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Chapter 27: White progress.
Under the menace of such an invasion from
China, threatening at no distant date to swallow up the civilization of
Europe in the barbarism of
Asia, has not the time arrived for
White men of all sections in
America to review the situation?
White conquest in
America has been so rapid and so uniform that men are not unlikely to be careless of the future, fancying that their work is done, their tenure of the land secured.
When
Hancock and his comrades signed the
Declaration of Independence, Thirteen Colonies were represented at the
Congress in
Philadelphia; Thirteen Colonies, covering less than five hundred thousand square miles of surface, peopled by something under two million five hundred thousand souls, of whom nearly five hundred thousand were Africans, held in slavery.
At the end of a century those Thirteen Colonies