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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: July 16th, 1862

Died: March 25th, 1931

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