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I believe that these simple questions exceed in magnitude and
importance any other question or policy which is before this Country for
solution. For they are a curse to the country and a wrong in the concrete.
They may seem insignificant to some, but when we see now that it is poss-
ible and even probable for a President of the United States to be defeated
for re-election by the unity of citizens of foreign birth, who because
of their allegiance and sympathy for their native lands, have united and
banded themselves together to defeat him because he refused to make this
country an adjunct and subservient to the interest of the land of their
Nativity, it does not take a Statesman to foretell what the future holds
for America if she continues to withhold the ballot and an equal opportun-
ity from the sons who know no allegiance or love except to America. She
must shake off political slavery at the South and industrial slavery at
the North. Not only because humanity, justice and Christianity demand it,
but for the salvation of America. "The hand is writing upon the wall."

Well, how shall we proceed now at this late date, to shake off
these evil monsters, which since the overthrow of chattle slavery, we
have permitted to grow until now they are a very part of us. However,
"never too late to do good, " Shall we proceed to shake off these evils
and save our country, by the Northern people abusing the Southern people
or the Southern people abusing the Northern people as of oldr

This is certainly not the way, and can have no good affect.

For the South is not alone responsible for the conditions obtain
there, and the Colored man has not better friends than are found in the
South.

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