If you will give me your word I shall trust you, fully, completely.

But it must be given.

There is no other way by which I can accept your protection; there can be no equality between us--only an impassable barrier of race." "But I do not see this from the same viewpoint as you of the South." "Oh yes, you do.

The viewpoint is not so dissimilar; not in the same degree, perhaps, but no less truly.

You believe in my right of freedom; you will even fight for that right, but at the same time you realize as I do, that the one drop of black blood in my veins is a bar sinister, now and forever.