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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Georgia. (search)
he Negro is a child of mystery. No man can guess what he will do or will not do. Voices move him, fetishes inspire him. Traces of his African superstitions cling to him, even in a Georgian school and chapel. He is open to such hints as forty acres and a good mule, and plenty of carpet-baggers are at hand, ready, at auspicious moments, with such hints. He has enjoyed one spell of power, and the intoxication of that period hangs about his hut and dug-out. What a day of glory for the son of Ham! A Negro loves to sit in a chair of state, to hear men say his honour, and to fine White rowdies for getting drunk: Hi, hi! You bad fellow. You drunk-Ten dollar! Hi, hi! Like other savages the Georgian Negroes want to rule. It is no use to tell them they are fewer than the Whites, and that the greater number rules the less. They think it should be turn and turn about. The Whites have had their day, and now the Blacks should have their day. Thousands of these Negroes have been dril