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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 8: the Conservatives. (search)
are not allowed to vote. With an understanding of this nature, the Conservatives of. Louisiana would admit the Negro to political rights. You have no fear of educated votes? No fear at all; for educated men are never led by scalawags. Even now, the education tells. If all the Negroes were to pull together--ninety thousand against seventy-six thousand--they might elect Pinch for governor and have a strong majority in the Chambers. But we have educated negroes in Louisiana like Tom Chester, and educated Africans are no more likely to agree in politics than educated Anglo-Saxons. When a Negro learns to spell he sets up as a leader. He follows no one; least of all a man of his own colour. If a Negro owns a cabin and a patch of garden, he becomes Conservative and votes against the scalawags. A Conservative Negro Club exists in every parish in Louisiana; and in spite of Kellogg's promise that every Negro voting the Grant ticket shall have forty acres and a good mule, thousa
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
facts in natural history suggest that Negroes are exceptions to a general rule? The strong advance, the fit survive. Are Negroes stronger to advance, and fitter to survive than Whites? In going to the Capitol with Senator Fowler, we meet Tom Chester, a Negro of pure blood, from New Orleans, whose acquaintance I made some years since, in our salad days. Chester was a student of the Middle Temple when I was eating mutton at the Inner Temple. Called to the English bar, he went to New OrleaChester was a student of the Middle Temple when I was eating mutton at the Inner Temple. Called to the English bar, he went to New Orleans, where he has practised ever since. He sails to Europe now and then, and we have met in good houses, of the revolutionary sort, tenanted by Polish, French, and German refugees. Are you a Kelloggite? No! A native of the South, I wish to live at peace with my White neighbours. I am not exactly a public man, for I have never sought and never held office. I am not ashamed of my complexion. Many of my people are very ignorant and very stupid. I admit the laziness, too; but they are s
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 28: Philadelphia. (search)
et remember a time when Philadelphia was not so large as Croydon. She is now bigger than Berlin — nearly as big as New York. Only fifty years ago she was about the size of Edinburgh. Ten years later she was as big as Dublin. In another ten years she had outgrown Manchester. Fifteen years ago she was ahead of Liverpool. At the present moment Philadelphia is more than equal to Manchester, Liverpool, and Sheffield combined. If the population of Dublin and Edinburgh, York, Lancaster, and Chester were counted in one list they would hardly make up half the number of people who house in Philadelphia at this present day. If size is but another name for power the City of Brotherly Love is metropolitan. Leaving out Chinese cities, Philadelphia claims to be the fourth city in the world, admitting no superiors save London, Paris, and New York. She over-caps all other rivals. She is bigger than Moscow and St. Petersburg, the two capitals of Russia, put together. The three capitals of