INDEX.

Abolition of slavery, 19

Adams, J. A., 52

Advantages of getting rid of the negro, 208, 209

Africa for the negro, 195, 201, etc.

African Colonisation Society, The, 183

African Steamship Co., The, 210

Aims, Necessity for providing the emigrant with, 197, 200, 204

Anderson, J. W., 43

Alabama, Reconstruction in, 32

Amendment XIII., 19, 21, 67

—— XIV., 25, 35, 67

—— XV., 39, 64, 67, 86, 151, 153, 154

American institutions unsuited for the negro, 196, 198

Anglo-Saxon antipathy to miscegenation, 169

“Appeal to Cæsar, An,” 90

“Appeal to Pharaoh, An,” 131, 165, 175, 178, 211

Argentine, Suggested migration to the, 189, 190

Arkansas, Cotton raised in, 194

—— Democrat quoted, 192

Arms, Length of the negro’s, 69

Arrest of Democratic Legislators, 61

Arrest, Illegal, 51

Assisted emigration for the negro, 200

Atlanta Constitution quoted, 73, 192

Augusta Chronicle quoted, 128

Ballot, American system of, 81

——, Unsuitability of the negro for the, 86

234Bancroft, Mr., 227

Barbers’ shops, Race prejudice in, 102

Barksdale, E., 23, 53

Barnwell, J. W., 214

Bassett, E. D., 163

Belford’s Magazine quoted, 167

Belgians, H.M. the King of the, 203, 204

Bigelow, J. and P., 214

Birmingham Age-Herald quoted, 190

Black Belt? What is the, 9

—— blood, Prejudice against, 87

—— Parliament, A, 41

Blank resignations, 59

Blyden, Dr. E. W., 189, 193

Board of Registration, The, 57

Boston Advertiser quoted, 97

—— Herald quoted, 72, 112

—— Transcript quoted, The, 164

Brain, Weight of the negro’s, 69

Bruce, B. K., 162

Buckalew, Mr., 28

Buenos Ayres Prensa quoted, 190

—— Standard quoted, 190

Bullock, Governor, 50

Bureau, Freedmen’s, 25, 27

Butler, Senator, 196, 199

Cable, G. W., 91, 93, 102, 214

Call, Senator, 197, 199

Cardozo, Mr., 49

Carpet-baggers, 27, 33, 39, 52, 55, 141

Caste, Colour, 218

Census, Eleventh, 1

——, First, 3, 4

——, Tenth, 1 et seq.

235Chamberlain, Governor D. H., 46

Charleston Budget quoted, 95

—— News and Courier quoted, 80, 96, 102, 104, 105, 106, 120, 192, 194, 224

—— Sun quoted, 226

—— World quoted, 136

Chicago Herald quoted, 101

Childishness of the negro, 199, 200

Church, A. M. E., 86

Cincinnati, Race prejudice at, 98

Civilisation of Africa by the negro, 201, 202, 203, 204

Civil Rights Bill, The, 65, 68

Clay, Henry, 183

Cleveland Gazette quoted, 195

“Cobb on Slavery” quoted, 225

Colour caste, 217

Coloured majority, States having a, 5

—— men, Prominent, 162

—— National League and Voodooism, The, 113

—— people, see also under Mulatto, Octoroon, etc.

Colour line in the North, The, 181, 182

Coloured race, Increase of the, 232

Colour, The significance of racial, 167

Columbia, Abolition of negro suffrage in, 74

Columbia, Negro suffrage in, 28

Columbia, S.C., Extravagance at, 40

Compensation of the negro, 207

Cone on Race Colour, Mr., 167

Confederate States held to be out of the Union, Ex-, 27, 29

Congo, American negroes for the, 203, 204, 211, 212

——, Advantages of the, 211

Congress may limit the suffrage, 86

——, Thirty-ninth, 24, 27

Connecticut, Slavery in, 227

Constitution, see Amendments

Constitutional Conventions, 30

Conventions, Constitutional, 30

Corbin, Judge, 33, 34

Corruption in South Carolina, 44

——, Official, 36

—— of negro-Republican party, 58

Cost of negro emigration, 207

Cotton raised by white and by negro labour, 194

Cotton fields, The negro not necessary in the, 191, 192

236“Counting out,” 80

Cranium, The negro, 70

Criminality of the negro, 114

“Cuffy, Old,” 36

Curtis, G. W., 71

“Cyclopædia of Political Science” quoted, 52

Dangers of the situation, 16, 143

Darnell, Prof. S. B., 172

Death-rate of the white and the negro, 3

Debt of the U.S. to the negro, 185, 186, 189, 198, 205

—— of the United States, 206

Democrat, The Southern white is a, 22

Democratic Legislators arrested, 61

Depew, C. M., 214

Diseases of negroes, 108

Disenfranchisement of ex-Confederates, 29, 54

Douglas, Senator, 172

Douglass, Mr. Fredk., 98, 163

Drummond, Prof., 179

Duty of the United States, 210, 213

Edgington, Col. T. B., 153

Edmunds, Senator, 75

Education as a suggested panacea, 157, 161, 164, 165

Education, Negro, 75, 116

Eight-box Law, The, 82, 83

Election at Mount Pleasant, An, 84

Elections, Fraudulent, 33, 50, 78–85

—— of 1886, 27

Elliott, R. B., 163

Emancipation a failure, 125

—— destructive of miscegenation, 177

—— in the North, 225

Emigration as a panacea, 181

——, Cost of negro, 207

—— from the South, White, 10, 11

——, Futile plans of, 184

——, The negro’s willingness for, 187, etc.

—— the only cure, 182, 188, 189

Enfranchisement of the negro, 29

Equality a hopeless dream, 155

Equity of pre-Reconstruction legislation in Virginia, 52

Eustis, Senator, 83

Expulsion by force impracticable, 198

237Extermination of the negro, 155

Extravagance, Negro-Republican, 39

—— of the Reconstruction Era, 59

Eyes, Peculiarity of the negro’s, 69

Facial angle, The negro’s, 69

Farmer’s Alliance, The, 84, 145

Fleet, Governor Warmoth’s, 58

Florida, Reconstruction in, 50

Foreign birth in the South, People of, 11, 12

Forgery of an Act of the Florida Legislature, 50

Forum quoted, The, 96, 193, 217

Frankfurter Zeitung quoted, The, 224

Fraud, Apologists for white, 15

—— at elections, 33, 50, 78–85

——, The white rules by, 14, 15

Freedman, The liberties of the, 91

Freedmen’s Bureau, 25, 39

Froude on negro inferiority, 88

—— on race pride, 172

—— on the Haytian negro, 158

—— on the negro in San Domingo, 159, 160

Fulkerson, H. S., 115

Fulton, Dr., 142

Gaillard destroys registration books, 84

Galveston News quoted, 192

Garfield on Reconstruction, 30

Georgia, Cost of General Assembly in, 49

——, Murder in, 96, 99

——, Negro ownership in, 120, 121, 122, etc.

——, Race prejudice in, 94

——, Reconstruction in, 49

Gibbs, Senator, 139

Gibson, Senator, 197, 199

Gilder, R. W., 214

Gilham on negro inferiority, 88, 89

—— on the growth of negro population, 12, 13, 14

Gouldsboro, Riot at, 94

Governors, Power of the Military, 30

Grady, H. W., 165

Grant, President, 26

Greenville News quoted, 105, 192, 208

Growth of negro population, Estimated, 12, 13

Hamilton, Rev. J. W., 172

238Hampton, Governor Wade, 46, 49, 197, 198

Harper’s Weekly quoted, 71

Harris, G. E., 56

Hart, Governor, O. B., 51

Haskell, General, 84, 145

Hayti, Condition of, 158, 203

Healthiness of the South, General, 147

Hemphill, J. J., 23

Herbert, H. A., 22, 23

Hoar quoted, Mr., 36

Hoffman House, Race prejudice at the, 98

Holmes, Dr. O. W., 226

Hotels, Race prejudice at, 97, 98, 105

Hubbard, J. B., 43

Hybridism and sterility, 179

Ice-cream shops, Race prejudice in, 100

Idle class of whites peculiar to U.S.A., 148

Ignorance of the negroes, 33, 36, 73

—— of the Southern white, 149

Illegal arrests, 61

Illinois, Slavery in, 230

Illiteracy, Negro, 21

——, Statistics of, 117

Increase among the negroes, Rate of, 2, 233

Indebtedness of America to the negro, 198, 205

Inequality of the races, 20, 199

Infant mortality among the blacks, 8, 108

Ingalls, Senator, 80, 85

Instep, The negro’s, 70

Intimidation at Jackson, 95

——, Republican, 37

Intolerance excused, White, 73

Jefferson, President Thomas, 145, 182, 183, 184

Johnson, President, 25, 28, 29

Johnston, Professor Alexander, 52

Jones, A. O., 48

Judges, Dependency of the, 59

——, Ignorance of, 52

Judge’s charge, A queer, 34

Kellogg, W. P., 60, 61, 62

King, Senator Rufus, 184, 185

Kirk, Colonel, 37

239Knott, Dr. J. C., 179

Ku-Klux Klan, The, 77

Lagos, American negroes in, 210

Langston, J. U., 163

“Lark heel,” The negro’s, 70

Laws, Danger of enforcing the, 66

——, Importance of the, 128

Lecky on the New England Slave Trade, 228

Lee, Governor, 208

——, Rev. T. S., 187

Legislature of South Carolina, The, 39, etc.

Liberia, Condition of, 160

——, Establishment of, 183

Limitation of Suffrage, Suggested, 154

Lincoln, President, 229

—— on miscegenation, 172

—— on negro inferiority, 88

—— on slavery, 20

—— on the suffrage, 30

Lopez not more powerful than Warmoth, 60

Lottery, The Louisiana, 62

Louisiana Lottery, The, 62

——, Reconstruction in, 56

——, Riot in, 94

Louisville Courier Journal quoted, 132

Luxury of negro legislators, 39, 54

Lynching, 96, 116, 132, 133, 134, 135, 142

McCrady, Letter from Mr. Edward, 224–231

Machinery inimical to the negro, 194

Macon Telegraph quoted, 99

M‘Kinley, C., 214

Maltreatment of the blacks, 94

Manumission a political measure, 19

——, Lincoln’s views on, 20

——, Seward’s views on, 19

Marriage, Negro avoidance of, 110

Martial Law in the South, 29

Massachusetts, Slavery in, 225, 226

Mean whites, 148

Memphis Avalanche quoted, 191

Mexico, Suggested emigration to, 189

Middle passage, Horrors of the, 186

Military Governors, 23, 24

240Military Governors, Power of the, 30

—— Rule in the South, 21

Militia, A coloured, 37, 42, 43, 46, 58

Minority, Rule of the, 8

Miscegenation, 217, etc.

—— as a suggested panacea, 157, 165, 178

——, Causes of, 175

——, Illegal, 106

—— is now rare, 174, 175

——, Lincoln on, 172

—— unnatural, 166

——, one-sided, 177

Mississippi, Cotton raised in, 194

——, Intimidation in, 95

——, Reconstruction in, 52

Missouri, Race prejudice in, 103

Mitchell, J. A. D., 195, 196

Moloney, Sir Alfred, 210

Montgomery Herald quoted, The, 141

Morals of Southern whites, 143, 176

—— of the negroes, 110

Morgan, Senator, 197, 199

Morrill, Senator, 75

Mortality, see also Death-rate

—— among the negroes, 109, 147

——, Infant, 8

Moses, Franklin J., 44, 45, 46, 47, 49

Mount Pleasant, An Election at, 83, 84

Mulatto, The, 174, 178 et seq.

—— a bad citizen, The, 163, 177, 179, 180

—— children, Rarity of, 174

—— communities, 176

—— decreasing in numbers, 163

——, Intelligence of, 162

——, Short life of the, 179

——, The future of the, 213

—— unhealthiness, 178

Murder as a political factor, 77

—— in Alabama, 104, 136

—— in Georgia, 105, 133, 136

—— in Indiana, 137

—— in Kentucky, 137

—— in Louisiana, 105

—— in North Carolina, 135

—— in South Carolina, 97, 136

—— in Tennessee, 136

—— near Robins, 95

Nashville American quoted, 192

Nation quoted, The New York, 224, 228

241Navy, Race prejudice in the American, 98

Negro, see also Coloured Mulatto, Octoroon

——, Advantages of getting rid of the, 208, 209

——, Aims of the, 68

—— as a child, The, 199

—— as a worker, The, 139

—— at the polls, The, 77

—— avoidance of marriage, 110

—— can be dispensed with, 193

—— cannot govern, The, 161

—— childishness, 76, 199

—— colonisation, Causes of failure of, 183

—— —— Society of Augusta, 189

—— criminality, 114

——, Death-rate of the, 3

——, Debt of the United States to the, 185, 186, 189

——, Diseases of the, 108

—— education, 75, 116

—— emigration, Cost of, 207

——, Employments of the, 9, 10

——, Enforced inferiority of the, 71

—— enfranchisement, 29

——, Expectations of the extinction of the, 152

——, Extermination of the, 155

—— Government intolerable, 64

——, His unambitious nature, 11

——, How far the White depends upon the, 146

—— Ignorance, 33

——, Illiteracy of the, 21

——, Increase of the, 2

—— inferiority, Lincoln on, 88

—— ——, Froude on, 88

—— ——, Gilliam on, 88, 89

—— ——, Tourgée on, 89, 90

—— in sickness, Provision for the, 75

—— legislators, Vices of, 36

——, Material position of the, 119, 125

—— mortality, 109

—— must be assisted to emigrate, The, 200

—— must be governed, The, 200, 202

—— newspapers, 98, 120, 138, 141

——, Physical peculiarities of the, 69

242——, Repression of the, 8

—— rule, 31, etc.

—— schools, 119

——, Social position of the, 65, 87

—— soldiers during the war, 186

—— suffrage advocated by Sumner, 28

—— suffrage in Columbia, 28

—— —— —— ——, Abolition of, 74

—— ——, Lincoln on, 21

—— ——, Opposition to, 24

—— tendency to relapse to barbarism, 168

——,” “The, 115

——, The South can spare the, 190

——, The White’s attitude towards the, 75, 140

—— threats to the Whites, 138, 142

——, Unhealthy habits of the, 108

——: Why he may not rule, 16

—— Venality, 33

Negrophobia in the North, 73, 74

Negro’s readiness to migrate, 187, etc.

Negroes are but small farmers, 192

——, Infant mortality among, 107

——, Morals of the, 110

——, Prominent, 162

—— unable to govern, 54

—— voting before they have the suffrage, 35

Nelson, Mr. Justice, 29

New England slave trade, The, 228

—— Hampshire, Slavery in, 226

—— Jersey, Slavery in, 227

—— Orleans, Coloured ownership in, 121

—— ——, Picayune quoted, 97, 192

—— —— Republican subsidised, 59

—— ——, Riot at, 61

—— —— Times-Democrat quoted, 121, 191

—— York Evening Post quoted, 99, 102

—— —— Herald quoted, 99

—— ——, Race prejudice in, 97, 102

—— —— Slavery in, 228

—— —— Star quoted, 96

—— —— Tribune quoted, 108, 156

—— —— World quoted, 98

Nicholls, Governor, 62

North American Review quoted, 85, 171

North and South compared, 73

243North Carolina, Reconstruction in, 35

North, Slavery in the, 224, etc.

Northern Ascendency, 24

Octoroon, White prejudice against the, 175

Oppression of the Southern Whites, 31

Orangeburg Plain Speaker quoted, 98

Othello in the South, 217

Outrage in Alabama, 134

—— in Georgia, 133, 134

—— in Kentucky, 132

—— in Maryland, 134

—— in South Carolina, 133

—— in Tennessee, 134

Outrages by negroes on women, 116, 132, 133, 134, 142

Packard, Governor, 62

Pardons given before trial, 50

Pasco, S., 23

Penalties for teaching a slave, 116

Pennsylvania, Slavery in, 227

Pension-roll of the United States, 207

Philadelphia Evening Telegram quoted, 95

Pike, J. S., 41, 44

Pinchback, Governor, 60, 163

Pittsburg Dispatch quoted, 95

——, Race prejudice at, 222

Politics, Effect of the situation upon, 144

Politics in the South, 21, 24

Polls, The negro at the, 77

Population of the South, 216

Post, U. S. A., Major, 214

Presbyterian Quarterly quoted, 165

Printing in South Carolina, Cost of public, 48, 49

——, Republican monopoly of, 58

Property, The negro as a holder of, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124

Proportions of white and coloured, 5

Prostrate State, The, 38, 41

Puberty, Change in the negro at, 76

Public Funds, Waste of, 44

—— Offices, Race prejudice in, 102

Qualifications for the suffrage, 6

244Race antagonism increases, 90

—— hatred, 26

—— prejudice, 72

—— —— at Cincinnati, 98

—— —— at hotels, 97, 98, 105

—— —— at ice-cream shops, 100

—— —— at Pittsburg, 222

—— —— at railway stations, 102

—— —— at Saratoga, 97

—— —— in barber-shops, 102

—— —— in Missouri, 105

—— —— in New York, 97, 102

—— —— in public offices, 102

—— —— in restaurants, 98

—— —— in schools, 100, 101

—— —— in the American Navy, 98

—— —— in the Church, 96, 103, 156

—— —— on railways, 99, 101, 102, 103

—— —— on the gallows, 96

Race pride, Froude on, 172

—— Problem, Its supposed settlement by the Civil War, 15

—— question, Importance of the, 68

Races, Irregularity of the, 20

Race war, 129, 209

Racial colour, 167

—— inequality, 106

—— separation beneficial, 198

Railways, Race prejudice on, 99, 101, 102, 103

—— stations, Race prejudice at, 102

Raleigh State Chronicle quoted, 165

Ratification of Amendment XV., 151

Rawling, S. J. E., 214

Reconstruction, 22, etc.

—— Acts, 29

—— a political measure, 52, 53

——, Garfield on, 30

—— in Alabama, 32

—— in Florida, 50

—— in Georgia, 49

—— in Louisiana, 56

—— in Mississippi, 52

—— in North Carolina, 35

—— in South Carolina, 38

—— in Virginia, 51

——, Joint Committee on, 26

——, Lincoln on, 30, 31

Reed, Governor Harrison, 50

Registration books destroyed, 84

—— Certificates, Loss of, 80

——, The Board of, 57, 61, 62

Religious race prejudice, 156

245Repeal of Amendment XV., Suggested, 153

Representation of States in Congress, 24

Repression of the Negro, 8

Republican majority in the Thirty-Ninth Congress, 28

Republican, New Orleans, 59

Republican, The negro is a, 21

Restaurants, Race prejudice at, 98

Returning Board, see Registration, The Board of.

Rhode Island, Slavery in, 227

Richardson, Governor J. P., 82

Richmond Dispatch quoted, 192

Riot at Gouldsboro’, 94

—— at New Orleans, 61

Roosevelt, T., 214

Sage, B. J., 23, 58, 60

St. Louis Republic quoted, 98

San Domingo, Condition of, 159, 160

Saratoga, Race prejudice at, 97

Savannah Times quoted, 103

Schoffner Act, The, 37

Schools for negroes, 119

——, Race prejudice in, 100, 101

Scomp, Professor, 193

Scott, General R. K., 39, 42, 43, 44

Selma Independent quoted, 138

—— Times quoted, 100

Separation of the races beneficial, 198

Seward on Manumission, 20

Shakespeare and race questions, 217, etc.

Shaw University, 204

Sherman, Senator, 75

Shepard, Colonel, 203

Shepley, Governor, 30

Sickness, Provision for the negro in, 75, 109

Silent South,” “The, 91

Silloway, T., 226

Skin, Peculiarities of the negro’s, 70

Skipjack, Log of H.M.S., 186

Slave, Illiteracy of the, 21

——, Penalties for teaching a, 116

Slavery, Abolition of, 19

—— in Connecticut, 227

—— —— Illinois, 230

—— —— Massachusetts, 225, 226

—— —— New Hampshire, 226

—— —— —— Jersey, 227

246—— ——, Abolition of, New York, 227

—— —— Pennsylvania, 227

—— —— Rhode Island, 227

—— —— Vermont, 225

——, Lincoln on, 20

—— not the origin of the war, 19

—— said to be the only logical position for the negro, 164

Slaves in 1790, 225

Smith, Adam, 227

——, Dr. S. M., 165

——, E. B., 214

Snider, Professor J. D., 218

Snyder, Rev. J., 217

Social position of the negro, 87

—— equality said to be disclaimed by both races, 99

Solid South, The, 23

South Carolina, Cotton raised in, 194

—— ——, Inquiry into Scandals in, 47

—— ——, Murder in, 95, 97

—— ——, Reconstruction in, 38

—— Carolinian Statute of Ignorance, 116

——, Deterioration of the, 139, 191

——, General healthiness of the, 147

——, Military Rule in the, 21

——, Politics of the, 21, 24

——, Population of the, 216

——, The negro not indispensable to the, 190, etc.

——? Why the solid, 23

Southern Question, What is the, 71

Spain, Suggested negotiations with, 197

Speer, W. S., 20

Stanley, H. M., 199, 211, 213

Stanton, Secretary, 28

State House, Siege of the Louisiana, 62

States having a coloured majority, 5

Sterility and hybridism, 179

Stevens, T., 24

Stiles, R., 23, 52

Stokes, Colonel, 192

Suffrage, Negro, 21

—— in Columbia, Negro, 28

——, Lincoln on the, 30

——, Negroes voted before they had the, 35

——, Northern opposition to the, 24

——, Possible limitation of the, 86

——, Qualifications for the, 6

247——, Suggested limitation of, 154

——, The negro not enamoured of the, 203

Sumner advocates negro suffrage, 28

Superstition, Negro, 112

Supremacy, White, 77

Supreme court, Decision of the, 65, 66, 68

Surrender, as a suggested panacea, 158

Tanner, Rev. Dr. B. T., 171, 173, 174

Taxation, Excessive, 55

Taylor, C. H. J., 183

Tennessee, Race prejudice in, 96

Texas, Cotton raised in, 194

——, Negro ownership in, 119

Thomas, Judge, 33

Thompson, J. E. W., 163

Tillman, Governor, 84, 145

Times quoted, 199, 227

Tissue-ballots, 78

Tourgée, Judge, 118, 152, 161, 173

Trade jealousy in the North, 182

Troops, United States, 61, 62

Tucker, Rev. Dr. 110

Tupper, Dr. H. M., 204

Turner, Bishop H. M., 188

——, H. G., 23

Union divided, The, 209, 214

——, Ex-confederate States held to be out of the, 27

Vance, Z. B., 23, 36

Vermont, Slavery in, 225

Vetoes, President Johnson’s, 28, 29

Vices of negro legislators, 36

248Virginia, Reconstruction in, 51

Voodooism, 112, 114

“Vote early and often,” 80

Voters, Qualifications of, 6

Voters, tampering with, 77 et seq.

Voting populations, 7

War, The South after the, 22, 26 etc.

Warmoth, H. C., 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63

Warrants of Arrest, Blank, 61

Waste of Public Funds, 44

Wealth of the United States, 206

Whipping of negroes, 104

White intolerance excused, 73

White supremacy, 77, 85

White, The negro’s treatment by the 75

White, Ignorance of the Southern, 149

White people are enough for the South, 191, 192

White women to the negro, Attitude of the Southern, 141, 142, 177

Whites assumed without evidence to be guilty, 39

Whites, Depravity of the, 54

Whites, Increase of the Southern, 2

Whites, Idle class of peculiar to U.S., 148

Whites, Oppression of the Southern, 31

Williams, Col. G. W., 203

Williams, Rev. Isaac, 112

Wilson’s “Rise and Fall of Slave Power,” 227

Women, Their position in the Black Belt, 131 et seq., 141, 177

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