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R37
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1910

79829

COPYRIGHTED, 1910,

BY

PROF. JOHN J. HOLM

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

By Marion Edward

Church ....

I. THE BLOOD OF HAM AND JAPHETH

Our Position-Ancient History-Noah and

the Flood-Variety and Union-The Three

Divisions of the Races-Aryan, Semitic,

Hamitic-The Kinky-haired Hamite - Was

Buddha a Kinky-haired Negro?—The Negro

-He Again Attains Civilization-Mr. Roose-

velt Says That There Will be a White Africa

-He Helped to Enslave Himself-Facts

Briefly Stated - Classifying the American

Negro.

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II. CONFLICTING ELEMENTS OF PROGRESS.... 4

Lack of Confidence-Underground Current

-Whites Disappointed in Them-No Cheap

Labor-Commercial Growth-The Negro Dis-

covers He is Needed-He Goes to the City-

We Deplore the Fact-A Cry for More Ef-

ficient Labor-Foreign Immigration will Prove

a Blessing to the Negro-The Negro Must be

Treated with an Object.

III. THE "SMART NEGRO❞

How Knowledge Spread-The Old Planta-

tion Schools-Chivalrous Spirits-They Are

Bound to Rise-May As Well Confess It-

Not Weak and Helpless-Will Not Submit

to Wiles of White Relatives-Would be No

Race Question-The White Man's Blood-

The White Man Stands Accused Before God

-Negro Cannot be Deported-An Endless

Relationship Between the Races in the South

-Give Credit Where It Is Due-Some Smart

Negroes. (Honorable Frederick Douglass, Dr.

Booker T. Washington, Honorable P. B. S.

Pinchback, Honorable Theophile T. Allain,

Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, D. D., LL. D.;

Rev. Lemuel Hayes, A. M.; Honorable

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Josiah T. Settle, A. B., A. M., LL. B.; Col-

onel Robert Harlem, Samuel Jefferson Davis,

Rev. Bartlett Taylor, Bishop James Varick.)

-The Full-blooded Negro Has Talent.

IV. EDUCATION AND EQUALITY

Education in a Republic Means Equality-

Brute Force May be Used-The Japanese

May Own the Southern States-A Great

Army of Children-What Then?-Southern

White Illiteracy-Darkest Africa in America

-Inequality and Education a Transparent

Doctrine-What Japanese Think of It.

V. THE COLOR LINE.

Do Not Champion the Negro at the Ex-

pense of Southern Whites-Hard Things

Hurled at Negro's Friends-A Highly Censur-

able Act-Would Denounce Jesus-The Fif-

teenth Amendment-Gap Just as Wide Be-

tween Negro and White-Indians and Negroes

Vote-Tillman Does Not Want the Negro's

Heel on His Neck-Color Line in Politics-
They Rub in the Color Line-The Negro's
Place Another Anti-Negro Philosopher-
A Broad, Unbiased Investigation - God's
Finger of Approval is Upon the Mulatto.

VI. NORTHERN PREJUDICE..

A Scattered Few Hold Color Line in Con-

tempt-The Color Line Fever-The Color

Line Among Spanish War Veterans-The

Colored Gentleman-Colored Children of the

Gentleman-A Bad Element Not a Credit.

VII. COLOR AGAINST WHITE..

A Wrong Feeling-A Fraternal Spirit and

a Tie that Binds-What Can be the First

Cause of the Impending Social Eruption?—

They Have Kindled Their Own Fire-The

Dangerous Class of Negroes-Secret Orders

Among the Negroes-Fundamental Doctrine-

The Pink-skinned Man is His Friend-Love

Begets Love-A Terrible Day for America.

VIII. CRIME, LAW AND PUNISHMENT

Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth-The Most

Outrageous Practice-Horrors in American

Prisons-United States Penal System is a

Failure-Who Makes the Criminals?—The

Lynch Law-The Negro as a Criminal-Few

Outrages Committed in the North-Why?—

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Who Does the Lynching in the South?-The

Substitute for Lynch Law-A Kind of Mock

Trial - Virginia Has Such a Law - State

Eunuch Institutions - The Sterilization of

Criminals-Contrary to Divine Law-Are the

Jungles Calling Him Back?

IX. THE TEMPERAMENTS....

The Mental Temperament-The Vital Tem-

perament--The Motive Temperament.

X. THE BRAIN AND THE MIND.....

The Making of a Perfect Man-Brain and

Mind-Results When Mental Dissimilarities

Cross Skull and Brain Growth - Cranial

Capacity of the Races-What Indicates Mental

Power?-The Size of the Head.

XI. DISSEMINATION AND ATTRACTION

.....

Dissimilarities Affiliate for Evolutionary

Growth-The Law of Species-The Divine
Plan of Man's Redemption-The Garden of
Eden-Would Experience a Calamity-Dis-
semination Grows Stronger-There is a Divine
Purpose in Mixing-Is Outrageous, Yet Divine.

XII. RACE INTEGRITY...

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The Race Integrity Crank-The Man Who

Is Not a Negro-Would Encourage Inter-

marriage-Nature Always Endeavors to Pro-

duce Her Best-Was Never Taken Seriously

-Thousands Are Not Negroes-A Woman

Endures a Man's Embrace-Race Integrity

Nothing But a Fad-One Race Says Maximo

Gomez-Race Pride is a Political Issue South.

XIII. THE ANTI-MISCEGENATION MOVEMENT.. 263

Editorials From Prominent Southern Papers

-Professor Holm Writes Hon. Harris Dick-

son-Honorable Harris Dickson Answers-

Membership in the Anti-Miscegenation League

-Information Blank-Professor Holm Ans-

wers Dickson, Defending His Position-Off-

spring Must Constitute Legal Marriage-

Those Who Live Together Must Marry-

Some Whites Are Unduly Attracted Ama-

torially-There is Plenty of Evidence.

SOCIAL VICE VERSUS LEGAL INTERMAR-

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RIAGE....

Unnatural Conditions Between the Races

the Cause of Vice-Is Shocking. Indeed-The

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Ethical Side Must be Considered-Forbidden

Fruit is Sweetest-All Races Melted Together

Here-Evidences of Forty-five Years' Illicit

Mixing-Cannot Prevent Love But Would

Not Advise Marriage-Should be No Admix-

ture of Racial Stock-The Men Who Are

Bent on Mixing-Compelled to Advocate

Legal Intermarriage-The True State of the

Colored Woman-Frederick Douglass Saw It

-Intermarriage Prohibitions are Degrading-

The Colored Man Would Receive Social

Justice-Our Marriage Laws are Outrageous

-Where Indians and Whites Marry-A Polit-

ical Change Means Social Elevation and Sal-

vation-Love Between the Sexes of the Races

is Conducive to Home Life-Why the Law is

Powerless.

XV. WOMAN'S PLACE AND POWER

....

A Perfect Posterity Should be the Aim—

Children a Necessary Evil-Single Blessed-

ness-Women Will Propose-Women's Suf-

frage Would Prove of Benefit to Man-They

Will Solve the Race Question-Racial Purity

-What Is It?-A Bad Kind of Mixing-The

Greatest Thing is Love-The Hope of the

World-An Appeal to Noble Womanhood-

Facts Are Stubborn.

XVI. SCIENTIFIC ADAPTATION OF WHITE AND

COLOR...

A Superbly Mated Pair-A Mismated Ex-

ample-Almost a Colored Venus-Examples

of Physical and Mental Degeneracy-How

Much Better Not Thus Born-Phrenological

Location of the Social Evil-Offspring of

Right Crossing-Offspring Alone Constitutes

True Marriage.

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XVII. BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATED..... 379

The Mating of Superior Dissimilarities-

Three Generations-The Progeny of the Un-
desirable Father.

XVIII. LOVE, OR SEX-AMALGAMATION

How Superior Children Are Born-Who Is

and Who Is Not Married-Right and Wrong
Sex-Amalgamation-The Loss of Stamina At-
tributed to Unnatural Conditions-What Prof.
Wm. A. McKeever Says of College Students-
The Human Race Neglected-Changing Con-

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