Excerpt from The Curse of the Hamites After so long a time, it seems that no one has the temerity to reply to President Harding's ipse dixit speech at Birmingham on the negro problem. As it is a vital question, and, as the danger of a conflict between the white and black inhabitants of the South has perpetually haunted the American mind, it seems proper that some one should reply to the President's policies which, if put into execution, would instantly plunge the country into civil butchery. Would he, in order to keep and maintain his party in power, again mislead the people and have all the South go Black Republican? He would not have made such a speech had there been in Ohio, as in Louis iana and other southern states, ten negroes to one white man. Ohio had a law once (whether repealed I do not know) by which No free negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state, or to hold property in it. Let us go back to those who laid the corner stones and shaped the destinies of our government. Jefferson, in Memoirs of Jefferson, says: Nothing is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks; and it is equally certain that the two races will never live in a state of equal freedom under the same government, so insurmountable are the barriers which nature, habit and opinions have established between them. President Hard ing says: There is an absolute divergence in things social and racial and a fundamental, eternal and inescapable difference in race, and amalgamation cannot be. So, in substance, say Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and other abolitionists, like Garrison. So says Dixon in The Clansman - so said Noah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.