to a little power of expressing their minds on the sub- ject, as in the case of Du Bois and the short dozen others, keeping howling for the negroes " social uplift- ing," and his remaining in the United States. None of these men dare tell the truth, as Thomas did in his book, The American Negro,— still even the Ethi- opian cropped out, as it invariably will, in this last- named author, before he got through his last chapter. I am not going to enter upon the history of Liberia here, although I have collected not a little upon that subject. If the transportation of the negroes in this country could be effected, I, for one, would not care a straw whether the negroes liked it or not. I should be for sending them all the same, and keeping them out afterwards, just as the Federal government en- acted laws to keep the Chinese out of our territory. The Chinese are infinitely better than the negroes, although they, too, from the very nature of their non- progressiveness, are unsuited to the form of Indo- European civilization we are the active cultivators of in this country. But the black man with us is a very different proposition, as I have abundantly pointed out in the foregoing pages. No, were it possible, I should be in favor of shipping every living one of them back to the region they came from, whether it pleased them or not. I am so loyal to anything that will sus- tain the purity of the best of Indo-European blood in the United States ; drain it of superstition of all kinds ; purge it of crime and immorality; preserve its integ- rity, — that I would see every negro in America at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, or howling in the heart of the Soudan, before I would allow them for any consideration whatever, to jeopardize by race in-
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