As Alexander Pope expressed it: _Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace._ The South has nothing to gain and everything to lose in attempting to repress the energies and ambition of the colored man.

It is to the safety as well as to the highest efficiency of society that all its members should be allowed the same opportunities for moral, intellectual and material development.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." There is no escape from the law of God.

You either deal justly or suffer the evil effects of wrong-doing.

The disorders which have made the South a seething cauldron for fifteen years have produced the most widespread contempt of lawful authority not only on the part of the lawless whites but the law-abiding blacks, who have suffered patiently the infliction of all manner of wrong _because they were a generation of slaves, suddenly made freemen_.