Maryland’s vote for each Congressman at the last Congressional election (1902) averaged:
| Maryland | 44,085 |
| Illinois | 45,275 |
| New York | 41,826 |
| Pennsylvania | 36,662 |
| North Carolina | 29,267 |
| Virginia | 26,409 |
| Massachusetts | 29,628 |
| Rhode Island | 28,284 |
| Vermont | 28,108 |
| Maine | 26,430 |
| South Dakota | 96,131 |
| Colorado | 92,167 |
| Alabama | 17,731 |
| Florida | 12,677 |
| Georgia | 11,155 |
| Louisiana | 9,770 |
| Mississippi | 7,388 |
| South Carolina | 7,259 |
[56] Address of Mr. Charles A. Gardiner, cited ante.
[57] See the Romanes Lectures, 1902: The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind. By James Bryce, D.C.L.
CHAPTER VI
THE OLD-TIME NEGRO
I
That the “old-time Negro” is passing away is one of the common sayings all over the South, where once he was as well known as the cotton-plant and the oak tree. Indeed, he has become so rare that even now when a gray and wrinkled survivor is found he is regarded as an exceptional character, and he will soon be as extinct as the dodo. That he will leave a gap which can hardly be filled is as certain as that the old-time cavalier or the foster-father of romance has left his gap.
The “new issue” at which the old-time Negro, who had been the servant and the associate of gentlemen, once turned up his nose from his well-secured position, and of which he spoke in terms of scornful reprobation, has, with the passing of time, pushed him from his stool, and is no longer the “new issue,” but the general type that prevails commonly—the Negro with his problem; a problem which it may, as has been well said by Mr. Root, take all the wisdom, all the forbearance, and all the resolution of the white race to solve.
Some of the “Afro-Americans,” with the veneer of a so-called education, to judge from recent works written by certain of them, presume to look down somewhat scornfully on this notable development of their race, and assume a fine scorn of the relation which once existed all over the South between the old-time Southerner and the old-time darky, and which still exists where the latter still survives.
They do not consider that large numbers of this class held positions of responsibility and trust, which they discharged with a fidelity and success that is the strongest proof of the potentiality of the race. They do not reckon that warm friendship which existed between master and servant, and which more than any other one thing gives promise of future and abiding friendship between the races when left to settle their relations without outside interference.