Reason is the safest tribunal before which to arraign injustice and wrong; but it is not always possible to reach this tribunal.
The black and white citizens of the South must alter the lines which have divided them since the close of the war.

They are, essentially, one people, and should be mutual aids instead of mutual hindrances to each other.

By "one people" I don't wish to be understood as implying that the white and black man are one in an ethnological, but a generic sense, having a common origin.

Living in the same communities, pursuing identical avocations, and subject to the same fundamental laws, however these may differ in construction and application in the several States, it is as much, if not even more, the interest of the white man that the black should be given every possible opportunity to better his mental, material and civil condition.

Society is not corrupted from the apex but from the base.