count of the immensity of their parts, while, finally, it is the aim and highest ambition of the greater proportion of pure-blooded negresses in the country to have children by the best white men they can induce to give them to them, for the reason that they know such children will be loyal to the black race, and by their superior inherited intelligence coming from their white fathers that they will command better positions when they grow up than the pure blacks can do, and in so doing will powerfully further the interests, political and otherwise, of the African population in this country, for be it understood, — and well understood, that is the secret wish in every negro's heart in America,— the acquisition of political power if fortune ever throws it in his way.
