AN APPEAL TO PHARAOH THE NEGRO PROBLEM, AND ITS BY CARLYLE MCKINLEY THIRD EDITION EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION BY GUSTAVUS M. PINCKNEY Columbia, S. C. THE STATE COMPANY 1907 INTRODUCTION. That Mr. McKinley expressed to his mily during the last suffering days of his life the wish that the work which follows should be republished will lend a very peculiar sanction and add a great and grave emphasis to its utterances for all those in the least acquainted with the man or with the circumstances. To that clear intellect and noble spirit doubtless there were vouchsafed many hints of foresight and of inspiration which a while ago we might have secured and saved to our great advantage, but now are placed forever out of reach. Here, on the other hand, preserved to our palpable senses fortunately, is a part of the man; here is afforded a glimpse into his life and soul, and here are we enabled to enjoy the advantage of sharing his views and learning his doubts, his fears, his hopes. May it prove nowise offensive to that delicate sense of modesty which so uniformly adorned his character and all his dealings to suggest it as possible that in his later hours, despite his life-long consistent selfeffacement, he felt within him that here was something which it was right and desirable that he should utter and the world receive. In life he would never have importuned the world to listen to any word of his. Near the border of that Dark Continent, to use his own poetic phrase, which lies so much nearer to our shores than Africa, he felt the impulse, pure and all unworldly, to make this suggestion and request. What high power is it that directs all the best currents of Southern intellect towards the foundation problems of |