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I am sure we are all of us very much indebted to the Senator from South Carolina for his very able and comprehensive speech regarding the most serious and important national problem of our time. the race question. We have today in our midst ten million of black people. manumitted about fortyfive years ago. and suddenly and mistakenly admitted to an equality of political rights with us. We have the problem before us relating to that race. involving the question as to whether these rights. so improvidently granted. should not be either withdrawn or modified. involving the question as to whether the Nation in a cooperative and helpful. and not in an intrusive. way should aid the Southern States in the development of this infant race toward selfcontrol. involving the question as to whether some form of assisted emigration of the blacks from our country should not be evolved that would diminish the existing dangers of race complications. We have also a duty to perform to seven million brown people in distant islands. in whose favor we are called upon to discharge a sacred trust leading to ultimate independence. We have confronting us in Europe three hundred million people of the white race. whose surplus population of those countries is eager to come to our shores.