Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't." "Still," replied the Senator, "granting that he might injure himself in a worldly point of view, his elevation through education would multiply his chances for the hereafter--which is the important thing after all, Colonel.

And no matter what the result is, we must fulfill our duty by this being." "I'd elevate his soul," promptly responded the Colonel; "that's just it; you can't make his soul too immortal, but I wouldn't touch him, himself.
Yes, sir! make his soul immortal, but don't disturb the niggro as he is." Of course one of the entertainments offered the Senator was a public reception, held in the court house, at which he made a speech to his fellow citizens.

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Sellers was master of ceremonies.

He escorted the band from the city hotel to Gen.