[Footnote 8: Simmons, Men of Mark, p. 817.]
[Footnote 9: Public Opinion, XVIII, pp. 370-371.]
[Footnote 10: Because of these conditions the last fifty years has been considered by some writers as a "dark age," for the South.]
[Footnote 11: The Negroes are now said to be worth more than a billion dollars. Most of this property is in the hands of southern Negroes.]
[Footnote 12: American Law Review, XL, pp. 29, 52, 205, 227, 354, 381, 547, 590, 695, 758, 865, 905.]
[Footnote 13: No. 300.—Original, October Term, 1910.]
[Footnote 14: Hershaw, Peonage, pp. 10-11.]
[Footnote 15: These facts are well brought out by Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones' recent report on Negro Education.]
[Footnote 16: This is based on reports published annually in the Chicago Tribune.]
[Footnote 17: This is the boast of southern men of this type when speaking to their constituents or in Congress.]