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negroes but little, wisdom should dictate a conciliatory policy at least . . . .

"The so-called 'negro problem' or 'white man question' can be settled peacefully, and will be settled thusly if the whites permit it. Our Ameircan white citizens may defer a solution by all sorts of schemes and devices, but the time will come when they - North and South - will have to confront the inevitable, and grant the negro the rights that belong to him or suffer the consequences."*

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*W. S. Scarborough, June 18, 1891