...removal, at my request. He expects to dig the Panama Canal with these black troops. "Fine scheme that—on a par with your messages to Congress asking for the...blood all races,'" quoted the cynic with a sneer. "Yes—but finish the sentence—'and fixed the bounds of their habitation.' God never meant that the...

...alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable. A nation cannot exist half white and half black, any more than it could exist half slave and half free."—The Clansman. At this point it will be well to recall the fact that in 1778 Virginia, and...

...dear a price to pay even for emancipation. We can never attain the ideal Union our fathers dreamed of, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us,...whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable. A nation cannot exist half white and half black, any more than it could exist half slave and half free."...

...character modeled on Thaddeus Stevens, about the future of the Negro. He still advocates colonization. "The Nation cannot now exist half white and half black,...more than it could exist half slave and half free." The assassination at Ford's Theater is realistically depicted, as it would be later by Griffith on...

...former slaves to "the tropics" and erasing every trace of nonwhite personhood from the United States. "The Nation cannot now exist half white and half black,...more than it could exist half slave and half free" (46-47). The Clansman's vision of black animality descends directly from slavery. As is clear from...

...himself. "The duty to exclude carries the right to expel. Within twenty years, we can peacefully colonize the Negro in the tropics, and give him our language,...more than it could exist half slave and half free." "The South!" hissed Stoneman. "During all this hideous war, they have been your pets — these rebel...

...invest blacks with political power, Dixon's Lincoln argues: "We can never attain the ideal Union . . . with millions of an alien, inferior race among us,...whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable" (46). Dixon developed his portrait further in The Southerner (1913) and A Man of the People (1920);...

...imperils the nation. President Lincoln, Dixon wrote, intends to colonize all blacks after the war. "We can never attain the ideal Union our fathers dreamed,...whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable," Lincoln tells Austin Stoneman, a radical congressman. "The nation cannot now exist half white and half...

...life as our equal. A mulatto citizenship would be too dear a price to pay even for emancipation. . . . It was the fear of the black tragedy behind emancipation...more than it could exist half slave and half free" (pp. 46—47). The further irony, of course, is that Dixon's Lincoln is not far from the real one....

...ten great states, and rivers of blood, (pp. 45—46) Within twenty years, we can peacefully colonize the negro in the tropics, and give him our language,...more than it could exist half slave and half free. (pp. 46-47) We fought the South because we loved her and would not let her go. Now that she is crushed...