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I am not a pessimist by any means, but I believe that it is easier and more practicable to tunnel a mountain in the construction of a railroad than to go by detour a thousand miles.

In short, I am convinced that laws must be enacted that will conform to the laws of Nature, and then be rigidly applied to this glaring social evil between the races.

Unscientific agitation creates discord and enmity, and God knows too much of that kind of crime has already been committed by the American people.

OFFSPRING MUST CONSTITUTE LEGAL MARRIAGE.-First, and above all, we (the southern states), must have a law that offspring, under all circumstances, will constitute a legal marriage. What could be done under such a law, which is based upon natural principles, is easy to determine.

Under such a law all white men throughout this wide country who have a white wife and children, and who are besides maintaining one or more families by Negro women, can be prosecuted for bigamy and be punished accordingly, besides being rendered sterile through the operation of another law, which should provide this measure for all Negro and white criminals who commit certain social and other crimes against society.

THOSE WHO LIVE TOGETHER MUST MARRY.-Secondly, another law should provide for the legal union of all white men and women with Negro men and women, with whom they are determined to live. They should be compelled to marry instead of being forced to separate. No MAN OR STATE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH HAS A MORAL RIGHT TO SEPARATE A FAMILY.

In fact, by a higher natural law these cannot be compelled to separate. It would be an unpardonable crime against Nature's God. 'What God hath joined let no man put asunder.'

No haphazard, unscientific attempt at reform can be made along this line, without aggravating this social cancer and thereby creating a far worse condition. That the Caucasian race would be threatened with extinction, or that any serious complication would arise, if legal unions of this kind were enforced, is all nonsense.

Why not make lawful that which is sanctioned by Nature?

If Wisconsin, for instance, had a Negro population of 300,000 instead of 5,000, the laws there in operation would prove just as effective in this regard, and no evil would ensue.

The laws, or rather lack of laws, in this respect, gives the unscrupulous whites and blacks in the South a free license to commit this social

crime, while the Negro girls of culture, as well as the lowest of the race, are rendered absolutely unprotected.

And when we consider this, is it any wonder that the Negro race is not morally progressing more rapidly, when the devil of lust in both races of the South is in relentless pursuit of every atom of virginity in it?

It makes every drop of my Teutonic blood boil when I see these innocent, sweet-faced creatures led, as it were, to the slaughter, by the men of both races!

My Dear Sir, I beg your pardon, but I am in earnest. I wish to call your attention to another . matter, which may be considered the reverse of what I have just said.

SOME WHITES ARE UNDULY ATTRACTED AMATORIALLY.-In my investigations I have come across white men and women, North and South, who are unduly attracted, amatorially, to certain members of the Negro race. I could give scientific reasons for this natural attraction. That these should be classed among the "lowest whites" is an injustice that should find no lodgment in the minds of true, free Americans, who are supposed to be endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and advocate the same for their fellow man.

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"The claim for natural antipathy between the races is not well

founded."-Professor William Pickens.

Speaking without race prejudice, as a scientist, I find that there is a fundamental cause, a divine designation, if you please, that promotes such attraction, apart from the baser, mere animal gratifications. I have nearly always found these superbly adapted to those thus naturally attracted. We find paramount reasons for this in the natural law of dissemination or mixing.

I know of white women who found their affinity among and were married to colored men, who were as cultured and refined as the accomplished Cora Marie Arnold, who became the bride of a Pueblo Indian chief in New Mexico who could not speak English; but I can here give you only examples of a few men out of many hundreds: Case No. 1, a man, the son of one of Alabama's greatest doctors of divinity, who occupies a very prominent and responsible position, is cultured, refined, educated. Has for years supported and lived with a colored woman. He loves her from all appearances, and has no white woman in marriage relation. He belongs to the old southern aristocratic stock.

Case No. 2, a man of fine mental training, reared in the North, came South, was at the head of a school; married openly a cultured colored girl, and maintained her creditably, and in honest wedlock lived before the people of a large southern city in the far South.

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