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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt:... permits such things. True, there are liberal men here who denounce these outrages, but they seem powerless to prevent them. "I have used my eyes while here and have observed a great deal. I have watched the different classes in the cities and for the life of me, I cannot see that the ignorant black is more vicious than the ignorant classes in the large cities of the North, nor can I account for the bitter feeling manifested against him. His greatest fault seems to be that his ancestors were torn from their native country, worked for centuries in the fields of the South, contributing to its great material growth for which he received no compensation. Then permitting himself, through the strange vicissitude of events, to become a free man and the political equal of his late master. "An impartial mind, brought to bear upon the problem of this section, would consider all these fears of black domination or extravagance to be chimeras, which are used to perpetuate a wholly unjust and pernicious systemr I have examined into the past carefully with an unbiased mind, and I find that in extravagance, the Afro-American has not been more so than many whites in the North, nor have his peculations been so large as those of white men in this section. The corruption of the Tweed ring and others, brought into prominent notice in the Empire State, far exceed anything committed by the Afro-American under Reconstruction, and yet there is no talk concerning the unfitness, or rather, no measures to forcibly preclude such men from governing. There is something about this Reconstruotion period which the country hears but little of, but which redounds to the credit of this persecuted race, who were hardly a decade out of slavery. Their conception of government, their ideas of the b...