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THE NEGRO
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is the veneering of the results of their pseudo-civilization gained since their coming to America.

This account of the erection of a Juju house given us by Mr. Grant is here so fully reproduced in order to acquaint the many who are totally unfamiliar with, and ignorant of, what kind of a being the African negro really is in his organization. Our white race has no such chapters in its history as far back as it can be traced, but if we are to assimilate by a general crossing with this savage, cannibal race we have on our hands, as has been proposed by such men as Thomas and others, their history becomes in time linked with our own noble record, and far in the future no American will be able to say that he has no such blood in his veins, for there will be no means of distinguishing the mixture in inter-marriage. It has been stated that the hybrids became sterile in the second, third or fourth generation, but this, it is clear, would not affect the question, for assimilation once commenced, the blood of the lesser and inferior race must all be taken up eventually in any event, and so great is the number of negroes in this country, that there is plenty of their blood to effect complete adulteration of the entire white population of the United States, and that adulteration would by no means be a slight one. By careful, extensive and direct personal examination, I have satisfied myself that not only is hybridization of the two races still in progress, but that cases of atavism occur all the time; and that not only is there a large class of degraded, sensuous white women in this country who prefer to copulate with black men, on account of the unusual length of time that the act commonly lasts in them, but also on ac-