[288] Ibid. pp. 328, 329.
[289] Ibid. pp. 314, 315.
[290] Ibid. p. 350.
[291] Ibid. p. 328.
[292] Brawley, Short History American Negro, p. 185.
[293] Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 2, p. 27.
[294] Ibid. p. 28.
CHAPTER XII
Despite the incidents related in the last chapter, which might be claimed to be almost isolated or pertaining to a very small class of the Negro population, to comprehend clearly all that is embraced in the diffusion of the Negroes throughout the United States, and the consequent dissolution of the mass in the Southern States, while endeavoring to grasp what is so intelligently urged by Mr. Alfred Stone, concerning “pressure”, the investigator should not fail to realize that in the Southern States, if the Negro was willing to accept unreservedly the position of an inferior and a menial, there was formerly no distinct repugnance to him, per se. In fact, with a small class, the descendants of slave holders, he obtained and still obtains tolerance and not a little patronizing affection, being treated in about the way in which a careless, amiable, hot tempered father might treat an amusing child.
As long as the child remains a child, it might not be so bad for him; but the question is what kind of a man does it make of him?