It is here that the farmer going to the 
 fields, leaving his unprotected wife and children at home, is con- 
 stantly in dread lest upon his return he would find the home ruined. 
 
 So, it is almost a task of impossibility to attempt to show the 
 conditions without personal observation, which always convinces. 
 Suffice it to say, however, that the women living in the territory 
 surrounded by negroes are always menaced with a terrible fear, 
 a horrible vision, a frantic nightmare. 
 
 When the crimes are committed, one can well imagine an 
 aggrieved husband, a brother or father coming to his home, and 
 finding the home blighted. He seeks vengeance, summons the 
 
28 THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 neighbors, who have in common with their unfortunate brother the 
 same fear hanging over their houses, and the party finds the guilty 
 one. After identification, he is lynched. 
 
 THERE IS NO WORD OF COOL ARGUMENT WHICH 
 CAN ALLAY THE PEELING OF PERSONAL OUTRAGE TO 
 A SOUTHERN WHITE MAN WHOSE WOMEN HAVE BEEN 
 ASSAULTED BY A NEGRO; NO LOGIC CAN APPEASE HIS 
 WRATH ; NO RULE OF CONDUCT WHICH WILL GIVE HIM 
 BACK HIS PRICELESS JEWEL LOST. 
 
 There is one rule of law which appeals to the white men of the 
 South, no matter whether they are native born or have moved from 
 the northern states, and that rule is: 
 
 WHEN THE WOMANHOOD OF AMERICA IS DE- 
 SPOILED THE CRIME SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH 
 DEATH. 
 
 In some cases, where there has existed a doubt in the mind of 
 the citizens, the matter has been brought to the courts of law and 
 trials resorted to. Then we have had the shocking spectacle of a 
 curious aggregation of court room hangers on craning their necks 
 to see the outraged victim, who had been seized by the hands of a 
 negro, and as the intelligent spectator sees the weeping victim re- 
 lating in accents of pity the sorrowful story of the crime, her words 
 uttered amid paroxysms of shame and grief, the spectator says 
 
 down in his heart of hearts, "IF THIS CRIME HAD OCCUR- 
 RED IN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY, HOW IN THE NAME 
 OF GOD COULD I HAVE ANY OF MY WOMEN FOLKS 
 FACE SUCH A TERRIBLE ORDEAL?" AND THE CHANCES 
 ARE THAT IN CASE IT DID HAPPEN, THEY WOULD 
 NOT HAVE TO COME. 
 
 Lynching has been discussed in all of its phases, but it resolves 
 itself I );uk to the crimes committed by the negro upon the person 
 of white women, the unspeakable horror of atrocity. This crime 
 is the cause of ninety-nine per cent, of the lynchings which have 
 taken place in the country. 
 
 Although there have been thousands of people to rise and con- 
 demn the mob spirit, and thousands of men to write lurid denuncia- 
 tions of the mob law, yet the real spirit of the American people is, 
 that in cases of rape, the act of putting the negro to death is justi- 
 fiable, for the reason that an assault of this character is an attack 
 on the purity and sanctity of the American home; there is too 
 much danger of the twists and technicalities of the law preventing 
 the meting out of speedy punishment; and, no self-respecting white 
 man wants his wife, his mother, daughter or sister dragged into a 
 court room to be shown as a pitiful spectacle, a heartrending victim 
 of the assault of a human fiend. 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 29 
 
 Mob law itself, the overthrowing of the authority of the state, 
 the reign of anarchy which knows no counsel save its own angry 
 passions, cannot he defended as an influence of civilized law. No 
 man, no matter how well versed in the law, can or will dare to 
 defend the mob as a legal proposition, because legally the mob has 
 no defense. 
 
 THE DEFENSE OF MOB LAW AND THE REASON WHY 
 THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DEEP 
 DOWN IN THEIR HEARTS EXPRESS A SYMPATHY FOR 
 THE ENRAGED CITIZENS, WHO HANG A RAPE FIEND, IS 
 BECAUSE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE 
 CASE. 
 
 THE PERSONAL EQUATION, OF EACH AMERICAN, 
 WHO LOVES THE SWEETNESS AND PURITY OF AMERI- 
 CAN WOMANHOOD, DICTATES AN INNATE SYMPATHY 
 WITH THE AMERICAxY MOB, AND NO MATTER IN WHAT 
 PART OF THE NATION THE THINKER LIVES, HE WILL 
 INVOLUNTARILY ASK HIMSELF THE QUESTION, 
 "WHAT WOULD I DO IF MY WIFE OR SISTER OR 
 MOTHER OR DAUGHTER WERE ATTACKED BY A SAV- 
 AGE BEAST IN HUMAN FORM, BENT ON HER RUIN?" 
 
 When each thinking man in America places himself in the at- 
 titude of the victim of the crime, his notions of law and administra- 
 tions of justice vanish into oblivion, and he becomes one of the 
 mob in spirit, and the chances are that he will lead it if lie is so 
 unfortunate as to suffer the crime in his immediate family. 
 
 Mob law did not exist in the South before the Fifteenth Amend- 
 ment; crimes against women were unheard of; does it not follow 
 that by taking the ballot, the false badge of equality, from the negro, 
 you have done much to prevent his laying his hands on white 
 women ? 
 
 If Filipino, Why Not Negro? 
 
 One of the most powerful arguments of why the negro should be 
 disfranchised throughout the country is the comparison of the 
 manner in which the United States government went about the 
 solution of the race question at the conclusion of the Civil War. 
 and at the close of the Spanish-American struggle. In the first 
 instance, the government, under the control of the Thacldeus 
 Stevens type, thrust suffrage upon ignorant men who were unfit 
 for its benefits; in the second case, men of the McKinley, Taft, 
 Root and Roosevelt type saw clearly that the natives of the Philip- 
 pine Islands were incapable of self-government. Hence the modern 
 statesman saw, that, in order to bring the Filipino up to a correct 
 standard, he must be held in restraint and taught step by step the 
 duty of citizenship and the rights and advantages of government. 
 
30 THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 HAD THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT 
 THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR DEVOTED AS MUCH 
 SENSIBLE THOUGHT, SPENT AS MUCH MONEY, TIME 
 AND BRAINS IN THE SOLUTION OF THE QUESTION 
 OF THE DISPOSAL OF THE EX-SLAVE, AS IT HAS IN 
 LOOKING AFTER THE WELFARE OF FARAWAY INHAB- 
 ITANTS OF ISLANDS SO DISTANT THAT ONLY THE 
 PRIZE PUPIL IN A GEOGRAPHY CLASS KNEW THEY 
 EXISTED TEN YEARS AGO, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN 
 NO RACE QUESTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 
 
 THE NEGRO IS NOT AS A RACE AS INTELLIGENT AS 
 THE FILIPINO, AND YET THE FILIPINO MUST WAIT 
 UNTIL HE IS TAUGHT THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERN- 
 MENT, WHILE THE NEGRO, GROWING MORE WORTH- 
 LESS AND MORE VICIOUS, REFUSES TO LEARN, DE- 
 VELOPING INTO CRIME, IS DECLARED THE EQUAL OF 
 THE CAUCASIAN RACE. 
 
 IF IT WERE NOT SO SERIOUS A PROPOSITION IT 
 WOULD BE RIDICULOUS. 
 
 Having shown the true condition of the negro in the preceding 
 pages, having discussed, from the viewpoint of a member of the 
 third generation of the Southern States, each phase, there is summed 
 up only one conclusion, based on practical experience, knowledge of 
 conditions, and the facts of history. 
 
 THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH IS AN INFERIOR RACE 
 TO THE CAUCASIAN. 
 
 HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES OF 
 GOVERNMENT. 
 
 THE GRx\NTING OF THE BALLOT TO HIM WAS A 
 MISTAKE, A CRIME AGAINST THE NEGRO AND THE 
 PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. 
 
 THE WRONG CAN BE RECTIFIED BY THE STATES OF 
 TPIE UNITED STATES, EITHER BY REPEALING THE 
 INIQUITOUS TAINT TO THE CONSTITUTION OR BY 
 DECLARING THAT THE AMENDMENT WAS NEVER 
 ACTUALLY PASSED. 
 
 Americanism Means Honesty 
 
 The present period in the history of the United States has been 
 one in which the entire nation has been startled by the disclosures 
 which have taken place in the lines of corruption in business, the 
 criminality among public officials, and the restoration to the rules 
 of ordinary honesty the principles of the American government; 
 
THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 31 
 
 yet, while men have been engaged in the mad pursuit of wealth 
 and in the correction of evils appertaining thereto, VITAL PRIN- 
 CIPLES CONCERNING NOT MERE WEALTH, BUT THE 
 PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OP THE PURITY 
 OF THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE HAVE BEEN ALLOWED 
 TO STAND, AND THE PEOPLE, BLIND IN THEIR CHASE 
 AFTER MATERIAL RICHES, SEEK NO REMEDY TO PRE- 
 VENT CRIME, TO ELIMINATE THE DEBAUCHERY OF 
 THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE, BUT WHEN OUTBREAKS 
 OCCUR IN THE SOUTH, THERE IS A LOUD OUTCRY 
 FROM PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW, AND IT SEEMS 
 WILL NOT LEARN, AND A DEMAND FOR VIOLENCE TO 
 CEASE. 
 
 Charity Begins at Home 
 
 IGNORANCE OF CONDITIONS IN AMERICA WILL CON- 
 STITUTE NO EXCUSE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS 
 
 THE TRUTH IS IN THE REACH OF EVERY AMERICAN 
 CITIZEN, AND THE TIME HAS COME IN OUR HISTORY 
 WHEN THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD, AND THE AMERI- 
 CAN PEOPLE AWAKENED TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF 
 THE SITUATION. 
 
 THE THIRD GENERATION IN THE SOUTH, AS GOOD 
 AMERICAN'S AS THE THIRD GENERATION OF BOSTON, 
 OF NEW YORK, OF CHICAGO, OF ST. LOUIS, OF DENVER 
 AND OF SAN FRANCISCO, ARE LIVING IN ACTIVE CON- 
 TACT WITH THE SITUATION. 
 
 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST LISTEN TO "THE 
 VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION." 
 
 The third generation calls to its brothers in the patriotic North ; 
 the great middle section where the American flags stands next to 
 the love of God and the devotion to the purity of the home; it calls 
 to the Golden West, across the prairies, across the fields where waves 
 the ripening grain; it calls beyond the lofty peaks of the Rockies 
 to the sons of the mountains; far away even to the beautiful Yo- 
 semite, the Coast Range; and, the patch of the artistic creation of 
 the Almighty the lovely Golden Gate ; it calls, not begging or be- 
 seeching, but in the full strength of Americanism, seriously, earn- 
 estlv and looking to the best interests of the greatest nation in the 
 world, IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RE- 
 PUBLIC; IN THE NAME OF THE PURITY OF THE 
 AMERICAN HOME AND THE CAUCASIAN RACE; IN THE 
 NAME OF THE PERPETUATION OF A WHITE. MAN'S 
 GOVERNMENT, REPEAL THE FIFTEENTH AMEND- 
 MENT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION AND TAKE 
 THE NEGRO OUT OF POLITICS. 
 
: ; 1906 
 
 32 THE VOICE OF THE THIRD GENERATION 
 
 To The Reader: 
 
 YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE READING OF FACTS 
 WHICH CAN BE VERIFIED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE 
 LIVING IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. YOU ARE URGED 
 IN THE INTERESTS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST 
 IN SPREADING THESE FACTS TO THE AMERICAN PEO- 
 PLE, HENCE IF YOU AGREE WITH THE AUTHOR IN 
 II1S PRESENTATION, SECURE ADDITIONAL COPIES OF 
 THIS PUBLICATION AND SEND THEM TO YOUR AC- 
 QUAINTANCES WHO HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPOR- 
 TUNITY OF STUDYING THE SITUATION BY PERSONAL 
 CONTACT. 
 
 HENRY P. FRY, 
 
 Chattanooga, Tennessee 
 
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