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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

HINTON ROWAN HELPER,

In the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

North Carolina; and also in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

DEDICATION.

To

That most Enlightened and Progressive Portion of the People of the New World, who have the Far-reaching Foresight, and the Manly Patriotism, to Determine Irrevocably, by their Votes, in 1868-1872, Sooner or Later, that, after the Fourth of July, 1876, (or, at the very furthest, after the First of January, 1900,) No Slave nor Would-be Slave, No Negro nor Mulatto, No Chinaman nor unnative Indian, No Black nor Bi-colored Individual of whatever Name or Nationality, shall ever again find Domicile anywhere Within the Boundaries of the United States of America;—

To

All those Preeminently Sagacious and Good Men who are Deeply Impressed with the Conviction, that even the Firmest Founded and the Noblest Vindicated of all Republics, whether Ancient or Modern, and the Best System of Government ever yet Devised beneath the Sun, can never Fulfill its Promised Mission of Unexampled Greatness and Grandeur, until After it shall have been Brought under the Exclusive Occupancy and Control of the Heaven-descended and Incomparably Superior White Races of Mankind,

This Volume is Most Respectfully Dedicated,

By their Friend and Fellow-citizen,

THE AUTHOR.

WERE I to state here, frankly and categorically, that the primary object of this work is to write the negro out of America, and that the secondary object is to write him, (and manifold millions of other black and bicolored caitiffs, little better than himself,) out of existence, God's simple truth would be told; wherefore, referring the reader to the body of the work itself for my incentives and reasons in the premises, I might now, not without propriety, desist from further prefatory remarks,—but yet I will say something more.

The highest temporal good of which the best men are capable, whether in regard to themselves individually or collectively, is, I believe, to be ultimately attained in America,—in America with more certainty, and with less delay, perhaps, than in any other country in the world. Nowhere else are men so profoundly actuated by pure and noble sentiments, sentiments which, divested of all mawkish and irrational conceits, harmonize so exactly with the immutable requirements and conditions which, from the very beginning of time,

have been predetermined and decreed in the councils of Heaven.

Yet there are many very despicable and worthless men in America,-in all the Americas,-as, indeed, in most other countries, who, so far from contributing in any measure to the general progress and well-being of society, who, so far from elevating any part of mankind to a higher standard of excellence, are always, to a greater or less extent, repressing and neutralizing the lofty efforts of those who are infinitely better than themselves.

These sluggish and apathetic enemies of true progress, these unimpressible bafflers and repellers of good intentions, have I frequently seen, in painfully loathsome and inauspicious numbers, on both sides of each of the three great Americas,-North America, South America, and Central America. I speak of negroes, mulattoes, Indians, Chinese, and other obviously inferior races of mankind, whose colors are black or brown, but never white; and whose mental and moral characteristics are no less impure and revolting than their swarthy complexions.

In nothing are any of these paltry creatures the suggestors or promoters of the world's advancement. No name peculiar to them has ever been coupled with any generous or exalted purpose. Not one of them has ever projected any notable or important work of general utility. Not one of them has ever been, nor is it possible for any one of them ever to be, prominently instru