but those few are the natural products of the Southern system of oppression and the wonder is, when the question is viewed philosophically, that there are so few.  The conclusion here reached is that Georgia will not get rid of her brutes by burning them and taking the charred embers home as relics, but rather by treating her Negro population with more kindness and showing them that there is some hope for Negro citizenship in that State.  The Negroes know that white men have been known to rape colored girls, but that never has there been a suggestion of lynching or burning for that, and they feel despondent, for they know the courts are useless in such cases, and this jug-handle enforcement of lynch law is breeding its own bad fruits on the Negro race as well as making more brutal the whites.  My advice, then, to our white friends is to try kindness as a remedy for rape in the South, and I am convinced of the force of this remedy from what I know of the occurrence of assaults and murders in those States where the Negroes are made to feel that they are citizens and are at home.

WHAT COURAGE!  WHAT AN EXAMPLE OF FAITHFULNESS TO DUTY

Did the colored troopers exhibit in forgetting all these shortcomings to themselves and race of their own government when they made those daring charges on San Juan and El Caney!!  They were possessed with large hearts and sublime courage.  How they fought under such circumstances, none but a divine tongue can answer.  It was a miracle, and was performed, no doubt, that good might come to the race in the shape of the testimonials given them as appears heretofore in this book.  Their deeds must live in history as an honor to the Negro Race.  Let them be taught to the children.  Let it be said that the Negro soldier did his duty under the flag, whether that flag protects him or not.  The white soldier fought under no such sad reflections—­he did not, after a hard-fought battle, lie in the trenches at night and dream of his aged mother and father being run out of their little home into the wintry blasts by a mob who sought to “string them up” for circulating literature relating to the party of Wm. McKinley—­the President of the United States—­this was the colored soldiers’ dream, but he swore to protect the flag and he did it.  The colored soldier has been faithful to his trust; let others be the same.  If Negroes who have other trusts to perform, do their duty as well as the colored soldiers, there will be many revisions in the scale of public sentiment regarding the Negro Race in America—­many arguments will be overthrown and the heyday towards Negro citizenship will begin to dawn—­there are other battles than those of the militia.

THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM IS MAINLY IN THE RACE’S OWN HANDS