No greater curse could ever have been inflicted upon a people They do not pay a price for liberty but seek comfort. wealth. than the importation of negro slaves into this country when luxu--ry. and ease. leaving behind them poverty. misery. pesti- their subsequent elevation to equal rights and privileges shall lence. and crime. They come not as adventurers bold but have in fact been consummated. We In the South are not so crowded In the steerage of ships. herded like cattle with their sensitive to its viciousness yet. for there a healthful social sentipassage paid by their governments for their riddance. So we mentakes the place of law and a proper distinction has served see the motive has in the course of events destroyed the pur- to prevent its evils. yet so gradual is its effacement that we are pose for which they came. callous to its everincreasing encroachments until some outstandLikewise. the conditions prevailing here have in the course of ing occasion awakens us from our lethargy. The other day one �events so materially changed that while they once readily of this race. with thick lips. curly hair. was entered Into a assimilated and became as one people. they now assimilate beauty contest with white girls in one of our northern cities. slowly. and frequently not at all.
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Immigrants seek comfort, wealth, luxury, and ease, leaving behind poverty, misery, pestilence, and crime. They are herded like cattle and their passage is paid by their governments for their riddance.